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Another stupid mistake!

alledanalledan Member Posts: 19,541
edited February 2002 in General Discussion
Officer shoots kid in head while giving demonstration at school Philadelphia-AP -- Police in Philadelphia say an off-duty officer shot a ten-year-old child in the head today.A police spokesman says preliminary reports indicate it happened while the officer was giving a demonstration at a school.The spokesman says he isn't sure what kind of demonstration the officer was giving.
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  • niklasalniklasal Member Posts: 776 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Did that really happen? I know I sw the "AP" portion, but I still can't belive it. I would think the liberals would soak the headlines of every major paper with a juicy tidbit like that.If it is true though...Grandmother shoots assailant - one step forward for gun rights.Officer shoots kid in the head - a hundred steps back.
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  • salzosalzo Member Posts: 6,396 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Amazing. If it is true, it is not suprising, considering how police find it OK to ignore basic gun safety rules. You know the one about assuming a gun is loaded, even when you are sure it is "unloaded".Another reason why police should not be exempt from gun control laws.
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  • salzosalzo Member Posts: 6,396 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    It is true. Just read it in the Philadelphia Inquirer. cOP WENT TO PICK UP child from school. Kids asked to see her badge, then asked to see her gun. She removed magazine, and passed the gun around. THE IDIOT LEFT A ROUND IN THE CHAMBER. WHEN she got her gun back, she apparently "accidentally" pulled the trigger when she inserted the magazine.Geez, what kind of people do they put on police forces?
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  • IconoclastIconoclast Member Posts: 10,515 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    This shows the wisdom of the city fathers in limiting the general populace's access to firearms . . . . If you can't trust the police, who can you trust? Obviously, no one should be trusted with firearms in Phila. Not to mention the rest of the country. What we need to do is surrender all the firearms to the UN and turn the world over to the drug cartels and Islamic terrorists, then we'd be sure to have a peaceful existence.I hope the parents sue the city, the training program, and any other person they can think of for about $80 billion. And the dumb b***h should be put in the slammer for the rest of her days. Probably one of the equal opportunity recruits and went to school w/ the Fibby who left the SMG in her car on a street in NYC last year.
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  • BullzeyeBullzeye Member Posts: 3,560
    edited November -1
    Cop's Bullet Grazes Boy at School Wed Feb 6, 8:44 PM ET PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A 10-year-old boy was grazed in the right cheek by a bullet when an off-duty police officer conducting a school demonstration dropped her gun Wednesday, officials said. The boy was released after treatment at Temple University Children's Medical Center, hospital spokeswoman Jennifer McGowan said.The officer had shown the magazine clip to the class at Imani Education Circle Charter School and had just put it back in the gun when she dropped the weapon, Principal Francine Fulton said.Police department spokesman Sgt. Roland Lee declined to name the officer who joined the department in 1996. Her child was among the 23 students in the class at the time, he said.
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  • gunpaqgunpaq Member Posts: 4,607 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    The local media is really playing down the seriousness of this incident as well as the local PD. An unauthorized PD demonstration and direct violation of PD firearm regulations and a child shot in the head or grazed according to the news since it was a female minority LEO doing the shooting. What kind of an idiot, LEO or civilian, would take a loaded firearm to school in these sensitive times for an unauthorized demonstration and, at the childrens' request, pass a handgun around the class for their inspection aside from unloading and then loading the weapon next to the children? Was this off duty LEO going to take the children on an unauthorized bus trip to Washington next? According to the reports the firearm discharged upon the LEO chambering a round after inserting the clip and dropping it then pulling the trigger trying to catch it as it fell. If a legal, well intended, but no common sense Joe Civilian did this it would have resulted in a media frenzy and he would have been arrested and put in jail for a good many years and rightfully so.
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  • thesupermonkeythesupermonkey Member Posts: 3,905 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Why are accidental shots ALWAYS head shots?
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  • mudgemudge Member Posts: 4,225 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    "She showed the magazine clip to the children." OK, which was it? Typical journalist talking about something he knows zip about.Mudge the distrustful
    I can't come to work today. The voices said, STAY HOME AND CLEAN THE GUNS!
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