Posted on 09/27/2022 2:45:28 PM PDT by billorites
Denver police officers faced an armed bad guy who drew down on them in the midst of a busy bar crowd at 1:35 a.m. The cops engaged, firing their sidearms, scoring seven hits out of six rounds fired. That represents a remarkable 117% hit rate. The only problem is that six of the seven people who were wounded soaked up rounds meant for the bad guy.
They surely don’t appreciate DPD’s marksmanship skills, or lack thereof.
Yes, there’s that pesky fourth rule of gun safety: Know your target and what’s beyond it. For the record, that even applies to the staple guns you’re using to put up your targets at the range. But for good guys everywhere, firing anything except carefully controlled shots at a bad actor who’s surrounded by innocents could probably be described more as negligence than exigence. Once shots broke out, it was every man for himself except for the guy on the left side of the frame here who shielded his significant other. Screen capture by Boch via YouTube.
Maybe Denver Police should hire a guy like Elisjsha Dicken to coach them up on their marksmanship skills. He’s the guy without any formal training who took down a rifle-toting lunatic shooting people in a crowded mall in Indiana. Dicken scored eight hits out of ten shots fired, wounding no innocents by mistake, at up to 40 yards away.
Here’s the dirty laundry on the horrific incident from the Denver Post.
Denver police on Tuesday released surveillance video and body camera footage of three officers shooting an armed man and injuring six innocent bystanders outside busy downtown bars on July 17.
The videos for the first time show from start to finish the shooting, which will be investigated by a grand jury. Denver police officials previously made public still images they selected from the videos but denied public records requests by The Denver Post and other news outlets to release the videos in their entirety…
Denver police previously said Waddy was holding the gun by the slide on the top when the officers fired. It’s not clear if Waddy could have fired the gun while holding it that way, Cmdr. Matt Clark said at a July 20 news conference. He said the officers believed the muzzle of the gun pointed at them as Waddy pulled it out.
Two officers shot a combined five rounds while facing Waddy with the front wall of Larimer Beer Hall behind him. A third officer fired one round from Waddy’s right side and a crowd of people is visible behind Waddy in the officer’s body camera footage.
“The Department of Safety and Denver Police Department remain concerned about the health and well-being of those who were injured in this incident and will continue to offer support to aid in their healing,” the departments said in a joint statement Tuesday.
Maybe Denver’s police need to spend more time on the fundamentals of handgun safety and marksmanship and less in “woke” racial/implicit bias training.
As long as all the people who obtain their paychecks from a government or municipal source for their employment made it home safely, it was worth it.
Several years ago the police in Hong Kong got into a fire fight with some kind of gangsters. Over 100 rounds were fired by both side. They hit nobody. You almost have to try to shoot that bad.
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According to the story the guy was holding the gun by its slide.
Dumb move, for sure. Hands in the air is just fine.
This looks good, null.
The police are the standing army the Founders warned us about.
No doubt!
That was simply awful! The LEO’s paid no attention to those those behind their target. That’s one of the main lessons of proper gun control that is drilled into every gun enthusiast’s head. It’s one of the main lesson taught to into every new shooter. ALWAYS be aware of what is behind your target!
Then I ducked my head, and the lights went out, and two guns blazed in the dark,
And a woman screamed, and the lights went up, and two men lay stiff and stark.
Pitched on his head, and pumped full of lead, was Dangerous Dan McGrew,
While the man from the creeks lay clutched to the breast of the lady that's known as Lou.
Fire them all, charge them if at all possible. If they are going to pull and fire their firearms, they need to be competent and trusted. Obviously not. And did they lie about how guy was holding his gun, as if maybe to surrender it? If so, that’s even worse.
CCW holders have to be careful as the thin-blue-line won’t protect them, make excuses for them, lie for them, or claim immunity, etc.
You just can’t beat Robert W. Service. My kids sat through many readings, most often The Cremation of Sam McGee, but Dan McGrew and others showed up in rotation.
If you or I hit bystanders like that trying to stop a bad guy they’d put us under the jail.
Those two poems are probably his most dramatic. My Dad used to read them to us. His favorites were those two, in reverse order, but he read us others too. I still have his copy of a book of Robert W. Service poems.
The cops really jumped the statistics up significantly by shooting six who were already at the top of the "most likely to get shot".
I'd have to go look up the order but cops shooting bystanders has already been the top chances of getting shot, even more than cops shooting criminals.
-Cops shoot bystanders.
-Bad guys shoot other bad guys.
-Bad guys shoot intended victims.
-Cops shoot bad guys.
-Bad guys shoot cops.
-Alec Baldwin
The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight 🙃
That was quite a “last call”...
When you have sovereign immunity good aim is not needed.
Its why ccw folks are excellent shots and fire fewer rounds than cops, on average.
WHat would happen to a regular citizen that did this??
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