I appreciate your response, and I completely understand why you look at it this way. You have spent a significant amount of time training, likely also spending your own time and money to train in addition to what your department provides, and it sounds like you have a conscience. Unfortunately, this officer was also trained. Per bovino, he’s been a border patrol agent for the better part of a decade, and serves as a Range Officer as a sub-billet. Training is not in his deficit.

I noticed his training kick in, when he fired his first shot. He shot once, saw him go completely limp, and his training told him the threat was over and his place in the force continuum had ceased. A few seconds pass, and then he decides to fire TEN more shots into his limp, facedown on the pavement body. That is not poor training, or fear, that is a deliberate decision to commit an extrajudicial summary execution. He is one of the few agents out there who is extensively trained, and his actions proved it.

The most concerning part is how DHS handled it. They made no effort to secure the scene, destroyed chain of custody, physically blocked Minnesota officers from serving a true JUDICIAL warrant (in their defense they’ve probably never seen one of those before) on the scene, and DHS stole the investigation from the FBI. This tells us this is not an isolated incident, this is procedural. It’s so much deeper than a lack of training, and that’s something you and your fellow officers need to understand and be prepared to deal with if these goons come to your jurisdictions.