Title: Alien Gear Holsters Bashes Police For Shooting Man Who Was Shooting At Them Source:
Blue Lives Matter URL Source:https://bluelivesmatter.blue/alien-gear-holsters-police-shooting/ Published:Jul 27, 2017 Author:Snarky Cop Post Date:2017-07-27 16:15:48 by misterwhite Keywords:None Views:6221 Comments:23
Alien Gear Holsters made a post to their Facebook page Thursday morning which was critical of the officer-involved shooting of Antoquan Watson, suggesting that officers shouldn’t have shot him so many times.
Antoquan Watson was high on PCP when he opened fire on officers during a vehicle pursuit and then exited his vehicle and started shooting at officers.
In the post to Facebook, Alien Gear Holsters said:
“A reasonable and prudent person follows a police officer’s orders; Angry people sometimes show reluctance, but is it ever okay to shoot someone 45 times?”
After getting hammered with criticism for almost 2 hours from pissed-off customers, Alien Gear Holsters deleted their comment and replaced it with a meme with no further comment, as if they are trying to pretend that their previous comment never happened.
The shooting initially occurred in March 2014 after police received a report that Watson had a gun inside of Pleasantville’s La Esconda II Restaurant, according to NJ.com.
According to a waitress at the restaurant, Watson bought two beers and appeared to be drunk and mumbling to himself. When he paid his bill, multiple people called to report seeing him holding his gun in his right hand, pointing it at the ceiling.
Officers responded and attempted to talk to Watson while he was in his vehicle, but he refused to roll down the window.
Watson then took off in his vehicle, leading police on a high-speed pursuit, running red lights and driving up to 85 MPH. He then started firing shots at officers while he fled.
Finally, another vehicle struck Watson’s car after he ran a red light, causing the vehicle to spin out and stall.
Watson then exited his vehicle and opened fire on officers.
Officers returned fire, and were shocked when he appeared unaffected by the bullets. As you watch the video, officers aren’t missing, Watson is just ignoring the bullets that hit him.
The officers assumed that he was wearing body armor, and it appears that at least one officer may have been shooting for his legs.
Once Watson was on the ground, you can see him still moving while he still had the gun in his hand, and officers continued to fire until he stopped lifting the gun.
An autopsy found that Watson was high on PCP.
There were seven officers involved in the shooting, and they hit Watson 45 times out of 69 total rounds fired between all officers involved in the gunfight. That’s less that one magazine of bullets per officer.
Criticizing officers for repeatedly shooting a man who was actively trying to murder them, while on on PCP and unaffected by bullets, shows a complete lack of knowledge of gunfights. That’s not something we would expect from a holster company.
Considering that Alien Gear Holsters is critical of officers who were defending their lives during a gunfight, and the company’s apparent lack of reasonableness, I can think of better holsters to spend my money on.
Let’s spread the word that we expect better from companies who want our business.
I thought the Chicago cop shooting Laquan McDonald 16 times was a lot.
If it's true that he actually shot at the cop, then as far as I am concerned the cop could have blown him away with a bazooka and it would have been fine.
Once somebody shoots at you, you have the right to kill him dead.
16 shots? Keep shooting until the head explodes - that'll even stop a zombie.
And drug-crazed lunatics wired on PCP and Bathsalts and the other crap that morons put into themselves gives them superhuman strength and endurance. If they come at you, they'll rip your flesh off with their bare hands if they can make contact. So turn them into Swiss cheese and fill them full of lead.
I'm fine with that.
But if the guy wasn't high, didn't have a gun, and some cop goes berserk with unreasonable fear and does the same thing, I want the cop sent to the lethal injection table just like any other bloody murderer.
I actually think I am completely reasonable in everything I've said above - really believe it - really think that way. I can't really imagine that everybody else doesn't think exactly the same thing, in his heart of hearts.
If one of you doesn't, I'd be interested in hearing it, because it would prove to me the extent to which we really do see the world differently.
It's a simple standard: do unto others as you would have them do unto you, and a man will be judged by the standards by which he judged.
So, if some man has judged that it is ok for him to try to take my life, then I am authorized by God to take his life, in whatever way I think is most expedient to protect myself and be SURE that I'm gonna be the one walking away. BUT if my brain is so fear-crazed and addled that I cannot properly judge, and I kill the innocent, then the flipside applies.
In other words, the police are not entitled to special privileges to kill, and have no more right to kill people than anybody else.
The drug-crazed scumbag tried to kill the cop. The cop had the Divine Right to blow him away, and it is good that he did so.
And drug-crazed lunatics wired on PCP and Bathsalts and the other crap that morons put into themselves gives them superhuman strength and endurance. If they come at you, they'll rip your flesh off with their bare hands if they can make contact. So turn them into Swiss cheese and fill them full of lead.
This reminds me of an anecdote in one of the popular books by Massad Ayoob, a well-known police armorer and trainer.
He related a story of two cops going up against a PCP freak who had already killed someone. He got one of the cops and then the other cop started shooting him with his handgun as he advanced on the cop. Ayoob pointed out that PCP users can, if their blood is fully oxygenated and they are full of adrenaline, continue to advance and cause harm for 15 seconds after you blow a giant hole in their chest and destroy their heart. Because that's how long blood fully loaded with oxygen will last without a heart/lung combo to keep refreshing it. The second cop did get the PCP user by blowing his heart out of his chest but he was severely injured as well before the PCP maniac finally ran out of oxygen and died. It was a very memorable story.
I think these cops will be in no trouble. If it did ever get to trial, it would be easy to bring experts to tell the jury just how dangerous a healthy PCP user can actually be. Frightening stuff if you ever read the accounts of police trying to stop PCP users on a rampage.
The FBI report of an officer-involved shooting on Nov. 29, 2006, from a Pennsylvania police department makes for an interesting read on this topic. The assailant was shot in the chest and abdomen with 180-grain
.40 S&W modern hollow-point ammunition as well as .223 rounds from an M4. On autopsy it was discovered he had been shot 17 times with 11 rounds exiting his body. Despite these many wounds, he struggled with officers attempting to handcuff him before he died.
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The facts are clear; not every bullet entering a body will stop a threat. Major bleeding takes time, and the time to incapacitation is unpredictable unless the brainstem is hit or the heart is destroyed, and even then the person has 10 to 15 seconds of life left. More injuries to more structures gives an improved potential of incapacitation, and when they are accurate shots, the results are more predicted to have the intended outcome.
Sydney Vail, M.D., FACS, is chief of the division of trauma surgery and surgical critical care and director of the tactical medicine program at the Maricopa Medical Center in Phoenix.
