The confrontation was forced by the armed criminal who violently took hostages and then pointed his firearm at the LEO.Is it standard procedure for an armed suspect in a residence whether alone or holding hostages to have LEO's charge in.In most cases officers are told to secure a perimeter and wait for a negotiator,instead LEO's charge in and force a confrontation,I guess it's better that the LEO's bullet killed the hostage rather than the BG's (sarcasm) At least the BG wasn't violating the 7 bullet only law
Especially true with a handgun round. As everyone here always states shoot until there is not longer a threat. It is possible the victim could have been hit in the middle of that string of 8 rounds fired and the LEO was shooting until the threat was gone.I don't care how good a shot LEO is, if BG has his finger on the trigger and pointed at her, NO ONE can guarantee a shot that will stop his finger from pulling the trigger.
Perp: 0The student, Andrea Rebello, and her twin sister, Jessica, who also lived at the home, just blocks from the university, were among several people taken hostage on Friday morning in an apparent robbery attempt.
Ya think?!The authorities issued a warrant for his arrest on April 25, after he failed to check in with a parole officer. He had served multiple sentences in prison, mostly for robbery convictions, and was released on parole in February after serving a nine-year sentence.
Given Mr. Smith’s criminal past, questions are likely to be raised about how he was being monitored.
:aargh4: :rant: :aargh4: :argue:
Because our system places more emphasis on rehabilitating people who won't be rehabilitated, instead of punishment for your crimes and providing justice to victims.Given his multiply-violent criminal past, the one question is: why in all that's holy was this man released on PAROLE???
Proposed: that, in any situation where a parolee goes violent within the parole period, the entire group of parole board idiots do bit of hard "rehabilitation" time themselves, to the tune of the remaining period on the violent perp's original sentence. Provide proper incentives, where incentives to do the right thing are currently lacking. See if a bit of "kneepad" therapy can change their insidious ways.Because our system places more emphasis on rehabilitating people who won't be rehabilitated, instead of punishment for your crimes and providing justice to victims.Given his multiply-violent criminal past, the one question is: why in all that's holy was this man released on PAROLE???
While I agree with your thoughts here, I must say that, I have a long time friend that was a Navy Seal instructor and a member of Seal team six; He's a awesome guy, and a life long best friend. While I seriously doubt as you say, that the average Joe would be able to do this under duress and I'm certainly not saying that I could either, but per his instructions there is a spot that represents a small triangle on the forehead. It's about three by three, and is placed center of the eyes to the bridge of the nose. If you can put a round inside this area, it stops all motor function instantaneously. Again, Im not saying I could or anyone without serious training could either, but if it was a stand off, that would have been my move on the guy if I thought there was no doubt that he was gonna kill the hostage. Of course there's no way to know if he intends to kill anyone, so it's kinda moot, but I just thought I pass that along for the sake of discussion.The only second guessing I will do is this.
It's a Mexican standoff. If he's pointing at me, I'm still not firing. If he's pointing at her, I'm still not firing.
He shoots her, he's dead. He shoots at me, he's dead.
Whether I live or die, student's life more valuable than mine, mine more than his.
I don't care how good a shot LEO is, if BG has his finger on the trigger and pointed at her, NO ONE can guarantee a shot that will stop his finger from pulling the trigger.
Yeah, I got tapatalk, too. So what?
That sounded like a comment:35:Ain't gonna comment on this one, and don't know how good a shot his is, but hopefully it may encourage other officers to take qual time a little more seriously.
