tootrue
13-07-2010, 03:38 PM
Moat’s brother, Angus, also claimed that the police refused his offer to act as a mediator during the stand-off and suggested that his brother may have shot himself through an “involuntary reaction” after being hit by Tasers. He likened it to “a public execution”.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/7884293/Raoul-Moat-questions-for-police-after-claim-gunman-was-executed.html
col kilgore
22-07-2010, 10:04 PM
Hi,
Was I the only one to notice the Police Snipers and AR Officers all had supressed weapons?.
A supressed weapon makes a loud "thud" when discharged (not like in the movies, you bloody well hear it).
Perhaps an independant audio analyst needs to examine the Sky News footage, and question whether the Police statement of the "thud" sound being either the Taser discharging or the Shotgun (bear in mind it was a damp night and sound travels better in wet or damp surroundings) or was possibly something else.
Some may say there was no way the guy was coming out of the standoff alive. The Police exploited the surroundings, the situation, his situation and the environment to the best of their ability and basically achieved in thier own eyes what was a successful operation.
Purely from a hypothetical point of view. Should the suspect have been hit in the head (any hit in the T area of the forehead above the eyes) by a round would have meant death. Having had a sawn off shotgun discharged in an upward (we surmise) direction from the chin, any evidence of this would possibly be destroyed (along with pretty much most of the skull tissue). It took 30 minutes for the Paramedics to be allowed to leave with the suspect.
Anyone with any kind of training will tell you, it takes less than 30 minutes to secure an area with one mark who has just had a fatal wound. Regardless of how it was delivered.
Hypothetically, of course.
CK