Serve & Protect, themselves?

For those of you who visit this blog from Guam, I'm sure you've read about what happened at the local cemetary.. For those of you who have not read it, check out the news either through the Guam News link from the http://www.gabriel-tech.com/ webpage or go to guampdn.com or kuam.com. Here's what we do know:

• This guy's brother had just died,
• This guy's brother in law had forewarned police that this guy would not harm anyone and if he has a gun it isn't real,
• This guy exited his car, thus viewable by all of the authorities, even SWAT,
• Apparently SWAT was there too,
• SWAT stands for Special Weapons and Tactics,
• All this guy was threatening was his own life,
• Police shot and killed him,
• A total of 9 or 10 shots were fired, possibly all hitting him,
• It is still under investigation,
• The family was there to witness it,
• They believe that it wasn't necessary, and it didn't have to end that way,
• One of the family members is an ex-cop,
• All of these have been stated in one way or form but until they release the final details they are all speculations.

Here is my take on it:

• If he was only trying to kill himself what were the cops thinking? "You are NOT allowed to kill yourself, but WE CAN kill you?",
• Couldn't the sniper of the SWAT Team just shoot the gun or even his hand or arm to disarm the poor guy? hence, the T for Tactics?..,
• Are our law enforcement officers that lacking in training? Or maybe in live action and they get too excited when they get some?,
• Are our law enforcement officer unclear as to what their objectives and duties are?,
• Are they serving and protecting us? or themselves?,
• Correct me if I'm wrong but most people are afraid of the Police, not because they are guilty of something but because Guam Police tend to be mean and biased unless you are related to them or you know somebody that they know and so on,
• Ok, NOT ALL, but A LOT of them are like that and that makes us afraid of them instead of feeling safe in their presence, SAD, but TRUE.
• These are my opinions and I would like to know what you think, please post your comments if you have any on this.

Sorry I had to get all serious on you guys but I just had to get this out of my head. I am by far no genius when it comes to law enforcement but I can think of a whole lot of ways to avoid having to kill an emotionally distraught individual.

I'll try to post something happy next time but for now, let's hope that those that Serve & Protect, Serve the People and Protect the Laws of the Land.