A picture of the police station (Photo: Myfoxphilly.com)
GLOUCESTER TOWNSHIP, N.J. (The Blaze/AP) — Three officers have been injured in a shooting at a police station in southern New Jersey.
The shooting occurred at the Gloucester Township police station in Camden County.
Police Chief Harry Earle says gunfire erupted inside the police station at about 5:45 a.m. Friday. The shooter, who was being held at the station, was shot and killed inside the municipal building.
MyFoxPhilly.com has more, including how the man got the weapon:
One male officer was shot twice, including once in the abdomen below his bullet-proof vest, and is in surgery this morning, police told the media during brief update Friday morning. That officer is reported to be in serious but stable condition at Cooper University Hospital.
Injuries to the other two officers, a man and a woman, were said to be “very minor.”
Police said a suspect was under arrest in connection with a domestic violence-related incident when a violent struggle with officers ensued around 5:30 a.m.
The suspect “obtained a firearm” during the struggle, police said. Officers then returned fire, killing the suspect.
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Earle says two of the officers suffered graze wounds and were treated at a hospital and released. The third was hit twice in the leg and was undergoing surgery. Earle says he’s expected to recover quickly.
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thegreatcarnac
Dec. 28, 2012 at 2:49pmWhen in a tussle with a perp many officers experience their gun falling out of the holster. Sometimes a perp picks it up but most of the time they do not. If they arm themselves then it is a different story. The rest of the officers get to shoot them and it is legal. They become a living target for some target practice. Most perps have sense enough to know this.
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uzi4u2
Dec. 28, 2012 at 5:21pmSo a crimenal got a gun and shot a cop???? Maybe cops shouldn’t have guns either, after all, a crimenal DID get one, and from a cop…
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SendTheMeteors
Dec. 28, 2012 at 8:30pmOne common refrain here is that murderers don’t attack police at a police stations. Yuck, yuck, the bad guys know better! Yuck, yuck, the cops have guns so nobody is attack them! The perp knows they have guns so for sure they’d never attack cops at a police station!
Please don’t ever again try to support your ideas about gun control with your simplistic view that criminals don’t dare attack police in a police station because of the deterrent of all those police having guns. This guy did.
When you think about it, most cops are killed in cold blood because the criminal knows he has a gun. The fact that the cop has a gun makes him the first target. Your answer to mass murder is to give teachers guns? Then they become the first targets.
Actually, if you are intent on mass murder, an “organized” killer (that’s the FBI classification for a smart mass murderer who plans ahead, like the Aurora shooter) the first people you kill are the cops and/or the security guard, like the guy at the Holocaust Museum in DC did.
I’m a 100% in support of the police don’t get me wrong. But they are targets because they have guns, not in spite of the fact they have guns.
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kenboo1
Dec. 28, 2012 at 11:06pmSendTheMeteors Are you really that stupid? I guess you are… I didn’t hear that he walked into the Police station with a gun. I’m sure yo did though.. They (police) might have been beating him… They have been known to do that, or are you blind to that as well. Why is it Ice T is so much smarter than you… I don’t like Ice T, but he is right: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GwIbyp4xBU
Here is an additional tid bit for you to view. Australia took guns away but only from the law abiding…, The government can not protect you and you cant protect yourself from either the police or the criminals who are sometime one in the same…
Why do we need AR15s with 30 round magazines? Because the police have them…
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kenboo1
Dec. 28, 2012 at 11:33pmOppps Australia: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyS3CEIbpJopps
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rangerskippy
Dec. 29, 2012 at 7:59amSendthemeatballs is just that supid.
This dude was not a mass murder type, looking for easy victims like the recent shooting at Sandy Hook.
He was already in custody for domestic assault, while at the police station he started fighting, and
obtained” a gun.
Wow, you would think a person who spouts off at the mouth about their college education would be able to read, and figure things out, and apply a little logic. Guess not
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G-WHIZ
Dec. 29, 2012 at 10:08amsO COPS-HAVE-GUNZ…they still haveto have them “on-safety” and “snap-locked” into the holsters…even if it is concealed!! Takes afew to un-snap-it and take the safety “off”!! The crimminal doesn’t haveto!! They come-in with gunz-drawn and no safeties at all !!Oh–Yeah….none of them are legal!!
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Kregneva
Jan. 11, 2013 at 2:13pmdoesn‘t give a tinker’s cuss about the armed forces
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MrKnowItAll
Dec. 28, 2012 at 2:43pmBetter hope the Suspect isn’t related to Leroy. Riot Time Baby!
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Old Truckers
Dec. 28, 2012 at 2:56pmThis kind of thing would never happen in Mayberry.
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Proud Stray Dog
Dec. 28, 2012 at 2:05pmMore proof a criminal will get his gun……even if he takes it from a cop.
