i was going to post a link to this story and make a joke about how it showed why you should avoid strip clubs. but, as i read the story, it just pissed me off. i'm sure there are a lot more details to come, but right now the new york police seem to be covering their butts. police fire 50 times, killing one man, injuring two others. the police thought the men might have a gun. they didn't.
now, i'm not saying it's cut and dry. the men did run their car into an undercover officer and an unmarked police minivan. but, the police aren't saying, at least not yet, that they ever identified themselves as police. they were in plain clothes, investigating a strip club. the men, who were shot, were at the club.
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I read the story this morning in the New York Times. they didn't mention that the car had hit an officer, only that it had hit the van a couple times. the police chief said that at least 50 shots had been fired.
apparently the police are not interviewing the officers involved, because doing so would make it hard to prosecute them in future (I guess te DA or some outside investigators need to interview them).
yeah, the d.a. need to interview the officers involved before the police can question them, release more pertinent details, etc.
as for hitting an officer, the two different sites i saw mentioned it, as well as the network news story i saw. they also showed pictures, and the van is definately undercover. it's a freakin dodge caravan, purple, no identifying marks.
my thoughts, the police came at these guys, suspecting that they had a weapon & there was some sort of problem. since they were undercover cops, the injured men probably assumed that this guy coming at them with a gun is going to jack them. so, they probably did hit him, in self defense. then the crashed into the minivan, of people that are trying to get them. again, this is all my thought, and not based on anything i've read. but, it seems like it could have gone down like that.
or something completetly different.
Your Fresno Bee link is done broke. I also heard that the man who died was to be married the next day.
oh well, i'm not fixing the link. i'm sure if you search most news outlets right now you'll find it.
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