busykngt
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Perhaps I missed it but I didn't see a whole lot of discussion about cops shooting and killing the wrong guy at the mall on Thanksgiving Eve. The young man killed, was legal to carry concealed. His father was a cop in a different town in Alabama (from what I saw in an earlier article).
Cops responding to the mall shooting saw someone "brandishing" and running away from the scene. Now they've apparently caught the correct shooter:
http://newser.com/s267931
According to the article above, the young man killed was an acquaintance of the original 18 year old that was assaulted (shot but not killed; after a verbal altercation in the mall with the perp).
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After a shooting, the common thing taught is to "re-holster your weapon" (get it out of sight?). For this very reason - cops tend to shoot first and ask questions second. [Especially if someone has been shot and is laying on the ground bleeding and the cops see somebody else with a pistol in his hand and running away from the shooting scene...a pretty normal reaction in my judgment]. As it turns out, the wrong decision in this case.
Cops responding to the mall shooting saw someone "brandishing" and running away from the scene. Now they've apparently caught the correct shooter:
http://newser.com/s267931
According to the article above, the young man killed was an acquaintance of the original 18 year old that was assaulted (shot but not killed; after a verbal altercation in the mall with the perp).
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After a shooting, the common thing taught is to "re-holster your weapon" (get it out of sight?). For this very reason - cops tend to shoot first and ask questions second. [Especially if someone has been shot and is laying on the ground bleeding and the cops see somebody else with a pistol in his hand and running away from the shooting scene...a pretty normal reaction in my judgment]. As it turns out, the wrong decision in this case.