iMURDAu wrote:Maybe try to figure out the motive of someone who calls and claims to have committed a serious crime but only cares about a police confrontation. Operator: "Are you white, black, hispanic?" Caller: "Is someone on their way? I might burn the house down." Who takes hostages but wants nothing in return and puts a timer on the response before everything goes up in flames? That doesn't make sense. That sounds exactly like someone with a death wish. And they were ready to grant that wish.
It also sounds quite a bit like what it is - someone who's making shit up and very much wants the police to show up confused and in a hurry. Plus, why would someone who's just shot his own father and taken multiple hostages step outside with a gun
in his waistband and follow their orders just long enough to give them a clean shot at him? I swear, you and I have
farted better deductive reasoning than some of these "cops."
I really don't care if they were too a-skeert to think critically. I'm sick of that excuse - guys who can't stay cool under pressure DO NOT need to be sent out on sensitive missions like this and HERE is a perfect example of why. Unfortunately, being on the SWAT team is probably more lucrative than mere traffic patrol, so cops are incentivized to pretend they're up for it when really they're not.
EDIT: Oh, and it appears they let him lie there untreated while they dragged everyone out of the house and searched it:
“They can’t go in and treat somebody until the house is cleared and made safe,” he said. “An individual was shot at 6:47 and was at the hospital in about 17 minutes.”
I checked Google Maps. There are SEVERAL hospitals within 8 minutes of that address and the story says they had "medical rescue personnel" standing by, so it seems like they very deliberately decided "fuck this guy we just shot." Surely, they wouldn't have left him lying on the ground, potentially wounded and still armed so they either just left him there without checking to see if he could still whip out a gun and shoot people, or they KNEW he was unarmed and abandoned him on the ground anyway.
Every once in a while, declare peace. It confuses the hell out of your enemies. (76th Rule of Acquisition)