Las Vegas Sun

The policeman that shot ms. Selimaj testified that he was "really really scared" at the time he fired his weapon. Here's a man that recently served in Iraq, was surrounded, in one corner, by gun wielding, bullet proof vest wearing, young, able bodied henderson police officers. And he was pitted against two children whose ages combined do not add to adulthood, a diminutive, 42 year old woman holding a knife that you and i use to peel a potato, and was also assisted by her cornered, meek, scrawny husband. The officer was really really scared.
How in the world did he act in Iraq when he had to jump off a humvee. My guess is that he probably served his country with pride and courage. So what happens when he returns to the land that he fought for so that people like the selimajs can sell ice cream.
He now manuevers within an institution that is galvanized by a process known as the coroner's inquest, and all those that look to the process for sustinence, from the uniformed cop all the way to the Clark County District Attorney's office, are clad in battle gear sewed with cowardice.
Do not bore readers with comments concerning the daily rigors and dangers of police work for the reason that every civilized person accepts and commends the fact, but no civilized society accepts the existence of police aggression that is undetered by a sham system offered as our consitutional check and balance protection.
Our community is sadly, in the very deepest sense of the word, distinguished as one that allows police to "shoot first and ask meaningless coroner's inquest questions later." Society exists only as people and the people of our community cannot be expected to respect police organizatiuons that hide behind an institutionalized veil whenever it makes a mistake. And consistently repeated mistakes by an otherwise intelligent group are no mistakes at all.

The policeman that shot ms. Selimaj testified that he was "really really scared" at the time he fired his weapon. Here's a man that recently served in Iraq, was surrounded, in one corner, by gun wielding, bullet proof vest wearing, young, able bodied henderson police officers. And he was pitted against two children whose ages combined do not add to adulthood, a diminutive, 42 year old woman holding a knife that you and i use to peel a potato, and was also assisted by her cornered, meek, scrawny husband. The officer was really really scared.
How in the world did he act in Iraq when he had to jump off a humvee. My guess is that he probably served his country with pride and courage. So what happens when he returns to the land that he fought for so that people like the selimajs can sell ice cream.
He now manuevers within an institution that is galvanized by a process known as the coroner's inquest, and all those that look to the process for sustinence, from the uniformed cop all the way to the Clark County District Attorney's office, are clad in battle gear sewed with cowardice.
Do not bore readers with comments concerning the daily rigors and dangers of police work for the reason that every civilized person accepts and commends the fact, but no civilized society accepts the existence of police aggression that is undetered by a sham system offered as our consitutional check and balance protection.
Our community is sadly, in the very deepest sense of the word, distinguished as one that allows police to "shoot first and ask meaningless coroner's inquest questions later." Society exists only as people and the people of our community cannot be expected to respect police organizatiuons that hide behind an institutionalized veil whenever it makes a mistake. And consistently repeated mistakes by an otherwise intelligent group are no mistakes at all.