>>18402682It being threat or not is one of the most exciting things to American militay/police. You can open fire, and shooting others makes you feel strong. For example if you visit on some person's house and you deem their dog threatening, you are allowed to shoot it. It's a common way for American police forces to let out some stress and stuff. Sometimes you can get away shooting civilians as well or at least beating them up. What are they gonna do, call police? If they shoot back you get the best excuse to kill a person.
The best thing is people in USA are so afraid of culturewar, that if you are a police who shoots up dogs, homeless or just beats up some people, you will always have big group of people to defend you, as well as the whole police deparment. At worst you'll be moved into office jobs and nobody in the department ever judges you.
https://youtu.be/Y6DGABIcB3wMilitary is pretty much the same, but if you get caught killing too many civilians, you might get shipped home. However humiliating prisoners and torturing them is a-ok, we saw that a fuckton in Middle-East.