Did you notice that part about refusing the officer's order to freeze and about "making some kind of move?" Well, that's exactly what determines a good clean and justified shoot from a bad one. The interesting thing is, we never ever hear a cop or a civilian gun owner say he fired too quickly and may not have been justified. To me that means some of these so-called clean police shoots and so-called Defensive Gun Uses are bogus.It was the same woman whose rapid-fire calls to 911 had reported a home invasion. Her boyfriend, Dale Ogarro, had been grabbed by two armed men wearing hoods, masks and latex gloves and led — gun to his head — into his residence in the basement of the home, on Schenck Avenue.
“Where’s the money?” they shouted at Mr. Ogarro, according to officials’ account of the woman’s 911 calls.
Moments later, the officers saw a man who they later learned was Mr. Ogarro, 41, emerging from the back entrance with his hands up. He said there was not a problem.
It was not. In the next moments, a second man came out that door, carrying a loaded .38-caliber revolver and refusing an officer’s orders to freeze, the authorities said.
The man made some kind of move, the police said, and an officer, 30, fired a single bullet that tore through the man’s chest, killing him.
What was learned thereafter was that uniformed officers had not shot a robber, but another resident of the home, Duane Browne, 26, about 14 minutes after the first 911 call.
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Mikeb302000,
ReplyDeleteYou've just made one of your silly comments here. Do you know why no one says, "That may not have been justified"? Lawyers, both district attorneys and plaintiff's attorneys. Anyone who expresses doubt in public will get prosecuted and sued.