Hoo boy. Charges of "ZOMG RACISM!!!1111" in 3... 2... 1...Los Angeles County sheriff’s investigators are looking into how a West Hollywood liquor store manager who called 911 to report a robbery was mistaken for a suspect and shot at by a deputy.
Authorities were called to the store near Crescent Heights and Santa Monica boulevards early Sunday. Suspect descriptions at the time were limited: a black man with a handgun, and a black woman.
Soon after, two deputies pulled in and parked around the corner from the store and the store’s manager ran around the corner to meet them, said Capt. Mike Parker. At least one of the deputies mistook the manager, who is also black, for the suspect, Parker said.
From the very limited accounts given, it's easy to see how something like this happens. Cops respond to a "robbery in progress" call at a store they'd investigated previously; poor communication to the responding officers about what to expect on scene; rookie deputy; adrenaline, etc. None of it makes the shooting acceptable, mind you; it's a comedy of errors that could VERY easily have resulted in tragedy. The deputy was not certain of his target nor what was beyond it, and is just DAMN lucky that no one was hurt.
Although it's easy to see, now, why CA wants magazine restrictions - it limits the damage their cops can do...
That is all.
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3 comments:
Isn't CA like everywhere else with magazine limit, where LEOs can have the uncrippled magazines?
Yeah, I know, but it made for teh funny...
8 rounds. No one hurt?
Another fine graduate from the A-Team School of Marksmanship.
In this case, it turns out to be a good thing - but only via a massive influx of pure luck.
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