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Sure David, two occasions when I was a paid call firefighter in San Bernardino County; the first time, called to a residence of a mentally disturbed woman, she pulled a knife from a kitchen drawer and tried to stab me, I moved, grabbed her wrist and disarmed her. She was hauled away. The second time was after our medics brought a violent disturbed man to the hospital, he pulled a knife ( which someone neglected to check for) and sat up from the gurney, I stepped sideways, grabbed his arm, and we both ended up on the floor. The other two medics jump in and took the knife away. I was in a grocery store parking lot and one of the employees ran out and grabbed a guy while he was getting in his car, he punched the employee as I ran over as he tried to start his car. I reached in the window and grabbed his wrist; the employee got him in a headlock, and drug him out of the car. Some other employees came out and took him away. The first employee said he had stolen something from the store. A few years ago, I was doing outreach for the homeless youth. I came across a fight between two young men beating up another youth, I ran over pushed one away and told the other that the cops were on their way. They both ran off. I have a few more “life threatening incidences”, but I’m running out of time. The point is, I have been trained to deal with aggression, and so have the police. Killing someone is the very last resort, not the first line of self defense! If they are not trained, they have no business being in that position. Again, unacceptable!!

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This is unacceptable! There is no logical reason for murdering yet another citizen, no matter how scared you are. If you are that frightened of the last several people you have murdered, you neither have the character or the moral judgment to be a police officer. I have been in many, too many, situations where I believed my life may possibly, or even assuredly, be at risk from encounters with aggressive and potentially dangerous people; and I haven’t had to kill any of them yet. I have used my brains or my brawn to overcome that danger. If you think that shooting everyone your afraid of is the answer, then the only people that will be safe from you are 95 year old women handcuffed to their wheelchairs.  

I will not tolerate, nor allow any further murder by our Portland area police. This will stop now, this is not a question!

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