bayouhazard wrote:Are police really getting shot over $100 speeding tickets? Because there are cases where police have walked in on robberies in progress in restaurants and convenience stores.
The short answer is Yes.
The long answer is that they are getting shot during stops that, as far as the officer knows, involve only a $100 speeding ticket. Unles a tag check brings up a warning, until he walks up to the car, he doesn't know if the driver is Joe Average who made a minor driving error, or drunk, on meth, just committed a homicide, or is wanted for serial killings in 6 states. There's also the complication of the passengers, whose backgrounds may be much different than the driver's.
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bayouhazard wrote:Are police really getting shot over $100 speeding tickets? Because there are cases where police have walked in on robberies in progress in restaurants and convenience stores.
The thing is you don't always know when you make a stop. I had a dude try and shoot me at the window of a car. I was in a better position and moved back hugging the car. The gun didn't fire when he squeezed the trigger. The guy then stuck the gun in his own mouth and squeezed again. Still didn't fire. I can't believe how close to a car you can get behind the driver's door. He tried to cycle the gun, but it was a 22 or 25 cal beretta 22a? and it wouldn't cycle. After a brief stand off with him trying to work the gun, me backing up to my car, and lots of cover arriving, I got him to surrender. I couldn't shoot as there was a car IFO him that was occupied. The round had 2 hammer marks on it. Turned out he was wanted for questioning in a murder investigation in another city, was felon, had a gun, was high on meth and had 1/4 oz of meth on him. I wish I could have kept that bullet as a reminder, but it was evidence.
If it was a Bobcat then it is extremely hard to cycle. It's easier to cycle a .45 than a .22 Bobcat. The slide has very little gripping room and the spring is extremely stiff. It will loosen up after a few hundred rounds have been fired through it but it's just easier to pop up the barrel and put a round in --letting the gun do all the work of cycling when you pull the trigger. Of course, if you don't have a loose round to load into the barrel and the barrel is empty you have to remove the mag, strip a round off the top to put in the barrel, and then reinsert the mag. I looked at one in the gun store and the counter guy couldn't even pull the slide back.
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Monday night’s shooting happened just after 6 p.m. in the westbound lanes of U.S. Highway 70 at Cheek Road near Interstate 85.
Authorities said the trooper, later identified by the Highway Patrol as Michael Potts, had pulled over a newer model black Nissan Altima with 30-day temporary license tags for a routine traffic stop when the driver opened fire.
