Posted on 02/09/2013 8:07:14 AM PST by KeyLargo
Wow how lame can they get.
Every pickup truck has a big @ss manufacturer logo on the tailgate.
It’s not like trying to discern a Camry from an Accord from a Malibu.
Charlie,I don’t give a damn how much”tension” your officers are under.If they can’t handle the basics,like identifying your target before firing-then they are a hazard to the public just like the crips or bloods.
Looks like one in the mudflap, too, for an even 50.
I count at least 40 bullet holes.
Unbelievable.
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes.
And they did the same behavior with the obviously not grey Tacoma.
Wonder how many of them were there and how brave they felt.
I would say the officers involved need more range time, but then again if they were better shots the two women would be in the morgue instead of the hospital.
And 1 other hole in the left rear mud flap.
Let's not forget that cops are an extension of the government and their lives are more important that the lives of the average citizen...
It’d be better if the LAPD had to pay out of pocket for it instead of who gets the shaft for the LAPD screwups.
But, for now, such is life.
Well, the officers went home safe at the end of the shift, and that’s all that counts.
One of the things that police are supposed to be trained on is to consider the background behind the target before pulling the trigger.
February 9, 2013
Grossly Negligent: NYPD Sued for Shooting Innocent Bystanders
By Katie Pavlich
1/22/2013
As the gun control debate rages on with New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg leading the way, a woman in North Carolina is suing the New York City Police Department after they shot her and nine other people two months ago while trying to take out a single person near the Empire State Building.
LAPD manhunt: Officers who shot at bystanders placed on leave; women recovering
Brian Watt with Erika Aguilar | February 8th, 2013, 11:32am
UPDATE 2:37 p.m. Los Angeles polices mistaken shooting of two women driving a pickup truck in Torrance took place on Redbeam Avenue right in front of the house of Richard Goo.
Goo believes the two women were about to deliver the Los Angeles Times to his house, but they didnt make it.
Its very unfortunate because they were just doing their job, Goo said in an interview in front of his house. Goo, a cardiology technician, has lived in the neighborhood for eight years. He said he and his wife were in bed when they heard gunshots.
We heard all this pop-pop-popping. And then I hit the ground, crawled around, dragged her out of bed, onto the floor and then laid on top of her, he said.
When he called 911, Goo said the dispatcher told him the police were right outside his house and to stay in the back of his house until officers came to tell him it was clear. Several bullets from the shooting hit his house and cars. He believes between 30 and 50 rounds of shots were fired.
When one of the ricochets hit off our glass door, I thought it had come through the door into our living room, Goo remembered. So I thought bullets were coming into the house.”
Goo called the whole situation ironic.
Its a bad time to be driving a pickup truck, he said. Its sad that that makes you a target by the LAPD, but theyve been targeted, so theyre responding.”
Goo said he didnt know that LAPD officers were in his neighborhood to protect a department official named in Christopher Dorners manifesto, but he knows that a lot of retired officers from police forces in the region and retired firefighters live in his neighborhood.
Thats why we live here its a very safe neighborhood,” Goo said, chuckling. And its ironic that the only violence our neighborhood has experienced is this and it was brought to us courtesy of the LAPD.
Read at:
http://www.scpr.org/news/2013/02/08/35886/attorney-two-women-shot-police-torrance-says-offic/
“Neighborhood riddled with bullets”
Hernandez and Carranza are both expected to be okay. They have retained attorney Glen T. Jonas.
There was no warning, there was no orders or no commands just gunshots, Jonas told reporters.
According to Jonas, the womens vehicle was the wrong color and the wrong model, compared to Dorners.
He said that police had the goal of administering street justice and didnt take the time to notice that these two older, small Latina women didnt look like a large black man.
VIDEO:
The cops should be tried for attempted murder.
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