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That's probably because there is a not-unreasonable expectation that the situations the police are called out for will involve deadly weapons.

Obviously not the case here, but in general, when anyone could realistically be carrying a gun, I don't think the current situation is a big surprise.

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Right... because a doctor on a plane in the US has some semblance of a chance of carrying a deadly weapon...

This is kinda the point of OP, police violence has become so common-place that we take it as normal happenstance when it's used. There's an air of expected guilt for anyone on the receiving side of the violence but no doubt whatsoever on whether the violence was necessary in the first place.

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