MD: Police trainee shot during training exercise

[seamusTX]

In the Baltimore, Maryland, area Tuesday, a police trainee was shot and seriously injured during a training exercise in which no live ammunition was supposed to be present.

Numerous police personnel have been suspended, and all training has been put on hold until investigations are complete.

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It sounds like a "shoot house" exercise in a disused state building that went awry.

- Jim

[texanjoker]

Departments should have procedures in place for training events. When those procedures are not followed, tragic accidents like this happen.

[seamusTX]

I don't doubt the state has procedures, and I don't doubt the procedures weren't followed. That is how these things happen.

- Jim

[BStacks]

In Arlington we had an officer killed like this just a few years back, at a school no less. Joey Cushman

[seamusTX]

A police officer was indicted for two misdemeanors in connection with this shooting.

The officer who was shot can now walk and talk, and may be able to eat soon.

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Don't ask me how the justice system works in Maryland, but even in Texas grand juries occasionally return an indictment for a misdemeanor.

- Jim

[Hex Tactical]

Complacency kills, safety briefings may be boring but they are there for a reason