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And if they are OTW, it will be out of the news by next week.

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"Five Jews and a cherished police officer were killed in addition to two suspects during a protracted shootout at a kosher supermarket in Jersey City, New Jersey, that saw hundreds of bullets exchanged between possible drug suspects and police over a period of at least three hours in a residential area chosen as the new home of a fervently religious Jewish community priced out of Brooklyn."

Not to speculate, but do drug dealers ordinarily carry "hundreds of bullets" with them? If not, most of those bullets must have come from elsewhere. And also not to speculate, but the chances that the perps would expend the rounds that they did have on 5 hostages must be less than 100%. The hostages would be useless to them when dead.

NJ does not have a death penalty. The worst that was going to happen to them -- if taken alive -- was life in prison.

This after "a cherished police officer" had just been murdered.