NEW RICHMOND, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio police officer is being praised for holding his fire even as a slaying suspect charged him, saying repeatedly, “shoot me.”
WLWT-TV in Cincinnati reports (http://bit.ly/1EXuKaK ) the tense moments were captured Thursday on a body camera worn by New Richmond officer Jesse Kidder.
The video shows Kidder with backpedaling and telling 27-year-old Michael Wilcox he doesn’t want to shoot him.
Wilcox is charged with killing his 25-year-old girlfriend and is a person of interest in a Kentucky killing. Kidder says dispatchers told him Wilcox could try to force a “suicide by cop” after a chaotic, violent chase.
Kidder says a relative gave him the body camera following the deadly officer-involved shooting in Ferguson, Missouri.
Wilcox was being held Saturday on $2 million bond. No attorney information was available.
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Righteous arrest, Officer Kidder.
¨Kidder says a relative gave him the body camera following the deadly officer-involved shooting in Ferguson, Missouri.¨
Of course, his department should have gotten it for him, but I’d sure rather run into a cop who voluntarily wears a body cam than one who didn’t want to wear one. You have to believe that knowing someone will review an arrest most likely tempers your actions.
Article does not say how suspect was subdued. Now if only NRA supported Smart guns the officer and public need not be fearful of dangerous person overcoming officer and seizing his gun because it would fire only in the officer’s hand.
Wow. Shows how fucked up things have gotten when headline reads, effectively, “Cop Shows Restraint, World Stunned.”
Still, he deserves to be commended.
Have you heard the one about the sadist and the masochist?
Masochist says “beat me, hurt me”
Sadist says “No”