Police Training Seminar Canceled After Uproar at Killology Speaker
On 4/27/21 at 12:40 PM EDT
A law enforcement training seminar in Michigan has been canceled following concerns about comments a former Army ranger, scheduled to speak, had made about fatal police shootings.
Lt. Col. (ret) Dave Grossman, 64, was scheduled to be one of the keynote speakers at the Michigan Association of Chiefs of Police (MACP) event due to take place at the Oak Pointe Church in Novi, northwest of Detroit on May 26 and 27.
In his biography on his website, Grossman is described as the director of the Killology Research Group. It describes killology as the study of the reactions of healthy people in killing circumstances, such as police and military in combat and the factors that enable and restrain killing in these situations.
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Such incidents are again drawing protest after two violent episodes following traffic stops. In suburban Minneapolis, not far from where George Floyd was killed in a police encounter, a veteran cop recently killed a 20-year-old Black man, Daunte Wright, after he was stopped for expired registration tags. (Wright’s mother told reporters that when she talked to her son moments before he was shot, he said police raised concern about an air freshener hanging from his rearview mirror.) In Virginia, a Black and Latino Army officer sued after he was pepper spraying, struck and handcuffed after being pulled over for not having a permanent license plate on his new SUV.
“It was one of the great disappointments of the last session,” said Sen. Jeff Irwin, D-Ann Arbor, who sponsored police training legislation that died when the House failed to take it up by the end of 2020, choosing to approve its own version instead.
“It seems to me that there are a few ideas in that area that we should be able to come together on, and improving (police) training is perhaps the most obvious and easiest area of compromise and collaboration,” Irwin told Bridge Michigan.
Police practices remain under scrutiny this month following the deaths of Daunte Wright in Minnesota and 13-year-old Adam Toledo in Chicago, along with the trial of Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, who is facing murder charges after kneeling on Floyd’s neck for nine minutes during an arrest on May 25.