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Ex-Officer Charged in Fatal Shooting at DC Special Officer Training Inside Library
Nbc4 ^ | 5 Aug 2022 | Staff

Posted on 08/05/2022 8:06:39 AM PDT by csvset

Jesse Porter, 58, was charged with involuntary manslaughter after the deadly shooting inside the Anacostia Neighborhood Library.

A woman was shot during a training as the trainer demonstrated how quickly a pistol could be drawn, sources told News4

A retired D.C. police officer faces charges after fatally shooting a special police officer at a training session Thursday inside a public library in the Anacostia neighborhood, authorities say.

Maurica Manyan, of Indian Head, Maryland, was the victim, the Metropolitan Police Department said in an update Friday. She was 25 and worked as a public library special police officer, the department said.

Jesse Porter, 58, was arrested and charged with involuntary manslaughter, police told News4. It wasn’t immediately clear if he has a lawyer.

Porter retired from MPD in 2020 as a lieutenant, an online profile says.

First responders were were called to the Anacostia Neighborhood Library at 1800 Good Hope Road SE shortly before 3:45 p.m. after a report of a shooting.

The special officer who was shot was "unconscious and not breathing" when first responders arrived, police said. She was shot in a downstairs meeting room, the D.C. Public Library system confirmed.

The retired lieutenant was conducting a training on how to use an extended baton, Chief Robert Contee told reporters Thursday night.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: banglist; donutwatch; jesseporter
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To: Deaf Smith
"Never point a firearm at anything you do not want to destroy."

We were taught to never draw your weapon unless you planned to use it, and if you used it, you better know where those bullets were going to end up.

41 posted on 08/05/2022 9:13:38 AM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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To: csvset
Imagine the potential risk of thousands of armed IRS agents.

How much training do you suppose they have or continue to maintain proficiency...

42 posted on 08/05/2022 9:19:08 AM PDT by G Larry (Anybody notice that Satan is hard at work?)
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To: Vigilanteman

> I suppose that might happen in a nice neighborhood. In a neighborhood infested with bums and winos, I don’t think most moms would want to turn their kids loose. <

The library that I mentioned in post #34 is in a bad neighborhood, in a bad city. I sometimes go there, but never after dark. But it just happens to be located high up on a hill. Few bums care to make the climb. But I guess the moms don’t mind the drive.

As the old saying goes, location is everything!


43 posted on 08/05/2022 9:26:45 AM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: csvset

He reportedly exclaimed, “She looked like Ashli Babbitt!” /sarc


44 posted on 08/05/2022 9:28:26 AM PDT by Gaffer (Infidel, and proud of it!)
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To: Leaning Right
Yeah, for sure.

Sounds like a bunch of bad Moms who value free day care over child safety.

I'm OK with spending local tax money on kid friendly libraries. But if you can't control the type of people who come and go, then they aren't really kid friendly, are they?

45 posted on 08/05/2022 9:32:18 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: csvset

Are you sure the guy’s name wasn’t Barney Fife??????


46 posted on 08/05/2022 9:45:36 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: Wally_Kalbacken

I’m surprised it took 36 posts before we saw a picture of Barney Fife.


47 posted on 08/05/2022 9:59:33 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: csvset

“...public library special police officer...”

Never heard of that. Guess they’re serious about “No Talking” in the library. Or, they have a different method of enforcing their book fine collection


48 posted on 08/05/2022 10:01:21 AM PDT by moovova
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To: Wally_Kalbacken

“Now, Opie, the first rule of firearm safety is to always assume that your weapon is [BANG!] . . . loaded.”


49 posted on 08/05/2022 10:03:07 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: mass55th

If one were the shooter , how do you face the girls’s parents ?


50 posted on 08/05/2022 10:29:53 AM PDT by csvset (tolerance becomes a crime when attached to evil)
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To: ridesthemiles

“SAD day in the USA when a LIBRARY needs a police officer.”

What’s not surprising is a cop at the ANACOSTIA library. The surprising thing is that there is a library there at all.

Since this was a baton training session, and the shooter is an experienced cop, I’d have to think that he was teaching her how to disarm a gun threat with a baton and forgot to unload his pistol.

Or she suddenly went ape-s**t with the baton, and he had to defend himself, but that seems less likely.


51 posted on 08/05/2022 10:59:10 AM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals)
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To: csvset

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNa5n2I_DUw

Oldie but a goodie.


52 posted on 08/05/2022 11:29:49 AM PDT by Sertorius (A hayseed with no Greek and dam^ proud of it)
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To: Joe 6-pack

FINALLY the right answer!


53 posted on 08/05/2022 11:33:27 AM PDT by real saxophonist (Hoplophobia will never be in the DSM, because the DSM is written by hoplophobes.)
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To: circlecity

Yup. “The gun is loaded and hot” even if it’s not.


54 posted on 08/05/2022 11:49:10 AM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore.)
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