Monday, July 25, 2011

Here's a flaky-as-hell shooting

wherein an officer seems to have loaded his 'less lethal' scattergun with buckshot instead of bags. And the details of why he shot at the guy in the first place are very sketchy.
Police got reports that, according to a press release today, the man had been "possibly harassing children'' involved in a day camp at the Lair Hill Park. A second caller said he was armed with a pocketknife concealed in his sleeve and acting in a "peculiar manner.''
Well, that's a really detailed complaint, isn't it? They say he did have a knife, but that's it; which means it could have been a pocketknife. Which I lean toward, as if it'd been something mean-looking they'd probably have mentioned it.

Also, four nine-pellet rounds fired, and the guy got hit with five pellets; that means 31 others went flying off to hit something. Not real good.

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