Loading ...RE: The Olympia, WA police ‘action’.
IMO, this is just what we should expect.
The local TV news last night reported that the officer responsible was 3 years into his position, with prior experience in Afghanistan in the military, and with the Border Patrol.
So, where is his police training? Probably nonexistent . He was/is trained as a soldier, and he sees any opponent as an enemy. His is trained to kill enemies.
So, when policing in a non-combatant city, he still shoots first as he was trained to do, no matter that the weapon he saw was a skateboard, and that the crime was the theft of some beer.
The culprits are enemies.
Yes, they shouldn’t be stealing beer, and they shouldn’t have run (skateboarded) away.
But is it worth shooting them down like rabid dogs?
This militarization of our police will continue until the locals put a stop to it.
And, they will, probably with a lot of unrest.
As to more police excess, I offer the link to this story; an infant is determined to be at fault for it’s injuries at the hands of out-of-control cops:
http://www.theburningplatform.com/2015/05/22/its-the-babys-fault/
Things have gone horribly wrong in the USA.
It’s not the America I pledged allegiance to way back when.