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Police fired 600 ‘unnecessary’ shots in unprecedented car-chase shootout
Police fired 600 ‘unnecessary’ shots in unprecedented car-chase shootoutPost Nation
By Abby Phillip August 19 at 8:00 AM
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A police officer examines a stolen SUV involved in a suspected bank robbery on July 16, 2014, in Stockton, Calif. Three women were taken hostage by the robbers. Two were thrown from the getaway vehicle. The third was fatally shot by police. (Craig Sanders/The Record file via AP)
Misty Holt-Singh, 41, swung her car into the parking lot of the Bank of the West in Stockton, Calif., just after 2 p.m. on a warm, summer day last year. Her 12-year old daughter, Mia, waited in the car, fixated on her cellphone while Holt-Singh left to withdraw cash, which she planned to use during a trip to the hairdresser later that day.
Minutes later, another car pulled into the parking lot. Three men exited a dark-colored, four-door Buick before it sped off. They were wearing gloves, black sunglasses, gloves, fake beards and mustaches and ominously wore hoodies over their baseball caps. They also had ammunition taped to their clothes. ... The men grabbed Holt-Singh and took her into the bank. Her daughter would never see her alive again.
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What followed was an hour-long high-speed police chase punctuated by a barrage of bullets from police and robbers alike. ... Thirty-three officers fired more than 600 shots that day in pursuit of the gunmen — members of a local gang — who were armed with an AK-47 and three handguns. Ten bullets from police weapons eventually killed one of the hostages, Misty Holt-Singh.
The brazen shootout was described as unprecedented in a report released this week by the Police Foundation, which was asked to independently review the July 2014 incident. It was, the D.C.-based foundation said, like nothing the understaffed, under-resourced Stockton Police Department had ever trained for or experienced — and, in fact, like nothing any U.S. police department had ever endured.
By Abby Phillip August 19 at 8:00 AM
[email protected]
@abbydphillip
A police officer examines a stolen SUV involved in a suspected bank robbery on July 16, 2014, in Stockton, Calif. Three women were taken hostage by the robbers. Two were thrown from the getaway vehicle. The third was fatally shot by police. (Craig Sanders/The Record file via AP)
Misty Holt-Singh, 41, swung her car into the parking lot of the Bank of the West in Stockton, Calif., just after 2 p.m. on a warm, summer day last year. Her 12-year old daughter, Mia, waited in the car, fixated on her cellphone while Holt-Singh left to withdraw cash, which she planned to use during a trip to the hairdresser later that day.
Minutes later, another car pulled into the parking lot. Three men exited a dark-colored, four-door Buick before it sped off. They were wearing gloves, black sunglasses, gloves, fake beards and mustaches and ominously wore hoodies over their baseball caps. They also had ammunition taped to their clothes. ... The men grabbed Holt-Singh and took her into the bank. Her daughter would never see her alive again.
....
What followed was an hour-long high-speed police chase punctuated by a barrage of bullets from police and robbers alike. ... Thirty-three officers fired more than 600 shots that day in pursuit of the gunmen — members of a local gang — who were armed with an AK-47 and three handguns. Ten bullets from police weapons eventually killed one of the hostages, Misty Holt-Singh.
The brazen shootout was described as unprecedented in a report released this week by the Police Foundation, which was asked to independently review the July 2014 incident. It was, the D.C.-based foundation said, like nothing the understaffed, under-resourced Stockton Police Department had ever trained for or experienced — and, in fact, like nothing any U.S. police department had ever endured.
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