On the early morning of 12 October, Dallas Fort Worth police officer Aaron Dean shot a woman at her home when he saw her at her window at 2am while performing a wellness check. I won't post the body cam video here, but you can find it all over YT and it just shows the officer moving outside the home with his firearm drawn and a flashlight. This comes just weeks after the sentencing of Dallas police officer Amber Guyer for shooting another innocent civilian at his own apartment.
It appears that police officer Aaron Dean was startled when saw the woman at her window. He did not identify himself as a LEO, shouted "show me your hands" (window was closed, by the way, so she may have not heard him well enough), and shot her. There was zero escalation of force. And, heck, he was supposed to just swing by for a wellness check. From seeing her to shooting her I think maybe two seconds elapsed. She had no weapons on her person and was in her own home.
We have discussed this as a forum in the past, but, really... WTF are they teaching these officers?! I keep hearing this mantra of "the most important thing is that the officers come home alive to their families" and I think this is total BS.
Certainly, I would prefer that every police officer comes home in one piece every day, but their primary job is to safeguard the citizenry and uphold the law. I think a small, but significant number, of LEOs are increasingly untrained, scared out of their wits, and should just not be out there with a firearm.
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