Shooting in NYC......

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For your consideration: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061126/ap_on_re_us/police_shooting


heres a quick run-down quoting from the article....

"Although it is too early to draw conclusions about this morning's shootings ... we know that the NYPD officers on the scene had reason to believe that an altercation involving a firearm was about to happen and were trying to stop it," Mayor Michael Bloomberg said in a statement.

Police fired 50 rounds Saturday at a car of unarmed men leaving a bachelor party at a strip club, killing the groom on his wedding day

Police thought one of the men in the car might have had a gun. But police found no weapons

The gunfire also hit nearby homes and a train station

A veteran officer fired his weapon 31 times, emptying two full magazines


but then...
The shooting drew angry protests from family members and the Rev. Al Sharpton

Does this guy not miss an opportunity to anything and everything into a race issue?


Anyhow, what do you guys think?
 
Still too early to tell, but here's another report.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/26/nyregion/26cops.html?em&ex=1164690000&en=3224a01c2af0d48e&ei=5087

... The police said that one officer who leaped from the minivan, a 12-year police veteran, fired 31 times, and an undercover officer with nine years on the force fired 11 times. The other officers fired three, four and five times. Shell casings from the officers’ 16-shot, 9-millimeter semiautomatic weapons littered the street; at least 40 were later recovered. A fourth person may have been in the Altima, police said.
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One police official denied any racial motivation in yesterday’s shooting and said that two of the officers involved were white, one Hispanic and two black. The victims were either black or Hispanic.
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Shortly after 3 a.m., Commissioner Kelly said, the undercover officer inside overheard a club dancer complain about a patron who appeared to be armed, and she went out to alert her supervisor and the backup team of possible trouble. About 4 a.m., as Mr. Bell and some of his friends left, a fight erupted outside. It was unclear who was involved, but it ended and those involved split into two groups.
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One neighbor said his car was hit by three bullets and a fourth smashed through his front window, piercing a lamp in the living room. “There was bullets all over the place,” said Paul Gomes, 31, who awoke to the barrage of gunfire and pulled his wife and children onto the floor.
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Mr. Kelly said that two Port Authority Police Officers suffered minor facial injuries at a nearby AirTrain facility when one of the bullets shattered a window.
 
Actually Mr. Sharpton did not mention race at all. So far at least in the link you posted.

The good Reverend said that something about this is a fishy shooting. I agree. Since the other 2 men in the car were released without charges. It seems fishy especially since they believed a crime was about to happen and opened fire.

Imagine the implications of that...:barf:
 
Not many facts about how it started but all those rounds flying
everywhere is just irresponsible shooting.
 
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said in a statement last night that it was too early to draw conclusions about the case. “We know that the N.Y.P.D. officers on the scene had reason to believe an altercation involving a firearm was about to happen and were trying to stop it,” he said.
Oh, I see, it COULD have been another evil gun taken off the streets.
 
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