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21st July 2016, 09:27 AM | #121 |
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Had he been convicted of a felony, it would have meant that he could no longer own a firearm. However, the negligent discharge of a firearm in city limits without incurring bodily injury, was a misdemeanor. At days end, I thought that the sanctions and charge he incurred were pretty fair. In relation to that case, I went on to give my recommendations as to what needed to be done to correct the obvious flaws in the department's firearms training doctrine and supervise the transition into the new doctrine. To their credit, they implemented all of my most important baseline revisions straight up, as well as all of the minor more flexible items with just a bit of tweaking/tuning. |
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You're having trouble because you're not used to thinking like a criminal.
The cops screwed up. They know they screwed up and they know this could cost them their jobs or even put them in jail. But they're not ready to admit that yet. They want to keep their options open and see if they can conspire together and come up with some reason to justify their actions. Part of that is running checks on this guys ID, searching him and running a drug panel at the hospital. If they find some dirt on him, they can claim that's part of the reason why they shot him. If they treat him like a victim, that option goes away. |
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None of those would apply if we assume the discharge was accidental. Under Florida law, it looks like the worst that would apply is culpable negligence resulting in actual harm - a first degree misdemeanor.
The problem is that various other provisions, like assault with a deadly weapon or discharging a weapon in public, don't apply either because there wasn't anything illegal about the cop pointing the weapon at the guy in the first place or because firing the weapon was accidental. |
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If most cops are good, why were none of the good cops on scene here? The idea being that a good cop would demand medical attention for an innocent person accidentally shot by another cop.
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Did the rounds bounce off the ground, perhaps?
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Fascinating. Never knew that. Looks like some weapons also have 8 round bursts and there are lots of hits on Google that include discussions on the legality of those in the civilian population which I didn't bother reading.
It makes sense to me this could have been a 3-round burst. Still negligent to accidentally pull a trigger. |
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