Your frustration is understandable. When a potentially dangerous job becomes routine people tend to let their guards down. Someone should have been watching out for that deputy. And attacks can happen anywhere.
A few hours ago I left work early to take my wife to the local ER. She is OK, just needed a doc to check her out. While we were waiting to be discharged a drugged out man in the next room attacked a male nurse. The nurse handled himself pretty well. He had a lot of experience from years in a lock-down mental ward. We got the guy restrained on the floor before security staff showed up.
It's the second time in two years that I've used my cuffs while off duty but in uniform.
Makes you think.
"Look, I'm only doing me job. I have to show you how to defend yourself against fresh fruit."
For it breeds great perfection, if the practise be harder then the use. Sir Francis Bacon
the world has a surplus of self centered sh1twh0res, so anyone who extends compassion to a stranger with sincerity is alright in my book. also people who fondle road kill. those guys is ok too. GunnedDownAtrocity