LAPD, and Collateral Damage

I guess police don't know the rules of gun safety. Know your target and what is beyond it. Burlington shooting: Valentina Orellana-Peralta ID'd as LAPD victim

Cops were responding to a busy store where there were reports of assault with deadly weapon, and shots fired. (No firearm was recovered.) Valentina Orellana-Peralta, a 14-year-old girl who was trying on dresses in a changing room, was killed.

Witnesses told KCBS-TV that the suspect, who has not been identified, began acting erratically, threatening to throw items from the upper floor and attacked a woman with a bicycle lock shortly in the store crowded with holiday shoppers.

Police fatally shot the suspect but one of the bullets went through drywall behind the man and killed Valentina, who was in a changing room with her mother, police said.

You or I would be charge with "negligent" or "reckless" something. Cops will express remorse and spend a week or two on administrative duty, if not administrative leave (that's a bit like vacation), and go back to work like nothing happened.

[Police Chief Michel] Moore said although the investigation will determine what happened, it did not appear the officer who fired the shots would have known there was anyone behind the wall.

Yeah. How could you possibly know there was someone on the other side of that wall, which was designed solely to keep people from seeing? Of course if he didn't know it was clear, he should not have taken the shot.

Moore had much to say about the chaos of the situation, and how sorry he and everyone is. Blah blah blah.

But that is the world we've created. Cops enjoy immunity for just about everything that they do, even if it is stupid and reckless.