Negligent Discharge In Troy Police Station
BY Herschel Smith
9 years, 8 months ago
News from the great Northeast:
A Rensselaer County transport officer’s pistol accidentally fired Tuesday morning inside city police headquarters when inmates were moving to and from City Court, the Rensselaer County Sheriff’s Office said.
“He was attempting to put his weapon in the holster when it discharged,” Sheriff Jack Mahar said.
The incident occurred at 11:25 a.m. Tuesday in an area near the police station sally port where transport officers store their weapons in lockers when they bring prisoners in to appear in Troy City Court on the second floor. The officers are not permitted to bring their weapons into the courtroom.
The bullet was fired into the floor, shattering pieces of the concrete floor, Mahar said.
An Albany County jail inmate said he was struck in the arm. Mahar said the inmate was treated at the scene by Troy firefighters and taken to Samaritan Hospital for additional examination.
The inmate, Daniel McCann, suffered an abrasion and was returned to Albany County jail where he was examined by the jail medical staff , Albany County Sheriff Craig Apple said.
The transport officer, who was not identified, was relieved from transportation duty and assigned to work inside the Rensselaer County Jail until the investigation is completed.
Gosh. I hate it when that happens to me. But I sure am glad that in the many times I’ve shot someone accidentally while holstering my firearm, I wasn’t sent to prison either.
On March 5, 2015 at 9:46 am, RetMSgt said:
Bozo’s gun didn’t accidentally discharge. Idiot officer had his finger on the trigger. It was negligence on his part, not an accident.
On March 5, 2015 at 10:11 am, Herschel Smith said:
You and I know that (as do my readers). That’s why the post is titled “Negligent Discharge …”
On March 5, 2015 at 10:17 am, Ned Weatherby said:
Seems that on this website alone there’s a trend of ND’s by “Only Ones.” There will likely be a requisite investigation, and the standard excuses trotted out. No “finger on trigger while re-holstering – something like “it was caught on the jacket, causing it to unintentionally fire.”
On March 5, 2015 at 11:59 am, Archer said:
“something like “it was caught on the jacket, causing it to unintentionally fire.””
And you and I (and the other readers here) know that if that happened to us, we’d still be liable. It’s the gun owner’s responsibility to make sure NOTHING is inside the trigger guard that isn’t supposed to be there.
But this story is about a LEO. It’s NOT his responsibility to make sure nothing’s in the trigger guard; it’s his jacket’s (or whatever else’s) responsibility to not be there. Just like it’s not the LEO’s responsibility to be polite and helpful to the public he/she serves; it’s the public’s responsibility to be subservient and deferential to the LEO.
At least, that’s one possible take-away, and forgive my cynicism, but it seems that’s the expected pattern with LEO NDs.
On March 5, 2015 at 12:16 pm, Ned Weatherby said:
We’d not only be responsible, more like we’d be frog-walked to jail. And beaten or worse if we forgot to be ” subservient and deferential to the LEO.” And no bull-crap LEO type excuse would be either accepted, nor forgiven. Seems we read about a lot more ND’s from LEO personnel than from the typical “under trained” CCW carrier.
On March 5, 2015 at 3:22 pm, Archer said:
No joke.
And seeing as there’s something like 600,000 LEOs in the country, and 11 million CCW-ers (by some estimates), you’d think we’d be hearing about a lot more NDs from all those “irresponsible”, “un(der)-trained”, “barely qualified”, or “unqualified” CCW-ers.