Posted on 05/12/2008 9:21:31 AM PDT by Smogger
"I heard shots so I returned fire. It wasn't until later I realized I was the only one shooting..."
(Almost) Unbelievable.
I must have missed the part of the article where the civilians in the car tried to run one of the officers over.
I try very hard to back the police, and most of the time, they are the good guys. However, when I hear of something like this, it’s really sad. If my son had been the innocent shot and killed, I would probably go insane!
“I fired 6 warning shots into the suspects body”....
If they were Marines in Iraq, the cops would be prosecuted for murder.
That said, these cops should be prosecuted for some homicide realated crime, but the DA will let them skate. Civil trial will find the cops and the city liable.
There's some important fact(s) that were not mentioned in this article.
Boy is Sharpton and Co. going to be busy if they were men of color.
NYC, Philly, and now Inglewood. That man is going to be putting on the miles to get in front of that many cameras.
Cops killing more citizens.
Sounds like they shot up the wrong car.
Uh.. Which would those be? No guns, the police car wasn’t shot. The victims have no criminal record.
No visible weapons, no threatening moves, just open fire and hope for the best.
These cops better be prosecuted...
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Crenshaw and 85th? Good excuse to let a Stark Industries Jericho off the leash...
“...better to be respected or feared...” “...is it too much to ask to have both?...”
The first thing a cop must do is ascertain who is shooting at him and from where, and then whether it is safe to return fire.
Cops shouldn’t be allowed to carry firearms - only civilians with a carriers permit should be allowed to pack heat.
Once more, the Union guys in blue have demonstrated thier total ineptitude.
I am confident another Judge will let these miscreants off and they will be out in the street again, just like the loosers in New York, gunning more innocent civilians.
Its pathetic.
I used to commute into NYC Penn Station. After 9/11, some of the cops took to toting automatic weapons.
I always tried to stay far away from those cops, because if God forbid there was a terrorist attack, I’m convinced these guys would open up indiscriminately. Call me a cop hater (which would be total BS), but that’s what I thought. Especially seeing the same three or four cops, around 6 p.m. everyday, standing in a group talking amongst themselves, oblivious to everything going on around them. The National Guard volunteers were on the job, walking, observing, etc.
Such as?
Inglewood police killed one man and wounded another when they opened fire on a vehicle, saying they believed the occupants had shot at them -- although it turned out that the men were unarmed and their car was never struck with bullets.
"The gunfight at Rally's Restaurant"
Maybe the cops were a tad edgy 'cause they haven't been on 3:00 a.m. No-Knock Raid in a couple days. Or they missed their donut break that night.
And *some* now say the Earps were (cough) trigger happy at the OK Corral - ha!
(officer 1)Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! (reload)
(officer 2)Dude! What are you shooting at?
(officer 1)Um, I’m not sure, I think that dead guy there shot at me.
(officer 2)Oh? Where’s his gun?
(officer 1)I dunno. But someone shot at me. I think.
(officer 2)Whoa!
(officer 2)Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! (reload)
(officer 1)Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! (reload)
Sound like a clear cut case of murder to me.
It’s Dubya’s fault. (Well, SOMEONE has to say it. Isn’t Dubya to blame for everything that goes wrong in this country?)
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