Cops TV crew member shot dead.

[myvision]

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/27/omaha...


Maybe America needs some weapons training?

[SkinnyP]

The police guy/spokesperson did not seem very sincere in his apology/explanation.

[Alucidnation]

No mandatory body armour for crew??

[davepoth]

Alucidnation said:

No mandatory body armour for crew??

Body armour is provided AIUI. From what I can tell it seems like the crew ended up actually in the middle of the gunfight. I found a still from the video on the Washington Post, but there looks to be a body in it so I'll just post the link.

http://img.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp-...

For the video camera to be in that particular spot things must have gone south pretty fast.

[Rovinghawk]

“My concern with my officers is that they are taking this very hard,”

Now there's compassion.

[hornetrider]

Guam said:

Bad boys bad boys, what you gonna do what you gonna do when we shoot the crew!

I shouldn't, but

[THX]

Clearly, the film crew should have also been armed.

[paranoid airbag]

Jesus christ America.

Sort your st out, this is just embarassing now.

[John D.]

Alucidnation said:

No mandatory body armour for crew??

He was wearing a vest according to the news story I watched last night. The bullet went through 'a gap in his clothing'. In other words it didn't hit the vest.

The reason Cops had been invited to film this police force was to improve public image following previous shooting incidents. That went well then.

[Koofler]

If only there had been a 9 year old girl with an Uzi, on hand.

Oh....

[Amirhussain]

Guam said:

Bad boys bad boys, what you gonna do what you gonna do when we shoot the crew!

[paranoid airbag]

Somewhat related:

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/08/popular...

I know this isn't the first incident of "swatting". America's cops really are out of control.

[BertieWooster]

paranoid airbag said:

Somewhat related:

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/08/popular...

I know this isn't the first incident of "swatting". America's cops really are out of control.

How is that related? And how does "swatting" mean that US cops are out of control? In the incident you linked to the police responded to a report of an active shooter. I don't think there is any way you could expect them to treat the whole thing as a joke - especially given the mass movie theater shooting that took place in Aurora, Colorado in 2012.

[carinaman]

John D. said:

He was wearing a vest according to the news story I watched last night. The bullet went through 'a gap in his clothing'. In other words it didn't hit the vest.

The reason Cops had been invited to film this police force was to improve public image following previous shooting incidents. That went well then.

That's how it was reported midweek on the BBC. I heard the police dept. involved were saying that there could be positive outcomes from this unfortunate incident.

It reminded me a bit of this:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1260271/No...

[paranoid airbag]

BertieWooster said:

How is that related? And how does "swatting" mean that US cops are out of control? In the incident you linked to the police responded to a report of an active shooter. I don't think there is any way you could expect them to treat the whole thing as a joke - especially given the mass movie theater shooting that took place in Aurora, Colorado in 2012.

Have you ever considered there might be options inbetween "treating a call as a joke" and "storming in to a house pointing guns at people"? Say, arriving at the house, looking for signs of violence, and knocking?

Or does that not have enough freedom for you?