[toddst]

"No police or law enforcemwnt agency will ever be perfect. This family will sue and probably win a big reward, but that won't stop the cop haters from doing a "clinton like blood dance" with their replies painting all cops as jack booted thugs."

Yes, some overreact. Given the description we have thus far I'm wondering whether this was a "negligent discharge" by the agent. It's easy to have this happen if one has his finger on the trigger when it shouldn't be. The combination of stress and a small inadvertant physical movement could easily account for the weapon being fired.

Further suppord for this being an "ND" is the shot wasn't centered on the head, despite a very short distance from the muzzle to the target. I believe we'll find the agent did not intend to fire. This really goes back to training, which is apparently inadequate, IMHO.

[Thud]

Yeah, one of my jobs is to evaluate these things. A SWAT officer shotgunned a kid in his own bed in my town due to a slippery trigger finger. And they had the wrong house too.

FBI firearms procedures are inadequate by California law enforcement standards.

[Don Joe]

Further suppord for this being an "ND" is the shot wasn't centered on the head, despite a very short distance from the muzzle to the target. I believe we'll find the agent did not intend to fire. This really goes back to training, which is apparently inadequate, IMHO.

And what accounts for them leaving the kid handcuffed face down on the ground bleeding to death, refusing to allow medical attention for an hour, until they realized they'd shot an innocent?

This was a clusterf'ck, bigtime.