Posted on 08/05/2022 8:06:39 AM PDT by csvset
reckless endangerment causing the death of a police officer sounds like a Death Penalty case.
SAD day in the USA when a LIBRARY needs a police officer.
This was negligent. If the officer wanted to do this type of demonstration he should have first removed the magazine and cleared the chamber. This is gun safety 101. I do this anytime I pick up or put down a firearm, even if I just watched someone unload it. It should be instinctive.
Boy...something like that could have happened on Jan 6th.
Should add five years to his sentence for sheer stupidity.
Gotta keep it safe for drag queen story hour
First rule in firearms training....no live ammo ANYWHERE but on the range.
Same thing happened years ago in Georgia. The Instructor shot a recruit in the academy as he was showing off. Young woman in her early 20s.
Possible.
Negative.
Never point a firearm at anything you do not want to destroy.
He can use the Alec Baldwin defense that he didn’t actually pull the trigger.
This tragedy sounds like a police version of the Alec Baldwin case. Except that the retired cop had much more training than Baldwin did.
At least the retired cop was arrested. Baldwin however is still walking free, and mouthing off. I guess being a famous celebrity trumps being a member of the thin blue line.
It sounds exactly like what he was charged with - involuntary manslaughter. He accidentally killed another human being. Now, if he had also been committing a crime and she was a responding officer, I’d feel differently, but in a situation like this, police officers’ lives are no more or less valuable than yours or mine.
Reminds me of this oldie but “goodie” from during “safety class”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfONckOPyaI
I’m betting that Baldwin actually has had more training than most cops. His father, whom he said he was very close to, was a Marine and taught riflery. Baldwin was raised with guns. I’ll bet his dad had a nice collection.
And yet it's always the same mistake. Apathy and firearms can't mix. It's very disturbing, especially when it involves those that know better.
I do this anytime I pick up or put down a firearm, even if I just watched someone unload it.
So the training officer not only failed to unload his pistol he apparently had his finger on the trigger as he was demonstrating his fast-draw skills and wasn’t pointing his pistol in a safe direction.
100%...
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