Absolutely unreal. The two asian women were doing their job, delivering newspapers, and had been asked by the community to do it with their lights off in order to keep from waking people up, and they complied with the request. The LAPD officers saw this as "potentially hostile" and just lit them up. How on earth can you make a decision to fire on two civilians and not be charged with anything under these circumstances. While doing PSD work my company used to get threat info and intel on vehicles thought to be being used by hostile forces, but if I had ever decided to just mow down a vehicle based on a match with this without first not only seeing a weapon pointed at me, but actually being engaged, I would have been in all kinds of legal crap, and that's in two countries where we were shot at on a daily, and sometimes hourly basis every time we drove out of our compound.
I just can't believe this, and that fact that it has happened not once, but TWICE shows me the LAPD is both a: very scared right now, and b: has hired and trained several very incompetent and dangerous officers. I understand the fear part, any soldier or security person who has been detailed to some sort of duty that involves being targeted directly knows that sick feeling of wondering if today is the actual day, but come ON, this is ridiculous. Look at that truck! I've shot at vehicles with belt fed weapons and left less damage than that, what could they possibly have been thinking emptying their sidearms like that? And look at that group of shots in the tailgate, did they think somebody was hiding in the box of the truck? There are dozens of shots through the back windows, it's amazing both those women weren't killed with the number of shots fired at them at that range.
