Activists this morning (10am) ask the state board that licenses law enforcement officers to eliminate what they call “fear-based” training that turns police into “warriors” who view the community as “enemy combatants.” They say the officer who killed Philando Castile had taken a course called Bulletproof Warrior. POST Board executive director Nate Gove says about such curriculum, “I can just tell you on a personal level that it certainly is a course that doesn’t teach officers to be all fear-based in their interaction with the community.”
Gove says courses are constantly being adjusted to meet the needs of law enforcement and the communities they serve.
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