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Originally Posted by SonOfaBeach
No - that's my point. I would think that when they saw the hand they would try to aim for body mass - based on the hand they were seeing. The guy being on his side, flat - which way he was laying (head/toe) would all come in to play and explain the misses. I'm sure some folks where shooting what what they thought was center mass, but hitting toes - or head - or nothing - because all they saw was a hand poke up through the scrub.
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Good thing it wasn't a random homeless person.
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Originally Posted by SonOfaBeach
That's a fair assumption, but I can tell you that Pinellas County SWAT (2 counties west) runs their MP5s full auto - and - they said that Polk County SWAT does as well. This was straight from talking with PCSO SWAT team members discussing this very case roughly 8 months ago. (Followed by a quick demo of their MP5 at the PCSO range [not me shooting unfortunately - them lol]).
Basically, it's one of those cases that they're asked about all the time.
But come on, if it was a human - waiting to ambush you (and had just assaulted your family), you wouldn't go full auto?? 
I just go back to the math - a quick pop of the trigger spits out 8 - 10 rounds * 9 shooters. It SOUNDS excessive to say a man was shot 68 times, but it is really only a 1 - 2 second pull of the trigger. The entire incident probably lasted 5 - 10 seconds or less.
As a point of interest, here's the scrub where they were searching for him. |
I'll give you most of that.
However...Since you are going back to the math, I might as well go back to the Sheriff and this quote: "That's all the bullets we had."
Are those the words that a responsible publicly elected official would use when responding to such a situation? Obviously he was being a smart ass which again shows that the Polk County Sheriffs Department exercises poor judgment and lack of control. It starts with the Sheriff himself and goes to his officers from there.