That's not why 18 rounds were fired.
They fired that many hoping to drop the suspect before he was able to cut her throat from ear to ear.
Great work! She wasn’t cut at all.
LAPD bozos.
Once that many rounds started being fired by several cops at a moving target, the “human shield” was dead either way. One well-placed shot is all that was required.
Go to a range that uses targets that pop up and move around - like I had the opportunity to do during a deployment with the US Army.
Then add the adrenaline to the equation. Your accuracy drops by orders of magnitude. That is the situation to avoid if there are human shields.
I will grant you, I wasn’t there, don’t know how difficult the shots were nor the distance. I am just very frustrated every time I see civilians get killed in a “hail of gunfire” that perhaps wasn’t the best strategy.
I agree with the poster who said that using the bean bag first was extremely STUPID. Taking him out before provoking him would have been a sounder strategy.