Posted on 03/29/2017 4:53:31 PM PDT by MtnClimber
A dramatic incident unfolded during a hostage standoff in Baltimore when a SWAT officer was told by his supervisor to walk into a room and execute a hostage taker.
The sergeant’s instructions are unequivocal. “I want you to walk in there and kill this guy,” he tells the shooter, Zachary Wein, who is a 14-year veteran of the Baltimore Police Department, and an eight-year veteran of the SWAT team.
“He’s high on drugs. He can kill the girl at any second,” the sergeant, who police officials declined to identify by name, continues. “I don’t see any need for less lethal.”
A bald lieutenant asks if there aren’t some other negotiating tactics available.
There are not.
The exchange is captured on body-worn cameras just seconds before Wein shoots Reno Owens in the head at 7:41 a.m. on Friday, March 24. Owens, a 39-year-old African-American man with no fixed address, was sitting on a bed with two children, aged 1 and 4 years, in his arms. He had a butcher knife with an eight-inch blade. He was talking crazy.
Police showed the video to members of the press today, but forbade audio or visual recording of it, save for a short clip of the SWAT team heading up the stairs. They will not release video publicly, according to spokesman T.J. Smith, in order to protect the children from discovering the video, years from now, and being re-traumatized.
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Seems justified to me. Good call on this one.
Is Marilyn Mosby “BLM” gonna prosecute her cops?
Muzzie Beard Alert.
I don’t see the issue here. Is someone worried that killing the piece of trash somehow traumatized the children? Did the scumbag bleed all over the rug? Did the cleanup crew hurt themselves dragging his worthless carcass out?
You mean again? 8>)
Chain of command. What’s the supervisor supposed to say. “Head on in there and wing it”?
Benefit of the doubt definitely goes to the supervisor in this case. It’s a judgement call, and the supervisor explained his rationale. And his rationale seems pretty solid.
Benefit of the doubt definitely goes to the supervisor in this case. It’s a judgement call, and the supervisor explained his rationale. And his rationale seems pretty solid.
Benefit of the doubt definitely goes to the supervisor in this case. It’s a judgement call, and the supervisor explained his rationale. And his rationale seems pretty solid.
Benefit of the doubt definitely goes to the supervisor in this case. It’s a judgement call, and the supervisor explained his rationale. And his rationale seems pretty solid.
Muzzie beard and a knife alert!
Good enough. Mission accomplished
Salafist
Sometimes violence is the only answer.
“Seems justified to me. Good call on this one.”
I agree. In his opinion he could kill the girl at any moment.
“A bald lieutenant...?”
“Never write if you can speak; never speak if you can nod; never nod if you can wink.”
I very much agree with the decision and action. However, I will also be concerned about the affects on particularly the 4 yo child.
While this may have been the only option, it was wrong for him to say “I want you to go in there and kill him”
The correct thing is to say “you are authorized to use lethal force, if necessary” and leave it at that.
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