Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Police Firing Squad

No, this was not a Colombian or Salvadoran death squad at work. This was several brave American cops (in Saginaw, Michigan) who formed up into a firing squad and summarily executed a man in broad daylight:


The dead guy was mentally ill. He was holding a pen knife and standing there. He wasn't moving, just standing there. The cops lined up and, simultaneously, gunned him down. About all they lacked was a commissioned officer to hold a saber, shout the orders and provide a coup de grâce, if required.

It probably isn't necessary to note that the local prosecutor found nothing wrong. No doubt that the worst thing that happened to the cops involved was that they received a harsh memo for wasting ammunition, in that they fired 47 times and hit the condemned man only 11 times.

2 comments:

  1. But the officers all got to go home that night, and that's the most important thing, right? I mean they keep telling us that... :P

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  2. How anyone can say that this shows any competent police work or that this is how we want cops to act is living somewhere I don't want to go.

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