[Wolfie]

...and Officer Deamer had a small speaking part.

Which undoubtedly involved yelling "Dude!Dude!" a lot.

[dsmatuska]

"...pathetic profession,"...

Nice to hear them admit it.

[justshe]

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[Willie Green]

and Ms. Oxenberg, who won't talk about her age,

Bobby Riggs incognito???

[Don W]

Twenty-one shots had been fired, and nobody was hit. The LAPD ruled last month that the officers acted correctly.

And according to the gun-grabbers,only the police and military should possess firearms. I would think that some serious time on the range, especially for the guy who had the back surgery, would be a priority. It certainly would be for me.

Then there's the 3 strikes thing: Would this guy have drawn and fired at the cops had the fear of hard time not been there? It seems to show that mandatory sentencing is counter-productive, unless you like firefights in the streets.

[RAT Patrol]

Wild!

I found this comment interesting: "Life and gun battles are a hell of a lot more chaotic than they're portrayed in our pathetic profession," she says.

[mhking]

"Hold muh beer 'n watch this!" PING....

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[Atlas Sneezed]

Bang

[Atlas Sneezed]

"Officer Deamer's pistol was tangled up in the air bag and the team's shotgun was stuck in its holder by the front seat."

And these cops will probably show up in Sacramento next year to testify in favor of legislation requiring trigger locks or "safe, unloaded" storage of firearms in the home.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Twenty-one shots and no hits (except by the squad car)? Someone is in definite need of gun control.

[ijcr]

Now if Mr. Castillo was wearing a dog outfit, it would have been over in a single shot.

[Redcloak]

I remember the episode that came out of this. In the screenplay, the homie's gun is considerably more interesting than an old East German pistol; it's a full-auto AK-47!

Ain't Hollywood somethin'?!?

[JeeperFreeper]

Thanks for the post.

"...pathetic profession..." sums up the performing arts as practiced in Hollyweird very nicely.
If a few more actors, directors and musicians could get a taste of real life along these lines, liberals would be rare as dodos in that sick twisted community

[Screaming_Gerbil]

It sounds like that gun fight was at a greater distance than the usual "7 - 21 feet average handgun fight distance".

I don't think at that range the 12 ga shotgun (probably loaded with 00 buckshot (12 pellets), or maybe even #4 buckshot (27 pellets) would have worked a lot better.

I would think that a .223 carbine (one of the AR-15 variants) would have worked better. I thought the LAPD carried ex-military M-16s converted to semi-auto fire only since that bank robbery shoot-out with those guys with the AK-47s and wearing level 3 protection body-armor.

It the end it looks like the cop rediscovered one of the rules of armored warfare (Rommel or Patton, I can't remember which) that the "tank's engine (mobility) is a weapon".