NY Police Shooting
The story about the NY Cops firing 50 rounds into unarmed people keeps getting worse:
Four of the five officers who fired a total of 50 times at the car of an unarmed man on his wedding day hadn’t completed mandatory firearms training, a group of black officers charged on Thursday.
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The report lists the last time each officer was at the shooting range: Mike Oliver — who fired 31 of the 50 rounds — was there on April 5; Marc Cooper on March 3; Paul Headley on Jan. 12; and Mike Carey on March 21. The undercover detective last took practice on Oct. 4, it says.
The report also notes that none of the officers had ever fired their weapons before the Nov. 25 confrontation outside a seedy Queens topless bar where Bell’s bachelor party intersected with a police undercover operation targeting alleged prostitution.
It’s obvious they weren’t pistolsmiths since out of 50 rounds, only 21 hit the car. And 14 rounds hit people in the car.
I’d rather they received training on Shoot – Don’t Shoot scenarios rather than marksmanship. But at least with marksmanship training, when they make the wrong call and shoot in real life, they don’t look like trigger-happy yahoos.
December 18th, 2006 at 1:03 am
Horseshit! They will always look like trigger happy yahoos who could hardly wait for their chance to kill someone, when they do it like this.