>>24166537

Sigh. Little ACAB. Women don’t get a pass if they pull a gun in you, you shout them. The target shooting exercises are designed with a mix of friendly and hostile targets. And the officer in raining has to move through the targets rapidly and fire or not fire as appropriate.

But appropriate doesn’t mean ‘woman versus man) or (pregnant versus not pregnant). It means ONLY that the target image is holding a gun if knife and pointing it at you.

So cops have to retrain themselves away from the biological reaction of seeing ‘pregnant’ as not a threat if the image is holding a gun.

Women pointing guns do not get a pass. And pregnant women pointing guns also should not get a pass, but it is very difficult to train yourself away from that reaction and let yourself be the shooting victim of a criminal threat who just happens to be oregnant.