A Tacoma Police officer shot and killed a man Friday afternoon while responding to a domestic violence call.

Another member of the armed forces has been involved in a shooting. A man that was described as active military personnel was shot and killed by a Tacoma police officer after a domestic dispute call.

The officer involved has not yet been formally interviewed. He is a 5-year veteran of the force and has been involved in one other shooting.

I live in Tacoma and I can honestly say that cops in the Puget Sound region have adopted a shoot first, "F" the questions at all way of dealing with any situation they see fit.

The chief said he did not know if the victim in that shooting died.

With that being said. The officer said the man that was shot pulled out a gun. The details of this story are still few and far between but the Tacoma police department is definitely not to be trusted in my opinion. I was witness to another officer involved shooting last year while eating lunch at a local sports bar. The story the police gave compared to the what I saw were two totally different things. This is the same police department under investigation for tazing and holding a deaf woman in jail for three days with no interpreter.

So they went to a house of a trained killer? Then he pulls a gun? Wwyd?

Originally posted by TheCaucasianAmerican
So they went to a house of a trained killer? Then he pulls a gun? Wwyd?

Shoot first out of fear and bad training, then let my dept. protect me with legalize.

There's multiple stories like this EVERY DAY, not all get world wide news attention, but they still occur daily. Are we to blame society for reacting to the end results of this current regime of paranoia?

Should we taze everyone "just in case" they're a threat, or should we take several steps backward in time to policies and procedures that were humane and more realistic than based in fantasy of domestic terrorism around every corner?

This is what happens when we take elite soldiers, from out of a war zone, put them in BDU's and web gear, and then hand them a gun, badge, and a license to kill.

We are literally importing the violence from Iraq and Afghanistan right into our own neighborhoods and into the places where we and our own children live. It's a tragedy that so few people seem to understand that we need peace officers, not steroid fueled killing machines.

~Heff

Originally posted by Hefficide

This is what happens when we take elite soldiers, from out of a war zone, put them in BDU's and web gear, and then hand them a gun, badge, and a license to kill.

We are literally importing the violence from Iraq and Afghanistan right into our own neighborhoods and into the places where we and our own children live. It's a tragedy that so few people seem to understand that we need peace officers, not steroid fueled killing machines.

~Heff

Well... im a military police bound to be a police officer.

It was a domestic dispute. They knew he was angry. He pulls out a gun. Would u wait to see if he misses shooting you? Or for the sake of your safety shoot first?

Can't be a cop if your already dead.

Originally posted by TheCaucasianAmerican

Well... im a military police bound to be a police officer.

It was a domestic dispute. They knew he was angry. He pulls out a gun. Would u wait to see if he misses shooting you? Or for the sake of your safety shoot first?

Can't be a cop if your already dead.

I don't know if I am understanding what you meant correctly, so if this doesn't fit, I apologize in advance...

The OP doesn't mention any of those conditions... I cannot find any reference to domestic disputes or guns.

However, in that situation deadly force would be justified.

My overall point was that the face of the local police force has changed drastically over the past two decades. When I was young cops were much more interwoven into the fabric of communities. They were friendly and helpful. If you broke down on the side of the road it was almost a sure thing a cop would stop to ask you if you needed assistance or a ride to a phone. These days? They don't act the same. They tend to see us as the enemy. They tend to be standoffish and aloof.

I have much less faith and trust in law enforcement officers today than I did twenty years ago. Much, much less. I do understand that police work is dangerous and difficult. But there is a better balance than we are currently achieving between police having authority and having power. Cops aren't supposed to have power - just righteous authority.

~Heff