TOO MANY COPS ARE POOR SHOTS

During a gun battle with Minnesota cops, the killer of a Mendota Heights police officer was merely wounded

Shortly after noon on Wednesday,, Mendota Heights Police Officer Scott Patrick, 47, pulled over Brian George Fitch,39, on a routine traffic stop in that suburb of St. Paul, Minn. Fitch, a career criminal, opened the car door and promptly shot Patrick in the head, killing the father of two teenage daughters before he could draw his gun.

Fitch then burned rubber with his Pontiac Grand Am. He was spotted by cops in St. Paul about eight hours later driving with a woman passenger. A patrol car cut off Fitch, preventing his ability to escape. He opened fire on the cops, they returned fire. When the gun battle was over, both Fitch and his companion had been wounded. Both are hospitalized with non-life threatening injuries.

Fitch had been serving time for burglary and was released from prison in February. He has been wanted as a parole absconder since June.

There are too many cops that are piss-poor shots. Now, if the cops in that gun battle with Fitch had only been better shots, justice for Officer Patrick’s wife and daughters would have been swift. Alas, Patrick's loved ones will never get justice because Minnesota is not a death penalty state.

I make no bones about it. Once someone starts shooting at the cops, the police should return fire until the shooter is dead meat, especially when he or she is believed to have already killed a cop.