This isn't new, my neighbor is a Firefighter, he's been under fire a few times by gang members. But it's like you said "WTF is wrong with people" I don't know if it's just the authority figure or the flashing lights, but I do know they're idiots of the highest order.

 

Some people want someone to stay shot when they shoot them so anyone responding to do something about it becomes a target.

They are also part of "da man" to some so they are targets too........

 

This crap was done during the Watts riot, Rotney King riot, etc. This kind of lawlessness is just deep within the genes of generational ghetto dwellers. It's what they do.

 

Not in the genes, but it is in the culture.

 

Thug culture

 

When you continue to feed and care for the most indolent and useless in a society, instead of letting starvation and exposure either reduce their numbers or provide the appropriate incentives and lessons, you end up with these type of "people."
They have nothing to lose because they've never earned anything, and they have no morality because their culture promotes immature, self destructive, and illegal behavior.

I used parenthesis because they're not really people, they're feral humans. No more use than a feral dog or cat, and the only cure is the same. Put them all down, cull the herd.
We've created this mess, like it or not, now we have to fix it. It's never going to fix itself.

 

This isnt new...thugs in the cities have been shooting at firemen for decades...sport...lots of depts. require police escort into certain neighborhoods....typical animalistic out-of-control thug behavior...

 

This was one of the main reasons it took so long to get help into areas when Katrina hit. It's quite sad to see the way our society has turned out.

 

In the movie "Independence Day" there is a news cast asking" the citizens of Los Angeles to refrain from firing guns at the visitors ship hovering overhead"...Oh yeah...lets shoot at the beings who came across space to visit us and haven't announced their intentions yet....maybe we can **** them off...

 

My old roommate was an emt and he wore a bullet proof vest to work everyday. I think he was more concerned with being mistaken for a cop because they wore a Navy blue uniform that looked close enough to the city cops from a distance.

 

I tire of this ghetto culture.

 

the criminals are being given a free pass. orchestrated chaos

 

Here in Milwaukee, they certainly are. The shootings in the inner city are almost as bad as Chicago. The head judge (I forget his exact title) of Milwaukee County said that criminals are supposed to go on probation first instead of going to jail...so that is what the judges are doing and it is a revolving door. There was a murder last week here where the guy had 3 felony convictions but was on probation after serving no time...and he is 22 yrs old

 

How sad is that, that the people responding to save lives need to worry about their own?

That's been going on since the day the first police man walked a beat.

 

I've seen EMT's wearing vests in - NYC - Wyandanch - Hempstead - parts of Huntington - North Amityville --

All the welfare towns :

 

Forest Gump said it best. Now, the administration is making heroes out of thugs, giving illegal alien criminals a get out of jail free card, condemning police for trying to control these cretins, and condoning destructive behavior to communities/businesses that have done nothing but house/serve these imbeciles. It's time to pull the plug on the wasted tax dollars and to turn out the lights on these cities that exhibit aberrant and criminal behavior. Human lives matter... feral and rabid animals need to be put down!

 

Animals don't know the difference between a police siren, EMT or a tow truck, it just drives them wild. If dogs could shoot guns we'd be in big trouble. Or maybe they can dawg?

 

Here is a potential use for all those military vehicles that were being handed down. Paint them red, put a light bar on top, and use them as firefighter transport.

This is a bit more of an eccentric suggestion, but you could also give them guns with incendiary ammo to fight back against those shooting at them. If they start anything but their intended targets on fire, they are already there to put the flames out. :

 

This is a bit more of an eccentric suggestion, but you could also give them guns with incendiary ammo to fight back against those shooting at them.

Yeah, that, or even more frightening, they can launch stacks of job applications at them. That should send them running

 

As noted, this is nothing new. I believe the cause may be the rumor that the police routinely go into dangerous neighborhoods in ambulances and fire trucks dressed as EMTs or firefighters so they can 'sneak up' on the people they want to arrest, grab them, and hustle them away in ambulance or firetruck before anyone can stop them. This rumor seems to have some basis in fact:

http://www.policeone.com/patrol-issues/articles/1793561-N-H-firefighters-hot-over-police-ploy/

As such, criminals and gang members will of course shoot at ANY interlopers moving into their territory, because they are all regarded as threats.