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Originally Posted by 58thecat
The SIRT report said that the two officers who fired their weapons did so believing the person they were shooting at was the gunman. This is because he was dressed similarly to the gunman — wearing a yellow and orange reflective vest — and standing near a marked RCMP cruiser at the time of the shooting.
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The officer that they fired at was wearing his uniform , and a reflective vest and was standing next to his marked cruiser, just like many RCMP officers do every day. So are you suggesting that if a gunman is reported loose and is supposedly trying to pass himself off as an RCMP officer, any RCMP officer should immediately open fire on any other officer or marked police car that they see, without trying to determine if it may be a real officer? Can you imagine what would have happened if every officer in the area was that stupid, and several officers had been killed by other officers, just because they were wearing RCMP uniforms?