By Bob Walsh
It seems that a 15-year old boy in Santa Rosa, California engineered his own unsuccessful suicide-by-cop Monday (05-23) evening.
The as-yet not publically identified young man called the cops himself just before midnight and told the dispatcher that a man answering his description was in Coffey Park with a gun. The local constabulary arrived promptly and confronted the teen. The young man initially hit the deck when ordered, but then stood up and pointed his realistic but fake gun at the cops. An officer fired on him, hitting him once in the foot. He then fell down for real and was taken into custody.
I have no idea what the range was but I can’t help but wonder if the cop deliberately shot low. In 2013 a Sonoma County Sheriff’s Deputy shot and killed a stoned youngster in possession of a very realistic fake AK-47, creating a local shitstorm. The deputy was cleared in the shooting.
EDITOR’S NOTE: Knowing what piss-poor shooters most cops are in a life-threatening situation, I suspect he was aiming at center mass and was lucky he hit the idiot in the foot.
I remember going up to a NY cop right after he shot a gun out of a robber's hand who was pointing the weapon at him from inside a car. He said something like, "Shit I wasn't aiming to do that ... I was trying to shoot the bastard between his fucking eyes."
1 comment:
It is remarkable how many people think that shooting the gun out of the bad guys hand is something the cops can and should do. They see it on TV and in the movies all the time, so it must be real.
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