No. Really.
UPDATE: Found video on Youtube - excerpted the critical seconds and embedded here. Worth your eight seconds if you haven't seen it.
Story is here. Video (with awesome 3D animation re-enactment of the shooting scene) is here.
I thought about calling the "suspect" a cop killer - because he was - but treating suspects as just that - suspects - is part of the disciple of the police, and one hopes that discipline would prevail, if not for the sake of the suspect, then at least for bystanders... or, you know, for the sake of other cops...
Oh. My. God.
ReplyDeleteThat's insane.
This case is a prime example of poorly chosen academy candidates, relaxed police training and standards, and a creeping military special-ops "wanna be" culture. These guys are a danger to themselves and to the public they purportedly serve!
What was that? 377 shots from 23 officers? That's over 16 shots per officer. The officers who got the Boston Marathon bombers shot over 200 rounds.
ReplyDeleteBut remember, you only need five rounds to protect yourself.
The Jim Stafford song Cow Patty comes to mind. It has the lyrics "forty shots rang out and forty people fell."
DeleteToo bad they were the wrong ones.
DeleteBehold my youtube-fu and despair...
ReplyDeleteLady Red is completely correct, and it only gets worse:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.steynonline.com/6317/gun-control.
"We don't have time for this!"
And I don't remember how to do links, apparently
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