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What makes me mad about this whole situation is the one sidedness of all the media reports and radio interviews that are done. There was a major mistake. The family should not have jumped out of the vehicle and ran away from the officer in the manner they did. If I was an officer I would have draw my service weapon also and I would not have holstered it until the threat was determined to be non aggressive threat. That should be a non issue. Their actions were also in the wrong but do you see them berated and dragged thought the mud. No! They have not apologized for their actions either. They were in the wrong for what they did as well.

Then you have the media and their one sided biased reporting that painted this officer up and down in a negative way. So now every Tim, Mick, and Harry are going to think they can do whatever they want during a traffic stop. The officer was in the right legally. Morally his compassion might have faltered but that didn’t come until later in the traffic stop. Did he make a mistake yes. He was not the only one that did that night. Did he make a mistake that he should have lost his job over. No. Maybe placed behind a desk but to lost his job is a more that he deserved. I know he resigned but that was probably more from the overwhelming flack he is getting from everything and everyone around him. He is human after all.

I would share my story with about being detained by LEOs one night because of a mistake but that would not make a difference since most of yall have made up your mind so completely about this issue. I have more reason to hate LEOs than most but I still stand behind them because of the job they do.