Thread: This is very sad & should never have happened.

Laughing gas instead of tear gas I tell ya.

Originally Posted by Johnnny

Plus I agree that the policeman shouldn't have randomly fired into a bunch of ppl either.

Originally Posted by Johnnny

I just saw the news on my local Fox boston channel & they reported that the police removed those "non" lethal crowd control devices & put up a law for no drinking in nearby clubs, bars & restaurants to keep ppl in normal human behavior.

I support this & maybe another useless death can be avoided.

Ok, so from this I take it that in Canada, police randomly fire into crowds of rioters, and they DONT use less-than-lethal ammunition. Wow. Explains why you dont have many riots. I guess I should have expected that from a country with such a large % of French, anything to save your own ass, eh?

HERE IN AMERICA we do use less than lethal ammunition, and we actually strategically target individuals causing high damage, or high risk ot others. We actually aim, cut the slack.. pause, then shoot. I know its hard to believe when you live in a country where military deodorant has an SPF rating.



Anyways, you werent there. How exactly do you know that there wasnt a drunk on top of a car pouring gasoline all over top of it to set it on fire? How do you know the officer didnt aim at his abdomen, fire the shot, then srop in shock as the drunk fell off the car just missing the round, and following through to hit the innocent bystandard?

Oh, and to all Canadians.. I was joking. I firmly believe Johnnny posts are along the same line as ASSPUNCTURE's, He likes to piss people off for shits and giggles.. And its pretty damn funny if you realize what hes doing!

I'd have joined the riot for laughing gas!!

I would have to agree with Chain Link on his points...

Sometimes the Police have to arm themselves accordingly to deal with the situation at hand. In this case it was a violent riot. These kind of situations can explode into a high magnitude where several innocent bystandards can get badly injured, or result in several fatalities, not just one if the police do not quickly disarm the situation. I know it is unfortunate when encountering any fatal casualties as a result of this type of situation, or any other. Maybe this type of weapon was not the right answer either, but that is another story. But you can't say that the police executed any wrong doing without being there to judge the real truth.

I think your attitude might be different if it was your sister or relative as all of us would be majoryly pissed & major law suit would occur, but that still doesn't bring back our loved one.

Ok Mr. All Knowing Johnnny.... instead of using non-lethal force, what is YOUR solution to this problem?

I was in a riot-like situation once.... nothing violent, but it had the potential to be....

The firetrucks used foam on us. No one could see much, it broke up the crowd real quick.
Id still prefer laughing gas though.

Just some FYI for ya all......

BOSTON, Massachusetts - The officer who fired a pepper-spray pellet that killed a woman in a raucous crowd of Red Sox fans was aiming at another fan but missed, police said Friday.

Police on Friday also identified the shooter as Officer Rochefort Milien.

In an update of its investigation into the death of Victoria Snelgrove, police said Milien fired his pellet gun at a fan during an Oct. 21 disturbance, but missed. The shot hit Snelgrove in the eye, fatally injuring her.

"Victoria Snelgrove was not targeted; she was struck when the projectile missed its intended target," the statement said.

Ive been in a few such riots, and on the side that normally is the one that gets injured. There have been only two things in this life that has scared me. Being in a bad fire and being at the mercy of a crazed mob. I was in one once where the rioters were burning down and looting entire blocks. So what would you have the Police do? You dont have a constitutional right to get drunk or high and riot yaknow. Even if your team wins........Rich

Originally Posted by du510

I was in a riot-like situation once.... nothing violent, but it had the potential to be....

The firetrucks used foam on us. No one could see much, it broke up the crowd real quick.
Id still prefer laughing gas though.

I remember a few years back there was a panic inside a dance club. I guess a fire started as a result of a short in one of the band members equipment. In any case, I believe it started some banners on fire or something and took off from there. The bad thing about it was that the majority of the people in the Arena or club thought that the fire and smoke was part of the show. By the time they realized it wasn't the place was burning quickly out of control with so much smoke the crowd couldn't see to find their way out. There were only so many exit doors and with a crowd of that magnitude they just panicked. Many died of getting trompled on by the panicked crowd. Large numbers died of smoke inhalation and some by the fire itself..

This story always made me think whenever I go to an event. I always have a mapped plan as to how to get out to the exits in case of an emergency. Most would never think of that. So whenever you happen to get nosebleed seats.. There just might be an advantage to that.. You're in most cases at least near the exits.

Twigz

Just some FYI for ya all......

BOSTON, Massachusetts - The officer who fired a pepper-spray pellet
that killed a woman in a raucous crowd of Red Sox fans was aiming at
another fan but missed, police said Friday.

Police on Friday also identified the shooter as Officer Rochefort
Milien.

In an update of its investigation into the death of Victoria Snelgrove,
police said Milien fired his pellet gun at a fan during an Oct. 21
disturbance, but missed. The shot hit Snelgrove in the eye, fatally
injuring her.

"Victoria Snelgrove was not targeted; she was struck when the
projectile missed its intended target," the statement said.

I'm not trying to get on your case or anything but we did see the news.

It was an accident which my yahoo news link on the very first post states, but the point is that he shouldn't have been firing into a crowd of ppl in the first place as who knows where the pellet would end up in a crowd.

Like I said FYI.

Also if you read what I had put down, you would see that he was not just firing into a group of people, he was attempting to hit one person, and acidentally missed.