Posted on 12/27/2021 6:01:12 PM PST by BenLurkin
Video from the deadly Los Angeles police shooting that killed an assault suspect and a 14-year-old bystander at a Burlington store on Thursday shows the suspect beating a woman with a bike lock before a group of officers finds him and one opens fire with a rifle.
“She’s bleeding! She’s bleeding!” the officer screams of the victim as she crawls out of an aisle of home goods.
“Hold up! Hold up!” screams another officer, just before the first fires three rounds at the suspect, who is standing at the opposite end of the aisle. Daniel Elena-Lopez, 24, crumples to the ground, where he would later be pronounced dead.
(Excerpt) Read more at ktla.com ...
LAPD releases bodycam video of shooting that killed 14-year-old inside Burlington store | ABC7
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZhG7_G1goE
“opens fire with a rifle”, REALLY???
Looked like more of a situation for taser or pepper spray. And as the cops approached there was just a cluster of them. Not a good look on this. I expect we will see more of this as good quality cops leave the profession.
The writing in this article is so poor it hurts my brain to attempt to read it.
What sort of idiot fires a 5.56mm rifle in store? That blanking thing is the very definition of overpenetration. He should have used a 12 gauge and baton rounds or beanbag rounds - or just a .45 which would likely have stopped in the wall.
TV journalism at its best. Very very rarely do you ever see local TV news writing and reporting that is on par with the average third grade class.
I’ve noticed this for years. Anytime you’re reading an article so badly written that it hurts your brain like this? It’s local TV news.
Bad shoot imo.
Thanks for the link to the full video
Certainly adds the needed context
He was going to throw that bike on people below
And did beat the hell out of that woman. I thought he was going to kill her
Now comes the handwringers over using a “weapon of war” to take him down
Who would have anticipated someone behind that wall?
That’s something that you are taught to anticipate in every gun safety class ever taught. Certainly in close quarters combat training it’s reinforced more.
5.56 is actually less prone to overpenetration than 9 mm or even buckshot. The rounds tend to tumble and fragment quickly.
I certainly can’t argue with that
Thanks
I’ve seen plenty of tests on that and it’s not always true. Sometimes it fragments sometimes it penetrates 5 layers of Sheetrock. I would think hollow point pistol ammo would be the proper application in that situation, if firearms must be used.
it appears you may have intended your comment as sarcasm and I took it as serious. You’ve got to make it more obvious than that.
“Now comes the handwringers over using a “weapon of war” to take him down”
I wouldn’t be surprised if they crucified that cop. The suspect was at the end of the aisle away from the woman with no one else nearby. There were 4 cops that could have easily taken the guy down without shooting. They shot without giving the guy a real chance to surrender.
That was a bad shooting. That cop is going to be charged once the investigation is complete.
Not in my experience: 5.56 will penetrate 1/4 inch of HY80 steel ar 100 meters. I did the tests.
Don’t buy the “bullet tumbling” horsehockey - the older 55 grain bullets used to make .22 - sized holes in men at all ranges while I was in Vietnam. They advertised “catastrophic wounds” for the thing but it just punched small holes in those it hit, most of the time.
My main complaint - and the reason I kept my M14 - was that the “enemy didn’t leak fast enough”.
LAPD used to carry riot guns in their squad cars - a much better choice in a thin-walled store when loaded with 7 1/2 or 9 shot.
Best home defense choice too, unless you don’t like the people on the other side of the wall.
Not exactly
I just wasn’t thinking it all through
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