-1, Mike. Accountability is #1. This attitude of "meh, just shoot over that way <waves hand in a direction>" and saying it's ok for cops, is bullshit.
I'd be more OK with it if the BG actually had a gun, but he didn't. nor did he even fire at them. I should have phrased my comment within that context. This is what I get for posting while sleep deprived, though.
If you or I engaged an unarmed guy in a boat we'd be in jail, whether or not our shots hit the target or not.
Makes me wonder if the cop that got shot got hit by friendly fire....
I still have no idea how or where that MBTA cop got hit. The media reports are vague at best, unless they came out and clarified it. If he was at the boat festival though, the crappy marksmanship might lend itself to an ND, etc.
-Mike