Ok, tell me how this is NOT racially motivated.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

(I post this with a certainty approaching unity that someone else ((probably Min)) has already done so.)

The police department in question has said that the therapist was shot by mistake - the cop was aiming at his patient.

Really?  Fucking really ?  The 'explanation' given is that the BEST possible outcome would have been the shooting of a severely autistic man who was sitting down and holding a toy truck.  Not a toy gun, a toy TRUCK.

You know what?  I'll take my NZ cops with their batons and pepper spray.

Boru

Well, they pretty much had to claim negligence or incompetence.  I suppose they thought incompetence would play better to the audience - and save them money come settlement time.

I don't buy it for a second in any case.  Cops in the US are trained to shoot until a target is neutralized.  If he was shooting at the patient, why did he stop shooting after failing to hit him even once?  If he thought the tactical situation demanded that he shoot the patient - why did he stop shooting when the tactical situation remained unchanged.

I smell bullshit.

As I said earlier, the higher-ups are as much - if not more - to blame than the cops on the street. That being said, how the fuck could the cop miss? The two men are about six feet apart. One is lying down, one is sitting up. One is black, one is white. The cop who fired (three fucking times) was a member of the local tactical unit, presumably trained in how to hit things he intends to hit. He fired two, possibly three times (accounts vary) and managed to hit the one thing he claims he wasn't aiming at - and nothing else.

This smells worse than bullshit. This smells like a skunk took a shit on a jockstrap.

Boru