Posted: 7/1/2011 8:58:37 AM EDT
Love the gratuitious inclusion of the local cop-hater's opinion....
http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2011/06/portland_police_mistakenly_fir.html Portland police mistakenly fire live rounds from a less-lethal shotgun, wounding a suspect Published: Thursday, June 30, 2011, 8:40 PM Updated: Friday, July 01, 2011, 7:08 AM By Maxine Bernstein, The Oregonian The Oregonian A Central Precinct officer Thursday morning mistakenly fired five live shotgun rounds at a man refusing to follow police orders, when he intended to fire bean bags, Portland police announced about seven hours after the incident. A 15-year bureau veteran was placed on administrative leave in connection with the first mistaken shooting involving live rounds loaded into a less-lethal bean-bag shotgun in the bureau's history. The bureau began carrying the less-lethal shotguns in the mid-1990s. [more at link] |
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Looks like their shotguns will now have orange stock for LL rounds. A local dept here no longer allows lethal ammo for shotguns. Less lethal only. Another dept here with 2800 sworn officers has shotguns with orange stocks specifically for LL ammo. Plus the less lethal ammo is not to be loaded in the shotgun until deployment. I think they have side saddles on those.
I bet the officer in question was thinking "man they sure loaded these bean bags hot!" |
