The South Florida Police Benevolent Association is defending the actions of an Aventura police officer who fatally shot a man inside a beauty salon on Thursday afternoon.
The incident took place at the RH Beauty Salon in the busy Town Center shopping plaza, on Biscayne Boulevard at NE 191 Street.
Officer defended by police union
Steadman Stahl, president of the South Florida PBA, which represents Aventura officers, said the veteran officer fired her weapon after the man attacked the salon’s owner and made anti-Semitic slurs.
“A husband of a former employee of the salon was committing some disturbances throughout the day and they had asked him to leave. He started an altercation with the owner of the salon and the officer had no other choice but to fire and take the life of the subject,” Stahl said…