Thread: AOS shooting -TVOne sunday program

Any one see the doco on Sunday at 7pm last night ? Wow - seriously scary.
Raised some VERY serious concerns and issues around police/AOS use of firearms and their "investigation" that followed. Really feel for Richard Neville as the innocent party caught in the cross fire (literally) & seriously injured. (let alone the other poor guy who got killed.)
Great to see Richard with Nick Taylor as his legal counsel taking the police to task on this matter. Some one needs to.
While I believe that our police on the whole do a good job, often in very trying & stressful situations, this one appears to be a case where they got it wrong, very wrong.
The "cover up" that followed and the lack of acceptance of fault or error is VERY scary.
The information provided in the doco suggests that 2 officers involved made serious error(s) in judgement (firing thru a windscreen with a 223 round that by nature is fragmentary).
Then the police investigation including claims that the rifle used must have been "innacurate" (how at 20 paces could any rifle be a metre or two out on poi ??? & if it was then why was it in service ??), tampering with said rifle (evidence) and then using only selected photos from the scene that supported their (AOS) story & claiming that they did nothing "unlawful" leaves a very bad taste in my mouth & seems to point to a culture of cover up & mistruths to "protect their own".
The "evidence" shown on the doco leave the poilce with a huge credibility and trust gap.
Man up & deal with it sirs.
Justice must not only be done, it must be seen to be done.