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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The SUV might have had additional weapons, ammunition or communications equipment in it. The USSD will never tell us. But yes they store this stuff is special vaults in the vehicles.

These vaults do not prevent someone from breaking in, they simply make the process take more time. The vaults are probably rated at a few hours of deliberated noisy effort.

This is all not unusual. Law enforcement/ DoD carries weapons in Ryder trucks and DOE carries nuclear weapons in 18 wheelers down the highway. [/quote]

The highest rated anti-burglary safes are rated in the range of 60 minutes against power tools, torches, etc.  So the proposition that the “vaults,” if any, inside a law enforcement vehicle might resist for “a few hours of deliberated noisy effort” is ludicrous. Such weapon lockers — they are not vaults in any meaningful sense of the word — might be rated for a few minutes against hand tools or crowbars.

But that is not the issue. The issue is whether deadly force was appropriate to prevent a break-in to a parked vehicle that may, or may not, have contained firearms, possibly locked in a vehicle-mounted container.

Unless/until the perpetrators actually had access to any vehicle-borne weapons and/or acted in a manner that would convince a reasonable law enforcement officer that the officer or someone else was in mortal danger, deadly force would seem to not have been appropriate.

A PP raised an interesting question, which is whether the vehicle was unoccupied or not. It would seem poor practice for a security detail not to leave someone with the vehicle. If the agent who fired the shots was inside the vehicle that would change things a great deal. It would not, however, increase confidence in the marksmanship of a supposedly trained individual firing at point blank or near point blank range at multiple targets in close proximity.

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