The Sheriff’s Department messed up big time. From the looks of it, however, these officers probably missed the lecture on how to responsibly stop a vehicle. But, then again, I’ve never been to the sheriff training academy or whatever it’s called, so I don’t know what the procedure is in this case. But it’s clear that this vehicle has wheels, and a few well-placed shots - not a few dozen - at the tires would have stopped it. Sure, the SUV did begin to roll away during the crossfire. How can these deputies reasonably shoot so many rounds at an unarmed man? Is it that the officers are just so poor at aiming that they simply hit him? Or was just mere “Pulp Fiction”-style bad luck? That’s when you know something went wrong. What’s even more troubling is the fact that one officer was shot during the chaos … by a colleague. The fact that many residents had to actually take cover, to avoid being hit by 120 rounds of ammunition flying through the air, is absurd. “What the (expletive)?” is a justifiable response to this incident, isn’t it Mr. Let’s not get carried away about all those bullets that carved through the windows and walls near Butler Avenue. Never mind the 10 deputies who unleashed 120 rounds onto an unarmed man in his vehicle during the end of a slow police chase through Compton. We are overlooking the fact that Sheriff Lee Baca did call the event perhaps a little “excessive.” We are forgetting that this happened in Compton, which is, according to a few popular rap artists, home to notorious gang affiliates. The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department should be ashamed of itself.īut wait. In the end, Hayes was wounded and required medical attention, while a deputy also had to be treated for gunshot wounds. Hayes, who has had a few run-ins with the law, got out of the vehicle right before the first of 120 shots were fired at him. Winston had instead spent his evening driving around the neighborhood blasting music. This vehicle, however, was driven by Winston Hayes, a man who, according to witnesses, was not involved in the reported gunfire. The deputies, who were responding to reported use of gunfire, bumped into a man driving a white sport utility vehicle similar to the one reportedly involved in an earlier shooting. In Compton, a man led sheriff’s deputies on a 35 mph chase just past midnight following Mother’s Day.
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