Florida woman accidentally killed in police academy exercise

[MongGrel]

This was a odd one in the news, I was not aware Police Academies ran civilian programs like this to begin with.

Condolences to her family. Punta Gorda makes it even odder, it's mostly retirees down there.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-37036848

Whatever happened to not pointing a weapon at something you do not intend to shoot, someone is doing it wrong.

 

[feralkid]

Good lord, what a freaking nightmare.

 

[UberNeuman]

You always got to keep an eye on Tackleberry.

 

[Paladin3]

Fucking unreal. Law enforcement instructors at a police academy actually pointing real firearms at a civilian as part of a drill??? What buffoonery! Even with blank rounds in the revolver it would be capable of killing or injuring someone. Lots of people have been killed by blank rounds because they didn't understand how dangerous there are.

I did shoot-don't-shoot training with the California Highway Patrol over 20 years ago, and even back then we used guns and pepper spray units modified with lasers that fired at a video screen. The video was controlled by a live operator so they could change the scenario based on your voice commands and actions during the simulation. It was a much better tool and no risk of killing anyone.

 

[sdifox]

I still cannot fathom doing this with real gun...

 

[sdifox]

This was a odd one in the news, I was not aware Police Academies ran civilian programs like this to begin with.

Condolences to her family. Punta Gorda makes it even odder, it's mostly retirees down there.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-37036848

Whatever happened to not pointing a weapon at something you do not intend to shoot, someone is doing it wrong.

The victim, I mean perp, was 71 year old.

 

[master_shake_]

floriduh...

jesus christ.

 

[NesuD]

Every instructor I ever worked with always made everyone prove their weapon was safe before any interaction that even remotely involved the possibility of it being pointed at someone. Simply dropping the magazine and locking the action back will do that. Everytime I hand one of my weapons to someone to let them check it out I always do that in their presence so that they can see it is safe to handle. Unbelievable that a trained LEO didn't even follow basic range safety rules.

 

[TheVrolok]

Negligent discharge. Horrible for everyone involved.

 

[EOM]

Unbelievable that a trained LEO

That's your first mistake.... assuming that they're trained. Second mistake is assuming that even though they have "training" that they're competent.

 

[EOM]

Negligent discharge. Horrible for everyone involved.

Especially the family of the victim. It happened "in the line of duty" so they have absolutely NO legal recourse...

 

[Brovane]

Should have used something like this. Extremely incompetent, all it takes is a small lapse in judgement with firearms and tragedy can result. Years ago a local Orange County Sheriff killed another deputy during a training accident because of a accidental discharge.