“The officers arrived shortly thereafter, and while clearing the building, one of their guns discharged, police said.”
The gun didn’t just ‘discharge’.
Some dumb ass fired it.”
Said ‘dumbass’ had its finger inside the trigger guard before target acquisition had been accomplished.
Revision of training protocols is needed, apparently.
Hartford is such a smelly armpit of a city, especially it's north end, that it is common practice at night for the cops to drive around in their cruisers while holding their weapons in hand pointed at the floorboards between their legs.
I am completely serious. about this. It's just a place where you do your time until you can transfer out to the 'burbs.