Recently, while perusing the Missouri Department of Public Safety’s list of revoked or surrendered peace officer licenses, I came across a familiar yet somewhat surprising name: Eric DeValkenaere.
When I checked that same list months ago, I found it odd that the former Kansas City police detective’s name was nowhere to be found.
If you recall, in 2021, DeValkenaere became the city’s first police officer to be convicted of killing a Black man. To learn that his license wasn’t automatically revoked after legal proceedings concluded was shocking…