Photo: Guila Dale Family
Army veteran Guila Dale who was having a PTSD episode on July 4th (apparently brought on by the fireworks) was shot dead outside his home in New Jersey by police.
Civil rights leaders in New Jersey say that the police response to two 911 calls this year in a rural, majority-white town, one of which ended in officers fatally shooting a Black Army veteran outside his home, highlights inequalities in how police treat white people and people of color.
They say they believe race played a role in how officers last month engaged with the retired major, especially when compared to how they handled an 80-year-old white man who told a police dispatcher in January that he was suicidal before a brief manhunt through town ended with him being safely apprehended and arrested at a hospital.
The Army veteran, Gulia Dale, was killed on July Fourth after his wife, Karen, called 911 to report that her husband had left their home with a gun. The New Jersey attorney general’s office, which is investigating Dale’s death, said a Glock 21, a .45-caliber firearm, was recovered near Dale.
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