What Florida Police Chief’s Fall Can Teach Us About Training

By Tom Knighton

Without a doubt, it was a tragedy. A training event for the public, despite to educate the average citizen turned deadly and a woman was killed. This isn’t anything new, the event happened over a year ago, but time doesn’t fade the awful nature of what happened.

Now, the police chief of the department that put on the event has been fired.

From Guns.com:

Punta Gorda Police Chief Tom Lewis was fired Wednesday — the latest chapter in the ongoing fallout following the fatal shooting of a librarian last year during a police training demonstration.

City Manager Howard Kunik announced Lewis’ firing during a press conference at City Hall, saying he’d received more than a hundred letters in support of Lewis.

“I cannot retain a leader based on character alone,” Kunik said. “We will begin a national search for a police chief immediately.”

In June, Lewis was found not guilty of a misdemeanor charge of culpable negligence in the death of 73-year-old Mary Knowlton. She held a blue simulated weapon on Aug. 9, 2016 while Officer Lee Coel used a Smith & Wesson revolver loaded with wadcutters — bullets that look similar to blanks. Knowlton was shot twice during …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms