Posted on 09/25/2005 8:07:46 AM PDT by Pharmboy
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - A university police officer working with the state to curb underage drinking was shot to death by an Orlando police officer outside the Citrus Bowl Saturday as fans were arriving for a football game, authorities said.
Mario Jenkins, a canine officer working with Division of Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco agents, was killed, said University of Central Florida Police Sgt. Troy Williamson.
Williamson said Jenkins was wearing street clothes. He would not talk about the circumstances of the shooting.
"You've got about 50 police officers and beverage agents who are in complete shock at this point," Williamson said.
Witnesses told the Orlando Sentinel that the incident started when an undercover officer tried to break up a tailgate party. When he encountered resistance, they said, he fired three shots into the air. An Orlando Police officer saw the man with the gun and shot him several times, the newspaper said.
Authorities believed a third person was involved, said Barbara Jones, spokeswoman for the Orlando Police Department. Jones refused to say whether the person was injured.
The shooting occurred before a game between University of Central Florida and Marshall University, which UCF won.
"It's pretty freaky. You don't think you would see this at a UCF game," junior Nicole Jorgensen, 22, of Melbourne.
It shows that pseudo-LEOs should not try to do the job of real ones.
Ping...
Well, I agree. He should have walked away and returned with backup, and lots of it.
Damn! sorry to hear of this mishap.
THey're going to crack down on tailgate parties in Oakland too at the Raiders games.
It could make Fallujah look like a ice cream social if they crack down too hard.
Sounds to me like he may have gone a bit too far "undercover".
Well, perhaps more than just a bit...
If you discharge a weapon (3 times) in a crowd while in civilian clothes, and get shot, then it's sad but damn sure your own fault. The chance that the cop saw all three shoots fired is unlikely thus did not know where they all went.
A citizen who fired 3 shots in the air would be locked up without delay. But we're supposed to believe that guns in the hands of police officers ONLY is the way to go, huh? No, thank you. Police departments have more than their share of bozos and crooks.
Just damn......
Ha!
I saw another news story about this and IT said the undercover cop had a person on the ground and was shooting him with rubber bullets. Now, I know the MSM will blatantly LIE to sell a story, especially if it will make cops look bad, therefore, I don't know if this is indeed TRUE, but if it IS, then I can easily see how he got shot.
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I don't even know where to start on this.
Yeah but Marshall U, those guys'll do anything
See! This is why Andy only gave Barney ONE bullet.
That being said, the Orlando cop is in a heap of trouble. Arbitrarily (apparently) capping the guy "several times" is beyond STOO-PID.
(what happened to, "drop the weapon"?)
But at the same time, how did the cop who killed this guy know that it wasn't a starter pistol or blank gun? Doesn't someone's life have to be threatened before you shoot someone dead?
Yeah, this makes no sense. First, 50 agents deployed to cut down on underage drinking is just ridiculous.
The UCF cop WAS killed by the OPD cop, who was a reserve officer. He had retired after 25years on the force.
The OPD cop shot Jenkins in the back three times, killing him.
I, too, agree his actions were justified if the UCF cop fired his gun into the air.
"Witnesses told the Orlando Sentinel that the incident started when an undercover officer tried to break up a tailgate party. When he encountered resistance, they said, he fired three shots into the air. An Orlando Police officer saw the man with the gun and shot him several times, the newspaper said"
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This story is weird. First, when does an officer regardless of his/her attire pull out their gun and fire especially without a second officer present?!! This cop sounds like a lone rogue nut case.
> ... he fired three shots into the air.
Thus making clear that he was NOT a trained LEO, assuming
this report is accurate (a big assumption with AP). Police
almost never fire warning shots, and it would be into the
ground if they did.
Fratricide is always a risk in undercover ops, and when
the UC guy essentially acts like a criminal, and discharges
a firearm negligently, the risk escalates dramatically.
Your soooo right, I mean...outisde a stadium of thousands of people, a guy shooting a guy into the air around people, people fleeing...yeah the cop should have calmly gone up to this sane person and asked if his gun was real of not.
gimmie a break
Yep, but now he's a dead lone rogue nut case.
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