Dan F.
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I am offering this link to a collection of articles because it contains extensive transcripts of media coverage of the tragic shooting death of TCPD Sgt. Dennis Finch in 1998. http://www.mcrkba.org/VPCLEOKIA1998.pdf If I understand correctly, Dr. Lee gathered this compliation primarily as a segment of a broader research document. To see the articles surrounding Sgt. Finch's death you must scroll down to about the middle of the pdf display.
This shooting death was a big deal here in the north as few officers die in the line of duty and even fewer have died as a result of criminal attack. I recall on the night of this tragic event that the suspect was reported in the news as merely "wearing a holstered gun while in his yard doing yard work." Apparently the police responded to the man's home after his neighbors complained about the OC. Knowing what I do about OC here in Michigan, I recall wondering what made the police confront the man. Later I learned that the police had good reason to suspect the man's mental stability.
I offer this information as to why OC will, IMHO, make some LEO's uneasy.
I am offering this link to a collection of articles because it contains extensive transcripts of media coverage of the tragic shooting death of TCPD Sgt. Dennis Finch in 1998. http://www.mcrkba.org/VPCLEOKIA1998.pdf If I understand correctly, Dr. Lee gathered this compliation primarily as a segment of a broader research document. To see the articles surrounding Sgt. Finch's death you must scroll down to about the middle of the pdf display.
This shooting death was a big deal here in the north as few officers die in the line of duty and even fewer have died as a result of criminal attack. I recall on the night of this tragic event that the suspect was reported in the news as merely "wearing a holstered gun while in his yard doing yard work." Apparently the police responded to the man's home after his neighbors complained about the OC. Knowing what I do about OC here in Michigan, I recall wondering what made the police confront the man. Later I learned that the police had good reason to suspect the man's mental stability.
I offer this information as to why OC will, IMHO, make some LEO's uneasy.