The Sawyer County Board of Supervisors at their monthly meeting Thursday, May 18, witnessed a simulated confrontation between an officer holding a gun on a armed suspect that revealed the split second officers have to make the correct decision.
Sheriff Doug Mrotek introduced the exercise in the new county boardroom.
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