{"id":67387,"date":"2016-08-10T12:27:01","date_gmt":"2016-08-10T16:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=67387"},"modified":"2016-08-10T12:27:01","modified_gmt":"2016-08-10T16:27:01","slug":"officer-shoots-73-year-old-librarian-in-exercise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=67387","title":{"rendered":"Officer shoots 73-year-old librarian in exercise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bobo sends us <a href=\"http:\/\/www.winknews.com\/2016\/08\/09\/developing-pgpd-reports-incident-at-citizens-academy\/\">a link to an article<\/a> about the police department of Punta Gorda, Florida who were demonstrating a &#8220;Shoot, Don&#8217;t Shoot&#8221; scenario for members of the community. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mary Knowlton was one of two Citizen Police Academy students chosen to participate in a \u201cshoot\/don\u2019t shoot\u201d role-playing situation, Punta Gorda police said. The demonstration was supposed to instruct the class about making decisions \u201cusing simulated lethal force,\u201d according to Chief Thomas Lewis.<\/p>\n<p>Knowlton was \u201cmistakenly struck\u201d with a live round during the lesson\u2019s \u201cfirst scenario,\u201d the department said.<\/p>\n<p>She was rushed from the police department to Lee Memorial Hospital where she was pronounced dead, PGPD said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, she wasn&#8217;t &#8220;mistakenly struck&#8221; &#8211; it was careless, not a mistake. Like I told Bobo, I&#8217;ve been shooting blanks at people for decades for MILES training and never once have I carelessly shot someone with live ammo. In all of the thousands of people I&#8217;ve supervised in similar situations, I&#8217;ve never heard of that happening. I&#8217;m not special &#8211; I&#8217;m just careful and I don&#8217;t want to kill people who don&#8217;t need killin&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bobo sends us a link to an article about the police department of Punta Gorda, Florida &hellip; <a title=\"Officer shoots 73-year-old librarian in exercise\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=67387\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Officer shoots 73-year-old librarian in exercise<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dumbass-bullshit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}