i’m not what can be called anti-gun but i can’t understand this either. She was hit TEN TIMES????
there has to be a better way to stop these things; there must be a way to disable any vehicle with a .50 Cal bullet into the engine from the ground or chopper. There must be some microwave, EMP thing that can disable an engine. That would slow it down.
running gunbattles are nuts. use could maybe have been made of ANYBODY with a hunting rifle and scope, etc-—how hard is that?
I’m glad this morton cop is taking “responsibility;” what a ______ moron.
The entire force and city should be sued out of existence into a black hole: CALL A PHILADELPHIA LAWYER, not some old boy from Stockton (wherever that is).
Oh-—i was a detective for 30 years....
“there must be a way to disable any vehicle with a .50 Cal bullet into the engine from the ground or chopper.”
A cop shooting at a moving car with a 50 cal? He/she/it
would have to fire 60 rounds at 30 yards standing still
on the ground to get one hit. From a helicopter, no way
the pilot would be in more danger than the motor in the car.
Be better off to follow from a distance or , sad to say,
let them go. In this PC world few children are raised to
have the balls needed to be a good cop.
The surviving bad guy was using her as a human shield. . . but watch the YouTube of the police shooting at the car. Misty Holt-Singh is in the car. She was a great-greatgranddaughter of Benjamin Holt, the inventor of the Caterpillar Tractor, and the Track-laying Tank, the forerunner of all military tanks, which were invented in Stockton.
There's no way she could have survive the barrage of bullets hitting that car, which belonged to one of the employee's at the bank. (Misty was just there to cash a check that day, as it was her day off, and her 13 year old daughter was in a car outside while she ran in to take care of the business.) There was no need for such a barrage. The police had that vehicle stopped and the bad guys completely surrounded; they were not going anywhere when the majority of the gunfire occurred. The baddies had already tossed two other hostages out of the vehicle in the chase.
Stockton (wherever that is).
The city and police are being sued. . . by a very good law firm. . . for a LOT. . . by some very tenacious junk yard dog lawyers. . .
Stockton, CA, is located about 45-50 miles south of Sacramento, 75-80 miles due east of San Francisco, as the crow flies, but not as the road winds. as there are miles and miles of Sacramento/San Joaquin River Delta Islands and waterways between Stockton and there. . . metro area population about 450,000. Also Stockton is the home town of the Thayer's famous poem's Mudville Nine of the Casey At the Bat Baseball Team. . . during the height of the Obama economic depression, Stockton and Detroit seesawed between being the foreclosure Capital of the USA. It also has the dishonor of being the second city in the US to declare bankruptcy. . .
.30 caliber will stop a car. The plastic intake manifolds used for the last 10 years will shatter and stop the car, even with a smaller handgun.