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Officer Accidentally Fired a Gun at Columbia University, N.Y.P.D. Says
The police said a sergeant unintentionally fired his gun into an empty room of Hamilton Hall while officers were removing pro-Palestinian protesters from the building.
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While clearing an unoccupied, vacant area of the building on the first floor, one E.S.U. member, a sergeant, did unintentionally discharge one round from his firearm. The sergeant was attempting to assist other officers in gaining entry to a locked office to make sure there was no one hiding inside. The team gained access to the office and found that there was nobody inside. In this case, the bullet landed on the floor of the office and didn’t travel anywhere else, so it was apparent that it had struck no one. At no time were any police officers, members of the public or any protesters in danger. This was purely unintentional. The sergeant at the time was trying to clear an area, an unknown location, that was dark. So he moved. He made the decision to transition his firearm from his dominant hand to his non-dominant hand so he could better try to gain access to the office. With that, he unintentionally pulled the trigger of his weapon and discharged the firearm. Moving forward, we we will obviously counsel the officer and send him to retraining and reevaluate him.
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