Path: utzoo!utgpu!lsuc!ncrcan!ontenv!soley
From: soley@ontenv.UUCP (Norman S. Soley)
Newsgroups: tor.general
Subject: Re: Toronto Police
Message-ID: <379@ontenv.UUCP>
Date: 24 Jan 89 20:33:58 GMT
References: <157@aimed.UUCP> <4674@hcr.UUCP> <89Jan23.093655est.38021@neat.ai.toronto.edu>
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Organization: Ontario Ministry of the Environment, Toronto
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In article <89Jan23.093655est.38021@neat.ai.toronto.edu>, derome@ai.toronto.edu (Philippe Derome) writes:
> In article <4674@hcr.UUCP> paulg@hcrvax.UUCP (Paul Gooderham) writes:
> >
> > - the youthful driver of a known stolen car tries to run down two 
> >   policemen and ends up shot
> >
> >In both these cases currently popular in the press, the criminal 
> >is trying to kill the policeman and the policeman strikes back.
> 
> In my uderstanding, the policemen (man?) shot in the back of
> the car. Perhaps, this was not self-defense. We will see what 
> the justice has to say.

Yes it was men.

In all six shots were fired at the moving car, two by the officer who
was at risk of being run down, the other by his partner who was
standing on the driver's side, about even with the driver when
the shooting started. Remember, the officers were investigating a
stolen car in an area where a known gang of car theives, reported as  
armed might have been involved. Officer 1 determines (correctly or
otherwise, that the courts will determine) that he was in danger of 
being run down and shoots 2 shots at the car, officer 2 cannot see 
his partner and does not know who was doing the shooting, assumes 
at least one of shots came from the car theives, draws his weapon 
and shoots 4 shots into the car as it speeds by hitting first the 
drivers door then further along the car, the last bullet he fired 
ricohets off something and hits Lawson.
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