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what we’re going to do now. You can’t just leave him. I made the call and ordered the medic to patch him up. My guys were pissed. This is someone who, 30 minutes ago, was trying to kill us. But that’s the reason we’re not like them – our mentali- ty is if you see an injured bad guy, you call an ambulance. That’s what we do.”
Following eight surgeries, the combat- ant was taken to Guantanamo, but alive nonetheless.
“Two weeks later, I learned he was from a local town,” Garcia continues. “The elders in that town explained that he did what he did because he was paid $25, which is a lot of money there, and they thanked us for taking care of him. The (Afghani) police also thanked us. They had been watching us to see what we would do. If they saw us just watch him die, that would have been bad.”
Williams relates how military experi- ences like this translate directly to police work:
“That respect for humanity is some- thing that is key in both worlds,” he says. “The military teaches you how to deal with people and negotiate sticky situa- tions. Whether it’s in a warzone or here, it’s about problem solving. That’s what we do on a day-to-day basis. The ability
CAPS Officer Jamal Williams, 1st District
U.S. Marine Corps
Served 2002-2006. When he got out of the Corps, he went into social work, working with the Chicago Housing Authority and Department of Children and Family Services, which led him to work at the jails in policing.
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