Posted on 01/22/2025 5:43:06 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
A police department in Florida is moving to fire an officer after she accidentally shot a man with his own gun during a routine traffic stop last month.
Officer Mindy Cardwell was called to assist with a traffic stop on Dec. 13 along with another cop after Jason Arrington, 39, had been pulled over by an officer for running a red light, the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office wrote on Facebook.
Arrington was fully cooperating with all three officers, the body camera footage showed. He had informed the cop who originally pulled him over that he did have a gun holstered in his waistband.
After he had exited his car, Cardwell went to remove his firearm, but while she was trying to take the gun, it discharged and Arrington was shot in his upper thigh.
It is unclear if the gun had its safety on or off before Cardwell tried to grab it.
The bullet had gone through his upper thigh and exited at his inner leg, causing an alarming arterial bleed that officers were able to stupor with a tourniquet.
Arrington was transported to a nearby hospital following the accident and is expected to make a full recovery, but filed a lawsuit against the JSO. He is specifically citing his lasting injuries which he says have impeded his ability to work as a crane operator.
An investigation by Internal Affairs found that Cardwell had been incompetent and moved to terminate her.
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Why carry a handgun with a safety? Because some idiot cop might shoot you in your leg when pulling it from your holster.
Usually "Glock Leg" is from the owner but in this case it was from a cop.
https://x.com/amiriking/status/1881898180482080788?s=46
DEI
https://www.actionnewsjax.com/news/local/jacksonville-officer-who-shot-man-leg-during-traffic-stop-terminated/KM5LZ76T3ZFLDAU7PKH4VB5WTI/
Some people just should not be LEO’s
This is my town.
Correct me if I’m wrong but unless you apply the alec baldwin “the gun went of on it’s own” rule, she had to have pulled the trigger.
one has to squeeze fairly hard to override the glock trigger feature (not safety) to fire
guessing she was pulling hard with some underlying anger at the time, imho
Inside the waistband is not a very ready, or comfortable position to carry, while driving.
I usually place my device on the center console tray, where it is easy to retrieve, but not uncomfortable.
Also, if asked to exit the vehicle, it is not involved in a pat-down, where an inept public servant might shoot me.
Life in America has become one long Three Stooges episode.
She stupored it all right.
Clear case of finger on the trigger.
She should know better.
especially females ...
For anyone else curious about the related laws in Florida, a handy dandy link...
http://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&URL=0700-0799/0790/0790.html
Scroll down to 790.251 for the most applicable here...
Absolutely. She's incompetent but there's also the issue of certain handguns not having a manual safety. Glocks in particular don't.
It doesn't matter if you "keep your finger off the trigger" or "get a good holster" when someone else is handling the firearm.
The Jacksonville Sheriff's Office will pay out handsomely because this inept officer should never have been disarming a driver for a routine traffic stop. They'll settle out of court because their lawyers don't want to admit the officers at the scene violated protocol, violated the driver's rights, and at least this officer had insufficient training in disarming someone.
I’d charge her with criminal negligence and as part of her sentencing handcuff her to a blue training pistol 24/7 for a year of parole. Force her to carry it everywhere - bathroom, shower, bed, etc.
The older I get, the more I think it always has been. It was just easier to mask it in the past.
Nicked the femoral artery; quick bleed out if not for quick thinking.
He’s lucky to be alive.
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