I know some FBI agents that were regular street cops, and in my opinion they make good agents. I've seen them shake their heads at some of the things that these inexperienced agents do.
There's a difference in being an investigator and going out on the street and chasing criminals. I'm not saying that street cops don't make mistakes because they do. I'm saying that the less experience one has the more likely they will be to do something like this.
And, while I'm running my mouth (via my fingers) I have seen way too many times when the FBI tries to hard to get the "Glory" and not hard enough to lower themselves and work with the regular cops.
Here we have an example that I think would have been specifically addressed by this requirement. First, the failure to use felony stop procedures. That was supposed to be mandatory procedure for the FBI after the Miami shootout.
Second the failure to properly identify the subject as the suspect.
Third, the fact that when they told the yound man to get out of the car he fired at him when he was reaching fo rthe seatbelt.
There is no assertion that his finger slipped. He meant to shoot and did shoot the fact that he missed a vital area is to his detriment.
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