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Blue Anchor Gun Nut
Dec. 28, 2012 at 12:46pmThey should have reminded this guy that guns are essentially illegal in the great state of New Jersey. Gun laws have stopped all others from committing violent crimes in the Garden State making it the low crime paradise that it is. This guy must have been from Texas, probably a Tea Partier.
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hostiletimes
Dec. 28, 2012 at 7:38pmTEXAS ? why do you come and check on the rest of us and say that!
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Blazen420
Dec. 28, 2012 at 11:41amI thought they just had a gun buyback last week that got all the evil guns off the street.
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SocialistSlayer
Dec. 28, 2012 at 12:09pmPeople don’t kill people – The Police do ! Outlaw all Police Officers ! We need serious legislation to regulate Police Officers !
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bluehen
Dec. 28, 2012 at 12:38pmYa see, now if the cops only had guns this wouldn’t have happened. We should train them then arm them so that this never happens again.
Its obamas fault. It always is. I just wish we could impeach him or something. I mean, he is Marxist communist, sexist, left wing loon who just wants to end the middle class. I mean, if not for the gov’t doing what its been doing, then the doing wouldn’t get done. Its all his fault. His fault and Hillary Clinton’s. SHAME
Drifterbill
Dec. 28, 2012 at 2:00pm@ Bluehen…You are right the access to firearms is way too lax in the Police Station and in the state in NJ. There should be a new law banning all weapons in Police presents. I trust when a fox comes into your hen house you’ll be sure to tell the police during you’re 911 call that they are to show up unarmed..
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jessieH
Dec. 28, 2012 at 10:53amWant to bet the nut wasn’t a conservative?
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DadRocked
Dec. 28, 2012 at 11:25amDem. Rep. Compares GOP Leaders to Psychopath…
The psychopath was a fool taking a weapon into a place full of weapons…
You’re the fool… I’m the psycopath per Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-MD).
But with living in Fairfax VA, we hear a lot about Steny…
Do your homework before sounding off and being the fool !
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Marine25
Dec. 28, 2012 at 11:38amSure. Conservatives are never murderous nuts.
Signed,
Timothy McVeigh
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DadRocked
Dec. 28, 2012 at 11:50amMarine25 – “Sure. Conservatives are never murderous nuts.”
Sure… Fools are never murderous nuts…
I’ll go toe to toe with you…
I broke 107yrs of USMC to go USAF…
YOU don’t sound like USMC but a drummed out guy that couldn’t get past Parris Island…
Any truth mini-marine… lower case was intentional…
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woodyee
Dec. 28, 2012 at 11:52amAt Marine –
I don’t consider McVeigh as much a murderous nut, as he was to taking to the Feds what they took to 82 men, women and children at WACO.
Semper Fi.
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SquidVetOhio
Dec. 28, 2012 at 1:02pmI believe McVeigh was found with a copy of Mein Kempf. That would be your kind of reading pink-o.
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GrayPanther
Dec. 28, 2012 at 10:49amCareless behavior from the police department. This should never be allowed to happen.
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TADTAD
Dec. 28, 2012 at 10:27amSigh. It’s time to divide this nation in half. Morons go to the East Coast and West Coast, rational people go in between. Uh, wait. Hold that thought……
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mrunner
Dec. 28, 2012 at 10:40amYea! Love that idea! When can we start shipping the folks out of Detroit, and where do you want them sent? (It will be nice to have that city back)
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USMCRETIRED2001
Dec. 28, 2012 at 10:43amOh no, do not even go there. crazies abound everywhere, even in the midwest. I lived in OK and Texas and although I really like those states, I have seen insane people doing what they do everywhere across the U.S. Living in Florida where we now have over 1 million concealed carry permit holders and rising.
Semper Fi
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DadRocked
Dec. 28, 2012 at 11:40amNorth/South Division is the Mason Dixon Line
East/West is Arizona/Florida
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SquidVetOhio
Dec. 28, 2012 at 10:11amThis is why the cop should have just shot him to begin with and not bother wrestling with the wife-beating moron.
But pink-O liberals would prefer our cops be disarmed like the British police who’s crime fighting ability is to say “STOP! Or I shall have to yell STOP again.”
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ThatsJustCrazyTalk
Dec. 28, 2012 at 10:21amThe last line about yelling “stop” was literally a laugh out loud.
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IndyGuy
Dec. 28, 2012 at 10:34amLOL Squid…Too bad it’s true though…
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lordjosh
Dec. 28, 2012 at 10:52amWow! Tried, convicted and executed just like that. I would like to see the video from the station cameras first, wouldn’t you? In the Roman law Society, anyone one can be “booked” for a domestic just on the unsubstantiated statement of person.
