Chase and shootout involving hijacked UPS truck in Florida lead to four deaths

[JohnnyEgo]

There is a lengthy post about this on 1911forums by a guy who lived just down the street from this incident. Includes a link to a rather graphic video that showed the shoot-out all the way through to the unfortunate conclusion.
On the one hand, the idea that 19 officers would fire 200+ rounds under stress and return fire does not strike me as outside of the rhelm of reason. On the other hand, engaging in a high volume shoot-out in a heavily populated area and using occupied civilian vehicles as shields does not seem like a particularly good decision.

[Gman]

There is a lengthy post about this on 1911forums by a guy who lived just down the street from this incident. Includes a link to a rather graphic video that showed the shoot-out all the way through to the unfortunate conclusion.
On the one hand, the idea that 19 officers would fire 200+ rounds under stress and return fire does not strike me as outside of the rhelm of reason. On the other hand, engaging in a high volume shoot-out in a heavily populated area and using occupied civilian vehicles as shields does not seem like a particularly good decision.

Same conclusion video in my link above from the same news helicopter. You can see the UPS driver raising his arm as he's rolling out of the truck with sparks coming from the step area right next to him. It might even be a shot hitting him in the back below the shoulders as he's rolling out.

I'll include the video from the 1911Forum here as it doesn't have as much follow-up video edited into it.