For real? Gee, I hope they soon find out. After all - the identity of the newspaper is vital to this case. It would explain everything if we knew the name of the newspaper.
Wish this had happened to me.
I’d be picking out my Swiss chalet, my Colorado summer home, my northern fishing cabin, the Ivy league colleges for my kids, etc etc.
While it's only rumor, the police chief was heard off camera offering to cut the guy's grass and wash his car for the next two years........
Did they brandish the classified ads in a threatening manner? Perhaps they had a handful of semiautomatic rubber bands or high capacity plastic newspaper sleeves?
Let me guess what happened here: Police in an unmarked car started following the women, who panicked & attempted to get away from the unidentified police car. Police started shooting without provocation. They will say the truck movements were suspicious. If that justifies riddling the truck with bullets, then the police state is firmly in place.
The stench of fear is heavy in the LA air. If I was a large black man and/or drove a pickup in that area, I think I might think twice about going to the store at night. What do delivery men/women do, especially at night, now that they are in serious risk of being shot by jittery LA police?Who wants to deliver the morning paper tomorrow, raise your hand?
Sheesh...Flashbacks to Barney Fife come to mind. The LA police should at least warn the innocents in other towns that they will be hunting in their territory and that everyone should take cover until they leave town.
It was not immediately known what newspapers the women were delivering...
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What difference does it make ???
How many bullet holes are in that truck? Twenty? Thirty? I guess the easier question is, how many bullets do the guns of two LAPD officers hold?
If the standing order was to shoot on sight, the most basic rules of shooting — know what you’re shooting at — were ignored here.
Highly trained cops need 30 to 40 rounds to take out 2 unarmed women and they want to limit my magazine size to 10?
For real? Gee, I hope they soon find out. After all - the identity of the newspaper is vital to this case. It would explain everything if we knew the name of the newspaper.
The most important thing is that Agents of the State feel safe while on duty and get home safely to their families.
It's perfectly acceptable if a few or even many innocent citizens are injured or killed so that Agents of the State can feel safe while on duty and get home safely to their families.
I wonder - had the killer been in the truck, would he have died of a self-inflicted gunshot?
Just wait until the LAPD get them “Obama killer drones.”
Wow.
From the comments:
“The cops need to look at this closely because this is what can happen when ONE person comes after them with the will to act. Now imagine how they will fare if they enrage a large segment of the population with gestapo tactics. They don’t survive because they are tough. They survive because the population ALLOWS them to. It might be important to remember that.”
This is such an important point, and one that hadn’t yet been clarified in my mind. These cops are too scared to think because ONE guy might be hunting them. How are they going to react when they start disarming people and dozens or hundreds are hunting them?
A cop in Houston fired five rounds at a perp. Missed every shot. These guys must have fired at least 20 rounds and only had two hits. It’s a good thing for the citizens of this country that most cops can’t shoot worth a damn. It ain’t like it is in the movies.