Ok, so here's the question I have never seen asked in all of the tons of analysis and coverage of this event.
The situation is that you have 15 car loads of agents scouring the mean streets of Miami, specifically looking for heavily armed and known to be hostile bank robbery, kidnapping and murder suspects...some real bad-guy desperadoes we're dealing with here.
These are senior FBI Agents and some of the Agents are supposedly SWAT certified, dressed in suits and ties, and not wearing body armor.
And these Agents are out on this patrol with their main weapons locked-up in the trunk.
Was this FBI procedure out of the manual at the time?
Did they ever give any thought as to what they were going to do if they actually ran into the guys they were looking for?
What did they expect to do, stun 'em by flashing their badges and meet up for coffee later?
How they were armed leads me to think that they didn't really expect to find them.
I think the whole caliber debate afterward was a cover-up...but that's just me.
TC
