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Good shooting. If the closing distance was only 8 feet, as the article stated, then I would say Very Good Shooting.
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Hell, that close,
I could have shot him.
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The article establishes the following;
-house is a dope house. vehicle and ped traffic all hours of the night. (meth and heroin, both felony drugs in any usable amount)
-Dead Suspect meth user with long history of drug use, per his family.
-Dead Suspect likely small time meth dealer.
-Dead Suspect authorized his house to be used as flop house by dealers.
-Dead Suspect's girlfriend has lived at the house.
-Dead Suspect's girlfriend "moved out???" and back in. and back out. and back in. and back out... (you have to be familiar with the lifestyle that these people live to understand this)
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So this is a death sentence? Was this guy such a threat as to necessitate such an operation? No.
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-Dead Suspect advanced on Officer, while holding a deadly weapon in a striking position
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Suspect didn't advance on schidt. There was 5 seconds between the door being broken in and getting shot.
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The point man was a Sgt. This tells us two things. 1. He was the most experienced, most highly skilled operator in the unit.
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No. It could also mean he was the most politically-savvy or well-connected.
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2. There was someone of higher rank running the operation.
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Also interesting to note that the Sgt had one officer involved shooting in his history and that that shooting was also a good shooting. How do I assume that the prior shooting was clean? Because if it wasn't, you can bet your bottom dollar that The Salt Lake Tribune would be running that history in the second or third paragraph of this story, not on the third page.
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There's no video of that shooting - it's the cops' word against the dead guy; if there hadn't been video of this one, we'd be reading a story of a meth-crazed lunatic with an exotic weapon trying to kill some heroic cops. There's lots of cases where the story doesn't match the video, particularly when the cops aren't aware of the video. It's really hard to concoct a good story with video evidence to the contrary, which is why there's such a huge crackdown on citizens recording cops.