Originally Posted by
LowSpeed_HighDrag
Boy, this post stinks of ivory tower safety.
When was the last time you got into a shootout with:
And I am genuinely curious. Just based off of that generality, multiple armed suspects who just committed an armed robbery, armed motor vehicle theft, kidnapping, etc are by your estimation not dangerous? In other circles of the world beyond yours, they would be considered the most dangerous animal on the face of the earth.
I read all this nonsense and it just cracks me up.
No offense intended, I just want to point out that you and several folks on this thread are coming off as defenders of police actions no matter what. I don't believe that is your intent, but that is the vibe I'm picking up.
Go back to page 7 on this thread. Look at the Mexican/Spanish TV video. I'm not familiar with generally accepted training that would advocate guys moving into the open, at a truck containing a couple of folks who were shooting, at the speed these guys were moving. First day tactical analysis would also indicate that if you swing wide on that approach w/o cover, you are giving the bad guys in the truck the advantage.
I posted this earlier:
The driver, and the citizens on the expressway, didn't have the luxury of choice.
You unass a patrol unit on a call with a rifle, hell, any kind of police equipment, and you are making the promise to the public that you know how to use the equipment correctly to protect.
There is such a thing as contagious fire, just because it is a thing doesn't mean it should be accepted. Some of the folks who were firing during the various videos I've seen clearly shouldn't have been firing IAW the four rules.
Whether it was a training issue, a personnel issue, or a communications issue, is unknown to me. But, I believe this needs to be a learning experience for all LE.
Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the President... - Theodore Roosevelt, Lincoln and Free Speech, Metropolitan Magazine, Volume 47, Number 6, May 1918.
Every Communist must grasp the truth. Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. Our principle is that the Party commands the gun, and the gun must never be allowed to command the Party Mao Zedong, 6 November, 1938 - speech to the Communist Patry of China's sixth Central Committee
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