Officer and Two Suspects Down

[TedKennedy]

it's making my vagina dry.

^^that cracked me up.

 

[RidgeHunter]

boromir. fawking phone.

 

[RidgeHunter]

Ace is going to eat that up.

 

[caojyn]

boromir. fawking phone.

 

[RidgeHunter]

Well for all INTENSIVE PORPOISES, my reddit sperglord lolbertarian assessment of Ace was fairly accurate. Ace is perceptually stuck in that phase that most of use went through as teenagers where we really got off on being able to argue with conservatives and liberals both and how we could piss off both the religious and the non-religious with ease. We're so, like, intellectual and stuff. I like, can't be categorized. Tool's Aenima changed my life. Etc.

Hum, not really accurate. First, I'm a moderate Republican. In the vain of Reagan .

Quoted because it makes my nipples hard.

Ace, don't think I'm picking on you. I'm picking on GTG, because while I may not be spot-on with my profile of you, I'm way closer than he is with his Saul Alinsky ****.

Also please stop saying "thank fsm". I dated a girl for a while that said "thank bog" because she refused to say god and it nearly turned me into Gary Ridgeway. Kidding. Kind of. Lighten up. Geeze.

 

[Ace_on_the_Turn]

Well for all INTENSIVE PORPOISES, my reddit sperglord lolbertarian assessment of Ace was fairly accurate. Ace is perceptually stuck in that phase that most of use went through as teenager where we really got off on being able to argue with conservatives and liberals both and how we could piss off both the religious and the non-religious with ease. We're so, like, intellectual and stuff. I like, can't be categorized. Tool's Aenima changed my life. Etc.

Quoted because it makes my nipples hard.

Ace, don't think I'm picking on you. I'm picking on GTG, because while I may not be spot-on with my profile of you, I'm way closer than he is with his Saul Alinsky ****.

Also please stop saying "thank fsm". I dated a girl for a while that said "thank bog" because she refused to say god and it nearly turned me into Gary Ridgeway. Kidding. Kind of. Lighten up. Geeze.

Damn, looks like I really got under your skin, and I wasn't even trying. If it all gets to be too much for you, just climb to your ego and jump to your personalty.

 

[RidgeHunter]

ace, you really got me goin'
you got me so I don't know what I'm doin'

 

[RidgeHunter]

Some thanks I get for defending you from that bully GTG. Fawking ingrates I tell you what.

 

[Dale00]

A detailed account of what happened in Garland. Photos described are in the linked article. http://bearingarms.com/pushed-forward-brave-garland-police-officer-advanced-brought-garland-terrorists/

Officer Advanced As He Brought Down Garland Terrorists
Posted by Bob Owens on May 5, 2015 at 12:46 pm

More details are beginning to emerge about the incompetent Islamic terrorist attack on a free speech event held by the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI) in Garland, Texas Sunday. Bearing Arms readers have asked for more details about how the actual shooting went down, and about the Garland police officer who used his duty sidearm to defeat two attackers armed with rifles within 15 seconds.

Please keep in mind that we don’t have all the details about the attack, the individual officer’s response, or the exact steps law enforcement took once the attack began, and that even if we had that information, we would withhold such details which may be useful for any other would-be terrorists attempting future attacks.

That said, we will provide analysis of some key pieces of publicly available information.

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At the point of the attack, the two suspects apparently drove up and opened fire upon an unarmed security guard who was accompanied by a 60-year-old Garland police officer. The unarmed guard was struck the volley of gunfire. The veteran Garland officer then drew his duty-issue Glock pistol and opened fire on the suspects.

The officer killed one terrorist and wounded the other in his initial volley of return fire. Witnesses claim there was a brief pause, and then the officer fire two more shots to kill the still-moving terrorist as he appears to be reaching for a backpack. The entire event lasted 15 seconds, with heavily-armed Garland SWAT converging on the scene immediately afterward.

We’re not going to mention any more about the officer who took out these terrorists, only that to give an idea of his approximate position in relation to the terrorists as he engaged them.

The evidence markers at the bottom of the photo above show us a remarkable story, as they denote the final locations of the shell casings ejected from the officer’s Glock duty pistol. While every pistol is different from another in its ejection pattern, and the movement of the officer and the cant of his gun precludes us from knowing exactly where he was, there, is a distinct trial of shells showing that the officer was moving forward from the bottom left of the photo above towards the terrorists at the rear of the vehicle. He appears to have opened fire from 20 yards away, and fired at least a dozen shots by the time he reached an area near the traffic cones, roughly 7-10 yards from where the terrorists died.

Second photo taken from the opposite angle (below) seems to confirm this determined officer’s advance on the terrorists while firing.

Note: the damage to the vehicle driven by the terrorists was from controlled demolitions from EOD units ensuring that the car was not a VBIED (vehicle-borne improvised explosive device).

There seems to be a great deal of skepticism regarding whether or not the suspects were wearing body armor and whether they were armed with “automatic weapons” or “assault rifles” or something else entirely. Other photos from the crime scene suggest answers to those questions as well.

In the image above, we have drawn an orange rectangle around what appears to be blood-drenched halves of a soft body armor carrier worn by one of the terrorists. Most people don’t seem to grasp that there are multiple grades of soft body armor, that these materials degrade over time, and that the armor panels themselves do not often cover the entire torso, leaving gaps under the arms, below the ribs, and at the neck.

We simply don’t know if the officer’s bullets compromised the armor or went around the armor panels, but it is quite clear that there was soft body armor worn by at least one of the terrorists, and that it did not prevent him from being quickly taken out of of the fight.

5/6 Update: A higher resolution image of the soft body armor worn by one of the terrorists seem to confirm that he was shot through the low-quality body armor that he was wearing.

If you look closely at the bottom half of the soft body armor you can see what appears to be a hole in the armor (circled), and blood appears to flow from that pass-through point.

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(Firearms used by assailants described)
1. .....The firearm we’re looking at is a most likely Kel-Tec SUB-2000, a popular and inexpensive pistol caliber carbine shown below.

2. .....The distinctive brake, scalloping on the stock, and curve of the magazine to the right (our right) of fallen evidence marker 35 prove that we’re looking at one of the more popular Soviet-era modern sporting rifles, based on the AK-74......

No matter how you break down the details, this was an incredible display of bravery and marksmanship by this 30+ year veteran of the Garland Police Department, who not only resisted the natural urge to create distance between yourself and rifle-armed assailants, but who appears to have done precisely the opposite, and who advanced while firing accurately, bringing the attack to a swift conclusion without a single additional casualty once he brought his weapon to bear.

Determined people with good training and a decent handgun can indeed defeat the most zealous fanatic.

Get out there and train folks. Maybe one day it will be your turn to be the one standing on the line defending liberty from savagery.

 

[dennishoddy]

Interesting.