Posted on 03/05/2004 11:19:50 AM PST by cspackler
Des Moines, March 4, 2004 - A Grand Jury ruled Thursday, that officers involved in a deadly shooting and chase are clear of all wrongdoing.
The original incident happened just before 1 a.m. on Jan. 29. Police reports say 20 year ol dRicky Garcia was pulled over for speeding by a West Des Moines police officer. Garcia stopped, but then took off and led authorities on a chase that wound down into Carlisle, and back into downtown Des Moines.
Dashboard video from an officer's car shows Polk County Sheriff's Deputy Dan Wignall finally stopping the car, and Garcia coming out of his car, shooting at police with a revolver. No police officers were hit, but Officer Wignall hit Garcia, and Garcia continued shooting while he fell to the ground. The five officers at the scene fired a total of 33 shots.
A .22? Darwinism in action.
My thoughts, exactly...
This is outrageous!
There is absolutely no reason why it should have taken more then ten shots; two shots per officer. What kind of range qualifications do they have there?
My wife's cryptic comment was; "They have to change their procedure. They should shoot him before the chase."
Watch the video again. Even after the officer fell down and had already fired his weapon several times, you can still see where the rounds being fired AT HIM are hitting the snow in front of him. Officers here are trained to fire until the threat is neutralized. 5 officers got of 33 shots, that is just over 6 apiece and it happened in what seemed like 5 seconds or less. 29 of those rounds hit the suspect. Sounds like pretty good range qualifications to me.
To this, add the fact that we have had an unusually high incidence of people taking shots at police officers here lately. I personally think that they are doing a great job, and so far not one officer ha been hit, and all of the perps have gone down.
I don't quite agree with you on this, but this was a totally clean shoot.
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