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Posted: May 16 2010 05:50 pm

http://www.detnews.com/article/20100516/METRO/5160325/1409/Police-accidentally-shoot-7-year-old-girl-in-house-search

sweet christ. fucking detroit

Posted: May 16 2010 06:03 pm

Detroit would've been my second guess. My first was that it happenned in Atlanta, given the title..

Posted: May 16 2010 08:01 pm

Jesus that poor family. I don't think the right words have been invented yet for something like that. Sad

All I can say is, thank God I'm not a Detroit cop. The next couple months are going to be hell for them. And I can't imagine being the officer who did it. I mean if it was accidental it was accidental, but I still wouldn't be able to live with myself.

Here's what I want to know though: they said the kid was asleep on the couch...what the fuck? NO ONE sleeps through a flashbang! That would be literally impossible. Not to mention the yelling and arguing. So that part's weird.

Posted: May 16 2010 08:10 pm

I thought NYPD at first, but that is pretty terrible. Don't we have safeties on guns for this kind of stuff?

Posted: May 16 2010 08:16 pm

Ba'al wrote:

I thought NYPD at first, but that is pretty terrible. Don't we have safeties on guns for this kind of stuff?

I wondered about that too. Even if they were kicking a door down, the safety should be on until you're literally pulling the trigger--it only takes a fraction of a second and that's how (I presume, if they're anything like the Army) the cops are trained too.

Now the cop did say that apparently the grandmother was trying to grab the weapon from him (I have serious doubts about that, but...) so maybe it got switched off in the struggle. Weird though. What a horrible situation.

Posted: May 16 2010 10:33 pm

well, a flashbang goes off and a second later the door is being kicked down. i think anyone would've reacted the same way the grandma did and try to protect her cubs.

Posted: May 17 2010 12:56 am

Ba'al wrote:

I thought NYPD at first, but that is pretty terrible. Don't we have safeties on guns for this kind of stuff?

Not necessarily, but that isn't an excuse. We had Sig Sauers where I worked and they don't have safeties. But every department I know of teaches touch index, which means you don't have a finger on the trigger until you mean to pull it.

I honestly think they should have done better homework though. They should have known who was in the house before hand and did it at a time that would have prevented such a tragedy. They obviously were observing the residence.

Posted: May 17 2010 05:43 am

Am I alone in thinking that Detroit is the worst place on Earth? I think I'd rather be stuck in any city on the planet before Detroit.

Posted: May 17 2010 08:02 am

I misread the title and thought this was about Police Academy 7... this article is still funnier than any Police Academy movie.

Posted: May 17 2010 02:52 pm

username wrote:

well, a flashbang goes off and a second later the door is being kicked down. i think anyone would've reacted the same way the grandma did and try to protect her cubs.

yeah for real, if you don't know it's the cops due to the no knock warrant you're gonna be operating on fight or flight instincts. What a damn shame. Sad