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yeah. so it seems i have gotten most of my facts straight. while it is sad that a child was shot, we can't blame the cop for shooting the child. he didn't know at the time that the driver was a child and he did what any one of us would have done, protected ourselves.
there's much scrutiny over the amount fired into the car and some point out the uncertainty of times the child was shot. however we don't know whether or not the car continued to move after x amount of rounds were shot.
while this is a far shot comparison, while playing on the paintball field there have been many times, and you fellow paintballers know, that you think you've shot someone, can swore you shot someone so as common courtesy, stop shooting. only to end up getting shot up by the initial target person. following from enough of those instances, we have been influenced to shoot at said target until they pronounce themselves out or if there is un-arguable proof he/she is out.
reasoning for this analogy is that we don't know if the vehicle continued to move after the first 4 shots or not. if the vehicle continued towards the officer, i can totally understand why the 5th, 6th, and even 7th shots would be fired. the officer would want to know his target is controlled -- be it by death or not.
just a thought also, didn't the FBI up the caliber in their standard issue guns from 9mm to .40 because many criminals weren't getting put down with 9mm bullets? even after many shots to the chest, criminals were still capable of attacking agents. i was told this by my gun enthusiast uncle but have yet to look this up.
i absolutely can not stand how the officers and the city are so quick to be blamed by this. i don't have the greatest feelings towards officers because of my own personal experiences, but that hasn't blinded me in this situation. no one is blaming the parents for allowing their child to be out at 3:50 am. no one is blaming the child for stealing the car. heck, i'm 28 and my parents still demand to know where i am at all times, let alone be out at 3:50 am stealing cars and running from police. what next? do we sue the car company for making a car so easily stolen?
and i absolutely can not stand how they are making this a race issue. i have sympathy towards many of our african-american (or whichever pc way you want to put it) counter-parts, but it seems many scream racism for anything that happens to them because of the oppression their ancestors have undergone.
now the bloods and the crips are coming together? what in the world do they know about this? don't most of them shoot and maim innocent people/kids/pregnant women/elderly all the time? it's like hitler preaching to the cowboys how killing indians is wrong. i hate how people are quick to yell racism.
i love kids. as a matter of fact, my cell phone has a picture of myself and my 4 yr-old nephew as the wallpaper. but if i was in the officer's shoes, hell, if i were some bystander, i would've shot the kid myself then slapped the parents.
sorry if this offends anyone, this is just how i feel. and what sucks is that the negligent parents are gonna win this case and make tons of money over a child they apparently didn't care <i>enough</i> about. and the officer who was just doing his job, and acting as any one of us would, is going to get punished for taking a shitty shift (patrolling la at 3 am is, in my opinion, a really really shitty shift), and for trying to protect any bystanders/commuters who may have been hurt due to the initial thoughts of this being a drunk driver.
good luck to the city of la and to the officer(s) involved.
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