Police identify mother and infant killed in shooting involving Independence officer, give update on investigation timeline
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Police said the mother had a knife at the time of the fatal shooting.
  • chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.worldEnglish
    61·
    11 days 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
        4·
        10 days 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

        • Maggoty@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          10 days ago

          To be fair we had a company piss off the locals. The town was green for everyone but them. We rolled through and it was falafel wraps and soccer balls. They rolled through and it was RPGs and IEDs. So we got an object lesson in not pissing off the locals. If America treated the police like that then the police might learn too. You can’t occupy 336 million people without their cooperation.