I am far from a pink lib. On the left/right spectrem, I can assure you that I am farther right than you could ever be with your brainwashed slave mind. I want cops disarmed and de-badged. There is no need for revenue agents. Peace officers could be useful but we don’t have them right now, and they definately do not need to be armed.
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Dismayed Veteran
Dec. 28, 2012 at 11:24amSquid
“Stop” stated in a sharply pronounced in a commanding tone usually works. Of course it only works with my 3 year old granddaughter when she is trying to take ornaments off the Christmas tree. But still the theory should work on a 250 lb, 6’5″ guy with a knife. I will send a letter to Toure and encourage him to develop and use this powerful weapon.
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LatvianinUS
Dec. 28, 2012 at 11:50amthey just blow their whistle LOL. or just blow.
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SquidVetOhio
Dec. 28, 2012 at 1:06pm” I can assure you that I am farther right than you could ever be with your brainwashed slave mind.”
I’ve been outed. Thank you for the Red Pill. I’m now outside of the Matrix with you. Everybody is crazy besides us….. sarcasm:off.
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Blitz
Dec. 28, 2012 at 10:05amSee what happens when you take a gun from someone you shouldn’t? You just get dead, think about it gun grabbers.
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perry1980
Dec. 28, 2012 at 9:56amBad guy has gun
Good guys have guns
Bad guy tries to shoot good guys
Bad guy gets killed by good guys.
See how that works
Ban Gun Free Zones
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tzion
Dec. 28, 2012 at 10:08amA little optimistic but at least your scenario is conceivable. An unarmed good guy isn’t likely to live very long.
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Beachmastermax
Dec. 28, 2012 at 9:56amI would sure like to more about the domestic violence charge. Did this guy have a family? Did he get hauled in for raising his voice at a teenage daughter? Does the wife still stand behind her story? Or was he a true menace in need of being detained in jail.
Bet this part of the story is never told.
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mrunner
Dec. 28, 2012 at 10:26amI would too, but the fact that he grabbed an officers gun in a police station… Well good riddance
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lordjosh
Dec. 28, 2012 at 10:54am@mrunner
What if the cops were breaking his face?
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Lordchamp
Dec. 28, 2012 at 10:54amIt really doesn’t matter. If he is stupid enough to grab a cop’s gun and start shooting then he deserved what he got. Swift justice. He made a decision. He is responsible for bearing the consequences of his decision. It’s called personal responsibility. Something sorely lacking in society today.
It’s always the fault of someone else.
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AbrahamsSheepdog
Dec. 28, 2012 at 9:53amGod bless the honest man or woman who serves. Evil has its ugly head everywhere. Question? Im curious why God well He gets blamed for stuff after, .. but not prayed to before a disaster.. .In God we trust? Right? Its on our money.
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EqualForce
Dec. 28, 2012 at 9:50amWith 300 million firearms in private hands (one-third of them pistols), the overwhelming majority of gun owners ARE responsible, law-abiding citizens, which is why horrific massacres are not commonplace, but rather horrific outliers that can never be legislated away (e.g. DC, Chicago, and “Gun Free Zones”).
For several examples for the recent use of firearms for defensive purposes not typically reported by the national media please visit: http://www.equalforce.net please forward this address to others to whom this information may be useful. @forceequalizer
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thesouthwasrght
Dec. 28, 2012 at 9:49amHow convenient, a shooting in a place w/ guns. Now we get to hear all about how guns don’t prevent these types of shootings, all the while overlooking the fact that no deaths occurred, by their presence alone.
No, the solution for the failings of statism is MOAR statism. Super.
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24 Liberty
Dec. 28, 2012 at 9:47amThe police “acted stupidly”.
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WillG
Dec. 28, 2012 at 9:47amWow,what is in the water in Camden County?
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IndyGuy
Dec. 28, 2012 at 10:48amFluoride
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noslave
Dec. 28, 2012 at 9:44amIF ONLY THE COPS BOUGHT ??this gun??$200.00/gun may not have been enough?? i can already hear the pencil puffer gun ban idiots whine?? GO’S TO SHOW you only stop a man with a gun by shooting back with a gun??you morons.
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Cavallo
Dec. 28, 2012 at 9:39amWe need to take away the guns of police officers. It doesn’t appear they can use them responsibly. Criminals take their guns all the time. Just imagine if this perp had been able to get one of their assault military spooky scary machine guns. Why all the officers might have died, including some innocent bystanders. The government must be disarmed. Just like in NYC where when the cops shot that one murderer at the Empire State Building and hit something like 7 bystanders.
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woodyee
Dec. 28, 2012 at 9:46amThat’s right! How short our memories! Those cops whipped out their automatic-machinegun-war-weapons-of-mass-destruction- assault firearms and MASSACRED 7 innocent bystanders!!!!
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Wojciech W.
