Posted on Jul 7, 2016
Woman streams aftermath of fatal officer-involved shooting
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Not really a military related issue. But it appears that you have painted ALL police officers with the "questionable actions" paintbrush. That is the definition of stereotyping. There are approximately 800,000 police officers in the United States. Out of that 800,000 is it unreasonable to assume that maybe one percent could be unsuited for law enforcement duties? Would it be fair to say that perhaps one percent of all the Soldiers you have ever been in close contact with were unsuited for military service? In my experience, that number is closer to 30-40 percent, not one percent. One percent would be 8,000 bad cops. Have you seen 8,000 instances of bad cop behavior this year? I haven't. Are you aware that according to recent crime statistics over 52% of ALL crime is committed by Black Americans who comprise roughly 13% of the total population? But it would be racist and it would be stereotyping to state, "What's up with Blacks and their questionable actions?". What you need to be asking is what drove this specific police officer to act out, with a "questionable action", in this circumstance with this person. Finding those answers could lead to solving the problem you think you see.
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SGM, as for the questionable action comment perhaps I should have been a little bit more specific. As for shooting the individual, I believe the officer was wrong, more specifically viewing the scenario from a Military Police standpoint as well as observing scenario from a tactical stand point, for which the officer had advantage over the subject at the time of the traffic stop. The officer was not alone since it was that departments SOP to have back-up and he had his weapon drawn on the individual, knowing there was a child behind him and woman, this doesn't excuse some people because there are some that clearly do not care about their families or loved ones and will still do stupid s... And put them in harms way. I fully understand the "racial" and other "stereotyping" that could be thrown in this scenario. That is not what I'm looking at or even worried about, because to me that wasn't the case. As senior MP who has worked law enforcement and has had to conduct stops of this nature, in which all subjects I have dealt with are trained to hurt me, being that's what we teach our Soldiers, I believe the Police Officer did NOT follow their own SOP or guidelines, he was NOT properly trained and cleary did not see everything around him with a grain of common sense. As per the police chief of that department, he stated there had not been a shooting in that area in more than 30 years, is this true or factual I don't know and quite franctly, I don't care. What I do care about, is how my Soldiers that do work LE can use this as a training lesson and case study to learn and realize that not everyone that has a gun is a bad guy/gal and that applying some thought, patience, calmness, common sense and training we can make better decisions. Now by no means I'm defending the individual either, because I don't know what exactly transpired and led a Police officer to unload four rounds into an unarmed man without positive identification of a weapon or hostile intent, and quite franctly shooting someone for failing to listen seems ludicrous but I hope there was a good reason. The officer did not have a body cam and as of last not even his dash cam was functional, so the most accurate evidence present is that of a woman maintaining her composure talking through the events and a frantic Policeman still pointing his weapon at an unarmed woman and child in the vehicle, losing his composure and making no attempt at providing any type of aid or removing the passengers from the vehicle to conduct secondary searches. So as making a broad statement that "questionable actions" apply to all officers, no I don't think so and that wasn't my intent, and I sincerely appreciate what they do daily, because I know what it's like to do their job, but I still think this officer did not do his job right. I hope this answer better explains what I was thinking at the time.
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