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I don’t blame them for shooting him but it does sound like the cops went into some kind of blood lust. Shooting that many times in a public area really is a dangerous thing to do.

Seems Florida Deputies luv to throw rounds... Jacksonville FL deputy suspended 5 days: shoots 2 cars & house chasing suspect Deputy Suspended For Chase, Shooting Internal Affairs Found Officer Violated JSO Policies POSTED: Thursday, October 8, 2009 UPDATED: 7:05 pm EDT October 8, 2009 Officer Jose Gonzalez was disciplined for firing shots at 17-year-old Kenneth Drotar on Nov. 24, 2008. JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- A Jacksonville Sheriff's Office deputy was suspended for five days for wrongly firing shots and violating car chase protocol in the hunt for a robbery suspect. Jose Gonzalez fired 10 shots at a 17-year-old suspected of robbing two women. The officer's bullets hit a home and two uninvolved vehicles, but missed his target. The internal affairs investigation report obtained by The Florida Times-Union also found Gonzalez wrongly tried to take the lead in the chase of a car on Butler Boulevard last November. According to the report, Sheriff John Rutherford says in it that Gonzalez "fired a total of 10 rounds, all from inside of his car." The sheriff says in the report that for Gonzalez to "shoot from a moving vehicle does not meet JSO criteria." Rutherford goes on to say in the report that his shots "struck two uninvolved cars and a house ... and that the authority to use deadly force on a fleeing felon does not outweigh the safety of other officers and citizens." Video: Sheriff: Officer Violated Policies Another officer was already filling the lead role in the pursuit and had radioed that he would lay tire-puncturing sticks ahead of the suspect. Gonzalez tried to pass the lead officer to perform the same task until he was finally ordered to stand down. The report also says Gonzalez cut off another officer "when the suspect made a U-turn on Beach Boulevard." The suspect, Kenneth Drotar, later surrendered and was taken into custody. Cedrick Smith, 20, who also ran from the car that crashed after running over the stop sticks on Cortez Road, was shot and killed when police said he pointed what turned out to be a BB gun at officers. http://www.news4jax.com/news/21237099/detail.html

It sounds uncontrolled. Surely they weren’t all staring down the grill of a car as they fired.