KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM) Was there a message intended when a Kalamazoo Public Safety officer pointed his finger at an African American resident like a gun?
Was it a menacing gesture or just intended as a greeting? It was captured on film and that’s turned it into a controversy.
Pastor Strick Strickland says it demonstrates a certain insensitivity in these sensitive times, no matter what the intention was.
Chief Jeff Hadley says the officer didn’t mean anything by it, but they are meeting today at Public Safety to discuss police-community relation.
Deputy Chief Donald Webster thinks he has a solution, that the officer and the citizen sit down together and talk it out.
The Public Safety officer remains on active duty. A community forum was held on the Northside on Saturday to discuss the photo.
