In Texas a police officer shot and killed a 93 year-old African American female a few days ago. She supposedly got violent after being denied her driver’s licenses and got a .38 caliber handgun. That is when a man called police. When police arrived she fired two shots into the ground. Doing what most officers would do he returned fire hitting the elderly lady once in the chest and once in her arm, later she died at the hospital. The officer that fired the shot killing the 93 year old was fired from the police department for his actions.
This article could possibly relate to what I have learned in my First Aid class. The elderly woman died because of two gunshot wounds. The one to the arm probably wasn’t the fatal shot but on the other hand the one to the chest probably was considering many major organs are in that area. It ties in rather well because in First Aid we learned about organs and gunshot wounds.
I am all for protecting yourself in a dangerous situation. I believe that the cop did the right thing. Young, middle-aged, and even elderly must follow the law. So the moment he told her to put the gun down she should have complied but she didn’t, she fired two bullets and return the cop reacted and took her down. A cops job is to protect the citizens which makes it completely justifiable to take down someone firing a gun in a neighborhood. If I was him and I was in fear of my life I would have did the same thing. The police department was wrong for firing him.
I am all for protecting yourself in a dangerous situation. I believe that the cop did the right thing. Young, middle-aged, and even elderly must follow the law. So the moment he told her to put the gun down she should have complied but she didn’t, she fired two bullets and return the cop reacted and took her down. A cops job is to protect the citizens which makes it completely justifiable to take down someone firing a gun in a neighborhood. If I was him and I was in fear of my life I would have did the same thing. The police department was wrong for firing him.
The text is structured so that one is persuaded to believe that the officer in deed did the right thing by firing those fatal shots. The author said, “A man believed to be a relative of Golden's made a 911 call asking for help from police”. This shows that the police officer was only responding to a call from a man in need of help. The author quoted Russ Jr. by saying, “Hearne City Attorney Bryan Russ Jr. said Stem told Golden to drop her weapon at least three times”. By saying this it further justifies the officer for his decision to take down the woman for not only wielding the gun but firing two shots.
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