Like many of the rest of you I grew up watching police dramas on T.V. and while I understand the difference between television and reality, and empathize with the real dangers and threat to life that Police Officers face everyday in the performance of their duties, I cannot imagine Marshall Dillon, Joe Friday or even Barney Fife pulling and nearly emptying their revolvers on a woman withing range of their fists who is carrying, but has not offered to raise into a striking position, a pair of medical scissors.
But that is what happened in Winslow, Arizona last March.
And the officer will not be charged.
Loreal was complicit in her death, it is true. Body cam video shows that she scuffled with the officer, who, unless he was wearing the cam on his belt buckle, I judge to be at least five inches taller than the mortal threat he is confronting... as the video shows.