DC Cop Aims Gun at Another Officer, Pulls Trigger On Order From Superior

By Bob Owens

You have to be kidding me:

An officer in the Metropolitan Police Department’s first district “dry-fired” an unloaded weapon at the head of another officer during a roll-call meeting on Saturday afternoon, possibly under orders from a sergeant as part of a training exercise, four MPD sources tell WUSA9.

Those sources say a Sergeant later told officers in the room that they had secretly ordered the officer to unload his weapon and then pretend to fire on his colleague as part of a “training exercise” on situational awareness. The officer then pulled the trigger of the unloaded weapon while pointing it at the head of an officer until it audibly clicked, the sources say.

Both the officer who allegedly fired the weapon, and the sergeant who allegedly ordered him to do so have been placed on administrative duties, pending an internal affairs investigation, MPD spokesman Dustin Sternbeck tells WUSA9.

This is a man pointing a real gun at another human being and pulling the trigger on orders from a superior. Sworn officers or not, bullcrap “situational awareness” excuse or not, this strikes me as nothing more or less than assault with a deadly weapon, and could have easily developed into a homicide …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms