Family of man killed by Olympia police urging for fair investigation

The mother of a man killed by an Olympia Police Department (OPD) officer in August said she always worried her son would die at the hands of police. “This very thing, I feared,” Millie Green said. Her son, Timothy Green, was shot and killed by an Olympia police officer behind a Starbucks on Aug. 22. According to officers, that morning they received 911 calls about Green acting erratically, first at an AM-PM, then at the Starbucks next door. According to investigators, the officers were unable to get Green into custody and he walked into traffic when approached. When they tried using tasers to stop him, that didn’t work. Investigators said the officers on the scene claimed Green came at one of the officers while holding a knife. According to police, the Olympia officer fired and hit Green, who later died at a hospital. Green’s mother said the 37-year-old, father of two, was diagnosed as bipolar when he was a teenager. She said he struggled with drug addiction and finding housing most of his adult life. Green said she was worried about her son eventually being killed by police when he was in crisis. She said that's why she gathered signatures for Initiative-940 in 2017. The initiative, later approved by voters, required additional de-escalation training for officers. Green said she would have liked the officers who met her son that morning to have called for mental health professionals, rather than having to use deadly force. READ THE FULL STORY: https://www.king5.com/article/news/lo...