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**elalmhicabalp** · 08-29-2012, 12:21 AM

This was an exigent circumstance with uniformed officers responding to a call. It wasn't a stakeout with plainclothed officers who could set up a serepititious tail. I don't know if they knew to look for him and the confronted him, or if he saw them and reflexively pulled his weapon. But once he pointed a gun at them, they had to take him down. I had heard that his gun jammed. If not, he would have likely got the first shots off and may have hit the cops.

No "but"s. They did not handle it right. If the guy was no threat to anybody if he did not know he was being followed or challanged, they should have followed him until they could have either isolated him or reduced the bystanders. The FACT that the cops hit so many others also means that they were NOT as careful as they should have been in a crowded area.

I am not calling for their dismissal, or up on criminal charges, but not calling out a screw up is blind loyalty that does us no good.

I want cops that can handle a situation like this with NO bystanders hurt, and the closer they get to that, the better.

08-29-2012, 12:21 AM	#18
elalmhicabalp Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 587 Senior Member	This was an exigent circumstance with uniformed officers responding to a call. It wasn't a stakeout with plainclothed officers who could set up a serepititious tail. I don't know if they knew to look for him and the confronted him, or if he saw them and reflexively pulled his weapon. But once he pointed a gun at them, they had to take him down. I had heard that his gun jammed. If not, he would have likely got the first shots off and may have hit the cops. No "but"s. They did not handle it right. If the guy was no threat to anybody if he did not know he was being followed or challanged, they should have followed him until they could have either isolated him or reduced the bystanders. The FACT that the cops hit so many others also means that they were NOT as careful as they should have been in a crowded area. I am not calling for their dismissal, or up on criminal charges, but not calling out a screw up is blind loyalty that does us no good. I want cops that can handle a situation like this with NO bystanders hurt, and the closer they get to that, the better.
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