When a Police Officer crosses the thick blue line
In police families violence has become the norm. When an Officer is hired for any job that involves a gun, police departments must include the spouses and other family members to ensure safety and wellness. These family members need to understand and should be taught techniques on how to difuse potentially violent situations that take place in the home. A great deal a power goes with given someone a badge and a gun. The same training methods should also be developed for the family members.
Arthur (Art) Henderson was fired from the Lehi Police Department in 2004 after being charged with assault and was due back in court on Monday for a new trial. He's a former boxer, practicer of martial arts, had been a use-of-force instructor for the Lehi Police Department and is a former SWAT officer. This week, he chased down his ex-wife's boyfriend in a car chase, rammed his truck into the boyfriends car, shot him twice, shot at his ex-wife and officers - and even a car passing with a family in it took a bullet. Officers shot Henderson. The boyfriend had to be airlifted to Salt Lake for hospital care. Both will be okay.
In February 2005 his ex-wife wrote down incidents from 14 years of domestic violence while applying for a protection order - like being grabbed, having her head put THROUGH a wall, getting hit in the head with a box of bullets, repeately threatening to kill her - with their their kids trying to jump in - kicking her so hard her leg was bruised to the bone, bumps on her head, bruises on her body, holding a gun to her head... "I went to my knees on the closet floor and begged him not to shoot me."
In February 2005 his ex-wife wrote down incidents from 14 years of domestic violence while applying for a protection order - like being grabbed, having her head put THROUGH a wall, getting hit in the head with a box of bullets, repeately threatening to kill her - with their their kids trying to jump in - kicking her so hard her leg was bruised to the bone, bumps on her head, bruises on her body, holding a gun to her head... "I went to my knees on the closet floor and begged him not to shoot me."
...Police say Henderson was fired from the Lehi Department 18 months ago, after he was criminally charged for simple assault. He was suppose to be in court on Monday in that assault case. Now he'll be there facing attempted murder charges...
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Stephen Holt/The Salt Lake Tribune |
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Lehi Police Lieutenant Harold Terry (right) comforts Art Henderson's estranged wife Natalie Henderson after a shooting involving Art Henderson, a former Lehi police officer in a residential area of Lehi. |
A holster and two guns lie on 1500 North in Lehi after a chase and shooting. Police say a woman's ex-husband chased her and her boyfriend and shot the boyfriend.
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