we'd have heard a story of 'defending against a knife attack'.
An Edgewater police officer is under investigation for accidentally discharging a rifle while answering what turned out to be a hoax call, a police official said.
Timothy Huggins, a 16-year veteran of the Edgewater Police Department, discharged his firearm as he and another officer were at a home in the city checking out reports of a hostage situation, Edgewater police Capt. Joe Mahoney said Tuesday.
And, Daniel Mease, 25, a Marine veteran who said he was at his father’s Kumquat Drive home visiting for Memorial Day, claims Huggins was careless and negligent with the handling of his firearm.
I tend to take the word of the Marine on this. Especially after reading
Mease said Huggins pointed the AR-15 while the other officer aimed a
Taser at him and asked him for identification. As Mease, who retired
from the U.S. Marine Corps after a seven-month tour in Afghanistan,
walked to his car to get his ID, followed by the officers, he heard the
shot behind him, he said.
I tend to agree with Smith that the 'we had to wrestle the knife away' is bullshit. Hey, they've got say SOMETHING to make this idiocy seem less their fault, right?
Hey Firehand, the link no worky.
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