Makes you wonder exactly what the deadly weapon since it wasn't worth mentioning.
Los Angeles police officers fatally shot a 14-year-old while opening fire on a male suspect at a Burlington store in North Hollywood.
www.insider.com
- LA police killed a 14-year-old girl while opening fire at a male suspect in Burlington store on Thursday.
- She had been trying on dresses for a quinceañera in the changing room, a source told the LA Times.
- The girl appeared to be with her mother when she got shot, the LA police chief told the Times.
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The officers were responding to reports of an assault with a deadly weapon, and upon arriving saw the male suspect "in the process of assaulting another person," LAPD officer Drake Madison
previously told Insider.
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Police said the suspect had a bike chain or lock that he was possibly using as a weapon, but that he did not have a gun on him.
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This is if anything
worse than
NYPD-level marksmanship.
"If it bleeds, it leads", how likely is it that the media
is hiding a crucial factoid: did the police actually witness the perp
administering a bike-chain beatdown when they arrived?
Or did they actually only see a fistfight,
and discovered his chain while securing the scene?
They didn't deign to say a word about why the cops escalated.
No "he was comin' straight at us" narrative,
or even "he failed to follow directions".
Either the LAPD spokesman buried the lede because
he's an idiot so feckless that he's not even ready for employment in the MSM,
or the chain is mentioned in a vain attempt to justify the shooting.
None of the above is a reason for forcing cops to merely
wade into a bloody fistfight already in progress instead of
kicking it up a notch from a safe distance.
Bah, maybe the frigging reporters
are deliberately misleading
about the narrative. It's tempting to hang on to a news report
like a drowning man holds onto a floating spar in a shipwreck.
It's so difficult to keep remembering that you can't trust the MSM
further than you can throw Mount Rushmore.
ETA:
Talk about the difference between cover and concealment.
Did the poor girl even know a fight was in progress?
Was it a through-shot, or a miss?
I hope the cop was at least packing JHP and not FMJ.