The release of 911 tapes and other records from the San Jose police shooting of Daniel Pham should have begun a thoughtful conversation about what might have been done differently — and about the challenges police officers have to juggle when they walk into a potentially dangerous situation.
Instead, the police and their defenders are saying: We’re vindicated; there was no choice but to shoot. And the Vietnamese community is saying: If things had been done differently, this mentally ill man might not have had to die Story continues here ➤