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Another story of untrained cops in action.........
partisan
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For the entire story of this stupidity you can go to the PNJ.com.
In a nut shell: This guy was holding his girlfriend in front of him. The deputies burst into the bedroom, and scream for him to show his hands. At this time the guy tells the deputies that he is armed, but does NOT raise his weapon, and is not trying to harm his girlfriend. One of the deputies decides that he'll shoot the guy in the head, and fires. Even though this is happening in the confines of a bedroom, the deputy misses the target, and shoots the hostage in the neck!
This began the gun battle, because theperp now knows for sure the cops are going to kill him! In the hail of gunfire, most of it through the walls, the hostage is hit 5 times by the deputies! Three deputies are hit (one seriously). The perp gets a minor hand wound. After all this Keystone Kops stupidity, a SWAT negotiator got the guy to drop his weapon and surrender.
I forgot to mention that the cops went to the wrong house in the beginning, and the perp saw them walking across the yard to the girl friends house.
Does anyone else think this should never have happened? How about when they burst into the bedroom, saw the hostage, the perp tells them he is armed, that maybe they should have exited the house, and waited for a negotiator to arrive on scene? Should a deputy be trained to shoot well enough to NOT shoot the hostage in the tight confines of a bedroom?
This kind of stupidity is what gives LEO's such a bad reputation when it comes to more than just writing a speeding citation!
In a nut shell: This guy was holding his girlfriend in front of him. The deputies burst into the bedroom, and scream for him to show his hands. At this time the guy tells the deputies that he is armed, but does NOT raise his weapon, and is not trying to harm his girlfriend. One of the deputies decides that he'll shoot the guy in the head, and fires. Even though this is happening in the confines of a bedroom, the deputy misses the target, and shoots the hostage in the neck!
This began the gun battle, because theperp now knows for sure the cops are going to kill him! In the hail of gunfire, most of it through the walls, the hostage is hit 5 times by the deputies! Three deputies are hit (one seriously). The perp gets a minor hand wound. After all this Keystone Kops stupidity, a SWAT negotiator got the guy to drop his weapon and surrender.
I forgot to mention that the cops went to the wrong house in the beginning, and the perp saw them walking across the yard to the girl friends house.
Does anyone else think this should never have happened? How about when they burst into the bedroom, saw the hostage, the perp tells them he is armed, that maybe they should have exited the house, and waited for a negotiator to arrive on scene? Should a deputy be trained to shoot well enough to NOT shoot the hostage in the tight confines of a bedroom?
This kind of stupidity is what gives LEO's such a bad reputation when it comes to more than just writing a speeding citation!
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The outcome of the shootout is the issue. What's the point of training, when the result of an incident is that everyong acted as if there was no such training? Bottom line, pretty much everything that can go wrong did. [V]
http://lincolnjournalinc.com/more-file-for-county-races-p7798-1.htm
Ken Farley is a Democratic candidate for sheriff in Lincoln County. He joins a Democratic race that already includes former Assessor Jerry Weaver and Auxiliary Deputy Jesse Mullins. Current Sheriff Jerry Bowman is precluded from running due to current term limits.
http://www.wsaz.com/news/headlines/21803454.html
HAMLIN, W.Va. (WSAZ) -- Despite some strong opposition, Jerry Weaver will start his new job on July 1. Weaver is the former Lincoln County Assessor. Back in 2006, he was convicted of buying votes. Weaver was sentenced to a year in prison and three years supervised release.
one of the reason i personally chose not to go into law enforcement, the liabilities alone, not just financial, but you have to live with it the rest of your life, we can armchair this till we are blue in the face, without knowing the intensity of that exact moment we really do not know if we would have acted in a similar manner, or been able to make that shot
i pride myself on shooting hundreds and hundreds of matches, and never ever once did i hit a non threat target{almost unheard of}, even ones blocking 80% the target head shot from fair distances, but that's not adding a guy with a gun and possible intent to kill, i myself cannot judge the officer(s) involved because i wasn't there
I guess if a convected felon can run for Sheriff in the next county over. Anything goes these days.
http://lincolnjournalinc.com/more-file-for-county-races-p7798-1.htm
Ken Farley is a Democratic candidate for sheriff in Lincoln County. He joins a Democratic race that already includes former Assessor Jerry Weaver and Auxiliary Deputy Jesse Mullins. Current Sheriff Jerry Bowman is precluded from running due to current term limits.
http://www.wsaz.com/news/headlines/21803454.html
HAMLIN, W.Va. (WSAZ) -- Despite some strong opposition, Jerry Weaver will start his new job on July 1. Weaver is the former Lincoln County Assessor. Back in 2006, he was convicted of buying votes. Weaver was sentenced to a year in prison and three years supervised release.
brilliant
I guess if a convected felon can run for Sheriff in the next county over. Anything goes these days.Why do you say 'these days'?
Did your state's laws on this change recently or something?