This is a sad case regardless what the facts eventually reveal. To me there are too few facts to draw any conclusions from.

What we do 'know' is that they came out of a strip club (likely drinking etc), the groom had a dispute with somebody, there was mention of a gun by one of the victims in the dispute, they ran into a cop, they backed up and then ran into a police van (disputed by a stripper), the police shot a total of 50 or so rounds, none of the officers have been in a shooting before, they were experienced officers. I'm sure I missed something here - all 'facts' based on the article.

What we don't know is when the shooting started and stopped. If they started shooting after they hit the cop (meaning the 'victims' used deadly force by running over/into a cop), I would say the cops were justified in shooting.

If they stopped shooting once the car finally came to a stop, then I would say that was the appropriate time to stop shooting.

With semi-auto weapons being fired into a car in the dark (4:00 am), you can shoot a lot of rounds without knowing if you hit your target or not and would likely shoot until the car stops. Is 50 rounds excessive? If that's what it took to stop the car, I don't think so.

Bottom line, I don't know if the cops did anything wrong and strongly believe we need to wait to hear more information. I'm pleased that Rev. Sharpton is involved as the police dept. will be more careful to do a full, complete and honest investigation with involvement.

Also, one of the post above spoke about Rev. Sharpton's involvement in black-on-black crime. I would only say that Rev. Sharpton spends much of his time addressing that very issue and has been a major voice on both Coast to try to reduce black-on-black crime as well as many other issues including police brutality, racisim etc.