Officer who murdered Ball State student "received proper training"

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http://www.indystar.com/articles/7/091689-5117-092.html

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After Duplain was hired April 28, he participated in 14 weeks of field training with the university police, Shupp said. He also had completed a 40-hour basic firearms and law course offered by the Indiana Law Enforcement Training Board, which allowed him to serve as an armed officer under state law.

That course included eight hours of firearms training, with some "shoot/don't shoot" practice scenarios, and eight hours of defensive tactics.

University officials acknowledged that Duplain wasn't equipped with a chemical spray commonly used to subdue suspects. Shupp said he didn't have the spray because he wasn't trained in its use.
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Wasn't trained in its use? How hard is it to use chemical spray? Here's a quick, three-second tutorial, courtesy of yours truly:

(1) Point spray at subject
(2) Spray

Feel free to read over those again if you're none too sure of yourself. It really is an easy procedure.

If you hadn't heard about this yet, here is a good article with all the necessary background:

http://www.indystar.com/articles/9/091690-5179-009.html

Quick stuff (from article):

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Duplain was armed with a 9 mm semi-automatic double action Smith and Wesson gun. That's a standard police-issue weapon, but critics such as Don Davis of Don's Guns -- no gun foe, he -- maintain that a semi-automatic is too much firepower.

Yet he was carrying no Taser (a low-voltage stun weapon) or chemical pepper spray or Mace -- Ball State University spokeswoman Heather Shupp says he was not Mace-trained. Now, what kind of a campus force dispatches a seven-month rookie with a lethal weapon, yet doesn't supplement it with a less-deadly alternative? Why isn't Mace training part of field work?

According to Shupp, Duplain was carrying a baton, which is designed to subdue a crazed or drunken individual. Why wasn't it used?
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The kid who was shot was drunk at banging at the door of a house he thought was his friend's (it wasn't), and naturally, rightfully, the occupants called the police. Being drunk and banging on the wrong house door is not, however, a crime punishable by death.

And spare me the arguments of "well, he was a young, nervous cop." Please - if he were so young and nervous, he should not have been sent out there. How is this any different than some drunk shooting another drunk guy behind a bar?

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

1. Google "Hirko"

Same sort of thing. Perhaps worse.

[Jokerman]

2. As a BSU grad...

I must say that in my vast experience wandering drunk through the same neighborhoods, BSU cops were, in general, much more understanding and compassionate than the Muncie cops I ran into.

That being said, the use of deadly force against anyone who didn't pose a clear threat should not be tolerated.

I have to wonder if the "lunge" described was actually the drunken victim falling off the porch.