Posted on 01/21/2014 6:05:48 PM PST by BenLurkin
Authorities say a Bay Area Rapid Transit police officer accidentally shot and killed a fellow officer Tuesday in the first on-duty fatality in the department's 40-year history.
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Sorry then. I didn’t interpret it as sarcasm. It would have been small comfort for someone to tell me that “at least you can go home tonight” if I had shot someone who was innocent. I would have regretted it, and relived the image, every day for the rest of my life.
He was probably “resisting’ by asserting he was a BART police officer. He was being ‘uppity.” He probably expected them to stop their attack on him which riled up the cops. One positive - there were no seeing eye dogs on the platform to shoot.
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