TOUGH TO ACCEPT DRUG DEALER PURPOSELY SHOT POLICE

STUPID, YES, BUT GUILTY?... Daniell Anderson got what I expected he'd get
Wednesday.

But did he get what he deserved?

Anderson, a young Fort Rouge drug dealer -- whose reputation for selling
pot was known at least as far away as Tuxedo -- was found guilty of
attempting to murder a Winnipeg police officer and attempting to wound
another.

This by firing blindly through a bathroom door after drug-raiding police
burst into the family home two years ago.

Police testified they loudly identified themselves as they entered the house.

Anderson claimed he didn't hear them, that he thought armed intruders were
invading the home. Hence, his taking refuge behind a bathroom door with a
sawed-off shotgun.

I didn't hear the evidence that the judge did, so I hesitate to question
his guilty verdict.

But common sense would suggest that a drug dealer hiding in a bathroom
would have to be an imbecile to open fire on a team of armed police
officers.

Daniell Anderson was stupid.

You'd have to be involved in something where you felt you needed a
sawed-off shotgun to protect yourself in your own home.

But an imbecile?

I don't buy it. Nor do I buy that he purposely fired at Winnipeg police
officers.

But the judge did, and that's all that matters.

Well, not quite all.

Anderson's life will never be the same. More importantly, neither will the
lives of the police officers who were shot.

Or who saw their colleagues shot.

My condolences to all involved.