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Police call it "sympathetic fire." One officer shoots, so the other officers shoot. The phenomena accounts for more than a few instances where a bunch o' cops let loose an inordinate amount of lead. Worse still, it accounts for times when cops unleash their fusillade at people who don't need shooting. I'm thinking here of the Charles Dorner-related LAPD shooting, where eight jumpy LEOs fired more than 100 rounds at a mother and daughter delivering newspapers, believing them to be the cop killer. As often happens in these cases of frenetic fire, they more-or-less missed. Same deal here, where a Washington state Deputy responded to a suicide . . .
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