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From: sarathy@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu (Rajiv Sarathy)
Date: Sat, 28-Jan-89 21:29:14 EST
Message-ID: <1989Jan28.212914.15891@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu>
Organization: University of Toronto Computing Services
Newsgroups: tor.general
Subject: Re: Toronto Police
References: <157@aimed.UUCP> <4674@hcr.UUCP> <89Jan23.093655est.38021@neat.ai.toronto.edu> <4742@hcr.UUCP> <1989Jan24.133658.23930@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu> <4761@hcr.UUCP> <1989Jan26.112904.22906@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu> <4800@hcr.UUCP>
Reply-To: sarathy@gpu.utcs.UUCP (Rajiv Sarathy)
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In article <4800@hcr.UUCP> john@hcrvax.UUCP (John R. MacMillan) writes:
>In article <1989Jan26.112904.22906@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu> sarathy@gpu.utcs.UUCP (Rajiv Sarathy) writes:
>|However, policemen often practice shooting at stationary and moving targets in
>|their shooting ranges, from what I've seen on TV (I'm no Toronto Police expert).
>|So if they were aiming at the tire, how did they hit the driver at the back of
>|the head?
>
>If they were aiming at the driver, and they're such good shots, why
>did they only hit him once?  Because nobody's perfect.  One shot went
>through the rear window.  So whether they were aiming at the tires or
>the passengers, their accuracy was not too good.

An eye witness on the net said that the majority of bullet holes in the car
were in the upper part indicating that they were aiming at the driver.
I don't know -- I wasn't there and didn't see any photos.

>|You took out the line I had in my original posting saying that the bullet was
>|HOLLOW-TIPPED.  I've read that these bullets do VERY LITTLE damage once they
>|hit something because their velocity diminishes to relatively VERY LOW once
>|they hit something, and their mass is much less than a regular bullet.

Oops.  My original posting did talk about hollow-tipped/hollow-point bullets,
but here I guess I meant soft-tipped/soft-point bullets.

Now I don't even remember which one the officers were purportedly using.  Says
a lot for rumours on the net, I guess.
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| Disclaimer:  I'm just an undergrad.                                         |
| All views and opinions are therefore my own.                                |
|                                                                             |
| Rajiv Partha Sarathy                   sarathy@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca         |
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