Caught part of the story this morning. I think they mentioned multiple prior domestic issue calls there.
If it was an accident, that's unfortunate, but if you're relying on a gun for protection, you need to have the sense to verify your target first. Cops are trained for that and held responsible for their actions, so should the average Joe. I know he's not in the US, but that's just common sense.
If it was an accident, that's unfortunate, but if you're relying on a gun for protection, you need to have the sense to verify your target first. Cops are trained for that and held responsible for their actions, so should the average Joe. I know he's not in the US, but that's just common sense.
Yes you would think and hope so Kryptonite, but there are an astonishing number of idiots in this world, seemingly in cop ranks too. The LAPD while searching for the former Copper Christopher Dorner who went bonkers , apparently shot an innocent 71 year old latino woman twice in the back, and shot her daughter too, apparently mistaking them for Dorner. They were delivering newspapers.
http://www.businessinsider.com/lapd-officers-hunting-dorner-shot-women-2013-2WTF? He looked like an NFL Defensive Tackle, a hulk of a man. Easily confused with a 71 year old woman of a different race, with her daughter, it would seem.
NYPD cops shot and injured 9 innocent bystanders while a gunman went mental at work and murdered his boss* recently too?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/aug/24/empire-state-building-shooting-nypd-response?CMP=twt_guIt happened in Britain when a man was mistaken for a suicide bomber and killed on the tube, and tragic mistakes of course sometimes happen, but that was under arguably more understandable circumstances.