LogFAQs > #940707622

Sacking the police officer (which they did after the mayor called for it) seems wrong here. For better or for worse, I don't think the officer actually broke protocol here. The police chief resigning makes sense - it's the policies and procedures they enact and enforce that have the police acting in this way. Those need to change. But it doesn't feel right telling cops they need to handle things in this way, and then firing them when you need a scapegoat to try and quell civil unrest.

The biggest change needs to be a change of mentality where police no longer assume everyone is an immediate threat. And that's going to be a hard change in a country with more guns than people. And that's a change that needs to come from the top down. You can't be telling your new officers that everyone is a threat and you need to act this way to ensure you protect yourself, and then fire them for doing what you told them to do. Unlike many other killings we've seen that were blatant abuse of power, this one feels a lot more like the result of a horribly set up system, which is why it's a lot more controversial than others.

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