Whatever happened to "FREEZE!"
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http://www.wgal.com/news/13410088/detail.html
STRATFORD, Conn. -- An off-duty police officer shot and wounded his 18-year-old daughter after he mistook her for an intruder in their Connecticut home.
Video: Girl Sneaking Home Shot By Dad
Stratford police said Tasha Scott had apparently sneaked out to visit her boyfriend late Monday night and came back into the home through the basement.
Her father, 41-year-old Eric Scott, was awakened by motion sensor lights in his back yard and when he went to investigate found the basement door unlocked. He then saw someone in a basement bathroom and fired his service pistol, hitting his daughter in the knee. Her wounds are not considered life-threatening.
Her father called 911 when he realized who he had shot, police said.
Eric Scott has been on leave from his job since being struck by a truck while on duty in November.
No charges have been filed. Scott is with the New Haven Police Department.
Copyright 2007 by The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
What the fuck? No warning before the shot? Good thing he wasn't aiming for the head, huh? I believe that this dude was more interested in harming an intruder than protecting himself.
STRATFORD, Conn. -- An off-duty police officer shot and wounded his 18-year-old daughter after he mistook her for an intruder in their Connecticut home.
Video: Girl Sneaking Home Shot By Dad
Stratford police said Tasha Scott had apparently sneaked out to visit her boyfriend late Monday night and came back into the home through the basement.
Her father, 41-year-old Eric Scott, was awakened by motion sensor lights in his back yard and when he went to investigate found the basement door unlocked. He then saw someone in a basement bathroom and fired his service pistol, hitting his daughter in the knee. Her wounds are not considered life-threatening.
Her father called 911 when he realized who he had shot, police said.
Eric Scott has been on leave from his job since being struck by a truck while on duty in November.
No charges have been filed. Scott is with the New Haven Police Department.
Copyright 2007 by The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
What the fuck? No warning before the shot? Good thing he wasn't aiming for the head, huh? I believe that this dude was more interested in harming an intruder than protecting himself.
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There's already a gun debate thread. I made it, so I know it's there.
But a question:
Do you guys think he was protecting himself, or that he had been waiting for someone to make his day?
So a bad day calls for shooting first? I can understand him calling for the intruder to stop or he's going to shoot, but to just go down there and right away shoot, there is no excuse. He's a cop for crying out loud. If anything, he was trained in talking down a person.
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of a sunny day
“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”
― Abraham Lincoln
You never, ever, Ever shoot at a target you do not see, i.e. shooting at someone through a door.
That's SWAT team tactics, as in the seige of SLA and the Patty Hearst kidnappers....
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Still hopefully he won't make that mistake again.
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