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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWaving hand...I've got a question!
If they wanted the kid ALIVE so badly, then WHY did they shoot the fucking shit out of that boat?
(he wasn't returning fire and re-portably had no weapon)
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)Maybe they were trying to scare him into getting out of the boat. They had given him the police protocol of who they were, to come out with hands up, etc. When the suspected murderer doesn't come out, they have to get him out or go get him.
randome
(34,845 posts)These look like impact points, not bullet holes, to me. Although I'm given to understand that there may have been some confusion and SOME Watertown cops may have used live ammo, it still seems to me that most of the rounds used were likely rubber bullets.
And people describing the boat as 'swiss cheese' doesn't really match, either. Swiss cheese has holes.
PearliePoo2
(7,768 posts)Otherwise, if if was regular bullets, I don't see how he could have escaped getting hit with that pattern.
dkf
(37,305 posts)gateley
(62,683 posts)Warpy
(111,327 posts)Remember, it was pretty dark out there and lighting the area did only so much.
I'm not second guessing the cops on this one. The whole thing was regrettable, but running from the police after you or your brother has killed one of them always ends badly.
So far, it looks like he's going to recover.
PearliePoo2
(7,768 posts)so to shower the boat with bullets would risk hitting him, no?