I was going to do a little hyperbole, but I can't.

Total lack of professionalism, the father is correct.

This is not Afghanistan. Your bullets, your responsibility. There is no safe direction to point a projectile weapon, except down range in training.

All of the officers in question should be fired and brought up on charges of child endagerment, and criminal negligence.

They knew there were innocents in that vehicle yet there were 42 projectiles fired.

Totally unacceptable.

I knew we could find something to agree on.

I couldn't have said it any better.

*fear *dark *wtf

Protect and Serve? It used to be "To Serve and to Protect". It's a subtle change, but I think there's an important distinction to be made.

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like n-r i can't do hyperbole.

don't they watch tv? when the bad guys take a hostage on tv, you don't ever shoot. unless you are robocop.

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^ It was already a hostage situation. Her and the kids were car jacked. Jacksonville isn't some hick town. They have a swat team and snipers. They have helicopters. He was not stabbing her in the car, he was trying to escape. They could have tracked him and then tried to deal with it with proper support. EVERYONE OPEN FIRE INTO THE CAR is not a solution. The fact that the kid is only critically wounded instead of dead is just a matter of luck.

This is really terrible! He was just trying to get his Bail Out Money back and everything went wrong!

*law

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So what are you guys suggesting? Let the robber drive off? Then you are just asking for a hostage situation, suicide-homicide, or fatal crash. Yes, it was reckless, but an armed man on the loose with nothing to lose is a pretty bad situation as well.

...one must always choose the lesser of two weevils.