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Scott Westerman, I really hope and pray that you one day understand just how sick, evil and depraved your world view is when your repeated response to questions about one of your officers murdering someone is to blame the police chief for not adequately explaining to the community why it is ok for the police to murder people.  You kept talking about the training the officers receive as if that is justification for taking a human life.  It is not.  Train your officers to not murder people.  

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Hey Curt, I'll take you up on that offer.  Give me combat training, body armor, gloves, a taser, an asp, a shotgun with beanbag rounds, a cruiser, and a radio with as many similarly armed and trained thugs as I deem necessary on the other end and I'm pretty sure I could disarm you and have you in cuffs, lickity split.  Without murdering you.

Oh wait, my mistake, non-lethal force is only for 12-year-old girls not homeless men with boxcutters.

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