Louisville Kentucky police release bodycam footage of yesterday's bank shooting.

 

A makeshift memorial in Louisville Kentucky. BBC.

Police in Louisville Kentucky have released bodycam footage of yesterday's bank shooting. BBC. The video shows the police engaging with the shooter. One of the officers, Nickolas Wilt, was shot in the head by the attacker, while the other, Cory Galloway, was grazed. Galloway then shot the shooter after the suspect began firing at officers again. The attacker dropped and Galloway was able to secure the scene and help rescue the survivors. Wilt remains in critical condition and was only sworn into duty 10 days before the shooting. 

My Comment:

I wasn't going to bother writing up a post about this case but I do think that releasing the videos in these shootings is a genuinely good thing. Not only does it give closure to the people that are injured or otherwise traumatized in these attacks, I think it has a genuine deterrence factor when potential shooters see the final results of these attacks. 

Which is why I think the footage of the attacker should be uncensored. People should be able to see what happens to you if you decide to commit a mass shooting. You end up dead in a pile with blood pouring out of you. I know many of these people do want to die but I doubt many of them want to suffer or die in humiliating fashion. This shooter did both. 

I don't have much to say about the shooter himself, since he's pretty obviously a loser that had a grudge because he lost his job. It's probably notable that he had pronouns in his LinkedIn profile, but that was nuked pretty much instantly. He was a failure in life and now he's a failure in death. 

As for the police, they should, of course, be commended for their actions. They had a pretty bad tactical disadvantage there and it's fairly amazing that the shooter wasn't able to kill both of them. My guess is that the shooter wasn't very experienced with his weapon, which seems pretty obvious since he just bought it before the shooting. Galloway especially deserves credit because he was fighting while wounded and went into the gunfire not once but twice. I also have to say his reaction to being shot was a pretty cool combat roll, which is not something I would have seen ever outside of an action movie. 

Again, this shows how important police response is. Unlike the Uvalde police, these Kentucky officers stayed engaged with the shooter and put him down despite being shot at. They fought instead of waiting around and arresting parents who were wiling to run inside the school to engage the shooter. Though the shooting was bad, it could have been a lot worse if the cops had just inexplicably waited around for the shooter to kill more people.  

Hopefully both of my links to the video work. The BBC is edited but is also not age restricted like the YouTube video is. Hopefully that means that the people that can't or won't watch the video on YouTube can actually see video of the shootout.