BLM don’t care, Biden and the Democrats don’t care……..but cops will be out there in this increasingly hostile environment trying to arrest these violent scumbags. Then the Democrat hack judges, prosecutors, and activists can release them back out to kill more.
A question posted onQuoraasked, “What’s it like to be a police officer who sees a kid with what looks like a real gun?” 20-year veteran Officer Christopher Hawk gave his opinion on the topic, below.
It was around 1:30 a.m. on a typical early Fall Saturday night. There were lots of people out in the campus area of the local major university, and most of them had at least one or two drinks in one of the local bars or house parties.
So, there I was, stopped at a red light, when a group of six average-looking college aged white males crossed the intersection in front of me. One of the men reached back to adjust something at the small of his back and before his shirt went back down, I clearly saw a pistol grip sticking up from the back of his blue jeans. I immediately thought it looked like a .45 pistol.
I called in a “man with a gun” to my dispatcher as I put the car in park, and then hit my squad car’s overhead lights as I opened my door. I unholstered and drew my gun up on-target, and had this guy clearly in my sights, center mass (pointed at the center of his back), as he looked over his shoulder at me and began turning towards me.
Time slowed. I know I shouted, “Get on the ground!” at him several times, but the idiot kid actually reached back and pulled the gun out, then threw it into the gutter. It only took a second, but felt like ten or so.
Legally, I could have shot him when I first saw the gun in his hand as he brought it forward. I was waiting to see if the barrel started coming up, but I recognized, even in that moment, that seeing the barrel would be too late if he wanted to shoot me. I remember thinking, “I’m about to kill you!” and a huge sense of relief as I saw him drop the gun. I was probably three pounds into my trigger’s advertised 5.5 pound trigger weight when he dropped the gun.
When the gun hit the ground, I knew it was a BB gun — a replica .45 semi-auto, but he didn’t have the CO2 canister in it, so the little knob on the bottom wasn’t there.
It clattered on the concrete gutter pan with a rattle, not the solid “thunk” that a real pistol would have.
I still ordered the kid down; I wasn’t 100% sure the gun was just a BB gun. I was also concerned about the guy’s buddies, since they might have interfered or even had their own guns with them.
The cavalry arrived quickly, but it felt like an hour while I kept the kid at gunpoint on the street. Luckily, the friends stayed back (and, amazingly, stayed at the scene instead of taking off).
So, what was it like? It was terrifying, plain and simple. When I finally got the chance to talk to the damned fool, I was angry. He said he “thought it would be fun” to carry the gun with him to the bars, which he thought made perfect sense in that college aged I’m-not-really-thinking-about-possible-consequences-to-this-really-stupid-idea kind of way.
I had nightmares for a few days afterwards. I dreamt once or twice that I shot him dead, right there, then picked up the gun and saw it was fake. I woke up bawling once. I also dreamt a few times about hesitating too long and seeing a .45 slug exploding out of the barrel towards me. Those times, I woke up screaming, once sitting up with my hands extended like I was holding my pistol towards the kid in my dream. In one dream, my Glock’s slide dropped off as I drew it out of my holster. In another, the kid didn’t have a gun with him.
Yeah. Not fun at all.
Edit: I should also mention that this occurred in Illinois before the concealed carry law passed. It was illegal at the time to carry a handgun outside of your home or personally-owned business.
BLM don’t care, Biden and the Democrats don’t care……..but cops will be out there in this increasingly hostile environment trying to arrest these violent scumbags. Then the Democrat hack judges, prosecutors, and activists can release them back out to kill more.
The department is now reviewing if it needs to stop using that style of holster
Jul 8, 2021
By Suzie Ziegler
LAS VEGAS — The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department is reconsidering its holsters after an officer was shot with his own gun on Sunday.
Officers were adjusting a suspect’s handcuffs when the man slid his finger into an officer’s holster and pulled the trigger, according to NBC 7. One officer was shot in the leg and another was sprayed with shrapnel, police said. Both officers have since been released from the hospital.
Assistant Sheriff Laz Chavez says he’s concerned that the suspect was able to reach the trigger and has since been reviewing different holsters.
“It can very well be an equipment issue,” Chavez told the Las Vegas Review-Journal. “We’re going to look at that and make some determinations of whether or not we need to discontinue the use of some of these holsters and then certainly go into training.”
Lyndon Troung, 28, was arrested during a concert at Allegiant Stadium after police were called to a reported disturbance, according to the Review-Journal. Troung faces charges of battery with use of a deadly weapon resulting in substantial bodily harm, battery with use of a deadly weapon, resisting a public officer with a firearm and discharging a firearm within a structure or prohibited area.
Manhattan, NY – New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has issued an executive order declaring a disaster emergency in New York due to surging gun violence.
Cuomo said shootings are a civil rights injustice overwhelmingly impacting Latino, black, and low-income communities, and that the state cannot recover from the negative effects of the COVID pandemic without quashing gun violence, The New York Times reported.
He made his announcement on Tuesday afternoon during an appearance at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in Manhattan, WNBC reported.
“If you look at the recent numbers, more people are now dying from gun violence and crime than COVID,” he said. “This is a national problem but someone has to step up and address this problem because our future depends on it.”
The first-in-the-nation executive order will open the door for the state to use crisis funding to kickstart a specialized law enforcement unit and to funnel money into community programs in order to target gun violence, Cuomo said.
Under the supervision of the governor’s newly-established Office of Gun Violence Prevention (OGVP), law enforcement agencies will be required to provide the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services with weekly data pertaining to gun violence occurring within the agency’s jurisdiction, WNBC reported.
The OGVP will use the data to figure out where gun violence is most prevalent so resources can be focused in those areas, Cuomo said.
The state will also use nearly $140 million to fund prevention and intervention programs, to include providing youth with community activities and creating summer job opportunities for at-risk kids, WNBC reported.
The state expects to fund 21,000 jobs for at-risk youth this summer and will kick in additional money to help provide jobs, training and stipends for 2,400 people who are no longer in school and who live in gun violence hotspot areas, according to a press release from Cuomo’s office.
Despite the massive law enforcement defunding that has occurred in New York over the course of the past year, Cuomo announced he is establishing a New York State Police Gun Trafficking Interdiction Unit (GTIU).
He said the unit will help shield New Yorkers from a flood of illegal weapons he claimed are being funneled into the state from areas that have fewer gun control laws, WNBC reported.
“While New York State has the strongest gun safety laws in the country, 74% of crime guns used in criminal activity across the state were purchased out of state,” Cuomo’s office said in a press release.
The governor further said his disaster emergency response plan aims to rebuild relationships between local law enforcement agencies and community members.
Through a partnership with John Jay College of Criminal Justice, the state will work with police agencies to implement police reform plans they were mandated to create under the New York State Police Reform and Reinvention Collaborative, Cuomo’s office said.
Implementing stronger background investigations standards for law enforcement officers is also a focal point of the governor’s disaster emergency plan, as is closing the “police officer misconduct loophole” by blocking officers deemed to have committed “serious or criminal misconduct” from being hired by other departments, according to the governor’s press release.
Cuomo also signed off on legislation Tuesday allowing victims of gun violence to sue firearms manufacturers under New York’s public nuisance laws, The New York Times reported.
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