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Letter: Change needed in police shootings

By Vanae Tyler, Vancouver
Published: April 16, 2018, 6:00am

I am writing in response to the police shooting in Portland in a homeless center (“Police kill suspect inside shelter,” April 9).

I was married for 22 years to a deputy sheriff in Salt Lake County, Utah. In the 1960s, police would shoot suspects in the legs; that would stop their attacks and the suspects would live. Why don’t they still do this? I can’t believe if a suspect has a knife he could attack the police before they could shoot him in the leg.

I have been around over 80 years and I don’t like the amount of police killings going on nowadays. It isn’t only people of color without guns, but also mentally ill people like this recent Portland shooting. I thought the police were taught how to tell the difference, but evidently not. I wish there would be a change.

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