Stupid Idea 1: Police officer decides to pass around gun for “show & tell” in a school classroom.
Stupid Idea 2: Police officer removes clip, but doesn’t check for a bullet in the chamber.
Stupid Idea 3: Police officer eventually gets gun back (nobody having pullled the trigger, mercifully), reloads clip, inadvertently discharges bullet in chamber, grazing the face of a 10-year-old.
Hopefully a number of lessons were learned in that particular class.
The officer in question was not even there on duty.
Philadelphia Police Capt. Edward Chiodetti said that about 3 p.m., the officer went to the school to pick up her son and was interacting with the students in the boy’s classroom. Chiodetti said the children first wanted to see her badge, which she displayed, and then asked to see her weapon, a 9 mm Glock semiautomatic.
[…] The officer, Vanessa Carter-Moragne, 39, a five-year veteran assigned to the Ninth Police District in Center City, was removed from street duty and is now the subject of an Internal Affairs investigation, police said.
Yeesh. One would hope so.
(Via Xkot)