In before mac_truck, who seems to be TG’s stand in.
IBTG & IBm_t
The officer who used the rifle, Michael Bucher, said during an internal investigation that he saw Kirschner chasing another man with a big chain. Bucher said he fired one round and Kirschner fell, but then fired again after he saw Kirschner get up on one knee and swing the chain. The officer said Kirscher then stayed on the ground.
One bad guy shot another bad guy in the ass. That is not a fatal injury. The fatal injury came from the cops via a .223 rifle I would suspect a bleed out of the femoral artery as he hit him in the leg.
What I really think happened that day is bad guys were fighting bad guys and a poorly trained police department went stupid and rogue. The DA wanted to make a political name for himself and indicted everybody. He will cost Waco millions of dollars in later suits.
What I have never understood is the fact that the police knew there might be trouble there that day. Why in the hell did they set up outside and make the Twin Peaks a virtual free fire zone? If they really wanted to stop trouble they should have had twenty or thirty officers inside in full uniform. If the Waco police had done this, nothing would have happened that day.
This stinks of total incompetence. Waco will pay dearly for this.