A female soldier visiting the North Miami Beach police department's shooting range last month was reportedly horrified to discover officers were using her brother's mugshot for target practice.

Sgt. Valerie Deant, a clarinet player in the Florida Army National Guard's 13th Army Band, was at the range for her annual weapons qualifications training when she recognized the target, NBC Miami reports.

North Miami Beach Police Chief J. Scott Dennis admitted that his officers could have used better judgment, but denies any racial profiling.

He noted that that the sniper team includes minority officers. Dennis defended the department's use of actual photographs and says the technique is widely used and the pictures are vital for facial recognition drills. But the Deant family questions why officers were firing targets with images of real people, in this case African-Americans, especially at a time when relations between minority communities and law enforcement are so tense.

Dennis tells the news outlet, "Our policies were not violated," but says he'll encourage his officers to remove the photos when they leave the range.

[screenshot via NBC]