Watch this video. The action begins around 50 seconds and again after the minute mark:
That's a .40 caliber Glock and a .45 caliber Kimber being fired in the dark. Note the flashes and streaks as the bullets leave the muzzle. Now compare this to the flashes of alleged gunfire that the Tribune posted the other day involving a shooting still under investigation.
Those don't look like muzzle flashes.
And even if it turns out that they were, the shooting may still be justified. We've seen numerous training videos where an armed subject on the ground can roll and fire while prone with deadly accuracy at approaching officers, which is why we stated the other day, the best way not to get into a situation is to listen and do exactly what the police are saying to do. No reaching for phones to call mamma, old girl, your buddy, a lawyer, especially in the dark and especially after you just finished beating your current flavor of the week and her child. They'll all be waiting for you after your prints clear and a Cook County judge I-bonds you for your twelfth domestic arrest.
Oh, and the other two shootings the officer was involved with and the Tribune uses to imply he might be "out of control?" Guns recovered from both offenders.
On a side note, if anyone doubts the Tribune has an agenda, dig around in the article and you find this asininity:
That's a .40 caliber Glock and a .45 caliber Kimber being fired in the dark. Note the flashes and streaks as the bullets leave the muzzle. Now compare this to the flashes of alleged gunfire that the Tribune posted the other day involving a shooting still under investigation.
Those don't look like muzzle flashes.
And even if it turns out that they were, the shooting may still be justified. We've seen numerous training videos where an armed subject on the ground can roll and fire while prone with deadly accuracy at approaching officers, which is why we stated the other day, the best way not to get into a situation is to listen and do exactly what the police are saying to do. No reaching for phones to call mamma, old girl, your buddy, a lawyer, especially in the dark and especially after you just finished beating your current flavor of the week and her child. They'll all be waiting for you after your prints clear and a Cook County judge I-bonds you for your twelfth domestic arrest.
Oh, and the other two shootings the officer was involved with and the Tribune uses to imply he might be "out of control?" Guns recovered from both offenders.
On a side note, if anyone doubts the Tribune has an agenda, dig around in the article and you find this asininity:
- Farmer's father, Emmett, said the tragic chain of events reminded him of the LaTanya Haggerty case, a 1999 incident in which a 26-year-old computer programmer was fatally shot by police after she rode in a car that led officers on a 31-block chase. She raised a tiny object at an officer when the car stopped, prompting the officer to open fire and kill her. The object was a silver padlock.