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Excaliber wrote:While militarization of the police is an ongoing concern, newly released details surrounding this incident strongly suggest the police tactics and outcome were foreseeable consequences of actions by the now deceased Mr. Granger.

Excaliber, I think you have the wrong thread. Mr. Granger was killed in Dallas. The OP was about a man, John Morneau, who was killed in Arkansas.

Rex B wrote:Remember too that we are producing more battle-trained soldiers, who come home looking for a career. Their background leads many to law enforcement. Inevitably some will try to mold their units toward what worked in the military.

This has been going on since the Vietnam war, probably even further back. I think that today's hiring standards for most departments are tougher than back then. This is probably an exaggeration, but in the 1960s I think the primary requirement to be hired as an LA County Sheriff Deputy was to have survived a combat tour in Vietnam. Job qualifications were based more on physical attributes rather than educational, mental or pychological factors.

seamusTX wrote:Getting back to the subject of this thread, the guy was obviously an old coot. He may have needed someone in authority to set him down and tell him to back off and follow the civil legal process, which he should have understood. Maybe he was getting senile. Now he's conveniently dead and out of everyone's hair. - Jim

One of the original points questioned the manner of serving of the arrest warrant. How and when it was served should have considered the safety of the LEOs and well as Mr. John Morneau. In retrospect that the LEOs didn't make a good decision. The LEO had guns pointed at them and Mr. Lawyer had guns pointed at himself.

I just wonder if they ever called and said "Mr. Morneau" we have an arrest warrant for you. Why don't you come down to the police station and we'll straighten this out. If he was in his right mind, he would have called his lawyer, arranged for bail, and he would be home in time for dinner. Mr. Morneau may have been an old koot, but according to his neighbors he was friendly.

Now that he's conveniently dead and out of everyone's hair, the whole incident will be buried along with him.