Posted on 03/23/2009 10:24:17 AM PDT by Drew68
Exactly. Lets see the rap sheet.
good point.
“The bulletproof vests that Romans and Sakai wore were no help - when Mixon fired his automatic rifle through a closet door in the apartment, he hit the two sergeants in the head.”
No, and the bulletproof vests would have been no help if he shot them in the HEAD with a 22 rimfire pistol!
That’s certainly true, but the question remains “Is the story as published accurate?”.
Prayers for the officers families.
The bulletproof vests that Romans and Sakai wore were no help - when Mixon fired his automatic rifle through a closet door in the apartment, he hit the two sergeants in the head.
So we now pick and choose what to trust the MSM with? (The schmuck’s criminal record is listed elsewhere on this site, by the way.) We trust MSM saying that the dead officers “did not expect”?
Maybe some police officers out there could tell me what the correct procedures are, but it seems to me that if you know a guy who just killed two cops is in an apartment you don’t just go charging in. Would you not want to surround him and try to talk him out, knowing he’s armed. If he kills himself, no big loss really. If you choose to go in, would you not try to shoot some CS or tear gas into the room? I mean it just seems that there was a better way to do this than what has been described.
The one thing they should teach all police officers is to EXPECT THE WORST in any given situation because the minute you let your guard down youre dead.
That's what my money says as well.
What makes you think they care if it’s accurate? The story is about assault rifles now. Not criminals or dead cops.
They let violent felons out too soon. Someone who commits and assault with a gun should get some real hard time. He was only 21..so he didn’t serve very long at all.
It is not hard to identify the ones who will repeat..they should never be out on parole.
Well, gosh! The pistol he killed cops with was an “AUTO”!
That right there is scary enough to tell a whole story about.
I believe all four dead officers were sergeants. The last two killed were SWAT.
Exactly.
Besides, at point-blank range a 7.62mm slug would cut through those cops’ flak jackets like they were wet toilet paper. A typical, so-called bulletproof vest will stop a .22 slug, most of the time, but up against a high-powered combat round at full muzzle velocity, forget it.
See Post No. 4.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7.62x39mmIn all honesty, that's not a very high-powered round.
Now a Class III vest can stop a 150 grain round at 2750 feet per second:
http://www.bulletproofme.com/NIJ_Test_Rounds_CHART.shtmlSo unless this guy was doing head shots, or he nicked a femoral artery in a leg, then I'd say that the Oakland PD "Swat" team skimped on their vest budget.
Ping...
I believe they were SWAT cops. The first two that were attacked were street cops or motorcycle patrol.
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