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Old July 15, 2010, 03:38 PM   #51
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For the many who've said they wish this could work in the U.S., I'd say let's get this whole tasering old women and children thing under control first. Sure it's a small number but some guys just love to shoot. I'm not sure China's as concerned about those few. Or maybe those few are way more worried in China. There's a lot of fuzzy inbetween.
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Old July 15, 2010, 03:39 PM   #52
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Tactically, shooting the perp once doesn't mean they're stopped, even if it was a head shot. Also, the policewoman is carrying a Mak - traditional SA/DA. Double even triple taps are EASY when the adrenalin is rushing through the body SA. Let's put it this way, back in the days of revolvers I had a double tap with a revolver in DA mode during a super charged adrenalin event. Shooting someone more than once is easy in that physical state.

From a SD/HD perspective, I would sure want to make sure that the BG is completely "stopped" before I stop shooting.



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Old July 17, 2010, 08:18 AM   #53
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Old July 17, 2010, 08:44 AM   #54
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I think the first shot missed high and the man fell backwards from suprise. By pausing the video from Double Naught Spy and trying to go frame by frame, I swear it seems the first shot missed.
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Old July 17, 2010, 07:57 PM   #55
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Reporter: Big Sister, you're too wicked! (i.e. Ma'am, you kick butt.) When you fired the gun, were you not nervous?

Police woman: (laughing) I don't know.

From her point of view, it would be difficult to tell with certainty that the man was completely disabled and that he was sufficiently far from the victim in her peripheral vision. Best not to second guess.
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Old July 17, 2010, 09:06 PM   #56
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Moral of the story, don't hold people at knife point.
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Old July 17, 2010, 10:08 PM   #57
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I think it would have been a lot easier accomplished with the good old .308 from across the street! But either way it was a good that the problem was resolved with only the crazy man getting killed!
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Old July 18, 2010, 06:20 AM   #58
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Looks like she was point shooting to me.

Looks like it worked fine.
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Old July 18, 2010, 07:15 AM   #59
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If she was point shooting, then she was point shooting with the sight radius aligned with her eyes...which looks a whole lot more like aimed shooting, albeit with a flash sight picture.
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Old July 18, 2010, 08:42 AM   #60
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Doesn't look like 'aimed fire' from your own link in post # 44
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Old July 18, 2010, 09:37 AM   #61
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Two thoughts:

Most likely not her first rodeo.

It should have been handled from across the street via scoped rifle.
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Doesn't look like 'aimed fire' from your own link in post # 44
I am glad you mentioned that video. You can only see the officer fire the first shot in that video. It wasn't aimed fire, though that is what the officer attempted. She apparently ND'd her first shot into the air, the suspect tripping backwards through the doorway step with the hostage. Watch carefully and you will see the smoke from the barrel at about a 30-40 degree angle from level, putting it on a trajectory well above the suspect.

BillCA noticed this in the original video but it shows up much better in the one I posted in post #44.

The last three shots, as seen in the first video and like the attempted first shot, are with the gun sighted.
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Old July 18, 2010, 12:57 PM   #63
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It is pretty obvious they meant to shoot this guy, maybe to kill him. This was in China not the USA and that is reason enough to believe that they intended to kill him just as the bad guy said he believed they were going to do but maybe not to execute him as some may believe. I think shooting to kill is acceptable there as opposed to shooting to stop, but the officer almost certainly is not trying to make sure she kills him from what I can tell. The woman officer, takes 1 shot that drops him. She then fires a few more times and some have questioned why.

Before I address that let me point out she starts to do something before that. She starts to take cover as she apparently continues to assess the situation with her pistol slightly raised not pointing at the bad guy (as if she had not predetermined to kill him by taking several shots). She moves to her left toward the frame of the storefront opening. Then she seems to alert and she fires again and again and again.

My guess is not that she thought the guy was no longer a threat and fired anyway. My guess is that, at the point she alerts and again moves forward firing, she has just seen him as still being a threat. Of course, that is my guess but based on what is seen in careful review of her actions in the video. As for all of the follow-up shots, some or all may have been necessary, at least in the mind of the officer, and after all whose mindset matters at the time! If the guy moved, if she thought he moved, if the body moved because the hostage was now breaking free and trying to run thus causing it to move, if the body twitched in its death thrall, if it was a hallucination on the part of the officer, if it was a perceived threat (and mind you all threats at this point would be life threatening because the guy had already stabbed his victim several times and committed whatever crime it was for which they were hunting him down [yes I am assuming he committed another crime and it was not big brother looking to exterminate him]), then she was justified to shoot. If, on the other hand, there was no perceived threat, then she should not have shot; that was just as it was momentarily after the first shot, she held off for a moment. So it seems she was not intent on making sure he was dead but more so that he was not a threat. Then as I said, she alerted and fired again. Note, by the 4th shot, it seems apparent the guy is not moving, you can see that on the video but that does not mean that she did not perceive a threat nor that she was not justified in shooting. A good shooting is based not only on the reality of the situation but on the mind set of the officer.

