Ohio Police Chief: Senseless Killings By Cops 'Making Us All Look Bad'

An Ohio police chief said he is sick and tired of police senselessly killing innocent civillians.

In the past week, police fatally shot unarmed black man Terence Crutcher in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Keith Lamont Scott in North Carolina.

Middletown police chief Rodney Muterspaw expressed his growing frustration over the shootings in a Twitter post.

After watching video of the fatal encounter 40-year-old Crutcher had with officer Betty Shelby, Muterspaw told the Journal-News that there was no reason for the officer to have reacted with deadly force to an unarmed man with his hands raised. He said his department would use the Tulsa shooting as a launch pad to better train his own officers in deescalation tactics.

“It’s a chance to learn from it,” Muterspaw told the publication. “We are not robots. We have an opinion too. If it makes our department better and keeps our officers safer, if it makes the city better we should speak out about it.”

Muterspaw said on his Facebook page that he was “sick, tired and mentally drained” of seeing these all-too-common shootings.

If officers “can’t do their job or are scared of people different than you, then get out of the job,” he wrote. “You are making us all look bad. STOP.”