Nonsense, it was the NRA … “see we need more good guys with guns”
Belmar said in the news conference that officers saw muzzle flashes about 125 yards away from the police line. He said that he believed the weapon used was “a pistol, a handgun,” based on shell casings recovered in the area, the sound the shots made and the nature of the injuries to the two officers.
Wait - 125 yards, with a pistol. Three shots, two solid hits. That’s someone VERY good. That’s more militia, not gang banger.
EDIT : (I see this is mentioned above - sorry for the repeat)
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Oh it means something. It means the cops have already made up their minds what the motive of the perps was and therefore will only be looking for someone who fits that profile.
Pretty much every time you see a person who’s been in prison for years exonerated by DNA evidence, you’ll find detectives who locked up on a theory of what went down before gathering any evidence and systematically ignored, suppressed or destroyed any evidence that was inconsistent with what they just knew must have happened.
They teach you never to let yourself get locked in to a theory too early in detective school. The good cops don’t. The bad ones go with the truthy truth their infallible guts tell them just had to be what happened right out the gate and never let any little bits of evidence that come along during the investigation sway them.
One imagines that’s called “good police work” in Ferguson.
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It’s only good shooting if the shooter was aiming at the cops.
But then, the possibility it may have been someone trying to kill one of the protesters would never occur to the paragon of police work who is soon to be the ex-chief of police of Ferguson. He knows what he knows and he knows it had to be the work of Those People. You know, the ones lacking Personal Responsibility.
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How sure is anyone that the shots were not intended for the demonstrators not the cops? I find it very strange that anyone in that crowd would be shooting at the police after they had just gotten what most of them have been protesting about…the resignation of the Ferguson police chief.
It would make a lot more sense that those firing shots would be those angry that the police chief had finally been forced out. The St. Louis County Police Chief needs to look to motive, as well as real evidence, rather than immediately blame people.
This is what gets law enforcement so often in trouble with the public. They come up with a theory and then don’t look for evidence other than that which supports it.
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With a bench rest and an Olympics-quality target pistol, maybe. Maybe.