After all... they are trained to use firearms.

http://m.wfsb.com/w/news/story/86471973/


Police lift lockdown at Manchester Community College
Mar 7, 2013 11:37 a.m.
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The lockdown at Manchester Community College has been lifted after someone reported seeing a student with a gun on campus Wednesday afternoon.

According to school officials, a student with a "handgun protruding out from his waistband" was seen around the arts and sciences building, which was locked down just before 2 p.m.

A short time later the lockdown was extended to the entire campus as well as Great Path Academy.

Students at Manchester Community College were alerted of the situation via text message, the school website and media outlets.

College officials said the campus was "under a shelter-in-place emergency," while police searched each classroom.

"Out of nowhere, three cops busted down the door. One of them had an assault rifle, he told us to stay in the classroom at first," said eyewitness Sam Robbins. "They said they were looking for someone suspicious."

SWAT teams as well as state troopers and officers from neighboring towns swarmed the college campus Wednesday afternoon.

School officials said students were advised to stay away from the campus until further notice.

"It is important to note that conducting such a search is a methodical task, comprising vast amounts of classrooms," said Manchester Police Capt. Christopher Davis in a statement Wednesday night. "Some of which contained several hundred students that needed to be searched prior to being released."

Police said the college campus was secured around 7:45 p.m.

One police officer, who was responding, was accidentally shot in the foot by another police officer during the investigation.

There is no update on his condition and police are not releasing his name at this time.

All classes and events on campus were canceled at the college.

Police told Eyewitness News the suspect is believed to be a heavy-set Hispanic man, who is possibly 5'8" to 5"10" and wearing a red short-sleeved shirt.

No arrests have been made at this time and no evidence was located.

The incident remains under investigation by state police.

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I took a couple of classes at MCC.
I have to add that in the original story I heard the state trooper had shot himself in the foot. This story paints it out to be a cop on cop crime.


--Steve

Cheney should have been a cop,... he's good at going off half-cocked... ...

(he's done it twice,... that's more action than the average cops sees in a career)...

Glocks have 3 internal safties built in. Safety's... Safties?

Mine has never "negligently discharged" on me. I also don't draw it with my finger on the trigger. I'm also not twitchty and jumpy at the chance to shoot someone... Bear in mind on A CAMPUS FULL OF CIVILIANS. Of course, I never carry chambered either.


--Steve

223fan wrote on 03/08/13 at 18:09:23:



Yea OK, but is its trigger covered so you cant accidentally touch it ?

I'll design a car with a gear shifter coming up through the middle of the steering wheel. Then claim my car will not shift unless someone moves the shifter, meanwhile my cars are jumping gears in the middle of corners and so on, while I claim "nope my cars are not defective" No shifting unless something pushes on the shifter. And the " 150 year old organization - NCA - National Cars Association" is in my pocket and they agree. How's that.

Cool.
Srinath.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/sean-mccutcheon-officer-gun-suspended.php

and

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/03/07/more-gun-laws-fewer-gun-deaths/

That is guard isn't enough apparently, its too far forward or something.
I have not talked to a cop in a year, so my first hand knowledge of it is a bit rusty. Something like from the way its holstered it cant be drawn very effectively without a finger on the trigger.

Cool.
Srinath.

Hey man, I know some of this, and well some of this is news to me, but I have spoken to cops about it ... they shoot themselves in the foot and leg, as well as other things in that general direction all the time.
These accidental shootings have been very cannily fought, settled or other wise silenced (not the guns silencer) by Glock very well. Of course cops shooting themselves just wont get reported unless they lose a leg, cos it just sounds stupid ... sorta like a carburetor expert like me having a bike that coughs and spits and misfires ... and I am riding it around ... someone asks me why my bike is spewing gas and running like sheite, I would say, naaaa I just bought it.
Cool.
Srinath.