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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Reverend: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Aban Rune: [qb] Yah... I can see unloading once if you thought people were shooting. But during the reload, you'd think he would've noticed that nobody was shooting anymore. The other guys only fired 11 and 4 times, right? That's less that a clip each. They wouldv'e been done long before he started in on clip number 2. But hey... I've never been under fire. Of course, it doesn't look like these guys were either. [/qb][/QUOTE]Like I said, at best it's criminal incompetence. I don't care how scary it was or threatened they felt, they're supposed to be trained professionals. Not to make this an issue about Americans in general but living where I do, I've spoken with a fair few squaddies just come back from the Iraq or Afghanistan and allot of them have commented at just how crazy and jumpy the Yank soldiers are out there (their words, not mine.) You'd think it's mostly down to a difference in training, I mean some of our lot have decades of experience at this sort of soldiering in Northern Ireland but I've even heard the 19 year old kiddies say the same thing. One story that stuck in my mind was this tankie bloke who said that some of the yanks tear around on patrol with thrash metal (or something similarly angry) blaring away to (in their words I'm told) pump themselves up and that he'd heard stories of American soldiers just loosing their rag and shooting at nothing in particular. I'm not sure how much of this is true, while speaking to any squaddie there's often an element of the bullshit involved, however, the accounts I have heard from different people are reasonably consistent. The reason I bring this up here is because this shooting in NY reeks to be of a panicked reaction with supposedly trained professionals acting out of their emotional state rather than their mental state. I say that because if it was a knee jerk reaction to what they thought was a weapon it would have been BANG, one bullet, perp goes down. Here they clearly just bricked themselves and opened up on the guy until he stopped twitching or the red mist cleared. I wonder if the state of national paranoia you government put you lot through in the years right after 9/11 is starting to put a strain on the national psyche. As for this case, I hope it can go to appeal as the judgement really needs to be overturned. Just from a public relations standpoint it's a disaster for the NYPD to allow these men to get off on what amounts to manslaughter due to incompetence. If they were private citizens, I guarantee they'd be on a murder charge. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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