From the OWH
The whole article goes on to say that there is no proof the chief was negligent.No charges will be filed against the Carter Lake police chief who accidentally shot a police sergeant Wednesday at the police station, the Pottawattamie County attorney said today.
About 2:45 p.m. Wednesday, Police Chief Shawn Kannedy was showing Sgt. Dan Driver and another officer, Joshua Driscoll, how magazines of two different Smith & Wesson revolvers were interchangeable, County Attorney Matt Wilber said. A live bullet was in Kannedy's gun, and the gun went off.
A bullet struck Driver in the lower abdomen just beneath his bulletproof vest, Pottawattamie County Sheriff Jeff Danker said.
No...
Proof?
Really, Matt Wilber? Really?
Oh, and a HUGE SHOUT OUT to intrepid reporter Jason Kuiper who accepts that the officers were exchanging magazines in their revolvers. Without crack reporting like that, Jason, this blog would die off. Outstanding work.
Kuiper is either too dumb to refer to his FRAKKIN' AP Stylebook, page 267, where a revolver is defined. OR he's so bad at his job he merely writes down whatever Officer Friendly tells him without nary a question.
Let's review this story, shall we?
Chief shoots officer, tries to blame gun.
County Attorney decides a chief LEO pointing a loaded gun at a brother officer, then shooting said officer because the chief was too stupid to do a chamber check.
The self-titled "official paper of Nebraska" not only is OK with that reason, a reporter and at least TWO EDITORS are too inept to realize you can't put a bloody magazine in a bloody revolver.
(I'm two steps away from turning into a sputtering mess who ends up screaming and storming from the room.)
Seriously, Freedom Fiends, if this happened TO ANY ONE OF US, would we be told, "it's OK, shake it off."?
Ask the kids with the AKM in Bellevue a year or two ago. He failed to chamber check, shot a kid, and the prosecutor wanted to nail him to the tree.
As David Codrea will say "The Only Ones..."
EDITED TO RANT:
Wilber said there is a law in Iowa regarding the reckless discharge of a firearm, but that would involve more than just negligence.
Officers rarely are charged in connection with shootings that occur during training, Wilber said. For such a charge to be filed, he said, someone would have had to have been waving a gun around or pointing it at someone to scare them before it goes off. Or someone would have to shoot a gun into the air, he said.
Danker said the investigation into the shooting should be wrapped up in a day or so. Unless something comes up that indicates he should do otherwise, Wilber said, he won't file any charges.
So help me, if I don't stop reading, my head is goign to explode.
9 comments:
Does the city not have an ordinance about firing a weapon within city limits?
We had this happen locally, without the wounding, when two "only ones" were playing with a hide out piece in the office. No charges. But the next week a citizen was charged with the "discharge of a firearm within city limits" when he had a ND with no injuries.
"magazines of two different Smith & Wesson revolvers were interchangeable"
I can see how the Chief was confused.
This is total B.S! Any citizen would be charged with discharging a firearm in the city limits or such. Why is it that the laws do not apply to the ones responsible for enforcment of those laws.
All I can say is that the chief is danged lucky he didn't "shoot a gun into the air", or he'd have been charged. Much MUCH better to have the errant slug stopped by the gallant Sgt. Driver!!!
Sombody noticed the magazine-revolver stupidity and updated the article. It now says, "pistols".
The "only one" attitude seems so prevalent nowadays, as if a government paycheck guarantees competence.
Crotalus: I feel kind of bad for a friend of mine still employed by the OWH.
I sent him an e-mail thanking him for all the great fodder from the magazine-fed revolver. His response:
"You know I know the difference... Let me see what reporter to yell at."
I made sure I had the paragraph posted before I gave him the chance to fix the goof.
all I can offer to the OWH and the Chief - dumb asses!
Kind of funny Chief Cassidy does not have anything posted on his blog about this negligent discharge... hmmmm. If it was a CCW , you could probably bet that he would be calling for an all out ban on gun ownership.
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