Yesterday LA Times ran a human interest story. "LAPD will give new truck to women shot by officers." Sounds lovely.

Of course, LAPD would want to keep that dirty, moth-eaten old truck... the one they shot a couple zillion times last Friday. Getting additional photos could prove difficult. Forensic analysis of the tailgate and driver side rear window ?????

LAPD moved immediately to get legal hands on the evidence.

Sign on the dotted line, Margie Carranza and Emma Hernandez ??? Maybe. But before you sign -- allowing blue truck to meet black crusher -- please have your supporters contrast the originals that go with these two images and have a look at the tailgate.

FIRST:

Image # 1 -- empty Toyota Tacoma, secured crime scene

-- http://timelines.latimes.com/...

SECOND:

Later LA Times got Image # 2 -- empty Toyota Tacoma, secured and tagged crime scene

-- http://www.latimes.com/...

No CGI. Both are cropped/recopied LA Times photos.

These are not the originals. They are cropped and limited to 100K max to make life easier for DKOS downloaders. In real life Image # 1 is excellent.

Count the bullet holes and tagged bullet holes in that tailgate.

The white squares in Image # 2 are evidence tags, mostly placed over bullet holes.

Working from Internet "originals" gets only so far. These results are not certain. There can be errors, here. We will not for sure what happened until close-in images become available during this coming work week.

We get to an extra dozen holes looking at the cruiser window area, then stopped counting. Six holes went to eighteen holes. The driver-side rear window also looks to have taken additional damage in the form of bullet or buck shot holes.

Based on this photographic evidence, LAPD officers inflicted a cosmetic fusillade on this truck after Margie and Emma had been transported to hospital.

This would not the first instance of additional gunfire at a crime scene being used to obscure evidence of police wrong doing.

Will we see an investigation for charges under California Title 8 related to hazardous discharges of firearms? Any discharges after the crime scene was secured would qualify.

Based on a conservative read of these images, someone blasted the truck again after the scene was secured. Many of those bullets would have traveled substantial distances before they stopped.

Los Angeles pays a lot of money each year for the salaries of police executives. Their basic job is to select, train and manage LAPD police officers. What is going on out there ???