SewTexas wrote:they only "excuse"....and I'm using that word very loosely. If if this was this officer's first time in front of an "audience"? and he was nervous? but even then clearing his weapon should be muscle memory, like folding towels.
Nervous? That's no excuse.
An innocent unarmed citizen shot due to an incompetent police officer. Police officers volunteer to be entrusted with certain authority and ensure public safety, not jeopardize it, they need to be held to a higher standard. What happens when it's an officers first time in front of an audience and that audience happens to be people at the scene of a call?I don't mind getting behind the blue, as long as I'm behind them, not in front of them.