Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: NYC: Empire State Shooting: ALL bystanders were shot by police [View all]marasinghe
(1,253 posts)for many years now, possibly from Giuliani's mayoral tenure, these clowns have been coasting along mostly on propaganda and the consent of a complacent & compliant public.
if one takes a look at the number of cases where unarmed people got shot, the number of shots these bozos spray around in a shootout, is ridiculous.
many of them appear to have no self-control and strength of mind, or the required courage, and, as you stated, the necessary training, to be allowed to carry guns professionally.
five cases which readily come to mind are:
1. the Amadou Diallo shooting: 41 shots fired at one unarmed man trying to get into his own residence.
result: an innocent African guy shot dead, with no provocation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amadou_Diallo_shooting
2. the Sean Bell shooting: 50 shots fired at 3 men in a car.
result: one unarmed African-American guy, Sean Bell, dead, two passengers (also unarmed) severely wounded.
their crime: trying to get away from an undercover cop, who had had two drinks in a bar. Sean Bell, the driver may have been under the influence, since he was leaving his own bachelor party; and the car is supposed to have brushed by the undercover cop. but the
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Bell
3. the Ousmane Zongo shooting: innocent African guy dead, shot 4 times in the back.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ousmane_Zongo
don't have links for the other two; they happened a while back. but, i remember some details.
4. cop stakeout on Queens Boulevard, in Woodside, NYC: cops across a major 8 lane road from a Chinese restaurant, blindly fired a shitload of artillery at the restaurant & killed the perp they were staking out; as well as an innocent restaurant employee.
5. the last case happened in Manhattan, around office closing time - 5 pm - on Broadway & the lower 50's, near the Sheraton hotel. an ATM robber held his victim hostage & walked out of a Citibank (i believe). despite being surrounded by a plethora of civilians leaving their offices at the time, waiting cops unloaded another shitload of ammo at him, killing both the perp & the woman hostage.
based on these & numbers of others, i totally agree with your conclusions; with the added provision that - plenty of these dumass bullies, are not only woefully under-trained in weaponry, but are also psychologically untested & untrained, in keeping calm & professional in a crisis; which would be the whole point of being employed as a cop.
so, it comes as no surprise that the bystander casualties were from cop bullets; not from the criminal's. in fact, as soon as i got the information of the incident & the casualties, from our office security, i immediately jumped to the, admittedly biased & evidence-less, conclusion, that almost all the shooting victims would be from police fire.