Why can't cops shoot tires?

[RCA]

http://www.news4jax.com/news/22973859/detail.html

[pcosmar]

They would have to learn to shoot.

edit, Checking the story confirms.
:(

[Anti Federalist]

So what?

A couple of mundanes got in the way?

Collateral damage, prole, now move along.

[KCIndy]

Jeez...

From the news article:


Sheriff John Rutherford said the suspect said, "I'm going to kill you," and an officer who was “fairly close to the vehicle” at the scene didn't know if the man was referring to him or the woman driving the car.

Rutherford said the officer fired a shotgun at the suspect before he got into the car, forced the woman into the passenger seat and began driving away.

According to Rutherford, after the car was carjacked, five officers responding to the scene fired 42 shots at the car as it drove away, including the officer who shot at the suspect while at Wendy's, two officers as the car drove off and two officers as the car drove over the median in the road.

"We could see police just in a triangle and they were shooting at the back and both sides and the car rolled a little bit and stopped," witness Carolyn Byrd told Channel 4.



Let's see... the officer was purportedly close enough to hear the man say, "I'm going to kill you," but STILL managed to shoot at the suspect with a shotgun - with a shotgun - and MISSED. This is followed by what can only be described as a fusillade of gunfire by five police officers who managed, probably by pure random chance, to hit and kill the robber. And wound the female driver. And seriously wound the driver's two year old son.

The winning quote has to be that of "undersherrif" (as the news report misspelled it) Mackesy (referencing the little boy who got shot):


"We're told that he's tough and that he has a chance of making it," Undersherrif Frank Mackesy said Friday. "What we need is for this community to pray for that little boy."


No.

What the community needs to do is demand a full scale investigation into the way this was mishandled.

What the community needs to do is demand the police department tighten up their firearms qualifications standards.

If any average citizen had displayed this sort of wildly inaccurate aim during an act of self defense, he would probably be sitting in jail right now, charged with criminal recklessness, wanton disregard for public safety, and any other charges an overzealous DA could dream up.

I suppose the officers involved here will get a week's paid vacation.

[Anti Federalist]

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[squarepusher]

wow wtf. Cops literally unload on a car with woman and her 2 children????? thats beyond stupid

[Anti Federalist]

wow wtf. Cops literally unload on a car with woman and her 2 children????? thats beyond stupid

So what?

A couple of mundanes got in the way?

Collateral damage, prole, now move along.