Posted on 10/19/2004 8:27:45 AM PDT by esryle
PHILADELPHIA -- Philadelphia's first transgender police officer is in a lot of trouble after she is accused of shooting near another officer during firearm's training.
Police officials will only say that officer Maria Gonzalez has been reassigned to desk duty because of an incident that internal affairs is investigating that allegedly happened Friday night at a firing range.
Gonzalez, 57, is scheduled for a sex change operation next summer. She takes hormones and other medication.
Back then, Gonzalez told NBC 10 in January that she notified her police department about her life change and her officers were supportive.
"All I ask is that they tolerate me and accept me," she said then.
Gonzalez is accused of mishandling firearms and putting other officers in danger.
According to sources, Gonzalez was training other officers at the police academy firing range Friday night when she got into an argument with Officer Marie Schmidt, a 17-year veteran of the force.
Gonzalez allegedly took Schmidt's gun out of her hand and fired a round at the ground, then fired another down range.
Noting the dangers of firing into the ground, police reassigned Gonzalez and she was checked into a hospital for evaluation.
NBC 10 spoke with Schmidt briefly. She was upset and would not talk about the incident.
Ya just can't make this stuff up.........ROTFLMAO !
Cat and a half fight on the firing range !!!
BRAWHAHAHAHAHAHAH !!
I got to laugh to keep from cryin'. What is this country coming to????
Another stunning sucess for Affirmitive Action.
We have one of those at the widget works..........:o)
Are ya scared now ?
Ya should be ! Albeit just a grounds keeper who "mans" the weedwhacker !
Oh what a headline!!!
Laces out!
Sounds like Maria (what's his real name, Manuel?) has some emotional problems. No wait, we already knew that when we heard he thinks mutilating his body surgically and chemically will somehow turn him from male to female.
How does a risk manager even suggest that Officer Bobbed was mentally capable of exercising sound judgement ?
A society gone nuts throwing theirs away per se !
Stay safe !
57 years old and having sex surgery? Why bother? Most of the fun passed this officer by a while back. Introducing hormones in the late 50's will be real fun. Ugh,
hot flashes and night sweats ...............and the crying jags will impress her fellow officers. Why doesn't she/he just put on a LLBean plaid shirt, jeans and boots and head out for a bar and forget the chopping block. Mutilation is not smart. I wonder if the mutilation will be paid for by the City of Philadelphia.
Yea it is shameless. Seems to me one had nothing to do with the other. OTOH, can't flip the victim card with the truth.
BUT you can flip the idiot card with either.
Why does the reporter use the pronoun "she" when Gonzalez hasn't yet had the operation to mutilate himself? Just asking.
Cordially,
Waaahhh. All I ask is you accept my not accepting you. I'll tolerate you but I'll never accept you. Personally, I believe mentally ill people shouldn't own a gun, but that's just my common sense talking to me...it's not the real bizarro world that is the USA today.
Any photos of this beauty?
Whoa! Slow down, I thought to myself. In the dark, smoky bar, especially after 12 brews were put down, she didn't look half bad. After chatting her up for a while and surmising that she was not a complete psycho, I decided to play along. We went back to her place, but I told here there would be no handcuffs, but frisking was okay. But, as I got that thought together and verbalized, Maria "pulled her gun" on me and advised me to "assume the position."
Fortunately for me her apartment is only on the third floor, so there was no hesitation on my part to jump from the window and beat feet on back to Virginia where we don't have those kinds, although some would question the aesthetic qualities of the Hogettes.
That is horrible! Did you get to swing a punch at "him/her"?
Good question. As much as they are worried about lawsuits nowadays. Then again I can just imagine the lawsuit that would be brought for discriminating against this 'whack job.' (pardon the pun)
I didn't have time. As soon as she/he turned all "Lola" on me, I was out the window in no time flat...
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