Austin sergeant fired for fatal shooting

Tony Plohetski wrote an article November 27. 2007 about the chief of police department named Art Acevedo firing Sgt. Michael Olsen for fatally shooting a man(Kevin Brown)during a foot pursuit outside an East Austin nightclub in June, saying in a blistering 10-page report that Olsen unnecessarily fired a second shot into his back as he lay facedown before giving him a chance to comply with an order to show his hands. Acevedo said " Olsen demonstrated poor judgment, showed a lack of common sense and failed to follow his training in the moments before the June 3 shooting" In response, Olsen answered that he was investigating a report that Brown had a gun and that Brown began to flee. He said he fired when Brown reached toward his waist, as if drawing a weapon. After reading this I believe what Art Acevedo did was in the intention of good and justice was served as he fired Olsen from the police department. Olsen has had a poor history of mistreating minorities for a while now and it took this young black male for people to finally see that he does not fit as an officer. As of this year the citizens of Austin has made a good choice of picking this new chief of police from California.