Twenty years ago yesterday.

CNN:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_1IvZFwj0M

Local TV:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGVsNsFimZM

CBS failed to note that LAPD officers had to get ARs from B&B Gun Sales, because official rifles were too far away. The LA DA's office considered charging the store for ignoring the legally required waiting period.

Those officers in the cruiser who drove up to the truck and white car had some balls.

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Originally posted by k5blazer:
Those officers in the cruiser who drove up to the truck and white car had some balls.

I imagine that they were thoroughly pissed off, too.

IIRC, some / all of the "borrowed" rifles were never returned.

"I had a few words with him" I'll bet!

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Originally posted by Fenris:
The LA DA's office considered charging the store for ignoring the legally required waiting period.

That would have been a PR bonanza.

I think the actual outfits they wore and guns used are on display at the LAPD museum.

They were armed with a Beretta 92FS Inox (9mm), a HK-91 (.308), three converted full auto Norinco Type 56 AKs (7.62x39), and a converted full auto Bushmaster XM15 (5.56), along with a total of 3,300 rounds of ammunition in loaded magazines. They fired approximately 1/3rd of their ammo - over 1,000 rounds.

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Originally posted by Fenris:
CBS failed to note that LAPD officers had to get ARs from B&B Gun Sales, because official rifles were too far away.

The five ARs commandeered from B&B were not fired during the incident. By the time the patrol officers with these gun shop rifles arrived at the scene, the first bad guy had already offed himself, and SWAT officers had already neutralized the second bad guy with their departmental ARs.