Moron !

If you looked close when he holstered the gun after the discharge he is right handed. When he snatched the gun up he grabbed it with his LEFT hand and it fired. He by reaction snatched it with his weak hand which probably was closer to the gun. No doubt he wanted it to disappear fast as a magician. He tried to grab the gun with warp speed with the wrong hand and besides that the gun may have been laying at a awkward angle. Not defending his choice to dance with it, just pointing out how a accident can happen. Not all of us are God. A bad split second does change the direction of lives. I never had a AD or a ND and carried something like 50 + years on and off my jobs. If he keeps the job he now has a experience he never will forget nor live down. I say give him a break. Remember our old idol gun writer Bill Jordan? He done worse. Someone got killed.

feralmerril said:

If you looked close when he holstered the gun after the discharge he is right handed. When he snatched the gun up he grabbed it with his LEFT hand and it fired. He by reaction snatched it with his weak hand which probably was closer to the gun. No doubt he wanted it to disappear fast as a magician. He tried to grab the gun with warp speed with the wrong hand and besides that the gun may have been laying at a awkward angle. Not defending his choice to dance with it, just pointing out how a accident can happen. Not all of us are God. A bad split second does change the direction of lives. I never had a AD or a ND and carried something like 50 + years on and off my jobs. If he keeps the job he now has a experience he never will forget nor live down. I say give him a break. Remember our old idol gun writer Bill Jordan? He done worse. Someone got killed.

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Well Merril, that's a "charitable perspective" on a rather serious infraction by a Law Enforcement Officer, but I know you're probably right! I've fortunately also never had an AD, but had a guy right next to me have one, so close that I could smell and taste the powder for 10 minutes afterwards, and probably lost a percentage of my hearing also...as it was a 12 gauge shotgun!

Yes, I'd hate to see a young man like that screw up his career because of a mistake, but then again, that's all it takes!

I am also TOTALLY against loaded guns and drinking in the same JOINT, cop or no cop! I am a relative of several LEO's, as well as close friends with several others, but that doesn't make any of them a "Rhodes Scholar" candidate, as far as "judgement" is concerned! This guy in Denver is a dumb-ass in my opinion!

I would hate to go to hell for one sin. Now if there is other stuff he has pulled of course that would figure in. The 35 years I worked as a Lockheed guard I must have worked with around a 1,000 guys due to turnover. A big percentage of them were either retired Military or LEO`s from just about every agency you ever heard of including a few retired FBI old time agents doing their new retirement home/job. I have seen many screw-ups through those 35 years from both the best and worst of them. Once I was doing our annual re-qualifying at the Los Angeles county sheriffs range and a guy was walking around with a cocked revolver in his holster. The range officer seen it, told him to freeze, walked over and fixed the situation. He didn't get a stroke and try to ruin his life for him. Another good story: When I first hired in, in 1965 we had a old hard nosed chief that was high up on the LAPD, probably started started in the 1920`s and likely retired in the 1950`s or so. Believe he had been a Captain. He was tough as they come and also spit and polish. A old graveyard guard did his rounds came into headquarters and set down in the chiefs chair. As it was early no supervision was in yet. The guard unloaded (he thought) his revolver and passed time by dry firing at a clock on the wall. He shot the clock! Later the chief came in and sat down. Old "Murphy," came in and threw his badge on the chiefs desk. The chief says "Whats this"? Murph just nodded at the shot up clock above the chiefs head that he hadn't seen yet. The chief turned and looked at it, turned around and shoved the badge back to Murph and says, "If ya missed Id`a fired ya. Get out of here.