A 14-year-old girl hiding in a dressing room of a store in a Los Angeles shopping mall was killed when police shot at a suspected criminal and the bullet penetrated the wall of the dressing room. That tells you two things. First, drywall is not much of a wall and second, nowhere is safe anymore.
Obviously the police were unaware that the girl was in there at the time, and probably had no clue there was a dressing room behind the wall. It was just one of those horrible, crazy accidents that defy belief. Yet the girl's family is now calling for a full investigation.
Almost everything bad that happens these days demands an investigation, usually a full one. You never hear about something needing a partial investigation.
I always wonder what that entails. In this case, I suppose the walls will be questioned about what they saw and heard, as well as the police. It seems so clear to me what happened, yet a team of investigators will have to delve into the situation before the girl's family gets that inevitable million-plus dollars from the store, the former Burlington Coat Factory now known as Burlington's, which will likely be found culpable for not having thicker drywall.
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