No
you interpreted my comments above to comments on this tactical situation. My comments are merely a reaction to an initial common theme as stated in post #4
The cop's body armor MUST have been better than the hostage's.
When they take the oath to protect and serve are they paying attention? Maybe it's like, shallow?
Cropcirclewalker implies that police officers should be willing to take a bullet as their duty to protect and serve since they have better body armor. The comments of mine you quoted are in direct relation to this idea that cropcirclewalker started and have nothing to do with this tactical situation.
If you want go back to post #s 60 and 76 you will see that I said dismiss and if you chose prosecute the cop who fired the errant shots that struck the hostage. In fact, I don't know if I have commented on the tactical aspects of this situation at all. I choose to wait and get the entire scoop before I decide to armchair quarterback a situation.
Arguing theory of what should happen to cops that "accidently" shoot a hostage is most certainly different than armchair quarterbacking a situation that you don't have complete knowledge and information about. Many comments have come out criticizing the police for the tactics they took here, but all of those comments come absent of any real facts about shooter positions, mindsets, and results. Sure we know the woman died, but the information related to her death is sketchy at best.
I thought we tried to carefully analyze shooting situations and results here on the High Road. I guess I was mistaken. We don't know how many shots hit the woman, we don't know how many officers of the four were responsible for those shots, we don't have comments from the officers on their intended shot placement, we don't have much of anything. I could speculate that three of the four officers put 10 rounds square into the bad guy and one officer screwed up bad and ruined it for everyone just as easy as cropcirclewalker speculated that the wounds are indicative of the woman being shot while on the ground. However, what is the point until we really know what happened?
All this speculation leads to is thinly veiled rhetoric aimed at placing law enforcement into a negative light because of personal conceptions of anger and mistrust due to previous experiences with law enforcement. That is all it is. I am not buying it and I am calling the LEO hating armchair warriors on it. Someone needs to be accountable for this woman losing her life. I will agree with you on that. However, it is only the officer(s) that shot the hostage and not the entire profession.