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Take a beating because she was worried about the scrutiny the department woukd receive? No. Take a beating because she was more worried that if she used her gun her life would be ruined? Yes.
We are all less safe as a result.
That's it I guess. History has shown that using self defense as a cop is a career killer.
Take a beating because she was worried about the scrutiny the department woukd receive? No. Take a beating because she was more worried that if she used her gun her life would be ruined? Yes.
We are all less safe as a result.
She expressed no such thing. This is exactly what she said:
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“She looked at me and said she thought she was going to die,” he told the audience at the awards ceremony. “And she knew that she should shoot this guy. But she chose not to because she didn’t want her family or the department to have to go through the scrutiny the next day on national news.”
Scrutiny on national news? Who cares about that? Given the number of shootings and the number of police found guilty of any wrong doing, I'd say it was a safe bet nobody would have faulted her. Particularly given her injuries.
Sorry, but this sounds like something that was thought up after the fact.
Take a beating because she was worried about the scrutiny the department woukd receive? No. Take a beating because she was more worried that if she used her gun her life would be ruined? Yes.
We are all less safe as a result.
Time to hang up her badge!
She is more of a liability to the public, than to protect the public.
She expressed no such thing. This is exactly what she said:
Scrutiny on national news? Who cares about that? Given the number of shootings and the number of police found guilty of any wrong doing, I'd say it was a safe bet nobody would have faulted her. Particularly given her injuries.
Sorry, but this sounds like something that was thought up after the fact.
But why would she do that? Why would she make it up?
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