[tennmountainman]

Why didn’t the cops just shoot her tires out?

[KC Burke]

We discussed that on another thread earlier. I would like to know from someone familiar with field LE tactics if they are ever trained to or expected to preform shooting tires out.

I don;t see it in real life, only on TV.

[Seattle Conservative]

“Why didn’t the cops just shoot her tires out?”

That’s EXACTLY what I was thinking. I just saw a brief video, but it looked like they were several of them right next to the car at one time.

I was listening to the radio on the way home tonight. The 2 hosts lean liberal (need to hear what the other side thinks from time to time). They both thought that the police acted appropriately because they must have thought it was a potential terror act and/or sucicide bomber. I get that; however, after I saw the video on TV, and saw that they didn’t shoot her when they were right next to her, I just didn’t get why they didn’t shoot out her tires. The radio hosts said that they probably saw the baby in the back and didn’t want to shoot her for fear of endangering the baby. That makes no sense to me at all - if they didn’t want to endager the baby then when they were right next to her, why on earth would they open fire when they were at a distance (at least that’s what it appears to be, based on the video I saw).

BTW - who knew we had an Arabic,US government-funded TV org? I surely didn’t. Apparently, they’re the ones that took the video.