Originally posted by bcadoo
The pizza delivery guy needs to spend some time on the shooting range. It shouldn't take 5 shots to take out 1 bad guy, and there should have been a body count of 2.
A year ago San Francisco police officers killed a young man inside a movie theater who was screaming that he was going to kill everyone in the theater. People all ran in terror from the theater, thinking he was a mad gunman about to kill folks.
4 officers quickly arrived and fired their pistols at him, after pepper spray was ineffective. One emptied all 15 rounds from his gun. Another officer panicked, and later admitted that he fired 9 shots blindly from his gun, without even aiming, after another officer accidentally shot him in the buttocks from behind. He thought the guy had shot him.
It turned out, the fellow had no gun, and was mentally ill. He apparently hallucinated during a gun battle that was being shown in the movie, and thought that the movie was actually reality.
The city of San Francisco had to pay the guy's mother $500,000 to compensate her for the loss of her son. Her lawsuit claimed that the police were inadequately trained, and had used unnecessary force.
So even trained policemen often shoot poorly during a crisis.
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