COMMENTARY: Police Use of Force Is Fine the Way It Is
The following is an op-ed from Donald Mihalek, the Executive VP of the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association Foundation.
On Aug. 14, the country stood with rapt attention as a convicted criminal allegedly shot six Philadelphia police officers after a narcotics arrest went bad. What followed was a seven-and-a-half-hour standoff that only ended when police fired tear gas into his home. The week prior, a felon killed a California Highway Patrolman during a gun battle after a traffic stop on the freeway in Riverside. Two of his colleagues also suffered bad wounds. Last month in Arkansas, a suspect fatally shot a sheriff’s deputy responding to a domestic violence call. While this violence plays out, ICE facilities around the nation are under attack, including in San Antonio where the police arrested a man in connection with gunshots fired through the windows of that city’s ICE office.
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