I'm sure he was highly trained if he was SWAT. Unfortunately, training doesn't stick in a lot of people as you all have probably seen in your own professions.


It seems some are so interested in a narrative here that they are inserting nefarious motives into the officer and the department. It really can't be something as simple as an officer who was given bad information and wasn't properly able to piece together a scene for himself? It happens all of the time in use of force training scenarios.


Have you guys ever seen the video of the anti police brutality activist minister who agreed to go through very basic use of force scenarios with a police department near Phoenix? Both he and a reporter went through 3 scenarios each and both were either killed or shot an unarmed person in 2 out of the 3 scenarios. The very same people who decried the the unarmed public being shot by police did the exact same thing they railed against. It should be eye opening and I encourage any who don't sympathize with the decisions police have to make to consider doing some of this training themselves.

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