As the daughter of a former cop, Alex Smith recalls that whenever someone referred to her father as a police officer when she was growing up, he corrected them and said “No, I’m a peace officer.”
“I know what it’s like to kiss my dad goodbye and know that I might not see him,” Smith says. “I know what it’s like to see my dad on TV in a shootout.”
But after her husband, Jason Maccani was fatally shot by a Los Angeles police officer in Skid Row during a mental health crisis when he approached officers while holding a white plastic fork last February , Smith began rethinking everything she grew up believing about police officers…