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Originally Posted by papajohn428
And your evidence would be..............?
Or are you just saying that since there's no PROOF that he did, that he didn't? If you want to disprove a "Myth", it would be helpful to give some evidence that you know whereof you speak.
What I know of the incident is what I've read............if you have some reason to believe we've all been misled, please feel free to enlighten the rest of us with what you know, and how you know it.
My understanding is that when he was shot, the officer was attempting to reload his weapon. The training at the time, as pointed out by Mr. Ayoob, was that officers were trained to stuff their empties into their pockets. If you have some "evidence" that he was doing something other than following his training, I'd love to know about it...........and the source.
For someone so positively asserting that it's a myth, you have yet to back that up with anything resembling testimony.
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Kind of hard to prove a negative. I wasn't there, I don't know for sure but I would think if the officer policed his brass it would be in the report. I can not think of a reason it wouldnt be do to every shooting involving LE (and anyone else) the guns, brass and bullets are gathered to see who did what and with what.
As a Uniform CSI instructor, if there is no indication the brass was listed as found in the pockets of the officers, I would have to assume it wasn't in the pockets.
So my question is, what does the report say? Where was the brass found?
I do remember when I first started, in training and qualification, we policed our brass after words.
Reminds me of the story: There was a movie playing in a theater, some old black and white movie. A lady shot a guy several times, emptying the gun, with a 25 ACP. The bandit kept coming and the starlet says "what do I do, what do I do"?
Apparently there was a LE firearms instructor in the theater, with a loud booming voice yells out "police your brass and move to the 25 yard line".