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[Stinky The Clown]

This is about the tragic death of the Hofstra student at the hand of a cop who probably thought he was being heroic and doing the right thing.

When you kill the hostage, you've clearly done wrong thing.

I am a person who usually gives the cops the benefit of the doubt, but am also not blind to the fact that there are a lot of John Waynes in their ranks.

The fact is that the cops that night were responding to a 911 call that reported a hostage situation of the presence of guns. I can't imagine a "by the book" protocol that would have a cop go running into that house with his gun drawn and having tacit approval to fire eight shots at the retreating bad guy when the good guy (woman) is being held in a side headlock by the bad guy, bad guy's gun aimed at her head, all of which puts the good guy's head inches from the target of the cop and a finger twitch from the bad guy's bullet killing her.

But that is exactly what that cop did.

What ever happened to the idea of waiting?

Take a deep breath. Assess. Consider. Control the scene. But above all else . . . . WAIT.

Most hostage situations involve the captor having a weapon, often a gun. The usual protocol is to call the hostage NEGOTIATOR . . . . and usually the SWAT team.

The least desirable tactic is to send John Wayne into the scene, guns ablaze. People get killed that way.




I feel awful that the young woman is dead. I feel bad for the cop that killed her as his life is now forever changed.

I feel angry at the police organization for which the cop worked. SHAME on them for not doing a better job of training their officers and enforcing good police policy.