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Sheriff's report: 19 shots in friendly-fire incident 'proper'
Sun Sentinel ^ | August 7, 2014 | Lisa J. Huriash

Posted on 08/08/2014 11:28:06 AM PDT by moonshinner_09

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To: moonshinner_09

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8jphxpi1ro


21 posted on 08/08/2014 12:15:57 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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To: moonshinner_09

I don’t know what’s more humiliating to the police: 19 shots at a fellow officer, or the fact that he was uninjured.


22 posted on 08/08/2014 12:18:16 PM PDT by dangus
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To: moonshinner_09

With more vacation pay, time off and bigger pensions, Im sure they could stop incidents like this . . . /sarc


23 posted on 08/08/2014 12:21:13 PM PDT by ßuddaßudd (>> F U B O << "What the hell kind of country is this if I can only hate a man if he's white?")
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To: Resolute Conservative
Neither Tianga and Manekas hit Distefano, although "multiple" mobile homes and cars had been hit.

Looks like a case of "spray & pray".

And how did the neighbors feel about their level of proficiency? Be funny if it wasn't so scary.

Granted I wasn't there to witness this, so my perspective may well be off, but as written this smells pretty bad. "multiple" mobile homes and cars had been hit" sounds like Manekas, considering he was not getting any return fire, was shooting where ROE would have suggested he not do so. I'm sorta picturing Barney Fife here.

24 posted on 08/08/2014 12:22:21 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s ((If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there)
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To: dsc
That’s the great thing about owning academia: when the libtards need a study to “prove” something, they can always find—or fund—one.

Riverside County Sheriff's Dept. owns academia?

25 posted on 08/08/2014 12:23:53 PM PDT by Ken H
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To: servo1969

She fired 1 shot, Barney Fife fired 18

Killed several cars and injured some mobile homes. That’ll show those miscreants!


26 posted on 08/08/2014 12:25:49 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s ((If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there)
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To: ChildOfThe60s

I the world of the incompetent when in doubt shoot it out.


27 posted on 08/08/2014 12:40:38 PM PDT by glyptol
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To: Ken H

Where can we see the actual study?


28 posted on 08/08/2014 12:40:46 PM PDT by ansel12 (LEGAL immigrants, 30 million 1980-2012, continues to remake the nation's electorate for democrats)
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To: Veggie Todd
19 shots and nobody was hit? Get thee to the range.

I would've never uttered this thought as recently as ten years ago, but now I think it's damned good thing that most cops are poor shots.

Weird stuff is going on in law enforcement these days. Most of the "first person shooter" videogame-based training aids must focus on dog scenarios.

30 posted on 08/08/2014 1:00:32 PM PDT by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
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The agency's Shooting Review Board concluded the shooting was "proper"

WOW, that's a very RARE and unusual finding.

31 posted on 08/08/2014 1:04:06 PM PDT by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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To: moonshinner_09

If you read some of my WAY, WAY, WAY back posts, I said on this was what would happen when the cops transitioned from the wheel to the auto. On the firing range, us older guys shot six shots, in the head or X ring. The new guys shot sixteen rounds and most were in the arm, the clavicle or total misses. I said “ There’s gonna be a lot of collateral deaths around here”.


32 posted on 08/08/2014 1:12:14 PM PDT by Safetgiver
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To: ansel12

There’s a link to a PDF of the study at the page.


33 posted on 08/08/2014 1:16:18 PM PDT by Ken H
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To: Ken H

“Riverside County Sheriff’s Dept. owns academia?”

The left, who is interested in perpetuating toxic feminist myths, owns academia.

And don’t think there was no such influence just because the study had a connection with a sheriff’s department somewhere.


34 posted on 08/08/2014 1:18:11 PM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: Ken H

For purchase, not for free, we can’t look at your source if we can’t see it.


35 posted on 08/08/2014 1:20:27 PM PDT by ansel12 (LEGAL immigrants, 30 million 1980-2012, continues to remake the nation's electorate for democrats)
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To: ansel12

My source is the abstract at the link. My device does not do PDF, so you have all the info I do.


36 posted on 08/08/2014 1:28:00 PM PDT by Ken H
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To: Ken H

The abstract they use, is not very useful unless we can read the actual study.

The pdf is only available for purchase.


37 posted on 08/08/2014 1:30:43 PM PDT by ansel12 (LEGAL immigrants, 30 million 1980-2012, continues to remake the nation's electorate for democrats)
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To: moonshinner_09

That is one STUPID Leo. Besides being a very poor shot. (thank God)


38 posted on 08/08/2014 2:06:11 PM PDT by Shimmer1 (Ok, the joke's over. Bring back the Constitution.)
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To: Celtic Conservative; Resolute Conservative

AND you two have the same last name!!


39 posted on 08/08/2014 2:08:41 PM PDT by Shimmer1 (Ok, the joke's over. Bring back the Constitution.)
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To: moonshinner_09
The ultimate in poor police marksmanship was recorded in the volume 1, no. 9, 1993 edition of "Jeff Cooper's Commentaries". It happened in Vienna, Austria.

“Family member Dr. Werner Weissenhofer reports from Vienna. It seems that a felon armed with a .357 revolver robbed a bank. As he left the bank, he was accosted by a policeman whom he murdered with one shot. Great excitement ensued, with the felon taking hostages and racing madly around from one store to another. When the forces of law and order had been mobilized and surrounded the goblin, a policeman volunteered to trade himself to the goblin for two hostages. This offer was accepted, at which time the felon fired at the policeman and seriously wounded him. The forces of law and order opened up with everything they had, which was mostly AUG [5.56x45 NATO] and Glock [9x19 NATO] fire. Shortly, the goblin killed himself with one round. He had fired three times and achieved three hits. The police, according to their official report, fired 1,261 rounds without drawing blood.

At one time, we used to refer to an event of this sort as a “Chinese Fire Drill.” Later we came to call if “Father's Day in Harlem.” After the interment of the Ayatollah Khomeini, we began to call it “An Iranian Funeral.” Now, I guess we can call it “A Viennese Bank Robbery.”

As I have often stated, if someone wants to shoot at me, I sure hope he does it on full-auto.”

40 posted on 08/08/2014 2:31:17 PM PDT by MasterGunner01
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