In fact, no shots hitting bystanders are free.
The Denver Channel: Denver police releases bodycam footage of LoDo shooting that left 6 bystanders injured
On July 17, 2022 at 1:35am, a fellow reportedly was fighting with others when police arrived. He then tried walking away from police and then displayed/pulled/dropped (unclear at the moment) a firearm and while doing so pointed it purposefully or inadvertently (again unclear at the moment) at police upon their arrival.
Police then opened fire, hitting the individual.
They also hit 6 bystanders.
All three officers involved joined the department in 2019. Any bets they got more sensitivity/diversity/inclusivity/equity training than firearms training during that time?
News reports are still unclear as to whether 3 of the bystanders were directly shot and the other three hit with ricochets and/or pass-through, or if all 6 were directly shot. Only rounds fired that night were form police.
7 rounds at least were fired by three different officers.
One officer fired a single round when he saw the guy pointing the handgun at other officers. Other two officers fired 4 and 2 shots respectively. Individual who displayed/pulled/dropped the gun was dropped with a single hit.
Know your target and what is beyond is rather vital, as is solid marksmanship training and good use of force decision-making skills. This shooting appears to lack all of that.
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Not going to debate whether or not cops should do mag dumps all the time (seen 100's of videos online of them doing that) but until this event, we've been lucky that it doesn't happen much more.
Sigh...
Going back to the founding of Denver the words "professionalism" and Denver PD, unless organizing burglary rings, is an oxymoron.
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