Loose cannon: Cop loses it after getting angry at peers, fires gun randomly into the air

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By John Vibes | Free Thought Project

MIAMI, FL — A Florida International University Police Officer was recently suspended after firing a gun inside of a Miami-Dade police training facility.

According to CBS 4 News, Officer Joe Mesa was at the gun range at the Miami-Dade Police Department’s training facility on Tuesday morning when he fired off several shots after someone else in the facility made a comment that upset him. Witnesses reported the officer fired randomly into the air, shooting the gun about 5 times.

“On October 28, one of our FIU police officers while at a training exercise at the Miami-Dade Police Department’s Training Bureau, discharged his firearm in the air, not in part of a training exercise. Nobody one from Miami-Dade Police Department was involved in this in any shape or form in this incident. This just seems to be an isolated action by an isolated individual,” Police Chief Alexander Casas said in a statement.

“The officer has been relieved of duty and we are going to conduct our investigation. For all intent and purposes, he is not a police officer while he is relieved of duty. He will not take any action as a police officer,” Casas added.

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  • ymygody

    amazing, somebody that wants to be a cop is unable to control his anger outbursts. Couldn’t have seen that coming.

  • Baron Von Zipper

    There’s safer ways to get a paid vacation.

  • Alexander Seredin

    Police in US are becoming right hand of establishment. They no longer protect and serve public

  • Incriminally Sane

    When a low IQ becomes a requirement to be employed with any US police departments, bad things are bound to happen.

  • Waytogo

    Police officers take general knowledge test (or lack there-of), a physical test and a psychological test. The first two are fairly meaningless but on the psych test, if you show a twist towards violence, BINGO you are in and never dismissed unless your violence is made public.

  • Awakened Avenger

    They have always been the ‘right hand’ of the establishment. In any society, the police and the military’s primary function is to protect the established social order and enforce the ‘law’ many of which, the people have no say in creating. hence i.e. Fugitive Slave Laws, Whisky Rebellion, Doors Rebellion, NY Draft Riots, Haymarket, Pullman, Volsted Act, 1934 National Firearms Act, Blair Mountain, Matewan Massacre, and etc. Most recent testament to that is the now defunct Occupy Movement which, was brutally suppressed nationwide. They protect and serve the local Chambers of Commerce and protect property i.e. Fugitive Slave Act btw was Article IV section 4 of the pre-1865 US Constitution.