(A different instance where hundreds of rounds were fired at unarmed civilians)
Posted on 05/09/2014 11:16:47 AM PDT by chessplayer
MIAMI (CBSMiami) – On December 10, more than two dozen police officers from across Miami Dade County converged on a blue Volvo that had crashed in the backyard of a townhouse on 65th Street just off 27th Avenue.
As the car was wedged helplessly between a light pole and a tree, nearly a minute passed before officers opened up – firing approximately 50 bullets at the car and the two unarmed men inside the vehicle.
The two men inside the car survived that initial volley of gunfire, according to witnesses, who said they could see the men moving inside the Volvo. Everything went quiet for nearly two minutes before the officers opened up a second time – unleashing an unrelenting torrent of bullets that lasted almost 25 seconds. By the time it was over, the two men inside the car were dead.
CBS4 News has learned a total of 23 officers fired a total of at least 377 rounds.
Bullets were sprayed everywhere. They hit the Volvo, other cars in the lot, fence posts and neighboring businesses. They blasted holes in a townhouse where a 12-year-old dove to the ground for cover and a four month old slept in his crib.
The sound of the gunfire was deafening – literally deafening. Two Miami police officers sustained ruptured ear drums from the cacophony of shots.
(Excerpt) Read more at miami.cbslocal.com ...
Fortunately no canines were affected.
Holy crap!
I am sure they considered it just a friendly fire incident. Sorry for the innocent’s, of the current crime, demise.
In a similar situation years ago in Florida, a cop killer was surrounded by the police who shot him something like 65 times. The press asked the sheriff why they shot they guy that number of times and he responded: because that was all the bullets they had.
Both incidents tell me: don’t cross the police these days.
This is what happens when law enforcement officers and their cabal are permitted to legally cover each other’s asses by simply stating that they were in fear for their lives.
There’s absolutely zero justification for this type of behavior. This is a perfect illustration of how faulty and imperfect are our law enforcement departments around the country while government hacks say that average gun owning citizens are not “qualified” to own firearms.
Incompetent, murderous savages.
...and that’s just the cops.
Uh, Hillary, do innocent citizens not need guns.
Why haven't all the officers involved been indicted for double homicide?
Because they're partners with the prosecutors.
It's cops + prosecutors + all public employees vs. the rest of us serfs.
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Cops have become sworn enemies of America.
They shot the guy 87 times but he deserved it. He ambushed two cops and was hiding out in very thick brush waiting for a chance to kill more cops. He was armed and certainly not helpless.
Not a good parrallel with this case.
(A different instance where hundreds of rounds were fired at unarmed civilians)
It's obvious all those cops did not find the danger to the public haunting. It is clear to me that all they cared about was avenging "one of their own", and they did not care how many innocent members of the public were injured or killed in the process.
Every single officer who fired his or her weapon that night needs to be charged with murder.
Assuming the story is accurate, of course....
But what police didn’t realize before they started shooting at the Volvo is there was a second man in the car – Corsini Valdes – who had committed no crime.
And in fact, as CBS4 News was the first to report, both men inside the Volvo were unarmed at the time police caught up with them. All of the gunfire came from police.
Montesano and Valdes were killed by the dozens of rounds that tore through their bodies.
But Montesano and Valdes weren’t the only ones struck – two Miami Dade police officers were hit as well – caught in the crossfire
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Wow....These types of stories just keep coming on a regular basis..
A complete lack of discipline should get a bunch fired even before the shooting.
If there had been a dog or two in the yard where the Volvo crashed there is no telling how many thousands of additional rounds those "highly trained" police officers would have found it necessary to discharge.
Well before they decided to commit murder, it appears large numbers of them were engaging in some serious dipshittery .
What bothers me, is seeing that modern cops are terrified cowards, who seem to always be on the verge of violent panic and lashing out in fear and anger.
We are seeing that policy is more in clearing a safe zone by killing any possible threats before advancing, even when you call them to your home.
In this case two unarmed men were not taken into custody, children and adults were leaping for safety inside their own homes, many tens of thousands of dollars worth of damage caused, affecting many, two cops shot, two cops with busted ear drums, and why? It had nothing to do with their job that night, they failed in making an arrest, it was just an orgy of emotion, panic and cowardice.
These people are the wrong types for the work they do, and the responsibility that we give them, they are a danger to us.
This would be a great chance to shoot a cop from another department whom you didn’t like. “Ooops, sorry about that!”
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