Militarization of US Police

[Preditor]

Police in Scotland are heavily investing in drones etc and cyber security while America is like “load em up boys, we got some black people to shoot”

Have a look at this video in which Police Scotland are actually training and demonstrating to American Police Chiefs etc on diffusing situations. Their response “In America, he’s getting shot”

Policing in the US is entirely different than policing in the UK, hence the training is different. The reason why the police chief was saying he is getting shot is because in accordance to police training here, since he is pulling a weapon that could potentially and rather easily kill someone the responding officer has to defuse the situation for himself and everyone around him. 

I would love to say "oh why doesn't he just taze him?" or "why can't he do what the officer is doing in this video?" but the thing is american police safety is more or less better safe than sorry. I would rather sit here and talk about what the cop could have done to not end up shooting someone than talk about why the cop didn't do more to stop him in the first place, like I often see with crimes in the UK myself.