HELENA — Eleven cadets in the Montana Law Enforcement Academy were suspended last month, two weeks before graduation, after a dormitory gun battle with guns that shoot foam projectiles sent one cadet to the hospital with an eye injury.
March 13, a cadet was treated at a hospital for an eye injury resulting from the simulated battle.
The next day, the 11 cadets — including the victim — were suspended.
They were ordered to report to their sponsoring agencies and develop “corrective action plans” that would permit their reinstatement, a spokesman said. All the suspended cadets developed such plans and returned to the academy.
The 11 cadets were among 50 that graduated in Helena on March 29. They are already working, or are slated to work, in city and tribal police departments and sheriff’s offices around the state and for state agencies including Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks and the Department of Livestock.
The injured cadet recovered fully.
No criminal activity was involved, the spokesman said.
HELENA — Eleven cadets in the Montana Law Enforcement Academy were suspended last month, two weeks before graduation, after a dormitory gun battle with guns that shoot foam projectiles sent one cadet to the hospital with an eye injury.
March 13, a cadet was treated at a hospital for an eye injury resulting from the simulated battle.
The next day, the 11 cadets — including the victim — were suspended.
They were ordered to report to their sponsoring agencies and develop “corrective action plans” that would permit their reinstatement, a spokesman said. All the suspended cadets developed such plans and returned to the academy.
The 11 cadets were among 50 that graduated in Helena on March 29. They are already working, or are slated to work, in city and tribal police departments and sheriff’s offices around the state and for state agencies including Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks and the Department of Livestock.
The injured cadet recovered fully.
No criminal activity was involved, the spokesman said.
Did you hear of that film they made of a couple years or so of people jumping off the bridge? Not something I would be able to watch. I probably would have back in my stoner days when faces of death was so popular.
Did you hear of that film they made of a couple years or so of people jumping off the bridge? Not something I would be able to watch. I probably would have back in my stoner days when faces of death was so popular.
Hey buddy ! I put on couple of million miles driving a "big rig" and I didn't even smoke a freekin cigarette !!!!! And nobody I knew had anything to do with drugs unless they did something that I didn't know about,and believe me I would've known AND I would've reported them !! You sound like you think anyone with black hair and an olive complection is a terrorist for frigs sake. And by the way, you can kiss my big rig driving ass.
I saw the moving picture version of this story, which included interviews with the officer and the shoe salesman. DePrimo paid for the man's socks and boots out of his own pocket, and carries the receipt in his bullet resistant vest as a reminder to do good deeds. The shoe salesman also contributed by giving up his commission and selling the boots at cost. Bravo for both of them!
One interesting fact: DePrimo was working the "anti-terrorist" beat when he did that good deed. Instead of making people take their shoes off, he gave a man shoes. There's poetic justice in that.
A 10-year-old boy attending a Tularosa, N.M., Intermediate School’s Career Day expected it to be fun and educational, but instead he ended up in the emergency room.
The boy, identified as R.D., blacked out after receiving 50,000 volts of electricity when struck by a police officer’s Taser gun.
Rachel Higgins, a guardian appointed by the court to protect the child’s privacy filed a lawsuit Oct. 26 in 1st Judicial District Court in Santa Fe County against Police Officer Chris Webb and the New Mexico Department of Public Safety on behalf of R.D., claiming that Webb fired his electronic control weapon at the boy on May 4, 2012.
Webb has been charged with battery, failure to render emergency medical care, unreasonable seizure and excessive force.
Higgins will appear in court to represent the boy because the family members live in a small town and do not want to reveal their identities.
The lawsuit claims police officers drove their patrol cars onto the intermediate school campus, where Webb asked a group of boys which one would like to clean his patrol unit.
R.D. raised his hand to say he did not want to clean the police officer’s car.
Webb then said, according to the lawsuit, “Let me show what happens to people who do not listen to the police.” He then “shot his Taser gun at the boy’s chest,” said the family’s attorney Shannon Kennedy of the Kennedy Law Firm of Albuquerque. (...)
Since when does recoiling from an armed thug trying to grab you constitute "assault"?
Meanwhile thousands of big rigs full of radioactive ceramics and narcotics, and driven by meth-crazed maniacs are flowing freely back and forth across US borders unimpeded because of NAFTA.
Hey buddy ! I put on couple of million miles driving a "big rig" and I didn't even smoke a freekin cigarette !!!!! And nobody I knew had anything to do with drugs unless they did something that I didn't know about,and believe me I would've known AND I would've reported them !! You sound like you think anyone with black hair and an olive complection is a terrorist for frigs sake. And by the way, you can kiss my big rig driving ass.
I think law enforcement officers are trained to escalate situations. I really do. Apparently they are trained to goad you into an action, ANY action, they can use to arrest you. I have been subjected to it more than once.
Holy crap !!!!!! How did this get recorded and what the hell was the outcome ? Geez,the guy was a little mouthy but to get treated like that was totaly uncalled for !!
big difference between going to the lowest common denominator, and being an asshat. 510 is a longstanding RP standard. For whataever reason several people still have issues with it. If you don't and don't care to accommodate your fellow board members, we'll punch your ticket for bench Servo and you can go sit with him - seriously man, read your response - it's got servo on it.
I'm not aware of any such orders (for instance I don't see anything in the guidelines w.r.t. to image size). Could you point them out to me?
I do come across many threads with images that are wider than 510px. As a personal rule I keep them smaller than 640px wide (height is pretty much irrelevant), to prevent forum stretching which I find rather ugly.
On the other hand, maybe it's time to upgrade your hardware. Screen resolutions keep growing, and as in the professional work I do, we have to adapt along with that too. We can't still design web sites based on 640x480. You can see even RP's forum layout has changed somewhat. I could go on and on, but I think you get the point.
Sorry for any (more) inconvenience in advance.
Regards, Richard
PS: I have never been much of a fan of going along with the lowest common denominators.
big difference between going to the lowest common denominator, and being an asshat. 510 is a longstanding RP standard. For whataever reason several people still have issues with it. If you don't and don't care to accommodate your fellow board members, we'll punch your ticket for bench Servo and you can go sit with him - seriously man, read your response - it's got servo on it.
You seem to be a fairly techie kind of chap. Any chance of keeping your images to 510px or less, as per standing orders?
It borks my trusty old Thinkpad otherwise.
Thanking you,
HJ.
Dear hobiejoe,
I'm not aware of any such orders (for instance I don't see anything in the guidelines w.r.t. to image size). Could you point them out to me?
I do come across many threads with images that are wider than 510px. As a personal rule I keep them smaller than 640px wide (height is pretty much irrelevant), to prevent forum stretching which I find rather ugly.
On the other hand, maybe it's time to upgrade your hardware. Screen resolutions keep growing, and as in the professional work I do, we have to adapt along with that too. We can't still design web sites based on 640x480. You can see even RP's forum layout has changed somewhat. I could go on and on, but I think you get the point.
Sorry for any (more) inconvenience in advance.
Regards, Richard
PS: I have never been much of a fan of going along with the lowest common denominators.
I saw the moving picture version of this story, which included interviews with the officer and the shoe salesman. DePrimo paid for the man's socks and boots out of his own pocket, and carries the receipt in his bullet resistant vest as a reminder to do good deeds. The shoe salesman also contributed by giving up his commission and selling the boots at cost. Bravo for both of them! 
