During the weekend that just passed, there has been a shooting in Harlem that started after a fight broke out at a crowded party. It started in a park and from there it erupted onto the streets on Sunday morning. There were a total of 50 bullets that were shot. One man was dead and six others were wounded.
Forty-six out of the 50 bullets were fired by four police offers. Apparently 20 bullets struck a man who supposedly fired at the police officers after he fatally shot another man. Although he was shot many times, he is expected to survive.
Out of the 6 others wounded in the accident, two of them were police officers. Although they were shot, their wounds were not serious. One of the police officers were shot in the chest but luckily, he had wore a bullet-resistant vest.
Many people questioned the officersâ use of force in this incident. Witnesses state that the officers never gave warnings of any sort that they were going to start firing.
Although they did not give any type of warning, I think what they did here was correct. If you see that people are fighting and saw that one of them were shooting at someone else and shot at you, your first reaction would be to shoot back. I donâÂÂt think anyone would risk going over to somebody that is fully armed with a gun and is already shooting to ask him or her to stop.
The action that the police officers did was correct because they quickly minimized the threat. If they stopped to ask the person to stop, there couldâÂÂve been more causalities. The police officers judgment prevented more causalities and quickly ended the threat by retaliating instead of talking to an already armed person that already shot someone else.