Shoot out with police caught on tape
The guy who opened fire on police is dead and likely regretted not putting the truck in park.
The guy who opened fire on police is dead and likely regretted not putting the truck in park.
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May 5th, 2011 at 9:23 am
If you watch the video closely, at about the 0:35 mark, you can see his cap go flying off his head.
[announcer voice] HEAD SHOT!!! [/announcer voice]
Good riddance.
May 5th, 2011 at 10:25 am
+1 Jake!
I wonder how many shots fired vs how many hits on target. Also where did the errant rounds go?
May 5th, 2011 at 10:46 am
I could see several hit the truck. Unfortunately, it looked like a residential neighborhood, and I think a house was the backstop. I hope nobody was home.
On the other hand, what’s the officer (or anyone else) supposed to do when he’s being shot at?
This illustrates one reason I would absolutely love to see something like a Star Trek phaser – with a reliable stun setting, you wouldn’t have to worry about a stray shot going through a wall or kitchen window and killing someone you didn’t even know was there.
May 5th, 2011 at 12:09 pm
Lotta return fire. How many cops were there? Was this a felony takedown gone wrong?
Could this be a citizen who has had enough of the police state, rather than a criminal?
May 5th, 2011 at 12:29 pm
Another +1 Jake (for a total of 2!)
I don’t disagree with what the cops did, they took hostile fire and returned it wholesale.
Just makes me pucker seeing all those shots going off and those homes in the background.
May 5th, 2011 at 2:45 pm
Not for long, though.
May 5th, 2011 at 4:19 pm
“Lotta return fire. How many cops were there? Was this a felony takedown gone wrong?
Could this be a citizen who has had enough of the police state, rather than a criminal?”
Even if you have “had enough of the police state”, if you open up on the cops without provocation at a mere traffic stop you -are- a criminal.
May 5th, 2011 at 4:36 pm
What if you or I had shot someone in the back like that as he was trying to flee? What, you figure, are the chances we’d be brought up on charges?
May 5th, 2011 at 6:15 pm
It’s not like they executed him while he was lying on the ground surrendering.
He was still in possession of weapon that he had used to shoot at them, and was going for cover, from a place he could still shoot at them.
The return fire does seem excessive, but that’s merely a function of them probably only getting 10-15% of the rounds on target, as is the national average for Barney Fife. You’d have to shoot at lot to neutralize the threat if you were that bad of a shot as well.
May 5th, 2011 at 7:12 pm
The cops had a fairly safe background.
The idiot bad guy who left his truck in gear got what he deserved.
He is now in the prison of no parole (HELL.)
Capped his you-know-what they did!
May 5th, 2011 at 8:49 pm
Waste of a perfectly good pickup.
May 7th, 2011 at 3:10 pm
Bear in mind that he is climbing into a much more effective weapon than the one he had in his hand.