Posted on 08/17/2015 4:04:14 PM PDT by BenLurkin
The Police Foundation, a research group based in Washington, D.C., released a detailed report Monday on how Stockton police responded to the July 16, 2014, armed robbery of a Bank of the West branch, where three gunmen took three women hostage and fired at officers from a speeding SUV.
The group found that 32 officers unloaded more than 600 rounds during the hour-long rolling gun battle, which spanned three counties, 63 miles of highway and reached speeds of 120 mph. One of the hostages, Misty Holt-Singh, was killed when she was struck by 10 police bullets, authorities said. The two other hostages jumped or were thrown from the vehicle during the chase and survived.
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Stockton Police Chief Eric Jones, who called for the independent review, held a news conference Monday to discuss the findings.
We said well accept responsibility, and thats what Im doing here today, Jones said. Theres not a man or woman in the Stockton Police Department that does not wish it had a different outcome.
The report said that a few officers engaged in sympathetic fire, in which officers fired their weapons because others were shooting.
In some cases, officers opened fire while colleagues were in front of them. The report highlighted an example during the final standoff, in which one officer lay prone on the ground and did not shoot while an officer next to him, standing, fired round after round.
Whats your target? the prone officer yelled, thinking he was missing something, the report stated.
The car! responded the officer, according to the report.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
But they do take responsibility. Hell, Janet Reno took full responsibility for Mt. Carmel.
You ought to swerve into the WACO cops TWIN PEAKS conversation....
To mis-quote a very bad movie from 1970:
"Responsibility means never having to say your sorry!"
It was an honest mistake, next time they will kill them all.
CLEAVLAND...! I spent a week there one night... bud-a-boom.
I’ve read that five out of six shots fired by NYPD officers, on average, over the last several decades, missed the target completely.
http://shootingthebull.net/blog/what-about-bullet-overpenetration
I’ve seen similar assertions elsewhere.
Anyone have a valid reference?
After this they can be the first city to declare BK twice!
(Image from the LA Dorner chase, not this event.)
"Too may notes. Yes, that's it. Just cut a few and it'll be perfect."
600 rounds, divided by 32 officers, divided by 60 minutes, is one round every 3 minutes per officer.
That's only from THAT direction. . . LOL!
There's another approach from I5 to 8 Mile road up Thornton Road from the north and Stanfield Drive from the West and Estate Drive from the West and East as well . . . This happened in a suburban area completely built up with houses.
Some police cars had been chasing them from Hwy 99 on the east of Stockton, where they had been spotted, down 8 mile, up Lower Sacramento, over to Wagner Heights, then back up Thornton almost back to the bank, then back down Thornton, all the way back to just a couple miles north of where they robbed the bank on the corner of Thornton and Lower Sacramento Roads. . . and wound up down Thornton about two blocks beyond where I stop to buy 44 ounce diet Pepsis at a convenience store before heading out of town to Sacramento daily. . . missed bullets from the firefight hit the exterior store wall. They covered about 15-20 miles in wandering and being chased all over the north area of Stockton.
The vast majority of the shots were fired in the last five minutes. . . after the car was stopped. You can hear the fusillade in the YouTube videos.
The were shooting the vehicle like that, knowing it had hostages in it? How is that not manslaughter, at the very least? Clearly it is negligence.
Is that when the LAPD MENSA team let loose on two newspaper ladies, because ..why not?
Fire like maniacs and kill a hostage OR let the bad guys go? Those are the only two options you see?
600 rounds, divided by 32 officers, divided by 228 days, is one round every 12 days per officer.
Thanks.
I read where one hostage was shot in the legs, Misty was shot ten times, two of the 3 robbers were shot... but not one mention of any cop actually getting any injury... other than maybe carpal tunnel from pulling the trigger so many times...
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