Jesus that’s a lot of rounds flying for two guys in a box truck, with a hostage inside to boot, and literally surrounded by other drivers stuck inside their vehicles right in the mix. What a cluster f***.
This again shows a complete lack of training and trigger discipline. I don’t like Monday morning QB’ing, I understand full well how f***ed up situations like this can get, but Christ someone in charge should be taking charge and telling all these cops over the air to not fire. Control it immediately, take cover, clear people out first and foremost, find out who has a good shot if any, clear the backdrop of any other drivers, and take a controlled accurate shot it needed only when the situation has been controlled.
Dozen cops out there emptying mags in every direction in a f***ing circle. Embarrassing and with obvious deadly results for two innocent people.
Panic, lack of training, lack of experience, zero trigger discipline and leadership caused this mess.
Very sad for those who were killed for nothing but those reasons above.
It's completely mystifying to me why cops didn't just hang back and wait this out, even if they slowly chased the thing for an hour it probably would have ended up stopping in a place that was much less dangerous than an on-road engagement.
Shit, even if they just let them get away with it, it's not as if they wouldn't have been caught, I'd be very surprised if every UPS truck wasn't wired for sound with cameras and GPS tracking
equipment, etc.
Some gut reactions are probably like "DEY TOOK THE GUY HOSTAGE!!!! DOE!" well getting into a huge gunfight with the hostage in the crossfire doesn't help the hostage much. Whereas at least if they just ignored them, the Hostage probably had a 50% chance or better of survival, but inducing that clusterf*** brought his odds of survival much closer to zero....
-Mike