I wonder if they have a merit badge for that?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/16/police-officer-shoots-man-with-baby_n_1281450.html
50-year-old is waving gun around with one hand and has his 9-month-old grandkid in the other. Neighbors call police. Man goes back inside house.
Police arrive and finally the man opens the door, he is still holding the baby.
Man reaches down for something that the cops can't see and the cop shoots him and kills him. (Turns out that it was a cell phone). They did find several weapons in the house.
The real key to this story for me, however, is that the cop that shot and killed the man has a long history of shootings. This is the 6th person he has killed in the past 6 years (he shot a 7th person, but they survived).
They have all been 'investigated' and 'justified', but the majority of cops never shoot anyone, let alone shoot and kill six people in different incidents.
Has he become desensitized to shooting people?
Has he developed such a hair trigger that he immediately implements deadly force at the first hint of danger?
Or is he just a statistical anomaly?
It should be noted that this is Scottsdale, which is a very wealth upper-middle-class community. It isn't like he is working inner city Phoenix .
