Cop Shoots Another Cop* in Foot After Connecticut School Locked Down When Woman Reports Mystery Gunman No One Else Finds

Manchester Community College in Connecticut gets shut down for many hours today on a "shelter in place" emergency lockdown when one woman reports seeing a mystery man with a gun in his belt; cops flood the campus, a massive search finds no such man and no gun, but during the affair an officer shoots himself another officer in the foot.

Full story from the Hartford Courant. 

[Hat tip: Justin Barnett]

*Story updated with new details--an officer shot another officer in the foot, not his own, as previously reported.

Comments

[Anonymous Coward]

Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.

[Episiarch]

MCC is also tiny as shit, like one major building. So they didn't have much to search. Genius!

[entropy]

His dogs were barking so he had to pop them. Officer safety.

[Generic Stranger]

Ok people, pack it up, this thread is won.

[KPres]

"...but during the affair an officer shoots himself in the foot."

Nothing makes kids feel safer than knowing Inspector Clouseau is on the job.

[Jake_Witmer]

+1

[hunt889]

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[Old Man With Candy]

Where can I find naked pictures of this mom?

[AlmightyJB]

Everywhere

[gaijin]

I wonder if the the student who reported the suspicious gun toter that nooone else could find had a test that day for which they needed another day to study? Nah, couldn't happen that way.

[bmp1701]

Well, the informant was correct: There was a dangerous man with a gun at MCC.

[WTF]

A Manchester police officer suffered a foot injury during the search when his weapon accidentally discharged

No, it didn't 'accidentally discharge', the idiot negligently shot himself in the foot. Because apparently he had his gun out and his finger on the trigger even though there was no legitimate threat or potential target.

This is why only the police can be trusted with guns.

[Adam330]

No, clearly the gun went off with no human involvement whatsoever. Those things just do that sometimes.

[GeoffB1972]

The story has been updated. Actually, another officer's weapon misfired, hitting him in the foot. Pretty embarrassing.

[Somalian Road Corporation]

Yet another fucking example of some intrepid journalist doing the investigative journalism that blogs can't match by copying directly from the police report.

[Jake_Witmer]

+1

You never know, he might have had his shirt bunched up around his holster, with his finger unprofessionally hovering over the trigger, as he tried to stuff the glock model (no flip safety, just a thumb-bridge depression safety) into his clothing-obfuscated holster. But yeah, sounds to me like "negligent discharge" or "ND." How come when us slaves negligently discharge our weapons, it's called like it is, but when the Lee Paiges of the world negligently discharge their weapons, even in schools and crowded classrooms, it's called an "accidental discharge" or "AD"? Just curious.

[Almanian!]

Cop Shoots Himself in Foot

Good.

[ZinxMinx]

lol, stupid cop is stupid lol.

http://www.WorldAnon.da.bz

[Josua]

Since no one seems to remember it, maybe this will be new to someone: http://youtu.be/nuR5A6IcUbg

"I'm the only one professional enough to carry a Glock 40..."

[Jake_Witmer]

+1

Someone beat me to the Lee Paige comment. Awesome.