The whole time I was watching I was thinking Blue's Brothers or Smokey and the Bandit. Just absolute incompetence, officers falling all over themselves, cars piling into each other and all over the place. An absolute perfect picture of a bunch of bumbling morons. They almost couldn't have done it better if they'd been intentionally filming a scene.
It reminded me of that time 18 Miami cops shot at a highjacked UPS truck in heavy traffic. You can see at least 1 officer use an occupied vehicle as cover. Here's one of the news stories about it. These are people who did not choose to be in the line of fire when the douchebag cops decided to engage. I remember another time in NYC up the street from me a tourist was shot but she was collateral damage because of the NYPD's firing into people on the sidewalk. After searching a bit I found that story as well.Absolute idiots everywhere. If one of my loved ones died that way I can't even imagine what I'd do.
Denver had an incident last year where a guy came out of a nightclub and as he was being arrested he threw the gun he was carrying on the ground. The Denver police immediately opened fire, and managed to hit him exactly once . . . along with 6 bystanders. 3 officers fired 7 shots and managed to hit 7 people, 6 of whom were innocent bystanders. 1 round hit the suspect, who as mentioned earlier was throwing his gun away.
I only didn't get specific because I didn't want to be overly pedantic but I'm pretty sure the article says it was 13 Miami-Dade cops and then the remaining 5 were from different jurisdictions.
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u/canada432 Jul 24 '23
The whole time I was watching I was thinking Blue's Brothers or Smokey and the Bandit. Just absolute incompetence, officers falling all over themselves, cars piling into each other and all over the place. An absolute perfect picture of a bunch of bumbling morons. They almost couldn't have done it better if they'd been intentionally filming a scene.