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Originally Posted by Rochard
All the officer knew when he fired the shots is that a police officer had been assaulted.
I never said the cop had the right to shoot at the mini van.
So the officer fired on the driver's side of the van hoping to have a bullet go through the kids in the seat and take out the mother? Again, I never said the shooting was justified.
That seems right - but the officer who fired the shots didn't seem to have any situational awareness. He had just arrived at the scene. For all he knew the driver was using her van as a weapon and was attempting to kill a police officer.
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First you say you aren't arguing that the cop whom shot was in the wrong, then you go on to justify his actions. The very fact that he didn't have situational awareness, should of meant the very last thing he should have done was open fire with a gun. Everything he did was extremely out of line and he should have been fired the moment this video was reviewed.
Look with out the cop shooting at the van with unarmed people including kids, this would of never been a story. Why is it you just blow off the cop that opened fired? If it wasn't for the irresponsible act of that officer shooting at the van, this whole ordeal would have never made national news.
This would of been a blip on a local news station, because it's little more than a typical traffic stop that turned into a short chase. The story is national news only because of the cop that opened fire.