[LeoWindhorse]

I can hardly believe they just laid down their weapons upon command from an Afghan .
And were then executed

Reminds me of the helplessness of Ft. Hood

It should never happen .

[vbmoneyspender]

In The Onion Field, Joseph Wambaugh wrote about the circumstances that led the LAPD to specifically train their officers never to surrender their weapons.

On March 9, 1963, LAPD officers Campbell and Karl Hettinger pulled over a car containing two suspicious-looking men on a Hollywood street.[1] The two men, Jimmy Lee Smith (aka "Jimmy Youngblood") and Gregory Ulas Powell, had recently committed a string of robberies. Powell, the driver, pulled a gun on Campbell and ordered Hettinger to surrender his gun to Smith. The two officers were then forced into Powell's car and driven to an onion field around Bakersfield where Campbell was fatally shot. Hettinger was able to escape, running nearly four miles to reach a farmhouse.[1]

Though Hettinger was able to escape, he was scorned by his fellow officers and suffered severe emotional trauma for both the initial incident and following fellow treatment. Eventually a police training video was made using his experience as example of what not to do when stopping and approaching a vehicle.