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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“ Most cops should NOT be armed, there should be a small cadre of highly trained police officers who are allowed to carry”
This one should be made to carry the “dummy gun”
There it is in the first comment. This is why I love Free Republic.
I hate te term “accidental discharge.” This was a negligent discharge.
I attended my city’s citizen police academy. One of the sessions was at the firearms training simulator, which uses computers, projectors, and laser equipped training guns to place trainees in stressful use of force situations.
When it came time for my turn, the officer running the simulation hands me a blue training Glock 21 with the laser guts instead of live rounds. Nevertheless, this is very much a G21 shaped object. So what’s the first thing I do? I pull the slide back slightly to verify there is not a round inside.
“That’s the first time I’ve seen someone do that!”
“You’ve just handed me a firearm-shaped object that I’m going to be pulling the trigger on - what else would I do but verify it is safe!?”
And I really hope he meant I was the first among citizen police academy attendees. But I suspect he didn’t.
And wasn’t that incident in Orlando, not Philly?
Graduate of Alex Baldwin Academy of Firearm Safety and Anger Management.
No accidental discharges.
Deputy Fife had no comment!
Why would he even take his service weapon out of the holster.
“DisPennett reportedly fired his service revolver,”
They’re still using revolvers?
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***reportedly fired his service revolver***
You can’t accidentally fire a revolver. You have to pull the trigger.
Maybe he will use the Alec Baldwin plea.
Are they sure it was a REVOLVER and not a semi-auto? News reporters are so dumb they don’t know the difference.
It fits
The training I’ve had stressed keeping the two separate. If one is using dummy rounds for drills, the live ammo is inventoried and locked away and vice versa. Same with a prop gun. If using one for training, the real gun is locked away and vice versa. Bad things can happen if they are mixed up
I love how the captain says “You’ll get this back when I feel you know how to handle it,” all the while with his finger on the trigger.
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