No no, it is not a relationship thread, please don’t move it there.
So, this dude in LA had a stand off with police after he had some domestic problem. He got his toddler daughter and uses her as a human shield for hours while shooting indiscriminately at police and neighbors (according to news reports). The police storms the building and shoots the person along with his toddler daughter. Now the family of the person is suing police for negligence in killing the toddler.
was the guy harming the kid? did he have any history of child abuse.. we don’t know i guess..
why did he fire at the Police and people? maybe cuz he thought they were trying to take his kid away from him and he probably didn’t know better to fight a custody battle like normal people.. or maybe he just wanted some harm to come his or the child’s way.. again we don’t know..
nevertheless LAPD had NO RIGHT to go in like RAMBOs and shoot the both of them… but hey let’s hope that woman is now satisfied that this guy’s dead…
i hate this free hand given to Police.. we’re becoming more and more of a Police state.. don’t they have to go catch some criminals and bust some mexican gangs in LA?
The father was intoxicated, and even the baby upon autopsy has traces of cocaine in the blood. Very screwed up family. LAPD has excellent SWAT, but it appears they screwed up.
More facts, apparently the father had a pistol and a shotgun, and he shot at the police three times, hitting one officer in the shoulder. Only on the third and final time did he use the child as a human shield. He was said to be depressed, and his business was failing. He was seen earlier in posession of a Tequila bottle, and had been doing cocaine. During the 3 hour standoff, a younger sibling was released to the police unharmed.
the LA SWAT team has never had any hostage casualties until this one since it was launched 35 or so years ago. apparently a few of the team are going to be out of action probably permanently, voluntarily.
When’s the last time you heard of a hamas guy actually physically holding another human being as a shield to avoid getting shot?
On the other hand, there’s plenty of reports of Israelis scumbag so-called soldiers physically holding Palestinians as human shields when sweeping Palestinian areas house to house.
