Only the police should have guns
Wow:
Those sources say a Sergeant later told officers in the room that they had secretly ordered the officer to unload his weapon and then pretend to fire on his colleague as part of a training exercise on situational awareness. The officer then pulled the trigger of the unloaded weapon while pointing it at the head of an officer until it audibly clicked, the sources say.
April 19th, 2016 at 7:38 pm
WTF meter just pegged.
April 19th, 2016 at 7:41 pm
This was roll call, under supervision. An entire room full of stupid. Amazing. But it’s ok because there are seven different version of what happened, so, nothing happened then.
April 19th, 2016 at 7:47 pm
Totally Mind boggling
No PD, Cooper, common sense safety rules? WTF is right.
They are lucky someone was not killed.
April 19th, 2016 at 8:02 pm
The correct response when “ordered” to do something like this is “Fuck You, Sir.”
April 19th, 2016 at 11:48 pm
Any question that DC police are the most incompetent? Their chief should be fired.
April 20th, 2016 at 8:57 am
I’ve solved it!
The sergeant was tired of dealing with the station fuckup, so he secretly told him to dry-fire on someone at roll call, hoping that someone else would solve his problem for him. Sadly, it didn’t work, and instead of a flood of paperwork followed by peaceful station-fuckup-less bliss, he now has a flood of paperwork and the fuckup, too.
The best-laid plans . . .
April 20th, 2016 at 9:40 am
Is this not considered assault with a deadly weapon? If any of the peasants, I mean citizens, did this they would have been arrested and imprisoned at best. But most likely would have been summarily executed.
April 20th, 2016 at 10:27 am
If I had been the guy that had the gun pointed at me and then dry fired, I would have taken the gun and pistol whipped the s*** out the guy that pulled the trigger and the took the gun and shoved it up the Sergeants a** that ordered it!
April 20th, 2016 at 11:47 am
I’m with Magus (post 4) on this one.
April 20th, 2016 at 12:52 pm
“You shouldn’t be doing that kind of training.”
Let’s see… the event broke every safety rule for live fire, dry fire, as well as those for Reality Based Training events. This means that there was no “training” going on there at all.
But does earn the understatement of the day award for: “This is police academy 101. You do not pull your weapon out of your holster and display it, especially in a roomful of cops…”
Word.
April 20th, 2016 at 1:48 pm
This could just as easily have been done with a bright orange Nerf gun.
April 20th, 2016 at 2:30 pm
That none of the cops involved in this idiocy actually got shot and/or killed is surprising. When actual firearms are used for role playing, cops tend to screw up the “unload and make clear” part of the preparation. They lean toward “if it can go bang, it will go bang”.