Some people play the lottery, some people play the courts.
Don’t know whether this is a legitimate claim, but many people do see opportunity for personal gain in accidents.
i think that his stupid and reckless behavior with the suspect’s pistol was a supervening cause of his accident. don’t see how the city could have lost on this one unless it had really bad representation.
Lean back in any four leg chair an it will fall apart. Not a klutz but a dumb ass.
The millions aside, the guy draws a 3/4 pension AND has another city job where he will undoubtedly earn a second pension in time.
The harder I work to make my own livelihood, the more I think I have been a fool all this time. If I took a different path after college, today I’d be just a few years from my “20 and a pension” and I could move to a cheaper part of the country and start anew.
Sounds like very poor handling of a strange firearm to me.
This guy needs an NRA refresher course or something.
I’m certainly no gun expert and not a trained peace officer but even I would never have treated the weapon so carelessly.
Wonder if he was holding a cup of hot coffee also causing a burn in the crotch area maybe he can make a claim on that also how about a claim on not being able to finish his donut because of the fall.Some one should sue him for not putting the safety on before jamming it into his pants.The idiot.
There’s been a number of posts about the detective, but I was thinking about what must have gone through the mind of the suspect when this went down in the interrogation room. Holy S##t would just begin to describe it.
For what it’s worth, I read the article to say that this was not the suspect’s gun, but the partner’s gun.
I would assume that it is a rule that you can not interview a suspect alone while armed, so the partner gave his gun to the guy to hold while he was doing the interview.
The cops I have known do not unload every time they take it off or store it. So why would we expect it to be done here?
Playing devil’s advocate here, maybe he was sitting somewhere where he could not put the gun in a drawer or other storage place.
His partner hands him the gun and rather than sitting there holding a gun, he tucks it into his waistband. (the picture seems to show it’s not a large piece)
When he leans back, the chair breaks and he starts to fall backward. I would think under this senario your first instinct might be to grab the gun so it does not fall to the floor, thus he grabbed the gun the most natural way.
If the gun did not slide smoothly from his waistband, this might lead to him pulling the trigger as he fell backwards.
Just a thought.
That cop watched far too many movies.
I really can’t express how disgusted I am with a-hole cops in general, our “justice system” and NYC as a whole.
Take the magazine out.
Pull the slide back to eject the round and lock the slide.
You’re free to scratch your head with said pistol if you wish.
He had a negligent discharge in a police station. If I was the presiding judge I would have thrown the suit out, then angrily asked him “Why didn’t you follow proper firearm safety rules?” He nearly would have left with my shoe up where the sun doesn’t shine.
Why was his finger in the trigger guard? Did he think he might have to shoot the other cop who was giving him the gun?
Let’s see, let me guess, he didn’t have the safety on, or this pistol isn’t equipped with a safety AND he forgot to unload it before sticking it into his belt. Got it. Wasn’t his fault it was the fault of his superiors who allowed such an untrained idiot to run loose on a police force!