[Tilted Irish Kilt]

donna: "There is no such thing as “shoot to kill” versus “shoot to injure.”

An armed man, holding a loaded weapon is called "Deadly Physical Force" for a reason
and the police responded 'in kind' !
Shoot to injure only occurs in movies like "Blazing Saddles".

[blackdog]

Philly does have a real history of finding weapons in a car driven by a black man with a criminal record. I was visited by the FBI back in 1995 over such cases. The Philly Northeast Detectives unit got caught doing it on a grand scale. It is an easy way to get what they wanted off the street. A convicted felon with a handgun is an automatic five years in the state prison. My handgun was stolen from my home, fenced to the police, and used in such an arrest about six months after it was stolen. I eventually got the gun back.

The FBI did a sting operation by driving undercover agents up and down North Broad Street in hood popular cars. When one would get stopped, there was a criminal record to match the driver. All the sudden a weapon would be recovered from the vehicle when none was there prior to the stop.

Not all cops are pure as a prom date. Their logic was that they were just getting people off the street who would be committing a crime soon anyway based on their record.