[] Take their guns and let them escape out the back.
we are spider-liv
not spider-cop
The flip side is, they're
probably gonna try this again as soon as they can get ahold of guns again, though they may try it fifty miles from here in New Jersey or something.
I'm not going 'blah blah criminal type,' but they have to be thinking 'OK, we had a good business model going until that Arachne chick showed up and went all More Merciful Bruce Willis on our dumbass John Travolta knock-off, so try it somewhere with less Arachnes and maybe we're good?'
Also, as
@defenestrator and others pointed out, this whole
thing is being recorded. Aaand there are hostages present. If we're letting the thieves go, that's likely to go viral even if we control the camera feeds, which now that I think about it we do.
Conversely, while the police are a violent and nasty brute squad, if they come upon the thieves already restrained and disarmed, incapable of putting up a fight, they are
probably not going to do anything that permanent to the thieves besides "arrest them," which they were going to do anyway, especially if they're smart enough to follow commonsense advice. The police do all kinds of heinous shit to thousands of people every year, but they arrest
millions of people every year, so while the odds are a hell of a lot worse than they ought to be, this isn't a deterministic case of "if we abandon them tied up they'll totally get shot in the head" or something.
Plus, if they're taking civilian hostages, they're
already about as morally bad as, like, Worst Police. This is some charcoal grey on charcoal grey morality we've got here.
[X] Leave them and their guns webbed up for the cops.
What I love about this update is that it's kind of deprogramming me of biases and mental impulses I wasn't completely aware of that comic book and movie tropes had embedded in my brain. Car alarm? That's a beating No, it's not a carjacking, just some unlucky dude that got locked out.
Fair point- though I think by now we ALL know that car alarms are like 100 times more likely to go off over some stupid shit than because of a robbery in progress.
Woman afraid of her life running away from a man? Probably a rapist, he forfeited his bone privileges Hold up, love makes people do stupid shit, let's not escalate and risk inflicting life-altering injuries, when we can just talk to the guy.
To be fair, that's a lot easier to say when you're in a position of unquestioned physical superiority... which privilege Arachne has compared to nearly any man who walks the Earth. This 'Tessa' likely does not.
