The police: When seconds count we're minutes away!
From the RTD:
In a harrowing few seconds, a routine police stakeout last week became a homicide scene while law enforcement officers watched futilely through binoculars.
"It all happened very fast," Henrico County Commonwealth's Attorney Wade Kizer said yesterday, describing a chilling scene last week, in which officers feared making a bad situation worse. "Police did absolutely nothing wrong in my opinion."
Restaurant owner Lin Zi Ping died from gunshot wounds after two males suddenly rounded a corner at the East Towne Plaza shopping center about 10:25 p.m. and confronted him as he locked up his store for the night.
Undercover police watched from a distance as a suspicious vehicle in the dimly lit parking lot passed by the shop and then turned a corner behind the strip shopping center in the 2900 block of Williamsburg Road. The site is about 1 mile from the Henrico-Richmond border.
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[Editor's Commentary: Here's a great example of why you shouldn't rely on the police to protect you. Had Lin been armed, maybe he'd still be alive]