Shooting at Empire State Building

Joey's right.

I heard a blurb that the cops were responsible for wounding nine... is that correct?

In reply to fasted58:

Yep that sounds about right. Crowded streets, multiple cops shooting at once, firing multiple rounds each...

Front page this morning in Knoxville was story about the Y-12 officer who didnt shoot the peaceniks who snuck into the facility in Oak Ridge and got all the way thru a KILL ZONE to the national nuclear storage facility. He got fired for his lack of action. Having been to the site, I know that they are proud of their defense plans which include some of the most amazing weapons I have ever touched and used. If all procedures had been followed, the intruders would be dead.. Has this story gotten any play nationally?

fasted58 wrote: I heard a blurb that the cops were responsible for wounding nine... is that correct?

Yes

USA Today reports that New York’s Finest may account for nine casualties in the shootout between Jeffrey Johnson and the police on a busy Manhattan street. ”The wounded include two women and seven men sent to two area hospitals whom Bloomberg said may have been accidentally shot by cops, who fired off 14 rounds.” So police may have had a “hit ratio” of 9/16—on innocent bystanders. That’s considerably better (worse) than average. Back in ’08 The New York Times reported that NYC police ”hit their targets roughly 34 percent of the time.” I wonder if someone in the media will have the balls to confront Hizzoner on his “only cops (and celebrities) should have guns” policy. [NB: headline and text updated from 14 to 16 shots fired by the NYC PD.] http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2012/08/robert-farago/9-out-of-1-rounds-fired-by-new-york-city-cops-may-have-hit-civilians/

Got to love how basically every event in public is now caught on tape and put on Youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=EYWgrHwrlf8

In reply to fast_eddie_72:

Maybe we should take away all the cops guns since they are the only people that shot anyone other than the original victim.

I couldn't believe it when I saw it yesterday. i know the news should be free to say and show anything but this was incredibly tasteless and heartless to show the uncovered bodies lying in pools of blood. Atleast wait until the ME covers them before using that shot.

The Ercolino family couldn't believe the graphic and gruesome pictures of Steven Ercolino lying on the sidewalk in a pool of blood after being shot to death outside his office near the Empire State Building.

"I was devastated to see those pictures," Paul Ercolino said, fighting back tears. "What has the world come to. A person lying in a pool of blood on the front page. It's sickening and disgraceful."

Ercolino added: "He's not a person lying in a pool blood. He was our brother and we loved him." http://www.wpix.com/news/wpix-ercolino-interview-empire-state-building-warwick-story,0,6615007.story

This story totally reminds me of Grand Theft Auto, how terrible the cops are in the game, just shooting everywhere...