Sounds like an honest mistake, to me. After all, mops do bear a striking resemblance to "sniper" rifles. </sarcasm>
Sounds like an honest mistake, to me. After all, mops do bear a striking resemblance to "sniper" rifles. </sarcasm>
Lubbock SWAT team.
" he began shooting at officers with a rifle capable of firing 100 rounds in a minute."
They just had to get that in there didn't they.
Maybe they were worried he might "clean their clock".
Sorry.....
Good thing the deputies were bad shots, huh?
...which is like, just about every rifle ever made, as long as it has any sort of magazine...
An account from the time of the incident:
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Deputies who accidentally shot a roofer during a chaotic gunbattle after a car chase said they thought the unarmed roofer was a sniper about to fire down on them, the Sheriff's Department said.
Three deputies couldn't see five other deputies exchanging gunfire on Normandie Avenue with a man armed with an AK-47 assault rifle and they feared the man on the liquor store roof posed a threat to their lives, sheriff's Capt. Ray Peavy said Thursday.
He called the shooting of the roofer, who was wounded in the arm, an "unfortunate accident."
"They felt he was part of the problem and that he was actually involved in the shooting," Peavy said. "They knew he wasn't a cop."
Salvador Mosqueda, 32, of Carson, the man with the AK-47, was killed in Wednesday morning's gunbattle.
imagine how many times snipers have been mistaken for roofers. I could hear a passerby yelling "hey you roofer, put that rifle down and fix those shingles!"
At least, I hope the cops who did this were fired.
Probably not.
"Lerman called the deputies' actions a 'comedy of errors'"
This Lerman-a$$ should be disbarred.
It's frightening to think that these particular cops are permitted to carry weapons.
One more reason to avoid California.