Daily Mail, UK - Members of the North Miami Beach Police have been caught using photos of actual black teenagers for target practice.
This was discovered during an incident last month when Sgt. Valerie Deant, a clarinet player in the Florida Army National Guard's 13th Army Band, showed up at the Medley Firearms Training Center after members of the department had been practicing, and recognized one of their targets - a mugshot of her brother from when he was just 18-years-old.
The other targets were also black men, and some just teenagers. But now the department is defending the practice.
North Miami Beach Police Chief J. Scott Dennis says there is nothing wrong with this practice at all however, and even defends its use.
'Our policies were not violated,' Dennis said.
'There is no discipline forthcoming from the individuals who were involved with this.'
Dennis said it is common practice to use actual mugshots, and members of the same ethnic group help with facial recognition exercises.
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