NOT ONE of these incompetent dicks even bothered to check that corner, even after they were all in the room.
After a breach, and you've cleared that there are no immediate and visible threats, you go and poke around.
This was so common in Afghanistan. Go into a room, seems empty, about to clear it and move on.. then someone kicks a blanket on the floor and suddenly 4 sand nigger rats crawl out and try to run in every direction.
The third and fourth idiots have made the fatal error of assuming idiot #1 and idiot #2 actually looked around the room. If this perpetrator had an automatic weapon, he would have been in a position where he had to shoot all of them, once they were all in the room and he would have won. Against four guys.
I would argue that all the bad guy here needed was a pistol with about 15 rounds. Classic ambush tactic- allow the first 2 men to enter, then shoot the two in front. This will cause the others behind them to bunch up, and force them to either assault and push forward or retreat. Pushing forward under that circumstance is high-risk/high-reward: you could potentially end the fight and save your two wounded buddies. Or you could walk right into a bullet.
What's most disturbing, is that a significant number (perhaps a majority) of most police departments have a lot of former military men. Many have been deployed, some saw action- but they were all trained to clear rooms. Urban combat training was the major focus over the last few decades. They should know how to fucking check corners, they should know to check hiding spots, to poke things that look out-of-place (I'm talking in the US- poking strange objects in Iraq/Afghanistan is likely to get your balls blown off).
I would argue that all the bad guy here needed was a pistol with about 15 rounds.
I agree. A suspect with training? These transportation police wouldn't have stood a chance.
What happens in these undisciplined groups is they are easy to draw out and ruin their formation. Felling two men at the door also creates an immediate need to respond in a situation where tactical advantage is already long gone.
Without training, the last thing you want is a panicked thug with a gun feeling like he has no choice but to shoot. Sure, you'll "win" but at what cost?
The worst case scenario is someone with training, who is willing to die to take out a few guys. This is the inherent disadvantage that must always be protected from. Idiots with nothing left to lose are very, very dangerous in close quarters.
They should know how to fucking check corners, they should know to check hiding spots.
First person shooters have existed for long enough now, that even as the "old guy", I learned to play the corners in Goldeneye. The average American middle schooler is more tactically aware than these guys were.
Part of me wonders if this footage is a joke of sorts. Like are these cops in training, hunting a "suspect", and this hilarious moment was caught on camera?
It'd be much more chilling to know that these are "fully trained, professional" police officers hunting an extremely dangerous suspect. I assume he's believed to be dangerous because they're chasing him with rifles and in full gear. They don't usually chase down a guy who shoplifted or snatched a purse in this manner- they go after killers like this. And they're this inept.
What should have happened: J hook. First man breaches and makes a J shaped hook to his left, while a man is posted up at the doorway covering the far right corner of the room as a second man enters and perform a mirror of the J movement that the first man did. The the first two post up in safe positions as the rest of the team enters, and then begin a search with at least 2 men on lethal coverage for all 4 quarters of the room. Done this dozens of times. It almost becomes robotic. Maybe that's the problem- they're too used to it, so little details slip by them.
Unfortunately, in combat, little details get people killed. The smallest variable- a drop of water landing in your eye as you're pulling the trigger, a shift in the wind, you name it- could change a fight from a sure victory to an utter defeat.
The video is edited, but the response is real and it is footage from the hunt for a bombing suspect during the 2013 Boston Bombing.
It was originally uploaded as a "weed dealer" hiding from police, but that narrative was fake.
The police response is real. Even in training, clearing a room like that is a total joke.
Unfortunately, in combat, little details get people killed.
Like a round getting stuck in the chamber at the critical moment where you seize the turn and take the shot. :/
I'd say misfires are the number one minor variable that gets a lot of people got.. in my limited experience.
Nothing is worse than pulling the trigger on a sure thing and having it just "click." The moment after that fucking click lasts forever.
Imagine how bad us armed forces will become without the forever war to create veterans
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