Officer in 'shoot me' video invited to DC

A police officer from the village of New Richmond -- population about 2,500 -- could become a national model for police training, his chief says.

And it's all because of something Officer Jesse Kidder didn't do.

Kidder was confronted last month by a man accused of killing two people in Ohio and Kentucky. The homicide suspect charged at Kidder, pleading with him to "shoot me!"

He didn't.

Now he's going to address a national audience at a conference in Washington, D.C. about use of force. New Richmond Police Chief Randy Harvey also will attend.

"Who would have thought with thousands of police departments across the nation and hundreds of thousands of police officers, little ol' NRPD would be a role model for future police training?" the chief posted on the department's Facebook page.

Harvey said on Facebook the two boarded a plane headed to the nation's capital Wednesday. There, they will address the Police Executive Research Forum, a nonprofit research organization founded in 1976 that focuses on policing issues.