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**44 AMP** · October 25, 2013, 08:07 PM

According to one report, from the time the police radioed "suspicious person with a gun" until the last shot was fired was 10 seconds. And in that time, it was reported that the officers hit the lights, blipped the siren, exited and took cover behind their cruiser, before ordering the suspect to drop the gun.
Draw you own conclusions.

No one is saying it isn't a dangerous profession. Cops have every right to be nervous.

But impression being created by this, and other incidents is that if the police think you have a weapon, and they do not see instant and total compliance they shoot.

These things always seem to happen very fast. When innocents get shot, clearly we see, after the fact that it was too fast.

October 25, 2013, 08:07 PM	#12
44 AMP Staff Join Date: March 11, 2006 Location: Upper US Posts: 28,846	According to one report, from the time the police radioed "suspicious person with a gun" until the last shot was fired was 10 seconds. And in that time, it was reported that the officers hit the lights, blipped the siren, exited and took cover behind their cruiser, before ordering the suspect to drop the gun. Draw you own conclusions. No one is saying it isn't a dangerous profession. Cops have every right to be nervous. But impression being created by this, and other incidents is that if the police think you have a weapon, and they do not see instant and total compliance they shoot. These things always seem to happen very fast. When innocents get shot, clearly we see, after the fact that it was too fast. __________________ All else being equal (and it almost never is) bigger bullets tend to work better.