[LexBaird]

For the good of the mopper the sniper was a lousey shot. This does not make me feel good knowing sniper are allowed to be such poop shots and not identify their targets any better than that.

Go back and read again. The cops were not snipers; they thought the guy with the mop was one. They had radio reports of a man with a rifle at the location, heard shots fired, and saw a guy on a roof with a long object. They jumped to the wrong conclusion and shot him with their side arms, not a sniper rifle.

[handy old one]

To the way a lot of police shot it looks like a lucky shot then.