Massive screw up in a sleepy Long Island town. Bad, bad crime scene management by dopey local cops, with a lunatic meddler fool with a police scanner, trigger happy other idiots who should not have been on the scene, and bad coordination with Special Service cops who arrived in civilian clothes long after the psychotic kid who started it all was shot down.
I hope heads will roll on this colossal screw up. Disgraceful police work. I blame the management, the higher ups.
This looks like it was a tragic chain of events. As soon as I saw the story I figured something bizarre must have happened. The initial report was that the cop was shot while the police were trying to apprehend the loony-tune with the knife, and I immediately pictured some kind of Keystone Kops scenario where the cops were all surrounding the guy in a circle and one of them opened fire.
“I hope heads will roll on this colossal screw up. Disgraceful police work. I blame the management, the higher ups.”
Probably not, the investigating board will rule it a good shoot. Oh wait, the guy killed wasn’t just an average citizen but one of the privileged few, hmmm give them a two week paid suspension and move on with life.