Resident urges action after fatal police encounter, calls for 'suicide‑by‑cop' de‑escalation training

Olivia Fisher, a Fargo resident, used the meeting’s public‑comment period to call on the commission to take action following the fatal police shooting of 65‑year‑old Peter Greco.

The nut graf: Fisher urged immediate accountability for the officers involved, argued that repeated prior contacts with the subject should have shaped the police response and demanded that the city implement suicide‑by‑cop de‑escalation training for officers within a year.

In public comment, Fisher said the officers who responded — Sergeant Lucas Mock and Officer Princeton Harris — killed Greco on his front steps during a mental‑health crisis call and that Greco had called police dozens of times in prior years. "Peter Greco called 53 times between 2008 and 2024," Fisher said. She said police did not treat the incident as primarily a self‑harm situation and questioned why officers did not wear protective gear available for potentially violent encounters. Fisher said the weapon the officers confronted later turned out to be a BB gun and that officers shot Greco four times. She demanded that the officers "lose their positions" and that the city implement suicide‑by‑cop de‑escalation training within one year.

Fisher framed the request as a public‑safety and accountability demand and said she and others were “outraged” by the shooting and prior uses of lethal force in the community. Her remarks were delivered as public comment; there was no commission action recorded in the transcript in response to her statements during the meeting.

Ending: Fisher said she and others would continue to press for change if the commission did not act; the commission did not take immediate action during the meeting.