I have to point out a few other things about the woman officer. She has her hair in a ponytail. She approaches holding a purse or grip (loses it somewhere along the way by the time she gives him the coke). The purse is in her right hand (most people are right handed, as is she, and this has an effect of lessening her as a perceived threat). More on the purse in a little bit as I believe it has a lot more significance. She never identifies herself as police. She wears nothing to make her look like an officer, nothing to make her look alarming, only things to make her look as if she had been out for a stroll and is now wanting to help. Well, that is except for the fact that it appears she is printing (you can see the outline of her pistol a bit or so it looks to me). She even has a scarf around her neck and otherwise is dressed in all white (a very neutral color that does not usually provoke anyone and is probably still worn by doctors in China - helpful life saving doctors).

Most of this, in my estimation, is all a deliberate effort to make it look as if she is a bystander and to get her in there to be able to neutralize the threat at close range. There was ample time to get her there from when this all started (and it started before the filming you can bet on that) so she could prepare. I do not think she was there to tackle the subject if that had been possible, nor to grab the girl and run had that been possible. Nor was she there to negotiate which is obvious because she did not even try to negotiate. I think that is one of the telling keys as to what was her predetermined purpose in this. I think she was there for one purpose only - a close in shot (my bet is that she is ranked as an expert marksman). Of course, there were also other officers ready to rumble as can be seen in the video, who had taken up positions along the barricade but they were there, in my view, not only for back-up but as a distraction away from the woman more than anything else. The guy keeps looking at them - even tells them twice to get back as he points to them to his right, then turns to his left and does likewise (I guess they were also on that side and he knew it). (see the shorter version of the video with English subtitles I link to below.)

As for the other police on the scene, the male negotiator in all black (he is in all black and she in all white - do you think that a coincidence - maybe - maybe not), and the female officer, they did a good job of keeping him interested in other things so he would not notice what else was going on, such as the other officers taking up positions. They even went from water to coke (or other soda) as an offering - probably much more appealing by that time than mere water. They kept him so preoccupied so as to not even see it when the female officer uncovered her firearm, and had it uncovered for several seconds (about 8 to 9 seconds) prior to her actually drawing it.

Remember what I said she did (though we did not see it and how I wish we had seen it) apparently shortly before the scene with the coke and thus shortly before she draws and shoots. She at some point got rid of the purse from her right hand. Of course it would stand to reason she wanted her hands free, or at least her right hand free, but had the bad guy been paying attention maybe he should have been alerted. I am willing to bet that others were alerted when she got rid of the purse and this leads up to why I would like to have seen her do it. I would have wanted to see her do it, to see if I could see the reaction of those officers waiting in the background along the barrier fence or of the hostage negotiator. When she dropped the purse or put it down or whatever, did those officers tense? Was her giving up the purse, as I believe it must have been, her signal to other officers that she was about to take action? My bet is that her getting rid of the purse meant she was about to take action. Luckily the bad guy did not realize it and luckily he did not see her uncover her pistol which by the way seemed pretty tricky for her to get a grip on.

If you want to see the video (shortened version) in a version subtitled in English, go to the below link but please read the rest of what I have written first.

Pay attention to what the reporter asks her and says to her to her at the end, and maybe you will understand her laughter after having shot and killed someone. (And note that a reporter should never have been allowed that close to her, she should have been getting support from fellow officers and medical personnel but she was ignored because, sadly, that probably had not been planned for though it should have been planned). Nervous, you can bet if not nervous when taking the shot (and she probably was not nervous as she was determined at that point), her nerves were taking a beating from all of it by the point that she was asked that question. Adrenalin high point over, starting to come down a little, nerves begin to take on the negative effects of the adrenalin because we are not using it efficiently any longer, we get nervous, we laugh to ward it off, we feel good we did good (as the other guys tells her - she was awesome), then we often either become elated or slump into depression or both because they are natural reactions to killing one of our own because we survived and he did not - we won. Still he was one of our own so to speak and it effects how we process and handle that info psychologically. Hopefully, if this was indeed simply the shooting of a very bad man, then she will be well in the long run. Hopefully it was not a scene that unfolded because a political dissident was being hunted down because he disagreed with the government, believed they were going to kill him, and then took desperate action to try to survive.