Dec. 28, 2012 at 10:01am@CAVALLO and like they hit 6 more out side, and like they tried to cover it up, and like they did, and like the Enquirer is my fave news paper, and like i like saying and like allllll the time, and like i don’t know the facts so I’ll just spew TROLL logic at everyone here … Shut up
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woodyee
Dec. 28, 2012 at 9:38amAhhh! UPDATED –
(Just as I thought) A “law enforcement” officer lost his weapon and several “law enforcement” officers were shot, and the suspect killed.
“Law ENFORCEMENT” officers should not be allowed firearms for the same reason police chiefs in several States claim citizens should be stripped of THEIR RIGHT to be armed – the weapon may fall into criminal hands.
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Glennda
Dec. 28, 2012 at 9:37amDarn gun free zones. When are we going to learn that the only place people are in danger is where guns are not allowed? If only there had been somebody with a gun nearby this never would have happened.
Conservatives – eventually even you will learn.
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woodyee
Dec. 28, 2012 at 9:41amGlennda, sweetheart, why not post a photo of your house, with the sign up front declaring it a “gun free” zone, complete with address and phone number for confirmation?
THAT question has more volatiles in it than the blast of gas I responded to…
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RJJinGadsden
Dec. 28, 2012 at 9:55amWOODYEE, As I responded to your post at the bottom of this page, GLENNDUH is just the first to make that knee jerk reaction. And, a dumbass knee jerk reaction at that. Okay WANGO, you just haven’t figured out yet that there really are truly evil people on the face of this planet who actually do nasty things to their fellow man! The police spend their entire careers dealing with those dangerous people. Police stations are inherently dangerous places to be at times. But to you, its the guns fault? Try to work “DUMBASS” into your site name the next time you find yourself in resurrection mode, okay?
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Glennda
Dec. 28, 2012 at 10:17amRJJ . . . yes, yes . . . evil people.
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RJJinGadsden
Dec. 28, 2012 at 10:55amGLENNDA
Posted on December 28, 2012 at 10:17am
RJJ . . . yes, yes . . . evil people.
After 9-11 this nation did not ban either passenger aircraft or box cutters for that matter. Rather better armored doors were installed on the crew cabins, and an ARMED Sky Marshal was put on these aircraft to protect the passengers. So far, that and primarily vigilant passengers have stopped terrorists on aircraft. Yet, you still come up with your knee jerk reactions to disarm the lawful rather than attack the actual cause.
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Fubared
Dec. 28, 2012 at 4:24pmGlennda/wangdang/pantload
What did you use when you saved everyone during Fallujah 2? Tell us that story again.
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Glennda
Dec. 31, 2012 at 5:39pmFGUBRED . . . Once you’ve actually lived a life, I’ll be happy to indulge your curiosity of what it means to be a man. Until then, I’m afraid you’ll have to stick to late nights with those sexy girls in Guns & Ammo ads.
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OldSurfRat
Dec. 28, 2012 at 9:34amNow that’s how you cut entitlements!
No tax dollars waisted.
Well that is if you dont include amo and medical bills.
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Trigus
Dec. 28, 2012 at 9:43amSo, again the left will scream and shout to ban “assault weapons.”
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jungle J
Dec. 28, 2012 at 9:31amcamden…………..nj
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SpankDaMonkey
Dec. 28, 2012 at 9:27am.
So much for putting cops in schools………………
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oldguy49
Dec. 28, 2012 at 9:36amcops can’t shoot straight
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Winedude
Dec. 28, 2012 at 11:48amThere was an armed policeman at Columbine. He did manage to discharge a few shots and call for backup but he was absolutely ineffective at preventing any further violence. Adding armed cops to our schools is an expensive waste of personnel and money!
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woodyee
Dec. 28, 2012 at 9:27amWHO’S Gun Was It?
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Fubared
Dec. 28, 2012 at 9:33amSounded a bit like it was taken from the PD. If the PD didn’t have firearms, maybe this wouldn’t have happened. Domestic suicide by cop again.
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AbrahamsSheepdog
Dec. 28, 2012 at 9:41amCops. They were wrestling the bastard. Look where they got shot. I remember this guy almost got the best of us in a takedown. SHTF quick. No shortage of stupid.
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RJJinGadsden
Dec. 28, 2012 at 9:42amHad to have been from one of the detectives, unless one of the arresting officers still had a Type I holster. I wore a Type III holster about 12 years ago that required more than one particular movements of the weapon to essentially “unlock” it from the holster to be drawn. Practice, practice, practice makes the officer proficient and rapid at this, but the angle that another person comes from makes it almost impossible for an assailant to take the officer’s weapon. We had an incident where a huge guy attacked one of our officers and was even able to rip the leather at some of the stitching and the holster never let go. But, we will have to wait to see if this department releases such information. There will be that embarrassment factor along with the potential of knee jerk reactions by members of the public as well as the know nothing politicians.
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