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作者 標題 [新聞] 美國警察遇嫌犯沒開槍，遭到革職
時間 Sat May 13 10:00:25 2017
1.媒體來源:
NY Times
2.完整新聞標題:
Police Officer Says He Was Fired for Not Shooting. Now He’s Suing.
美國警察表示他被革職的原因是遇到嫌犯沒開槍，現在要提出告訴
3.內文
Before dawn on May 6, 2016, a white police officer found himself face-to-face with a young black man holding a silver pistol. The officer could have fired a shot, but he didn’t.
2016年5月6日，白人員警遇到黑人，黑人舉槍對著他。該員警符合用槍時機，卻沒有開槍。
That officer, Stephen Mader, now 26, was dismissed weeks later by the Weirton, W.Va., police department. Now he is suing the city, arguing that his show of restraint cost him his job.
該員警名叫Stephen Mader，今年26歲，數週後遭到革職，現在他要對市政府提出告訴。
According to the complaint filed on Wednesday by the American Civil Liberties Union of West Virginia on Mr. Mader’s behalf, the officer was responding to a domestic-disturbance call when he found Ronald Williams Jr. brandishing a pistol.
Mr. Mader concluded, according to the complaint, that Mr. Williams was despondent but not aggressive, and appeared to be trying to commit “suicide by cop.” He repeatedly said to Mr. Mader: “Just shoot me.”
Mader說該名嫌犯正處憂鬱狀態，並沒有威脅性，而且舉槍是想要自殺，一直跟員警說：開槍殺了我吧！
Mr. Mader tried to calm him down. But two more officers arrived on the scene within minutes, and one of them, upon seeing Mr. Williams waving the weapon, shot him dead.
後來兩名員警前來支援，一槍就把黑人給斃掉了。
Mr. Williams’s pistol was not loaded, it was later reported.
State police investigated the episode, and Mr. Mader, a former United States Marine who had served in Afghanistan, received notice of his termination on June 7. The notice cited his “apparent difficulties in critical incident reasoning.”
At a news conference one day later, a county prosecutor announced that the officer who had shot Mr. Williams was justified in doing so.“Rather than respect Mr. Mader’s informed judgment and experience and his reasonable attempt to de-escalate the situation,” the A.C.L.U. complaint argued, “the City of Weirton, in a flawed effort to buttress the other officer’s use of deadly force, wrongfully terminated Mr. Mader’s employment.”
Mr. Mader had been with the Weirton police for only 11 months and was still a probationary employee when he was fired. His termination letter did not focus solely on the May 6 episode; instead, it said he had failed “to meet probationary standards of an officer.”
But Joseph Cohen, executive director of the A.C.L.U. of West Virginia, said the police were motivated in large part by Mr. Mader’s decision not to shoot Mr. Williams, and rushed the officer out of his position.
Mr. Mader could not be reached for comment on Thursday, but toldThe Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, a Pennsylvania newspaper, that he did not have an opportunity to thoroughly explain his side of the story. “I thought I was going to be able to talk to him and de-escalate it,” he said, referring to his confrontation with Mr. Williams.
The Weirton police department did not return calls or respond to an email seeking comment.
Stories of white officers shooting black men and boys — includingMichael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., andTamir Rice in Cleveland, Ohio, in 2014;Walter Scott in North Charleston, S.C., in 2015;Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, La., in 2016; andJordan Edwards near Dallas, Tex., last month — have spurredprotests across the countryand increasedpublic scrutiny of policing practices.
The most important thing in the case of Mr. Williams, Mr. Cohen said, “is that a young African-American man was killed.” But he added that Mr. Mader’s decision not to pull the trigger — and his subsequent termination — presented a unique legal opportunity to dig deeper into the issue.
“We took the case because it is important for what it says about policing in the U.S., what it says about policing in West Virginia and what it says about policing in small towns,” Mr. Cohen said. Court proceedings, he added, could go on for years.
On Thursday, both the Weirton city manager and the lawyer representing the city, Cy Hill, said they had not yet received the A.C.L.U. complaint. “When we do get a copy, it will be reviewed by legal counsel and then a determination will be made as to whether we’ll be making any comments on this particular lawsuit,” the city said in an emailed statement.
Months before his death, Mr. Williams’s name was in a newspaper for a happier reason. His son was the first baby born at the Trinity Medical Center in Steubenville, Ohio, in 2016.“I am very happy that he is healthy,” Mr. Williams said at the time toThe Herald-Star, a local newspaper. “He is starting the New Year off right for all of us. Now we are giving him a lot of love to welcome him into the world.”
連結：
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/11/us/west-virginia-officer-firing-lawsuit.html
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