So if I’m reading this right, some guys dressed as cops broke into a home, beat the crap out of the residents, and took their stuff.
The residents called the real cops — the Dallas Police Department — which didn’t respond for three hours.
When the DPD dispatch did respond, they sent a cop in an unmarked car.
Resident not at the hospital sees this fishy scene — the cop in an unmarked unit arriving some three hours after the 911 call — and gets scared. She fires a shot at the car.
That’s my takeaway?
Seriously, this has to be made up. Three hours after the 911 call, the DPD sends an unmarked car to a house where the home invaders broke in dressed as cops.
And then she gets arrested, to boot.
Granted, firing off a shot at someone when they get out of their car is pretty stupid. I’d like someone to take a lot more care in target assessment before pulling the trigger. However, the way the police handled it wasn’t mensa material either.
Lots of blame to share on this one. As trey pointed out there was the keystone cops routine of both taking 3 hours to respond to a 911 call. But there is still plenty of blame left for a woman who fires on the cop before he can even get out of his car. The cop should be disciplined, as should the supervisor who sent him there, but I don’t think arresting the lady and pressing charges for her reckless discharge of a firearm in a residential area is out of bounds.
File this under: Cops acting within the parameters of their normal. All ego, no brains.
This was a straight rip-and-run! Know what that is? When peoples rob drug dealers by impersonating swat or cops! Yeah they stole more than a tv; they stole a stash and some bread.