Following the murder of a Connecticut woman by DC police, the chief of the DC police, Cathy Lanier, said the officers “did exactly what they were supposed to do.”
Really?
Here's an essay by a former US Army combat medic in Iraq who challenges that assessment:
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/10/10/cops-are-now-less-cautious-than-soldiers-in-iraq/
Cops have turned into trigger happy cowboys who are seldom held accountable for the deaths they cause. After all, they were just "following proper police procedure".
This needs to change.
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