DEA Agent Suspended After Shooting Video Surfaces

Orlando Local 6 News ^ | March 19, 2005 | Orlando Local 6 News

[Mulder]

ORLANDO, Fla. -- An agent with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency was been suspended after video surfaced showing the man shooting himself during a gun safety class in front of a group of Orlando fourth-graders, according to Local 6 News.

An investigation has been launched to determine who leaked the home video of the undercover DEA agent shooting himself at an event sponsored by the Orlando Minority Youth Golf Association.

Before the shooting, the agent was videotaped talking about how certain weapons are popular with rap artists.

"This is a Glock 40," the agent said on the tape. "Fifty Cent, Too Short, all of them talk about a Glock 40, OK?," he said. "I'm the only one in this room professional enough that I know of to carry this Glock 40."

Seconds later, the agent shot himself in the foot.

"See how that accident happened, that could happen to you and you could be blown away," the agent said after the shooting.

Experts in the field said that the undercover agent should never have been videotaped because it could put the agent's life at risk, Local 6 News reported.

"It puts a lot of undercover agents in jeopardy if their faces are videotaped," the masked agent told Local 6 News. "His identity is burned. His identity is known as a police officer and its a potential personal safety hazard to himself as well as his family members."

The video of the shooting is posted on several Web sites on the Internet. The video shows the shooting and the agent's face.

Local 6 News did not show the entire video of the shooting because the undercover officer could be identified in some of the shots.

Watch Local 6 News for more on this story.

[thoughtomator]

This is one of the funniest videos EVER. He goes on and on bragging about his gun skills, shoots himself, then tries to go on as if nothing happened.

[cajun-jack]

cleaning the kennels at the dog pound is the best job for him if he stays on, but i fear he is going to medically retire with a handsome pension and some really serious "war stories" to tell about how he got shot in the line of duty.

[Dead Corpse]

The bottom line, Mr. and Mrs. America, is that you are on your own, because these assclowns don't have sense enough to pour piss out of a boot.

Pure poetry. Excellent post.

[Squantos]

LOL...Agree....ya saving number V for later ?........:o)

[rudy45]

ping

[rudy45]

How about this scenario:

- The gun in question had been shot "to empty," resulting in the lockback of the slide
- Magazine is dropped (slide stays locked back, right?)
- Magazine is reinserted, with at least one round in it (by intention or perhaps accidentally)
- Gun is given to DEA agent, who neglects to check the gun himself. Slide still is locked back, but now the magazine has at least one round
- DEA agent, while talking, hits slide release, closing the slide AND CHAMBERING THE ROUND
- DEA agent fires gun

Does this scenario fit the facts? I know it doesn't make sense why anyone would do it, but from what I can see, the steps above WOULD cause the incident.

[risk]

LOL...Agree....ya saving number V for later ?........:o)

Lo, there are four rules, aren't there!? LOL, I guess I wouldn't have been a good Roman citizen.

[Squantos]

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[risk]

I have Feinstein and Boxer on my side. My rep is a shrill anti-American. My state can confiscate handguns that are imported and undeclared. My governor banned the .50 caliber rifle. When I complain about him here on FR, the Arnie bots come out in force and try to reassure me that "it's unimportant." Everywhere I turn here, firearms rights are being infringed, impinged, rescinded, and revoked. Our mainstream media outlets fall all over themselves to report firearm crimes as if it were only a problem because of our archaic second amendment nostalgia.

I think neverdem, Joe Brower, and Matt Bracken are really doing good stuff with their online advocacy and writing. Sometimes I think encouraging them is just as good as staying involved myself.

SIGARMS®, as well as Smith & Wesson, Beretta, Glock, Colt and Ruger just to name a few, need your help. Congress is taking up the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act. In the House it's H.R. 800 and in the Senate S.397. These bills are to protect the firearms industry from the frivolous, junk lawsuits brought by greedy trial lawyers and the anti-gun crowd led by Sarah Brady and her organization formerly known as Handgun Control Inc.

Yep!

That reminds me, it's been too long since I've been to the range...

[neverdem]

This clown of a brother is indistinguishable from a pro football player or ex-convict, at least from the video I saw. IIRC, he wore a T-shirt that said POLICE. I wonder who spilled the beans that he was an undercover DEA narc?

[risk]

I admit to wondering if this really happened.

[Joe Brower]

" Lo, there are four rules, aren't there!?"

I was going to say something about the "five rules", but I held back, figuring someone else would jump in there and point that out. $:-)

Thanks for the bon mots, by the way. My business has had me buried of late, which is why I haven't been around FR much lately.