Police in the Florida city of North Miami Beach have been using mug shots of blacks as targets for the department’s firearms training
BarkGrowlBite | January 16, 2015
The Florida city of North Miami Beach has been using the nearby Medley Police Firearms Training Center for its cops. The NMBPD brings along its own targets. Those targets happen to be six mugshots of black teenagers and adults. That firing range is also used by other police agencies and by the National Guard.
When a National Guard unit came to the range, they found a discarded target made up of six mugshots of black teenagers and men, with bullet holes in some of the heads. If that wasn’t bad enough, it turned out that one of the mug shots on the discarded target happened to be the brother of a woman soldier in the NG unit. The mugshot was taken when her brother was a teenager.
I suspect those targets were probably started out as the joke of some smart-ass cop. Adopting those mug shot targets was a terrible idea, especially since none of the mug shots were of white men.
NMB Police Chief J. Scott Dennis defends the indefensible, saying it is common for targets like that to be used for facial recognition by police snipers. But none of the other police agencies that use the Medley range have ever used such targets. Not only is that type of target a terrible idea, but some stupid dipshit from the NMBPD left one of the shot up targets behind for anyone to find. And that was no joke!
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