This does seem like a scenario where this could have been spoken about OOC after the event and not straight away of course whilst the roleplay is still going ahead. It could have probably been identified as something which both sides could have gone "yeah we could have done better here" and left happy or neutral. However now were here and i am going to be looking at this from a quality of RP point of view not a box ticking exercise of RDM.
So, yes. A cop was shot the complte opposite side of Mega mall 20 seconds before Jeremy Dent was also shot down on grove gas. So, could we say that was a active shootout between police/NSC from that?
Usually, i would say we couldnt tell that 100% because we dont have the information on the starting of the shootout, if its been communicated or what. However from this comment here:
they was told not too let you impound those cars & so the officers was shot they was both killed instantly so you would not of received a panic alarm
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@Ronniie it clearly tells us that they knew he never had time to panic or alert others. So we cannot confirm that and we cannot confirm if that was RDM. However from the POV of the other police at Grove Gas and from the admission there. Its clear to see you knew police had no knowledge of this behind MegaMall. And its clear that even after the shooting within that 20 seconds between the two you would have had plenty of time to make something very clear to the officers that clearly had no idea what was going on the other side of megamall that they should leave.
Hostile situations are fine. However you need to ensure that your playing fair and quality roleplay is provided before firing that gun. If you put yourself in the perspective of that cop and most of the other police at GroveGas you would also be fuming and no best pleased with whats happened, thus making them also do things like "no pulse" because they would be simply bummed out by no roleplay being provided when you had ample time to do so. So the whole scenario from a police POV would have looked like pure RDM, there drove around in a boot. Stripped of gear took away and killed again or left ziptied. Its not quality roleplay. Its not thinking of the other side having fun making it much more of an enjoyable experience for all.
So, Andrian Reznikov who was the first kill over on grove gas who shot Jeremy will be getting a 24 hour ban for RDM as no quality roleplay was provided when you have said you knew the other officers had no chance to notify others of a problem.
This could have been avoided by ANY one of you stepping up at grove gas and making the police aware of another level of escalation. But nobody did. As for the dodgys, like i said before. Make it enjoyable for the other side. Then people wont come to a report and throw around sayings like "vending machine rp".
Cheers