Cop Accidentally Shoots Himself In The Leg While Exiting Patrol Car

VIDMAX ^ | 5/5/2023 | ThisIsButter

[T.B. Yoits]

Police videos

“It was me! I need a tourniquet!”

We’re now learning more about a situation when a Hobart-Lawrence officer’s gun went off, shooting him in the leg during a police chase.

Police released footage from Officer Samuel Schroeder’s body and dash cameras from early December.

Officers were asked to check on a person’s welfare. Officer Schroeder pulled that person over after a short pursuit, then was hurt when his gun fired. The video shows him falling to the ground shortly after a gun goes off.

A closer inspection of the video shows Officer Schroeder’s finger was inside the trigger guard. Hobart-Lawrence Police Chief Michael Renkas tells our sister station WISN Officer Schroeder couldn’t explain that but denied doing anything outside his training. Renkas said the gun was inspected by Nelson Tactical in Green Bay, which couldn’t find any problem with the gun and couldn’t reproduce the gun firing without using the trigger.

Chief Renkas wrote, “We do not have video of the moment the firearm was discharged; however, the possibility of the discharge being a result of handling the weapon is a consideration.”

The gun is a SIG Sauer -- a company facing lawsuits from wounded officers in several states claiming the gun goes off by itself. Hobart-Lawrence police officers received new Staccato P pistols this year.

In December, the police department told us Officer Schroeder was a 7-year veteran of the department and was expected to make a full recovery.

[T.B. Yoits]

Can ya imagine the grief this cop will take in the squad room for years??

I don't know how much because the other officers will question how likely it is they that they could have done the same. The injury makes it more real.

Now, an officer with a negligent discharge that didn't hit anyone might be told to carry a blue training gun around the precinct instead of a real one. That or wear mittens while in the building.

I'd lend a flak jacket to the counter server at the doughnut shop just to see the officer's reaction.

[T.B. Yoits]

I’m partial to DA/SA autoloaders myself. Safe as a revolver.

Agree. I trained on the M9 but prefer .45 ACP. I hope to acquire an FNX-45 Tactical. The only ones I can find available have the Flat Dark Earth finish.

[CodeToad]

It isn’t. The trigger could do the same job as that additional safety level of unblocking the firing system. It’s like those additional security questions online website use; they are just more passwords, so why ask them if the original password system is compromised. If the trigger is a failure, then why add something else to the trigger that has the same job.

[Seruzawa]

I have my old Ruger P90 that’s adequate enough. Standard mags only hold 7 but doublestack 45acps are just to big for me. I have 10 round mags that stick out a bit. 45s are too big for concealed carry anyhow.

[VTenigma]

Exactly

[MeganC]

Then I suppose if someone really wanted someone else dead they could call the police, report the target as an EDP and let the police carry out the assassination.

Just me, but right now I find myself very concerned for the well being of Hillary Clinton.

(-;

[T.B. Yoits]

Then I suppose if someone really wanted someone else dead they could call the police, report the target as an EDP and let the police carry out the assassination.

Callers have been accused of exactly that. It's one reason that some police departments have 911 send such calls to crisis counselors first.

Police had to change their training to deal with "attempted assassination by cop" calls, especially for child custody cases.

[zeugma]

My point is this idiot with a badge was doing a welfare check on someone who had not committed a crime yet he was prepared to shoot and kill that same person as is evidenced by his hand on the pistol, his finger on the trigger, safety off, and a round in the chamber.

Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a winner. Fortunately, this time the murderous thug only shot himself.

[Rappini]

I thought for sure that it was going to be a Glock, I was wrong.

[Retain Mike]

After Vietnam, I always wondered when I saw them in stores, “Where the hell is the safety”?

[M Kehoe]

Hi.

My two cents, I carry a SW 9mm single action no saftey. I have the luxury of not being a LEO. I don’t keep a round in the chamber.

Trigger discipline, safety and situational awareness are very important. You have to train tactical on the range now and then to be proficient.

5.56mm

[allwrong57]

I have a 365XL and a P320 M17. Both have safeties identical in function to a 1911 style .45.

If he had his finger on the trigger and pulled it, it has nothing to do with a Sig cult, poor gun handling.

I also have a Glock 30 .45 that has bout 30k through it, it hasn’t shot me yet either. I will say that if I were to carry one with no safety, I take the holster off to re-holster it. Almost every law enforcement leg shot is during replacing it in the holster. I’m certainly not re-holstering a Glock in appendix carry.

[Mr.Unique]

Three cars in hot pursuit...for a welfare check?

Cops and their fans are a weird lot.

[MV=PY]

"For everyone that says a manual safety would have prevented this, I ask how? If the officer was going to put his hand on his weapon, isn’t it likely he would also take it off safe since he was thinking he may need it?"

He would have had to take the safety off before removing the gun from the holster, an additional dumb move required.

Still, we shouldn't underestimate him. ;)

[halfright]

Been in a group setting with 20 other guys. Government employees...it can be brutal if you aint the lead dog. I went without teeth for three months..it was all out war. Cracked me up when the the Legend of Black ear went ballistic. Every phone in the office had black phones...rotary....someone...I know not whom, rubbed each receiver ear piece in Black ink pad stuff. Supers running around with a black ear..Ya wanna dance? Ya gotta pay the band! :^)

[BiteYourSelf]

This.🤨