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Originally posted by DavidI
Here is a current story in LA. On Friday, 2 cops (a training officer and a guy out of the academy for 3 weeks) pulled over a car for running a red light. The bad guy immediately exited his car and ran up on the 2 officers who were still in their police car. The bad guy shot both officers, the training officer in the face and the trainee in the neck and upper torso, through the windshield. They were unable to return fire. The bad guy sped off and engaged responding officers in another gunfight and was able to escape. . . .
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BTW, from a coldly neutral AAR standpoint, this part is a flagrant tactical failure on the part of the training officer and young cop. A suspect exiting his car is an overt cue that the situation is potentially extremely dangerous, and should've IMMEDIATELY spurred both officers into their threat response training. I believe any police instructor would probably say the same thing.
Their stories will surely be told in academy's all over America as what not to do from this day forth. Real shame, cause in reality it is almost impossible to "always be ready", and this crap always happens at the worst possible moment, like when you're getting your pen out of your pocket(or whatever). I offer my condolences to the guys and their families.
"There are two kinds of soldiers, the quick and the dead."
~old army saying