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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.
My father said it looked like his revolver had never been out of its holster nor ever cleaned.
On the other hand, I belong to a gun club that welcomes LEO to come and use the various ranges. A couple of State Police are there all the time. Shooting from varied distances, shooting from cover, etc. It's always the same couple of cops.
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It can’t be easy making all the right decisions when a lowlife is pointing the business end of a firearm in your direction.
No, but hitting bystanders is unacceptable.
Wow! That is likely to motivate the “defund the police” crowd, unfortunately.
We have roughly 333 million people in the US, but the media loves to blare the less than 1% stories.
“Forty shots rang out, forty people fell, Killer and Patty missed each other but they shot that town to hell.”
yippee yi yay... cow patti
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in before the scene from It’s a wonderful life where bert the cop fires 6 rounds at a fleeing george bailey... in a crowd of onlookers.
If the six bystanders were Trump supporters they had to be guilty of something. Oh, wait, it’s Denver...
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Watched the video & it looks like the guy that was shot checked his jacket for the gun, then turned around with hands up, but then went for the gun when he was behind the parked car. Not much time to make a decision under the circumstances. Some say the perp was trying to toss the gun, which probably indicates he’s a prohibited person, if true.
“We shot everyone, statistically one of them is our badguy. We commended all involved.”
You’ve got Jim Stafford. I’ll give you Bob Dylan:
Pistol shots ring out in the barroom night
Enter Patty Valentine from the upper hall
She sees a bartender in a pool of blood
Cries out, “my God, they killed them all”
“ will continue to offer support to aid in their healing..”
In addition to the several millions of dollars you chuckleheads will pay out in damages.
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Is it because they are better trained, better motivated because they do not believe their own safety is all that matters or just better shots?
Does that seem suspicious?
All the above.
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