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 | | From: | R_ LaCasse | | Subject: | 15 shots fired in 'life-or-death' confrontation | | Date: | Wed, 19 Jan 2005 11:17:18 -0800 |
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On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 10:36:40 -0600 (CST), you wrote:
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|>Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 17:46:17 -0600 (CST)
|>From: The Jordan's (<---rot13)
|>Subject: 15 shots fired in 'life-or-death' confrontation
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|>15 shots seems rather excessive to me. Either that, or these 'rookies'
|>need to go back to school for some firearms training to "learn how to
|>shoot". Why on earth are we trusting officers with firearms if they
|>haven't been trained to handle them properly? If it's a true case of a
|>"life and death" situation, officers are supposed to be trained to kill,
|>and it shouldn't take 15 shots at close range to do so.
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|>I know there are good and bad officers, but they should all be required to
|>have appropriate firearms training (AND regular practise) if they are going
|>to be assigned firearms.
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|>I have to wonder how many of the 15 shots hit the victim, and how many went
|>"wild" and could have hit someone else "or each other".
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|>Linda
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I think, the amount of shots is not really the issue as to what prompted
Gerald to lunge. In some police movies and citizen footage of live shooting
incidents, the case is usually what the officers said to PROMPT the already
disturbed Gerald. The 15 shot is just 7 shots from the Cops in their mono
mind of we are God attitude. Quite typical in newly armed rookies!
The average person does not seek a "Suicide by Cop" but many Cops
Nwest/Swat/etc., like all the semi-retired rcmp members like "Scotty, Tony,
Whistling..." are too eager to oblige. They are also on a type of witness
protection program which rivals the cost of Sonny Gravano jr. fundings.
These rookies can just make some " insanity" plea and walk freely till
the next event., they're young and will forget quicker than sentient people.
Hell this is where menopause is a good law-court reason in their favor.
B.C. has a few good common sense judges that will make them remember
longer, but Maggie Gisle us up against a lot in any event, even for some minor
compensation.
Bob
Your Honor,.... I always wondered,.... at what time in the morning do you have to get up to get up to get that drunk..............
(Yankee Jim, hung for 45 minutes for borrowing a $0.25 canoe.)
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