FL - Cops unload 377 rounds at two unarmed suspects, killing them and shooting themselves.

[coastie]

It was once the authorities that kept the angry mob from lynching the suspect.

It is possible that a friendly fire bullet is intentional giving the wounded cop some paid time off.

Well, I seriously doubt that. That require this thing called marksmanship and discipline in firearms, things these guys are obviously lacking.

 

[Wolfgang Bohringer]

The nature of the shooting suggests the officers lost sight of their own training and that the officers, caught up in the heat of the moment

Yeah right. 360 Degree Rotational Fire is how they're trained.

"We had a pretty gung-ho commander, who decided that because we were getting hit by IEDs a lot, there would be a new battalion SOP. He goes, ‘If someone in your line gets hit with an IED, 360 rotational fire. You kill every motherfucker on the street.’

“Myself and Josh and a lot of other soldiers were just sitting there looking at each other like, ‘Are you kidding me? You want us to kill women and children on the street?’ And you couldn’t just disobey orders to shoot, because they could just make your life hell in Iraq.

“So like with myself, I would shoot up into the roof of a building instead of down on the ground toward civilians. But I’ve seen it many times, where people are just walking down the street and an IED goes off and the troops open fire and kill them."

http://www.alternet.org/story/147271/soldier%27s_shocking_allegation%3A_troops_ordered_to_engage_in_%27360_rotational_fire%27_against_civilians

 

[SeanTX]

This reminds me of the case (I think also in Florida) where cops were searching the woods somewhere for a "cop killer" who had eluded them. They unloaded hundreds of rounds on him when they found his hiding spot.

When asked why they fired so many shots, their Sheriff replied "because, that's all the ammo they had." That just shows the mentality that leads to this sort of thing.

 

[Henry Rogue]

This reminds me of the case (I think also in Florida) where cops were searching the woods somewhere for a "cop killer" who had eluded them. They unloaded hundreds of rounds on him when they found his hiding spot.

When asked why they fired so many shots, their Sheriff replied "because, that's all the ammo they had." That just shows the mentality that leads to this sort of thing.

This and the original post story reminds me of the movie "The Gauntlet"

Life imitates art.

 

[PaulConventionWV]

Like a pack of frenzied piranhas wanting to rip apart their prey so bad they don't even care if they shoot each other or themselves.

The police force in this country is more paranoid and afraid than the most diehard conspiracy theorist, gun-toting bible thumper, or serious prepper could ever be.

I wonder if they will include the two officers hit by friendly fire in the list of "officers shot in the line of duty" and then use it to propagate the idea that a cop's job is so dangerous.

 

[heavenlyboy34]

What better gang to join, than the ones with the badges?

The gang that operates congress? The gang that operates the FED? The MIC?

 

[Anti Federalist]

One of the best corrupt cop movies ever.

This and the original post story reminds me of the movie "The Gauntlet"

Life imitates art.

 

[Anti Federalist]

I wonder if they will include the two officers hit by friendly fire in the list of "officers shot in the line of duty" and then use it to propagate the idea that a cop's job is so dangerous.

Count on it.

When the dumb fucks kill each other it counts as an "Officer Killed in the Line of Duty".

"You see what you awful people made us do?" - Oberscharführer Friendly

 

[VoluntaryAmerican]

"lost sight of their training"... is this Newspeak for "they were totally incompetent, irrational, and insane"?
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It was a well written piece of journalism. Not friendly to the officers whatsoever, basically proved murder.

 

[heavenlyboy34]

Now...how do we take advantage of this weakness?

If we had a few hundred RPFers that were willing to get really down and dirty, we'd be infiltrating them. Imagine the psy-ops that could be run against these neanderthal clowns. I heard that bob is banging Jim's wife! There's a secret plot by the government to replace local PDs with FBI! The chief is hanging guys out to dry!

Coordinate with guys on the outside. Call in a domestic disturbance at Jim's house.

Ooohhh it could be messsy.

Cool idea. But if y'all do it, I suggest not leaving evidence of your collaboration/plans/etc on the interwebz. Use snail mail,land line phone, meetup, any form of communication that can't be intercepted easily.

 

[heavenlyboy34]

It was a well written piece of journalism. Not friendly to the officers whatsoever, basically proved murder.

Agreed.

 

[Anti Federalist]

 

[jtap]

insert something clever about these cops (just doing their job/protecting & serving/feeding their families/risking their lives etc.)

 

[limequat]

It's really silly how every cop in the tri-state area shows up for one of these fox hunts.

It would be a shame if some criminal killed a kop only as diversion. Imagine the havoc one could wreak if ALL the police were gathered in one place and out of ammo. My god, they'd be sitting ducks.

 

[Mani]

I just read about this one.

It reminds me of what I sort of witnessed in my neighborhood years ago in South Florida.

Two guys get into road rage (pretty common in South Florida!!!). One pulls over into the Post office, an older man (the one I used to go to all the time) and after they flipping the birds to each other, the guy instead of continuing on, goes back and pulls into the post office after him, his daughter is in his car.

The guy who turned around with his daughter, jumps out of his car and starts charging, the old man in his car fears for his safety and shoots the charging man.

The guy who jumped out of his car was a border patrol agent or something like that, he dies.



And the city goes on a manhunt. Hundreds upon hundreds upon hundreds of cops descend on my neighborhood. Every cop pretty much dropped what they were doing and raced over to my city. Cops from every city, every district, every county, cops of all kinds of every badge within a 40 mile radius came down. Maybe it was a thousand cops, I don't remember, but it was a lot.

I do recall a few people being upset, that why for this 1 man are thousand cops looking for this guy? This happens every day. Yet for one of us there isn't this type of response.

No one really knows what happened during that encounter, but it was determined the "stand your ground" or "fearing for your safety" was not considered acceptable.

They caught the guy the next day.

Here's what I could find about it:

http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/20...e-bernard-bober-broward-judge-imminent-threat