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.
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.
How much training do you suppose they have or continue to maintain proficiency...
> 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!
He reportedly exclaimed, “She looked like Ashli Babbitt!” /sarc
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?
Are you sure the guy’s name wasn’t Barney Fife??????
I’m surprised it took 36 posts before we saw a picture of Barney Fife.
“...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
“Now, Opie, the first rule of firearm safety is to always assume that your weapon is [BANG!] . . . loaded.”
If one were the shooter , how do you face the girls’s parents ?
“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.
FINALLY the right answer!
Yup. “The gun is loaded and hot” even if it’s not.
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