The true role of the police is supposed to be to protect and serve, that means the citizens, not only themselves and their own interests! But we have seen countless examples of police lying, covering up and acting as a closed group, keeping their brothers in the job eeven after dispcable behavior and misteps.
However, something very weird has just happened! A cop in West Virginia approached a scene, read it to the best of his ability and decided not to shoot dead a man brandishing a gun. A man who was threatening to kill himself (and no one else). That man turned out to be brandishing an empty gun, he was seeking attention as many who threaten to kill themselves probably are.
Sadly, two other cops turned up and shot him dead. Another life senselessly lost.
The Pittsburgh Post Gazette wrote:
After responding to a report of a domestic incident on May 6 in Weirton, W.Va., then-Weirton police officer Stephen Mader found himself confronting an armed man.
Immediately, the training he had undergone as a Marine to look at “the whole person” in deciding if someone was a terrorist, as well as his situational police academy training, kicked in and he did not shoot.
“I saw then he had a gun, but it was not pointed at me,” Mr. Mader recalled, noting the silver handgun was in the man’s right hand, hanging at his side and pointed at the ground.
Mr. Mader, who was standing behind Mr.
Williams’ car parked on the street, said he then “began to use my calm voice.”
“I told him, ‘Put down the gun,’ and he’s like, ‘Just shoot me.’ And I told him, ‘I’m not going to shoot you brother.’ Then he starts flicking his wrist to get me to react to it.
“I thought I was going to be able to talk to him and deescalate it. I knew it was a suicide-by-cop” situation.
This cop acted as a cop should. Imagine the pride we would feel for these men and women if this was the way they acted in countless recent situations.
However, Madar was fired (two other small incidents cited) without pension.
He was fired for endangering the lives of the two other cops.
Disgusting!
Read more in the Pittsburgh Gazette here.
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