Originally Posted by Guest

A man in South Los Angeles was fatally shot by police after firing his pistol in the air a few times and then refusing to drop his gun. The record shows that police fired 33 shots at the man - even after he was wounded and laying on the ground.

Police say he was still a danger since he had his gun in his hand. Police did not know he was out of bullets. Police said he was walking toward a gas station where people were pumping gas and he was a danger to them.

Possibly excessive force, possibly justified shooting.

My real question is weren't the police endangering the people at the gas station and others by shooting 33 times? The report does not say how many shots hit the target and how many were wild shots that could have hit bystanders. Reprimand the cops and have them take remedial stress shooting courses at the very least.

Originally Posted by Guest

The police officers shooting so many wild shots in a stressful situation is disturbing. If currently trained police will fire all those wild shots, just think what danger we, in The Villages, are in with the drugstore cowboys totin' their pistols wherever they go.

With the exception of a few retired LEO's, I really would worry about any shooting situation with these retired guys spraying bullets indiscriminately in a stressful situation.

Originally Posted by Guest

Neglected in the dialogue is the fact that these shots came from TWO officers only. It is also not unusual for an officer to fire 16-7 rounds in that situation.

The "situation", by the way, was a man who had fired the weapon several different times, and that he had ammo with him for reloading.

Also missing from the posted dialogue was the fact that the deceased had discharged his gun several times.......completely ignored commands to drop his weapon and was crossing the street into the area that had many many "potential victims".

Just thought it might be important to know that also.