Police in South Carolina are investigating an incident involving a vehicle that drove through security fences at a nuclear power station on Thursday.

  • be_excellent_to_each_other@kbin.socialOP
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    8 months ago

    I would guess complacency initially (can’t recall a similar incident in recent memory), and also some of the language in the article lead me to believe that a particular threshold wasn’t crossed. Maybe that threshold is the only level of threat under which they are allowed to respond with deadly force. (that’s just rampant speculation on my part)

    I get the impression they were private security not police, so that would explain them being less trigger happy.