Self Defense- Serial Killer or Supercop ?
A Cleveland Plain Dealer used this phrase when a Cleveland policeman killed a bank robber who fled and then reached for something in his car. The policeman killed (5) people in his 35 year career. Serial killer? I don’t think so. The policeman was off-duty and the robber happened to rob the bank where the policeman was banking. The cop chased him out the bank.
A lesser cop wouldn’t even bother.
None of us( unless you’re a policeman) know what we would do in that split second when you suspect the criminal is reaching for a gun. The only weapon the reporter is familiar with is a pen or a laptop. I would like to see her out in the street and confront these criminals instead of drinking coffee and typing out this garbage on the computer.
The Cleveland police force do use a taser
but this wasn’t practical in this case.
We need to support the police. This writer (Regina Brett) did nothing to help the situation,
She helped make the public especially the youth more skeptical of the police She just wrote an article (which stated she didn’t know what is like to be black in America). She also doesn’t know what is like to be a policeman in an urban city.
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