Christopher Braga. A name which shall live in infamy.
joined the bureau five years ago, after seven years with the Marines.
Does anyone else here question the wisdom of making a cop out of someone who was (legitimately) comprehensively trained to kill people? When put in a deadly-force situation (at least a perceived one), people revert to their training; putting an M4 in the hands of a Marine apprehending a suspected violent felon results in a good chance of the suspect getting shot. Marines are not trained to consider that a suspect might be an innocent Eagle Scout, they're trained to kill suspects.
(This is not a condemnation of police or soldiers - each has a necessary & legitimate job. I'm just saying that in this case, swapping jobs can be a really bad idea.)
Often.
The militarization of law enforcement agencies from the rural SWAT squads up the the feds is very troubling, and will contiue to have ominous and far reaching unintended consequences...
Men who served in combat in WWII, Korea, and Viet Nam.
None that I knew behaved in the manner of the individual that shot the young man.
The more I go over what has been reported, I now believe that this man decided sometime before that he was going to kill the suspect when he caught him.
That he did not kill the man had more to do with the Grace of God than his lack of trying.