Glad no one was hurt! But Jeez...
http://www.lineofduty.com/the-blotter/109675-woops-kc-cops-in-shootout-wbackfiring-van
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Glad no one was hurt! But Jeez...
http://www.lineofduty.com/the-blotter/109675-woops-kc-cops-in-shootout-wbackfiring-van
What a bunch of idiot cops. The troops in Afghanistan have much more strict rules for shooting at terrorists than these cops to regarding suspect identification, apparently. The KCPC needs to buy this guy a brand new van as pay back for almost killing him.
In Las Vegas, that would have been ruled a good shoot by the corner's jury.
"In addition to backfiring, the van made a furtive movement."
"In addition to backfiring, the van made a furtive movement."
New van at the minimum. And make the officers issue a formal apology. Not to mention more training for identification.
I think those cops need to become meter reader cops for a bit. No that's a bad idea. Lots of vans park at those meters!
I wonder what his race is?
Originally Posted By: 5sfe91
I wonder what his race is?
Lucky.
I wonder what his race is?
Lucky.
Read they are on paid leave? Disgraceful. Take away the uniform and apply the exact same scenario and the perps would be in jail awaiting trial on multiple criminal charges.
Not a fan of litigation, but if the PD is giving these punks a paid vacation then this guy should be looking for a good civil lawyer to go after big time damages from the department and the cops involved in it.
-Spyder
Not a fan of litigation, but if the PD is giving these punks a paid vacation then this guy should be looking for a good civil lawyer to go after big time damages from the department and the cops involved in it.
-Spyder
Originally Posted By: Spyder7
Not a fan of litigation, but if the PD is giving these punks a paid vacation then this guy should be looking for a good civil lawyer to go after big time damages from the department and the cops involved in it.
-Spyder
And the attorney should work for less than 33% or whatever the standard is, as it's an easy case and the media exposure/ free advertising would be completely worth it.
I wonder if the cops could be found personally liable or if the law protects them (and/or the city) from lawsuits.
IMO they should also get some criminal charges of reckless conduct with a firearm or something... something that gets them a weekend in jail, general population. Only a weekend. Shoot, only half an hour.
Not a fan of litigation, but if the PD is giving these punks a paid vacation then this guy should be looking for a good civil lawyer to go after big time damages from the department and the cops involved in it.
-Spyder
And the attorney should work for less than 33% or whatever the standard is, as it's an easy case and the media exposure/ free advertising would be completely worth it.
I wonder if the cops could be found personally liable or if the law protects them (and/or the city) from lawsuits.
IMO they should also get some criminal charges of reckless conduct with a firearm or something... something that gets them a weekend in jail, general population. Only a weekend. Shoot, only half an hour.
Originally Posted By: Shannow
They are probably miffed that there's a surviving witness.
That was my thought. If they had killed him they could have made up a cover story and that would have been the end of it.
Something as remarkable as cops shooting their own windows out and no pictures? I would like to see some pictures of the shot out police car windows. If they were shot "in" it could part of a cover up that they decided wouldn't work.
Something smells like more that just incompetence here.
They are probably miffed that there's a surviving witness.
That was my thought. If they had killed him they could have made up a cover story and that would have been the end of it.
Something as remarkable as cops shooting their own windows out and no pictures? I would like to see some pictures of the shot out police car windows. If they were shot "in" it could part of a cover up that they decided wouldn't work.
Something smells like more that just incompetence here.
Originally Posted By: Samilcar
I can't for the life of me figure out how they could shoot out the windows of their own squad car. This sounds like something out of the movie Idiocracy.
I was thinking Keystone Kops!
I can't for the life of me figure out how they could shoot out the windows of their own squad car. This sounds like something out of the movie Idiocracy.
I was thinking Keystone Kops!
Dudes! KC ain't "Super Happy Place"! Check this out...
Your on duty. You get a call of gunshots. You roll up already suspicious like you should be and looking to find the cause of these gunshots. You hear what you think are gunshots. Your partner freaks. He jumps outta the car and shoots out the window. You don't know he shot out the window. You think somebody is shooting at yall. You don't figure your partner shot out the window of the car. So you shoot too cause your partner is already going full tilt boogie at this broken down van.
So the way I figure it one of the cops has a valid excuse. Now the other guy mighta been a rookie or whatever but they were called cause "somebody is shooting on my street!".
So KC buys the guy a van. One of the cops needs some more training. And they both need to apologize to the poor dude.
Imma bet one of the cops thought he was in a legitimate shoot out. The other one...well I'm only 31 and I'm working on wisdom. There has to be an older smarter cop, smarter and wiser than me, who needs to sit down and talk it out with these guys.
I'm just glad nobody got hurt...and for the record I ain't no cop, but since 1979 I ain't ever met a bad cop and I've met a bunch. I bet less than one percent of all cops are bad. At least in the USA.
If I were the guy in the van. After the shooting stopped I woulda walked over to those guys and said, "Dudes! Yall alright? I guess I'm the luckiest guy in KC right now. What were yall shooting at me with? I'm a gun guy myself. And ummm...usually my pants aren't usually yellow and brown like this but I think we should go over to my place and have a beer. Yall gonna fix my van though! C'mon!. Yall like homebrew? We gotta talk this over..."
Your on duty. You get a call of gunshots. You roll up already suspicious like you should be and looking to find the cause of these gunshots. You hear what you think are gunshots. Your partner freaks. He jumps outta the car and shoots out the window. You don't know he shot out the window. You think somebody is shooting at yall. You don't figure your partner shot out the window of the car. So you shoot too cause your partner is already going full tilt boogie at this broken down van.
So the way I figure it one of the cops has a valid excuse. Now the other guy mighta been a rookie or whatever but they were called cause "somebody is shooting on my street!".
So KC buys the guy a van. One of the cops needs some more training. And they both need to apologize to the poor dude.
Imma bet one of the cops thought he was in a legitimate shoot out. The other one...well I'm only 31 and I'm working on wisdom. There has to be an older smarter cop, smarter and wiser than me, who needs to sit down and talk it out with these guys.
I'm just glad nobody got hurt...and for the record I ain't no cop, but since 1979 I ain't ever met a bad cop and I've met a bunch. I bet less than one percent of all cops are bad. At least in the USA.
If I were the guy in the van. After the shooting stopped I woulda walked over to those guys and said, "Dudes! Yall alright? I guess I'm the luckiest guy in KC right now. What were yall shooting at me with? I'm a gun guy myself. And ummm...usually my pants aren't usually yellow and brown like this but I think we should go over to my place and have a beer. Yall gonna fix my van though! C'mon!. Yall like homebrew? We gotta talk this over..."
It's not the best part of town, but it's also not the worst. In a way, I'm not mad at the coppers, but I would have been po'd if it were me. They could have killed an innocent person. KCMO PD have a lot to deal with. They aren't paid enough, that's for sure. An apology would have been nice.
http://blogs.forbes.com/francescalevy/2010/10/12/real-estate-lifestyle-danger-housing-cities/
^KCMO = 3rd most dangerous based on traffic & crime. I get to drive there to work every day
http://blogs.forbes.com/francescalevy/2010/10/12/real-estate-lifestyle-danger-housing-cities/
^KCMO = 3rd most dangerous based on traffic & crime. I get to drive there to work every day
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