"Hansen held the Glock 40 under a table to disassemble it when a bullet
fired, "

See, even the Riverdale Police Chief isn't professional enough.




On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 7:39 AM, Oscar Dean <odean@...> wrote:

> RIVERDALE, Utah - The police chief who shot himself in the ankle was
> waving
> a loaded pistol and being careless, according to two students who were
> attending his class to qualify for a concealed-weapons permit. "We were
> told
> the gun is the chief's personal sidearm, but it looked to me like he
> didn't
> know anything about the gun," Lewis Walker said.
> Bart Ulm, another student seeking certification to carry a concealed
> weapon,
> said he was surprised Chief Dave Hansen was using a loaded gun to show how
> it worked.
> "Right then, I was very leery, because there's no need to have live ammo
> in
> a gun in the class. But I figured he's the chief, so he must know what
> he's
> doing," Ulm told the Standard-Examiner of Ogden.
> Hansen held the Glock 40 under a table to disassemble it when a bullet
> fired, Walker said.
> The chief cried, "I'm hit," and fell over. Students who were screaming
> "Officer down!" were urged to call 911.
> The gun went off in a conference room Saturday at Riverdale police
> headquarters.
> Hansen was taken to McKay-Dee Hospital in Ogden for surgery and released
> Monday, Lt. James Ebert said.
> Ebert said the findings of an internal investigation would be announced
> Wednesday. He declined to offer specifics but disputed the accounts of Ulm
> and Walker, describing the pair as "disgruntled."
> Other students "did not share that feeling" about the chief, Ebert told
> The
> Associated Press.
> Walker said he didn't have confidence in the investigation.
> "I think Riverdale police are just trying to keep this quiet and act like
> the chief is a hero. But if you ask me, he's really stupid," Walker said.
> "His state certification to teach concealed-weapons classes should be
> taken
> away from him. This was totally gross negligence."
> Ulm said there was a moment of levity during the emergency.
> He said an officer at the scene joked that "instead of shooting himself,
> he
> should have used the Taser."
>
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