So it’s perfectly legal and OK for a police officer, who is not in uniform, and who is not even in his own jurisdiction, to threaten deadly force against an innocent, unarmed and unthreatening citizen?
Something is very wrong with this picture.
It is long past time for Maine to have an official civilian review board to examine the conduct of police in cases such as this.
Bruce A. Letsch
Litchfield
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