A West Virginia Cop FIRED... .. . For Not Killing a Black Man

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We’ve tracked countless cases here where cops were able to keep their jobs after killing unarmed people, killing people after responding to the wrong house, killing people and then lying about it . . . the list goes on.

Give the Weirton, W.Va., police chief some credit. He’s come up with a new spin on the the same problem. He just fired a cop for not killing someone.

After responding to a report of a domestic incident on May 6 in Weirton, W.Va., then-Weirton police officer Stephen Mader found himself confronting an armed man.

Immediately, the training he had undergone as a Marine to look at “the whole person” in deciding if someone was a terrorist, as well as his situational police academy training, kicked in and he did not shoot.

“I saw then he had a gun, but it was not pointed at me,” Mr. Mader recalled, noting the silver handgun was in the man’s right hand, hanging at his side and pointed at the ground.

Mr. Mader, who was standing behind Mr. Williams’ car parked on the street, said he then “began to use my calm voice.”

“I told him, ‘Put down the gun,’ and he’s like, ‘Just shoot me.’ And I told him, ‘I’m not going to shoot you brother.’ Then he starts flicking his wrist to get me to react to it.

“I thought I was going to be able to talk to him and deescalate it. I knew it was a suicide-by-cop” situation.

Mader was responding to a 911 call from Williams’s girlfriend. In that call, she told police that Williams was threatening to kill himself, not anyone else.

What Mader did upon arriving at the scene is a hell of a lot braver course of action than simply opening fire when the suspect doesn’t immediately disarm. What Mader did is in fact exactly what we want cops to do when someone is in crisis. It’s also precisely what law enforcement officers say they do on a daily basis — put themselves at risk in order to save lives. Mader should have been given a medal. Unfortunately, two more cops then showed up, and quickly shot Williams dead.

As it turns out, Williams’s gun wasn’t loaded. There’s no way any of the police officers could have known that. But it does show that Mader had read Williams correctly — he wasn’t actually a threat to anyone but himself. His life could have been saved.

The Weirton police department then refused to name Williams for three days and assigned an investigator to look into the shooting . . . who then promptly left for a weeklong vacation. Then came the punchline.

Mr. Mader — speaking publicly about this case for the first time — said that when he tried to return to work on May 17, following normal protocol for taking time off after an officer-involved shooting, he was told to go see Weirton Police Chief Rob Alexander.

In a meeting with the chief and City Manager Travis Blosser, Mr. Mader said Chief Alexander told him: “We’re putting you on administrative leave and we’re going to do an investigation to see if you are going to be an officer here. You put two other officers in danger.”

Mr. Mader said that “right then I said to him: ‘Look, I didn’t shoot him because he said, ‘Just shoot me.’ ”

On June 7, a Weirton officer delivered him a notice of termination letter dated June 6, which said by not shooting Mr. Williams he “failed to eliminate a threat.”

The city mentioned two other incidents in firing Mader, but it seems clear that his failure to kill Williams was the motivation for his termination. Even the rare cop who gets fired often gets to keep his pension. Mader won’t be getting one.

After he received his termination notice, Mr. Mader sought attorneys to help him fight the city. He was told because he was still a probationary employee in an “at-will” state, he could be fired for any reason and there was no point in fighting the city.

One attorney told him the best he could hope for was to ask to resign instead of being terminated.

“But I told [the attorney] ‘Look, I don’t want to admit guilt. I’ll take the termination instead of the resignation because I didn’t do anything wrong,’ ” Mr. Mader said. “To resign and admit I did something wrong here would have ate at me. I think I’m right in what I did. I’ll take it to the grave.”

Over the weekend, the New York Times ran an article about the longstanding problem in which even the rare bad cops who do get fired are often able to quickly find work at another policy agency. Mader, who served a tour in Afghanistan and has two sons under five-years-old, told the Post-Gazette that he’s now studying for a commercial truck driving license, but he’d consider another job in law enforcement if he were offered one. I hope that happens. I hope he’s given the same second chance that corrupt, trigger-happy cops are given. My hunch is that he’ll be driving trucks.

 

[Capitol]

If you're not going to jail or getting shot these race soldiers want no part of you

 

[Arcavian]

That's crazy

 

[FukYaFeelings]

But all cops are bad and just want to kill us.












If you disagree you a c00n

 

[Kiyoshi-Dono]

 

[RiffRaff]

I low-key understand it. The guy with the gun was obviously a nut job. You start flicking your wrist like you're going to draw on me? I wouldn't blame anyone for firing off in that instance

And by not doing so you're also putting others potentially in harm's way as well. That being said the idea that he actually gets fired while these other CACs get paid administrative leave is at best a fukking joke.

 

[notPsychosiz]

But all cops are bad and just want to kill us.












If you disagree you a c00n

All cops are bad and do want to kill you.
If you were paying attn you would realize the person you are using as your example of a good cop is no longer a cop at all... as intended.

There are NO good cops.
Anyone not adhering to white supremacy is immediately removed from the organization.
There are NO good judges.
When you challenge white supremacy as with the judge who dismissed the all white jury, you are chastized, penalized, suspended and reformed... or later removed.

The entire justice/legal system is courrupt. Buying into it or supporting it in anyway is an error on behalf of the black community.
White Supremacy is to be toppled and stamped out... nothing else.

 

[FukYaFeelings]

All cops are bad and do want to kill you.
If you were paying attn you would realize the person you are using as your example of a good cop is no longer a cop at all... as intended.

There are NO good cops.
Anyone not adhering to white supremacy is immediately removed from the organization.
There are NO good judges.
When you challenge white supremacy as with the judge who dismissed the all white jury, you are chastized, penalized, suspended and reformed... or later removed.

The entire justice/legal system is courrupt. Buying into it or supporting it in anyway is an error on behalf of the black community.
White Supremacy is to be toppled and stamped out... nothing else.

But how long was he a cop for before that?

 

[notPsychosiz]

But how long was he a cop for before that?

Not sure.
But its actions that make you a good or bad.

The moment he did something good he was removed.

If you know of him doing numerous other good things before this let us know... but usually as soon as you are outed as what would be considered a 'good cop' if there were such a thing, thats your two weeks notice.

 

[Rozay Oro]

He didn't shoot but two other cops came to kill breh. Wow. Can Judgement Day take any longer

 

[Black Barbie]

Of course West Virginia can never be in the news for nothing good. . There are still black people in Weirton?