Pulse-pounding video shows Denver cops gun down suspect holding 7-Eleven clerk hostage

NY Post ^ | 03/18/2024 | Jesse O’Neill

[ChicagoConservative27]

Denver police released bodycam footage last week of the moment officers rammed down the back door of a 7-Eleven and fired 36 rounds at a suspect who was holding a store clerk hostage with a nail-pulling tool, killing him.

The fatal police shooting came after Christopher Cauch, 43, had barricaded himself and two others in the back of the convenience store on the evening of March 1, according to the Denver Post.

Four officers responding to reports of a stabbing and robbery at the convenience store found that a store clerk was “under duress” in a back room, Chief Ron Thomas told the paper.

[ChicagoConservative27]

Perp looks white so no riots.

[smokingfrog]

https://youtu.be/YXbdJ1RwE0Y?si=coQU1zU9EgVj0Sa4

[smokingfrog]

Ladycop smoked him.

[Laslo Fripp]

Must sign in to view. No thanks.

[xoxox]

used to be that the bad guys were the “gunner downers” and the good guys were the “subdoers” or whatever.

[rktman]

Why didn’t they simply shoot the nail puller out of his hand. Or at least knee shoot him. That’s what Joe would recommend for someone unarmed with a nail puller.

[Chainmail]

36 rounds. When at that range, with an AR-15 all they needed was one round.

Must be training and IQ issues.

[frogjerk]

out of the 36 rounds I think they hit the target about 35 times. What a waste!

[Midwesterner53]

Never send white guys to do this sort of robbery.

[Tommy Revolts]

[gundog]

And free ammo....

[Carriage Hill]

They got in some ‘range time’ with 35 of 36 on target...

[Buckeye Battle Cry]

Well, I guess he won’t do that again!

[bantam]

If AR’s are so dangerous, why so many rounds?

[NWFree]

Maybe they need bigger guns?

[Vaquero]

36 rounds?

“Sure you used enough dynamite, there Butch?”

[Nervous Tick]

>> Or at least knee shoot him.

Hey, they DID at least knee shoot him. And much more! 😉😂👍🏻

[Vaquero]

https://youtu.be/YXbdJ1RwE0Y?si=6I2-tnsYhftTkXWi

[NorthMountain]

OK ... First, congratulations to the cops cranking off 36 rounds and NOT hitting a hostage.

Second, hypothetical: Suppose “Senor Jose Pendejo” breaks into my house, and the wife and I crank off 36 rounds, hitting him with 35 and causing no injury to innocents. Would we be suspected of using excessive force?

[suasponte137]

She sure did...and she didn’t hesitate for one second going through the door...or dropping him.

And put that in comparison to all those spinless clowns in Uvalde who couldn’t bring themselves to go into harm’s way without apparently a legion of backup, as a shooter is executing children 50 yards from them inside a building.