I may get flamed but 68 times is just ridiculous and shows an aspect of these SWAT teams that are dangerous. No reason whatsoever to take out ones anger on a dead body. I do not want police that can not control their anger better than this. It shows a callousness that I do not think we would want police to develop. Too trigger finger happy and sounds like everyone just wanted their turn to empty their magazine in a already dead body.
The whole thing happened in about 4 seconds. It wasn't as if the cops were taking shoots at a corpse on purpose.
He did kill a police dog.
You ever been in a life-threatening fight or firefight?
Violent criminals watch the news also. It can't hurt for them to factor the same possibility for themselves.
He needed to be killed. But I agree with you, this was gross 'overkill' and it really does show the base, dangerous side of today's paramilitary squads called 'swat teams'.
It also reemphasizes - "it ain't healthy to be shooting cops."
Sounds good to me
Let me ask you this. What state of mind does a cop need to be in to kill someone?
The police are reinforcing a message out to criminals there is a special penalty for killing police: it's certain suicide. An extra $20 in ammo to advertise the message is a good deal for taxpayers.
one guesses that the thug who was shot was just a romantic character who was rebelling against an unjust society that knows no mercy, no decency, no caring, no consideration........and the cruelty of those deputies......aren't they horrible, dangerous people?.......sarcasm now turned to off.
Nine cops shooting. That's a little more than seven rounds per cop. Seven rounds is less than a one second burst of fire. It sounds like a judicious use of force rather than angry trigger happy cops emptying their magazines.
...you've never been in a firefight or nearly stepped on somebody with a gun hoping to kill you or your best friend ...
I'll relate a little game that we played in order to show you what stress fire is.... we did it with bb guns... you should use the new paint balls.. same thing..
have two guys stand 3 feet from you one's gun is loaded and ready the other had nothing... you have a paint ball gun.
just to really get your attention have the "bad guy" pop you 3-4 times so it really hurts... then with everybody drawn, guns out barrel down you get to "choose" which one to draw down and disarm..the dummy gun holder can cough, twitch whatever... If you shoot the wrong one or shoot the wrong one you get shot in the chest with the BB or paint-ball... If you choose the right guy 3 times you rotate out of the "cop" position. It really makes you pay attention to the trigger finger and end of the barrel
I'll bet you that they just fired and kept firing till the "threat" stopped..happens in slow motion but maybe 10ths of a second.... they were scared, jacked up on adrenalin and pissed that one of their friends was murdered...
this is meant only sarcastically... would you feel better if he only had 40 holes...or 20 holes....
I've seen guys with their guts hanging out of their back going for their weapon....
At least the LEOs got a "good" kill and didn't whack some innocent civilian in a "no-knock" drug search....
You are on target!
Swat officers are supposed to be able to take out the bad guy with A well-placed shot.
This was a bunch of good ol' boys just as ridiculous as the New York man a few years ago.
IF amn ordinary citizen fired 15 or 50 rounds into a would be robber would the police be applauding or arresting the citizen?