How Can a Veteran Officer Draw a Duty Pistol and Think It's a TASER?

In this first episode of POLICE Coffee Break, POLICE asks that question of internationally recognized law enforcement trainer and POLICE contributor Dave Smith.

April 16, 2021

Ever since the fatal shooting of Daunte Wright at a traffic stop in Brooklyn Center, MN, officers and the public have asked what happened. How could a veteran officer mistake her pistol for a TASER?

In this first episode of POLICE Coffee Break, POLICE asks that question of internationally recognized law enforcement trainer and POLICE contributor Dave Smith.

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