(ACLU of West Virginia)The suspect whom police officer Stephen Mader confronted was visibly distraught, and his hands were behind his back. “Just shoot me.”“Just shoot me,” he said a few more times. He believed that the man, Ronald J. Williams, who is black, was a threat to himself but not to others. The complaint described Mader’s 2016 encounter with Williams and alleged that city officials wrongfully fired Mader. “We had done different avenues in terms of retraining, placing him with a different training officer,” City Manager Travis Blosser told reporters.

Source: Washington Post May 15, 2017 17:13 UTC