1. 16 times is to many times to shoot a person that bangs on a cop car . A car is not an extension of the body.
2. A precedence has been set on disarming individuals without deadly force. Last year, we saw the St. Paul Police actually disable a man with a gun using riot gear and some kind of sandbag technique. 3. Going forward. If you have a situation where you follow some one for a few minutes and have the rare luxury of calling in a Crisis Intervention Team, then why not assign the responsibility of discharging a weapon to one or two officers, to keep confusion down. That way, if there is the use of deadly force, you can pinpoint who the exact shooter is and they can tell you exactly what there reason for firing was. In the manner it is now, nobody, maybe not even the officers, knows who fired first adding to the chaos of the events and fact gathering, not to mention the mental anguish of the family. In this case someone had to fire first and the others followed suit. 4. If they had done this on a school day, there are two elementary schools right at that intersection, and who knows where those bullets could have ended up. 5. This is the fourth fatal shooting of a mentally ill person in 2 years by the MPLS Police. Only one had a gun (Toy). I believe at least one, if not two of them, was white meaning this could happen to anybody. Robinson Cook Ventura Village _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
