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IPPC says it was an accident
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/5242564.stm
Absolutely unacceptable. I've got a lot of sympathy with police who have to take a decision in microseconds whether to deliberately shoot or not. But I've no sympathy with a trained officer who accidently discharges a loaded weapon after bumping into someone on the stairs.
And to cap it all the IPPC and Scotland Yard don't even think a negligent discharge is a disciplinary offence.
Absolutely unacceptable. I've got a lot of sympathy with police who have to take a decision in microseconds whether to deliberately shoot or not. But I've no sympathy with a trained officer who accidently discharges a loaded weapon after bumping into someone on the stairs.
And to cap it all the IPPC and Scotland Yard don't even think a negligent discharge is a disciplinary offence.
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No surprise to be honest. Hell will freeze over before a copper gets charged with anything in this country.
Yep they do, but letting off a weapon by accident is called a negligent discharge (at least in the British Army). There's a reason why the army call them that.
First of all he shot himself, then his brother shot him, then there was a bomb vest.....
All the police who did this should be found, and sacked.
Does anyone else find it strange that the very same day the report came out one of them was arrested and then later released without charge for child porn?