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Old 03-31-10, 02:59 PM   #26
OneToughHerring
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Originally Posted by jimbuna View Post
Where was that incident with two guys involved in robbing a bank in broad daylight.....as the police arrived they peppered anything and everything with automatic fire yet the police were powerless to stop them because they were wearing body armour?

I remember watching a docimentary about it....eventually one guy shot himself from under his chin with a pistol when he ran out of ammo for his automatic and the police brought the other guy to a halt by shooting at his inprotected ankles from under a car?

Pretty scary stuff and not that long ago IIRC
North Hollywood shootout.

Other famous US shootout is the 1986 FBI Miami shootout. The US police is in a kind of arms race with the crooks.
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