[jonascord]

Was the civilian an imminent threat? Was there the probability of lethal action?

In today's political climate, this is beyond belief.

This is unforgivable stupidity, and the thug needs about 200 years in a supermax. With great authority comes great responsibility. If he's smart, he'll eat his own gun, tonight, and save everyone a great deal of aggravation.

[Robert DeLong]

Liberals shoot from the hip, while conservatives look for facts. While it is obvious that this was not a life or death situation for a police since it was a citizen training "exercise", it is also a very tragic accident. You all seem to act like this was a planned execution of this 73 year old woman.

I am willing to bet everything I have that there is not 1 member of this police force who is not totally upset about what has happened here, and want to know why this happened and how this could have happened.

You can all pile on with your juvenile ad hominem attacks and call me a cop sucker et cetera, but you only expose your ignorance.

While there is obvious culpability on part of the police department with this citizen training exercise, whose feet does it actually lay at exactly, and where did the breakdown occur in protocol and safety? I want answers, because I never want to ever see another occurrence like this to be repeated.