Re: [MV] Police Work

From: Ryan Gill (rmgill@mindspring.com)
Date: Wed Jan 08 2003 - 00:38:17 PST


At 9:29 PM -0800 1/7/03, Patrick Jankowiak wrote:
>FUBAR situation is all too common. The policewoman who, chasing a drug
>suspect, burst into a local convenience store dressed all in black,
>with a black mask, gun drawn, and no body armor, no police insignia,
>was shot by the storekeeper.
>He saw a masked robber with a gun, not a policeman. The on-scene
>investigation by police result in no charges filed against the
>storekeeper, They determine he had no way of knowing it was a police
>officer. Today the doctor says she will most likely not walk again. If
>only she had been wearing body armor, or some kind of device saying
>"police".

Yeah, I've been watching this too. She was way short of a full deck
on her tactical sense. Things like that are just as likely to get you
shot by other cops too. Why she had the Balaclava and no body armor
is quite odd if you ask me. The whole thing of running around with
the balaclava's is something of a mystery to me as well.

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Ryan Gill              rmgill@SPAMmindspring.com
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