Posted on 11/17/2022 8:12:02 PM PST by T.B. Yoits
A high school senior in Indiana was shot during a law enforcement vocational training session when one of the deputies conducting the training session “accidentally” fired his service weapon, rather than a “dummy gun,” reports say.
On Thursday morning, Deputy Tim DisPennett, a 19-year veteran of the Vermillion County Sheriff’s Office, was conducting a vocational law enforcement class at South Vermillion County High School in Clinton, Indiana, about 15 miles north of Terre Haute. During a demonstration, DisPennett reportedly fired his service revolver, and the bullet from his gun grazed a male student.
“During the course of instruction today,” Dave Chapman, superintendent of the South Vermillion Community School Corp., told reporters, “they were going through some drills, and during the course of that drill, the deputy’s service revolver accidentally was discharged, hitting one of our students.”
“[S]omehow, the instructor reached for the dummy gun and got his service revolver and fired that accidentally,” Chapman later added.
First aid was immediately administered to the senior, who was then transported to a Terre Haute hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. Chapman claimed that the student described the pain as “a sting.”
“I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s not in school tomorrow,” Chapman said.
Other students requested to leave campus for the day, and Chapman stated that those students whose parents signed them out were permitted to leave.
“I don’t know a lot will be going on educationally the rest of the day,” he admitted.
Indiana State Police will investigate the incident and will conduct interviews with the deputies and the students who were in the classroom at the time. DisPennett has been placed on administrative leave, per department protocol.
DisPennett is also a school resource officer, though he was not operating in that capacity at the time of the incident.
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A fine movie.
“I’m a peacock, you gotta let me fly!”
“Haven’t seen a cop with a revolver in maybe 20 years.”
Now you have heard of one!
“Service revolver? Sheesh, who writes this crap?”
It was a service revolver. Per the county sheriff.
“I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s not in school tomorrow..”
Ah, you don’t say
Most cops should NOT be armed, there should be a small cadre of highly trained police officers who are allowed to carry guns and he other 90% should be unarmed other than their night-stick.
It’s negligent if you or I did it. It’s accidental if a highly trained police officer did it.
“...service revolver...”
Seriously???
Oh! Wait! You mean somebody already thought of that?!
“Seriously???”
Seriously.
He was a dumbass pretending to be a “firearms expert”.
He does not have to follow the rules or obey the Law. Rules and Laws are foe peasants and serfs. He is a Policeman and therefore a god. If you had did that or something like that, you would be in the graybar hotel before the sun set. In a just World , so would he. We live in a World where the peons and serfs do what their bettors say. The bettors wear a uniform , carry a badge, and carry a gun. Don’t believe that, ask the blind man who was arrested for resisting arrest in Columba County, Florida when no arrest was made.
"I wouldn't be surprised if his lawyers file tomorrow to own the school."
At my high school we could leave campus I don’t remember restrictions.
And with parental permission we could write an excuse ourselves if we missed class.
the deputy’s service ***revolver*** accidentally was discharged, hitting one of our students.”
democrats...
Who can forget the black dea officer lecturing students about being the only one in the room qualified to handle a firearm and then shooting himself in the foot.
He’s lucky he didn’t kill the teen. It would be another white cop kills innocent black person.
Who is the real dummy - the gun or the dummy that pointed it at an innocent kid?
It could have been much worse. The cop could have covered his mistake by quickly putting a few more rounds into the kid and then claiming he was “in fear for his life”.
Fortunately most cops can’t think that fast.
I'm sure that the Law Enforcement Officer guilty of the negligent discharge will be brought to justice.
Regards,
Just for the record. I have seen “bettors” in uniform. ;-)
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