[KeyLargo]

The first officer-involved shooting happened at about 5:20 a.m. in the 19500 block of Redbeam Avenue in Torrance, according to the L.A. Times. Two women delivering newspapers in a truck were struck by gunfire by L.A. police detectives from the Hollywood division. One woman was shot in the hand and the other in the back, Jesse Escochea, who captured video of the victims being treated, told the Times. Both victims were transported to a hospital.

The Times describes the crime scene: "After the shooting, the blue pickup was riddled with bullet holes and what appeared to be newspapers lay in the street alongside."

[DariusBane]

As long as Police Chiefs, and cities keep sending these clowns back to work the behavior will not change.

As long as Grand Juries refuse to indict Police Officers, and Police Chiefs, then this behavior will not change.

As long as civil damages are payed by cities, FOP, and insurance policies, and not paid by cops, nothing will change.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Tami Abdollah? What is up with all the apparently Muslim reporters everywhere? As you know, I post a lot of threads and I see this more and more.

[DariusBane]

“The civilian Police Commission that found the officers violated policy also faulted the department itself, saying the officers were rotated in during the night to protect the home because of overtime concerns. The sergeant wasn’t trained to oversee such a protection detail and there was no operational plan. The commission also cites the officers’ inadequate firepower.”

“inadequate firepower”? Really? That’s part of the official finding? Inadequate firepower? They need to clean house at the leadership level. If those idiots had “adequate firepower”, those ladies would be dead. D E A D. What do those clowns want? .50 cal and rocket launchers? Flamethrowers so they could burn down the whole neighborhood?

Defund the Police!

[Tenacious 1]

The mistaken shooting occurred Feb. 7, 2013, as officers protected a Dorner target's Torrance home. When one of the newspaper delivery women threw a paper onto the pavement in the early morning hours, an officer believing the sound was a gunshot opened fire. Officers unable to see clearly into the vehicle riddled the pickup truck with 103 rounds and hit seven nearby homes and nine other vehicles with gunshots and shotgun pellets.

WTF!!!? And then the officers are "qualified" but were "put in a position that they weren't qualified for?" What was that? Collecting newspapers?

I never heard the whole story before now.

[yldstrk]

they should be fired and banned from being on any force ever

[muir_redwoods]

Cops should face the same charges I would face if I committed their acts. Any other standard violates the equal protections logic behind all of our laws.

[JimRed]

Eight Los Angeles police officers who mistakenly riddled a pickup truck with bullets during a manhunt for cop-turned-killer Christopher Dorner last year will be allowed to return to the field after they get additional training...

Translation: Police Union 8, Los Angeles 0.

[minnesota_bound]

These guys nearly killed 3 people and cost the taxpayers so far $4 million in payouts to the victims and they keep their jobs!

[puppypusher]

Well!if these cops screw up in the future the chief should be fired.There needs to be discipline in the force and retraining doesn’t do it .

[Zuben Elgenubi]

Attorney Glen Jonas, who represented the two women who won a $4.2 million settlement from the city

That amount should have been taken out of the police union pension account, not extracted from the taxpayers. Hit them in the pocketbook until such horrid behavior ends.

[SkyDancer]

They’ll be sent to the Fullerton Police Academy where they’ll receive the best training possible.

[jim_trent]

A stroke of luck, firing more than 100 rounds and missing

Luck? Must not have been any innocent bystanders there.

[School of Rational Thought]

It these cops were Catholic priests just being recycled the left would have a field day.

But the government by force crowd, apparently not so much.