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and solid that whatever he touched would always move. He was also a total racist and a bully, but he knew James Rashad, and the man was a cop in his precinct. Six men were now around the van, guns drawn, and Stinky, neck bleeding and still screaming, was roughly pulled out and Juan Atencio screamed to call for an ambulance.
    Detective Sergeant Brad Pitt hollered out, “I know this officer. His name was James Rashad. His head was blown completely off his body. It’s laying on the floorboard!”
    By now Charlie was being cuffed, and Bubba Dalton screamed, “You cop killer!”
    He grabbed Charlie and slammed him face-first on the hood of the cruiser that had come down the alley from the far end. Then he punched him several times. Charlie spit out blood and grinned at the monster, who got even more enraged and kneed Charlie in the ribs several times.
    â€œDalton!” Brad Pitt screamed, walking over. “Knock that crap off!”
    Bubba yelled, “He is a cop killer, Sergeant! We ought to waste the punk!”
    Brad Pitt said, “Yeah, we should but we won’t.”
    Bubba glared at the detective sergeant and then screamed in pain as the now-handcuffed Charlie head-butted him viciously, flattening and breaking his nose. The behemoth cop fell on the ground, and as his knees buckled, Pitt and another officer grabbed Charlie by both upper arms and escorted him to the backseat of the cruiser. Dalton was now rising to his feet, totally enraged, and looking for Charlie.
    At the van, Atencio now had the duffel bag in his hand, and it had been unwisely opened by the first man on the scene. He looked inside, and seeing the metal container, he gave out a long, low whistle.
    Seeing this from the alley, Pitt yelled, “What is it, Atencio, coke?”
    Juan yelled back, “No, it is a damned Stinger missile!”
    A murmur went through all the officers.
    American soldiers on the ground had concerns in the past about low-flying enemy aircraft because of either bombing, surveillance operations, or inserting and supplying enemy troops. Shooting down these aircraft would be the easiest way to eliminate the threat, so not counting on support from the air or ground vehicles, the army concluded they needed a lightweight, portable weapon that could also be what is called a “fire and forget” weapon, such as the M-72 LAW or light antitank weapon created during the Vietnam War for use on enemy armor and bunkers. It was in essence a disposable bazooka. The Stinger missile is much larger and should be used by two men but can be used by one. The missile and its launcher weigh about thirty-five pounds, and unlike the LAW, the launcher itself is reusable. It is a shoulder-launched weapon, and one person can launch it.
    Also the LAW used a pop-up plastic sight, but the Stinger missile is a passive infrared-seeker. If you fire one at a jet or other aircraft, it homes in on the heat signature or jet or engine exhaust and will travel right into the exhaust port of an aircraft and then detonate.
    When the seeker locks on, it makes a distinctive noise. The soldier pulls the trigger, and two things happen: (1) a small launcher-type of rocket shoots the missile out of the launch tube, and (2) the launch engine drops away, and the main rocket engine takes over and shoots the Stinger at approximately 1,500 mph.
    The missile then flies to the target automatically and explodes. The Stinger missile can hit targets flying as high as 11,500 feet and has a range of five miles. This means, in a general way, that if an airplane is less than two miles high, and it is visible as a shape (rather than a dot), then it is likely that the Stinger can hit it. Stinger missiles are extremely accurate.
    â€œDom,” Brad said, “I want you riding downtown to get this guy booked in and stay with him. I don’t trust or like that big jerk Dalton at all. Alexander also has a rep for beating on cuffed prisoners. I want this guy