We’ve tracked countless cases here where cops were able to keep their jobs after killing unarmed people, killing people after responding to the wrong house, killing people and then lying about it . . . the list goes on.Give the Weirton, W.Va., police chief some credit. He’s come up with a new spin on the the same problem. He just fired a cop for not killing someone.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.[...]As it turns out, Williams’s gun wasn’t loaded. There’s no way any of the police officers could have known that. But it does show that Mader had read Williams correctly — he wasn’t actually a threat to anyone but himself. His life could have been saved.
Quote from: DAS B00T x2 on September 13, 2016, 07:08:42 PMSee now, this is a police incident worth protesting.I honestly can't say I care about these blacks being killed by police. The large majority of them behave like rabid animals, and we're supposed to protest for them? We're supposed to care? These same people who have committed horrific crimes without any mercy for their victims? The communities and families they terrorize?No. To hell with them.
See now, this is a police incident worth protesting.
Good, he should have wasted that pussy. I don't want any bitchmade cops protecting me.
Cop fired for not killing an armed suspect
