Posted on 03/19/2005 7:09:30 AM PST by 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.
Maybe this guy should talk to gary coleman about getting a job at a rent a cop agency! lol
Can you imagine what would have happened to Joe Q. Citizen if he had an ND in a classroom? He'd likely still be in jail in facing felony charges.
Yet this DEA bozo is still on the job and his supervisors aren't pissed about the ND. Rather they are upset that someone taped it.
How dare one of you peasants tape one of your lords doing something incredibily negligent!
I noticed that too.
"His identity is known as a police officer..."
And a nut case. They don't seem concerned at all that this guy just hauled off and shot himself in the foot in front of a roomful of children. Is he going to claim disability payments now? What a bizarre story.
I watched the video and I whole-heartedly agree with your assessment but, I think your post was a tad too soft on the a$$hole!
Mulder, do you some days just want to go back to bed and pull the covers over your head after reading stuff like this? Sometimes, I think the whole world is skewed--(or screwed!)
Schools are supposed to safe areas so no guns allowed, but the ATF and FBI carries this known unstable hair trigger weapon in to a grade school in Waco,Tx and this is how the trouble started chanches are they shot them own selves.
SEE #10
LOL well, the video is a hoot.
He can always get a job with the Atlanta PD.
WOW, thanks for posting that. It would be pretty darn funny if it wasn't so scary. He really shot himself by accident? I thought from reading the article he did it on purpose. Oy, what a klutz! And whoever is shouting "Put it down, PUT IT DOWN!" when he has the assistant pick up the REALLY BIG gun, certainly had the right idea.
Desk duty looks like the best place for this fellow.
Hold on a minute! The Glock is stable as hell-- you just have to keep the finger off the trigger (like every DA revolver made in the U.S.). It isn't rocket science, but it does presume paying attention to handling the arm instead of role-playing in front of an audience.
As for a hair trigger, I haven't handled a Glock that really had one, but you can get them down to a nice pull weight if you play around with it. Even so, it's nothing like what you can do to, say, a High Standard Supermatic.
I posted on a week ago thread on this subject.
It's his race that kept his job. Political correctness.
Any white guy do this -- he'd be outta there.
I carried a Glock 23 .40 cal five days a week for twelve years with out a problem. I even dropped it a few times. My advise is always carry a Glock in a holster and be careful of the trigger when putting it in the holster.
I carried a Glock 23 .40 cal five days a week for twelve years with out a problem. I even dropped it a few times. My advise is always carry a Glock in a holster and be careful of the trigger when putting it in the holster.
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