Deputy orders unarmed man to ground, then kills him.

[greyhound]

I don't know about anyone else, but whenever I see the race card played in these types of situations, I get really depressed and pessimistic about the state of race relations in this country. Seems like the black/white thing far overshadows the police/suspect thing, and the press just eats it up.
Maybe its an authority/powerlessness issue, I don't know.

 

[WonderNine]

This incident sounds more and more like the one where an FBI agent shot a young man in the face, after stopping the wrong car.

Wasn't that also with an MP5 ?????

I think it was an m4gery from what I recall...

 

[BluesBear]

...a drunk was hit with 30rds from a mp5 on auto...

One used an MP-5, a machine gun that is modified to shoot three-burst rounds.

[voice=Slim Pickens]HOLY SHEEPDIP ![/voice]

Squeezed the trigger on an MP5 TEN times?

Can you say "inadaquate training"?
[voice=Mr Rogers]I knew you could.[/voice]

Acutally in all seriousness I doubt that 30 rounds were fired from the MP5 since there were only "34 circles". That would mean the remaining officers only fired a total of 4 rounds. Of course this article is so poorly written that I don't think the reporter could get the facts of sunrise/sunset correct.

I'd like to see the video so I could sort it all out for myself but you have to be registered to see it.