The uncensored footage of the police raid on the kosher market terrorist is here. I don't think anyone's taken that many bullets since Bonnie & Clyde. Or maybe the last time someone pulled out a wallet too quickly on an American cop.
That was... interesting. I wonder if the gunman expected to take out several officers and escape unscathed, or if he just realized he was doomed. He sure as fuck didn't get far, though.
It's unclear exactly how trained he was. I did some research on Amedy Coulibaly, the hostage taker, and found that
he was little more than a typical criminal personality. Psychopathic, childish, egotistic, and lacked introspection or morality while desiring to be "all-powerful". On the other hand, the Kouachi brothers who committed the Charlie Hebdo attack demonstrated decent accuracy and had a fairly high body count between them. The Kouachi brothers and Coulibaly also had history, as did their wives, so I'm guessing the Kouachis were a bit better trained than him and possibly helped him get his rifle and load-bearing gear (I unfortunately can't identify the chest rig/body armor in the photos released of his body, so I can't guess at its origin).
Since he was running out his hands over his head rather than firing at the officers and had recently been subjected to explosives, I think he may have panicked after taking the first bullets and attempted to blindly flee out the door.
