Ohio Police Chief Crosses Blue Line by Voicing Disgust Over Terence Crutcher Shooting Death

[KamaAina]

https://photographyisnotacrime.com/2016/09/20/ohio-police-chief-crosses-blue-line-by-voicing-disgust-over-terence-crutcher-shooting-death/

The video showing an Oklahoma cop shoot and kill Terence Crutcher after he had his hands in the air, only to later claim he was not complying, is so outrageous that even an Ohio police chief took to social media to voice his disgust.

And that is something we never see.

But Middletown Police Chief Rodney Muterspaw said he could not remain silent after watching Tulsa police officer Betty Shelby shoot and kill Terence Crutcher, tweeting the following message Tuesday, which has been retweeted almost 6,000 times as of this writing.

As an officer I am so sick and drained of some cops doing things like this. You are making us all look bad. STOP. #TerenceCruthcher
— R_Muterspaw (@RodneyMute) September 20, 2016

[sarae]

1. I wish more would come forward with statements like this.

[bluesbassman]

2. Good start, but I wish more would come out with policies to eliminate the need for statements.

There has to be a fundamental shift in how police are trained and how they approach their job. It all starts at the top.

[sarae]

3. Agreed.

[Iggo]

4. Fuck the blue line.

[unblock]

5. i guess it's different when the cop is a woman.

[lindysalsagal]

10. I'm sure it is.

"After all, she's not really one of us."

[malaise]

6. He got permission from

King Con.

[DefenseLawyer]

7. It's not enough just simply say "stop"

Shoot first, shoot to kill. This is the way police are TRAINED in this country. We need to tear down the entire police apparatus in this country and start over. New leaders; in many cases, new cops; new training; new culture.

[lindysalsagal]

11. I've been thinking: Does it always have to be a lethal gun? Why not stun guns?

All a cop who feels they're in danger needs is a minute to get control. Cuff and disarm. Why isn't that enough?

Why are we still using 19th century technology on children????????

[unblock]

12. or, hell, just retreat! they don't have to "win" every confrontation at the price of lethality

fall back to a safe distance, behind the squad car, e.g.

call for backup if there really is a problem.

and yes, better to try tasers, rubber bullets, or even just a simple net!

guns should be a very last resort.

[KamaAina]

13. Her excuse (one of them, anyway) is that she was reaching for her taser.

She must have been channeling BART cop Johannes Mehserle, who murdered Oscar Grant with his gun and then claimed he thought it was his taser. Thing is, tasers are engineered to look and feel nothing like guns for this very reason.

[lindysalsagal]

14. I've heard she already tased him. So the shot was unneccesary.

When they convict a male cop, I'll start getting hopeful.

[wryter2000]

8. Wow

That's the situation in a nutshell.

[matt819]

9. Kudos. But. . .

There are 18,000 police departments in the US (according to Google). That's 18,000 sheriffs and police chiefs. Where are they? Where is their condemnation? Absent. Zilch. Nada. Zip. Nothing.

A fairly large number are themselves avowed racists and supporters of the sovereign citizen movements. There's the sheriff who is a Sandy Hook Truther. And a number of law enforcement officials backed the seditious Bundy movement. Maybe some of them are good people (yes, my Trump allusion was deliberate), but they are remaining silent, allowing anti-police sentiment to grow and fester. Tulsa, Chicago, Charlotte, NYC, Charleston, Minnesota, Wisconsin. Big towns and small. This is a crisis.

[JesterCS]

15. I live right next to Middletown

He did indeed say this.