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50 bullets

The recent shooting in the headlines, in which New York police shot a young groom 50 times, couldn't help but bring to mind one of my favorite Onion pieces. It and all the archives had been made subscriber-only for quite a while, but they seem to have relented:

NYPD Apologizes For Accidental Shooting-Clubbing-Stabbing-Firebombing Death

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NYPD Apologizes For Accidental Shooting-Clubbing-Stabbing-Firebombing Death

NEW YORK-New York City police commissioner Howard Safir issued a formal apology Monday for the accidental shooting-clubbing-stabbing-firebombing-choking-impaling-electrocution-lethal-injection death of a 38-year-old Jamaican immigrant in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn.