Seconds later, the agent shot himself in the foot.
Pride cometh before a fall :-)
Posted on 03/19/2005 7:09:30 AM PST by Mulder
ORLANDO, Fla. -- An agent with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency was been suspended after video surfaced showing the man shooting himself during a gun safety class in front of a group of Orlando fourth-graders, according to Local 6 News.
An investigation has been launched to determine who leaked the home video of the undercover DEA agent shooting himself at an event sponsored by the Orlando Minority Youth Golf Association.
Before the shooting, the agent was videotaped talking about how certain weapons are popular with rap artists.
"This is a Glock 40," the agent said on the tape. "Fifty Cent, Too Short, all of them talk about a Glock 40, OK?," he said. "I'm the only one in this room professional enough that I know of to carry this Glock 40."
Seconds later, the agent shot himself in the foot.
"See how that accident happened, that could happen to you and you could be blown away," the agent said after the shooting.
Experts in the field said that the undercover agent should never have been videotaped because it could put the agent's life at risk, Local 6 News reported.
"It puts a lot of undercover agents in jeopardy if their faces are videotaped," the masked agent told Local 6 News. "His identity is burned. His identity is known as a police officer and its a potential personal safety hazard to himself as well as his family members."
The video of the shooting is posted on several Web sites on the Internet. The video shows the shooting and the agent's face.
Local 6 News did not show the entire video of the shooting because the undercover officer could be identified in some of the shots.
Watch Local 6 News for more on this story.
I know what my experience around some feds showed me about their gun knowledge. I was with some sheriff's deputies at a range four or five years ago and we were shooting the police qualification course.
I was busy loading Wilson 8 round magazines for my Kimber Gold Match 1911 when an FBI agent started looking at my gun. He asked, "how do you decock it?"
Is there audio? I get the video fine-but no sound.
The kids were rightfully scared when the idiot asked the other guy to bring out the rifle. Before he shot himself, it sounded like he pulled the trigger (I heard a "click").
"Experts in the field said that the undercover agent should never have been videotaped because it could put the agent's life at risk"
This Turkeys life is at risk every time He hauls that Glock out of the holster.
They don't want the video public BECAUSE IT IS SO EMBARRASSING!
bump!
Yes there's audio. Maybe your media player has the "mute" button depressed?
It would seem he is a greater risk from himself than from anyone else.
What the H*#@ is any person, cop or not, doing with a loaded gun in a classroom? No gun should be brought into a classroom, maybe pictures if necessary.
How the heck did he get a job with the DEA? Maybe he used to be an informant?
and people say God doesnt have a sense of humor.
Personally I think his arrogance and the resulting accident was God's way of dealing out a slap down.
Well, in the audio I think he says its not loaded. And he pulls the trigger. That's the funny part.
God's a racist!
I have no problem with a police officer carrying a hot weapon into a school, it's his job. What I do have a problem with is a police officer pulling a hot weapon out of his holster without needing to use it. It's a negligent (no such thing as an "accidental") discharge waiting to happen. Fortunately he was the only one hurt in this incredibly stupid incident.
And performing publicly for a group of rap fans and gangsta wannabees didn't compromise his cover?
Seconds later, the agent shot himself in the foot.
Pride cometh before a fall :-)
If they were soooo worried about blowing his undercover status, why did they have him do this public event?
I saw the video, and gleefully attached it to email forwarded to EVERONE I know, for laughs (thank God no one, but the IDIOT, was hurt), and "for instructional purposes" to show/remind my friends and family what NOT to do with a firearm.
As far as the ridiculous quote from Channel 6 above, WHY should we care about the outing of an 'undercover' agent, when, after the AD (accidental discharge) in a classroom full of FOURTH graders, he SHOULD have been summarily FIRED?
He should NEVER be able to work in law enforcement again, although he could probably get a job as an unarmed security guard, or perhaps, as an armed Deputy at the Fulton County Georgia Sheriff's Department.
Actually, I'm surprised, after TERRORIZING those little kids (ESPECIALLY when, after the AD, he CONTINUED on, and was attempting to demonstrate his "professionalism" with a so-called "assault" rifle! They were yelling "Put it AWAY! Put it AWAY!"), their parents, and teachers, he hasn't been picked up by the Department of Homeland Security.
Personally, I am surprised (or, am I?) to hear that this goofball is a federal agent of any type. When I saw the video, my first thought was that he was some "Barney Fife" (the "professional" PROVED that one "bullet", in the wrong hands, CAN be dangerous!) drug "agent" from some little po-dunk police department.
If he IS, in fact, a Federal "agent", then he must have been trained in the same way that the ATF "agents" that assaulted the men, women, and children at WACO were. Remember the fat-ass "agent" (probably an office-pogue/desk-jockey with a black ninja outfit, body armor, and dangerous - to HIM and those fellow "agents" around him - weapons) who shot HIMSELF while climbing up an "assault" ladder? And the other ATF "agents" there that shot each other accidentally, and then blamed it on the Branch Davidians? Yeah, they were REAL professionals too.
What I can't figure, is how the slide got locked open with a round left in the chamber? I have to assume that the magazine was released, so a round could not have been chambered by racking the slide, at least not one that was fed from the magazine well... Even scarier than the ND that did occur, is the ND that could have been. It does not look to me like he was attempting to re-holster when the pistol went "BANG!" Watch the way the barrel of that pistol tracks.. he was pointing it toward the ceiling, after he racks the slide he brings it cross body toward the floor, tracking the kids in front of him, his helpers to the left of him, and finally his left leg. Had he pressed that trigger 1/100th of a second earlier.. he would probably be on trial for negligent homicide.
Raymond
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