Interesting how the private citizen scored a hit, but the ex-cop didn't. Also interesting that it him took five shots to hit a man-sized target in the cab of a truck(I don't believe the articles mentioned how many times the "officer" fired). People who can't shoot shouldn't own guns.
So let me get this straight.
Off duty cop/community cop sees someone cause a near collision. He pursues, out of uniform, and an occupant of the vehicle shoots him. Is that about it?
You must be joking. Read C&SD's links. One of them states that the woman called her husband(who was at home) to tell him that an unmarked vehicle was had been following her, and he came out of the house and wound up shooting the un-uniformed security guard driving an unmarked vehicle. Whether he is an off-duty cop is immaterial, he was not acting in a police capacity. Who knows what really happened - but I do know that if somebody followed my wife home, in the manner which a police officer follows a suspect(i.e. close behind and aggressive), I would want her to call me, and I would certainly be plainly armed and looking for an explanation. Wouldn't you?
I've had a cop fabricate a "near-collision"(even spiced it up by saying I ran an off-duty cop off the road) story to justify a traffic ticket. Do you suppose a cop, who is known to regularly exercise poor judgment, might create such a story - or perhaps just exaggerate a real incident - to justify his involvement in an incident which resulted in him getting shot?
Cops should turn in certain arrest/pursuit powers when the uniform comes off. Otherwise, we get ridiculous stories like this, where people get shot because Mr. Mallcop got all hard trying to keep the peace in "his" neighborhood. There was NO reason this had to come to gunfire, when a simple uniformed visit to the house, later in the evening, could've solved things.
