The Waupun deputy police chief says it appears a grand jury’s decision not to indict a white police officer in the killing of an unarmed black teenager in Ferguson Missouri shows the jury believed the physical evidence in the case outweighed the sometimes conflicting eyewitness accounts of what happened. The community erupted into unrest after the decision was announced. Waupun deputy police chief Scott Louden there’s a process in place and as long as that process is followed a correct decision is going to be made. “They followed their process, they did their investigation and the jury did not find probable cause to indict the officer,” Louden told AM 1170 WFDL’s Between the Lines program. Louden says from what he has read and heard it appears the officer was justified in using deadly force. “We’re taught in training to stop the threat. If there is a continued threat and if it takes six shots to stop the threat that’s what we’re going to do and that’s how we’re trained.” Louden says that’s why its called use of deadly force.
