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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (14428)	5/25/2001 7:26:37 PM
From: E	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

That question was of course discussed at great length at the trial, of course. It seems that the kind of bullets used are thin and smooth, and don't have the usual impact, the impact that would be expected to knock a person down. Until almost the very end of the five seconds it took the four men to shoot 41 bullets at the man whom three of them thought had just shot their partner, Diallo was still standing with the black object in his hand. And after he fell, and as he lay there dying, that wallet -- that "gun" -- was still in his hand. It's easy to say what one would have done in such a circumstance. Not so easy to know. Theirs was not, however, an OJ jury. I keep wondering how you, or anyone else, would word the protocols police officers are taught to follow in encounters with armed, or believed-to-be-armed-and-firing, suspects, so that such a misunderstanding would never happen again? Elephants never shoot guns.