Part of gun safety, especially when you’re firing in a populated area, is to make sure your bullet has a safe backdrop in case you miss or it penetrates fully and keeps going.
These cops fired those 22 rounds without even having a target in the foreground to consider the background of. Just “shoot and hope it hits a bad guy” without even considering what else it might have hit.
First guy hears acorn, starts firing at nothing (or the guy he just locked in the back of the cruiser). Partner sees him firing at nothing, joins in for a few rounds before stopping to wonder wtf they are even firing at.
Part of gun safety, especially when you’re firing in a populated area, is to make sure your bullet has a safe backdrop in case you miss or it penetrates fully and keeps going.
These cops fired those 22 rounds without even having a target in the foreground to consider the background of. Just “shoot and hope it hits a bad guy” without even considering what else it might have hit.
First guy hears acorn, starts firing at nothing (or the guy he just locked in the back of the cruiser). Partner sees him firing at nothing, joins in for a few rounds before stopping to wonder wtf they are even firing at.