The hearing today was a sham. These officers were supposed to be afforded their rights to due process, but these disciplinary letters were written before they even started the hearing.

He surrendered it. He just voluntarily gave it up, forever. He's going to get out of the business.

I know that when you see the arrest, it seems overzealous. But their performance was perfectly within the realm of reason.

I have some drug offenders who will probably get lucky and go free.

They couldn't get him handcuffed. They couldn't do it.

They never thought they'd get a fair shake from this department. The guys fully expected what happened to happen.

I understand his attorney is talking about using the suicide attempt, but I don't know how they'll get that information into a courtroom. I believe he's trying to use that to show negligent retention, making the city liable for hiring him and keeping him. But I don't think it's going to fly.

I see an incident of a man trying to be brought under control who doesn't want to be brought under control.

We're not worried about what they do or where they do it. We'll try it wherever they want.

When he dropped his hands to his waistband, the officers are trained to assume he's going for a weapon. That's what the punches were about. Officers who don't assume a suspect is going for a gun end up dead.