• chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    Independence Police Chief Adam Dustman said Friday the officer who opened fire followed training because Pike had a knife.

    And therein lies the problem. The training for the officer was to shoot anyone with a knife.

      • granolabar@kbin.melroy.org
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        10 hours ago

        Good luck getting any of this changed.

        Iraqi war veterans they had better training during their “counter insurgency raids” due to officers being worried about pissing off local population.

        Clearly, police chiefs are not worried about this issue within the US?

        I wonder why