Just all stuff to think about. I have one other thing to think about, who gave her back the purse, she has it at the end again. That person should have at the least kept paying attention to her and not have left her alone. He should have guided her to medical personnel because no matter how it may seem she needed medical and psychological attention immediately. Only a reporter paid her any mind - a cop standing right there looked at her and turned away. The reporter asked questions just like they would here in the USA, a question that seemed harmless but which upon answering the officer could have hung herself. Here, they would try to crucify you if you were the officer and laughed like that even though the laugh was almost assuredly a psychological protective reaction to the stress of it all and a reaction to the reporters question. Note her answer, ‘I don‘t know‘, was a good one. Then she did another good thing, she turned away and shut up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXT-9...eature=related

One final note: I reviewed the videos several times. At the time she shot, her pistol was aimed at the subject and not at a 30-40 degree angle above him as Double naught Z]Spy said it was when you saw the smoke coming out of the barrel. Try to remember that the smoke only exits the barrel after the bullet and while recoil is already occuring. If you stop the video over and over again at the time you hear the shot, you can take a straight edge and run it from the pistol to the bad guy. You will see, it is aimed (even if only by point shooting) on level with her target. Yes he fell, almost definitely after she shot him and not because he tripped after a missed shot.

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Old July 18, 2010, 02:22 PM   #64
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The last three shots, as seen in the first video and like the attempted first shot, are with the gun sighted.
If you say so...
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Old July 18, 2010, 02:41 PM   #65
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At the time she shot, her pistol was aimed at the subject and not at a 30-40 degree angle above him as Double naught Z]Spy said it was when you saw the smoke coming out of the barrel. Try to remember that the smoke only exits the barrel after the bullet and while recoil is already occuring.
If the gun was level on the suspect, then the smoke would have been level with the suspect as well. Contrary to your claim, smoke most definitely will procede the bullet, then come out with it, and after it. In fact, most of the smoke has been ejected before the slide on a semi-auto has moved more than about an inch or so, which is long before the officer's gun would have been that high in the air.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4MdYrwUU0E

The only reason why the smoke in the video was projected that high was because the muzzle of the officer's gun was oriented in an upward direction when she fired.
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Old July 19, 2010, 06:00 AM   #66
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Will the girl suffer hearing damage?

It can't be as bad as getting torn up into pieces by a knife...but that's still something to think about.

I am no LE specialist, but wouldn't a sniper be a better solution for that specific situation?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGe1zb1wAlY

I think it'd be just as effective against a suspect armed with a knife.
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Old July 19, 2010, 09:18 AM   #67
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Superman and/or the Flash would be better also. However, we have no idea of the time scale of sniper arrival or the availability of such. The guy was active at the moment. Snipers have to set up.

What if - she acted and saved a life.
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Old July 19, 2010, 09:51 AM   #68
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Apparently, she didn't read the posts about the Mak being underpowered.
She was probably at the range, practicing...
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Old July 19, 2010, 12:41 PM   #69
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The police woman took a risk. This is a risk that an American officer probably would not take because of liability.

In this situation, the ideal weapon would be the taser. If you have ever been shot with a taser, then you know that movement is quite difficult. However, if you are shot in the wrong place then movement might be intensified by adrenaline and other factors.
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Old July 19, 2010, 04:26 PM   #70
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Defintley took a risk, her hand was near that Mak for a while..... However, the man was distracted and she took the opportunity. I give this woman a lot of credit for reacting like that. As for shooting him when he was down, thats China, I don't think that would fly to in the U.S. Someone would be screaming lawsuit. I wouldn't keep shooting someone like that if they were already 100% stopped. Stop the threat is the ulitmate goal however, if she though that was necessary (which she obviously did) she followed up. Im sure her massive rush had alot to do with the extra shots maybe the same would happen to any of us.
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Old July 19, 2010, 05:10 PM   #71
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The BG was in back of the girl. How are you going to be sure you hit him with a taser?

So many armchair quarterbacks today. Perhaps, she could have made a voodoo doll of the BG and made him dance away - ya think?

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Old July 19, 2010, 06:15 PM   #72
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Don't bring a knife to a gun fight. Nice shooting officer!
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Old July 19, 2010, 06:58 PM   #73
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Are we sure that she wasnt just "putting him out of his misery"?
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Old July 20, 2010, 07:54 PM   #74
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I agree with Double Naught. Looks like she definitely accidently fired the gun while it was pointed well above the bad guy. That's why she shot him on the ground - he was unscathed at that point.

You have to look at the video Double Naught refers to.
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Right, and if you watch closely, the gun never recoils back up in the air after the shot. She discharged the gun during a fisherman's cast draw, during the downward swing of the cast, but while the gun was still oriented well above the suspect.

She was smart and took action when he attention was directed elsewhere. When the suspect notices the charge, he immediately starts shrinking back down and into the doorway before the gun is ever fired.
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