“Everybody We Deal With Is Trained to Killâ€â€”Why Don’t We See Widespread Police Brutality in the Military?
November 6, 2020|Andrea Scott
One night, at an on-base bar at a U.S. Army air installation in South Korea, a soldier drank too much. Not exactly breaking news, but his first sergeant and company commander happened to be at the club, and after realizing the “super-drunk†soldier was no longer capable of behaving himself, they sent him home.
The soldier left, but then returned to the club—with a knife. Somebody called the military police. When Brenna Toel arrived, she could tell by the way the intoxicated soldier stood, and later by the way the shank looked after the police took it from him, that he had “been in some fights,†she said.
But rather than pull her gun—or a taser or a club—Toel cajoled, reasoned, and pleaded with the soldier to leave the club peacefully, using the de-escalation techniques ingrained in her during her training.
For three hours.
https://thewarhorse.org/military-police-and-brutality-on-base-compared-to-civilian-policing/
