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M-11
03-14-2008, 01:24 AM
Here’s a question for everyone.

There is a video circulating on the Internet of a man who appears to shoot himself in the head while in Police custody. Most of us have seen it, and it has been trotted out again by my organization for Officer safety training. The Subject of the video is a somewhat unkempt medium complexioned male, and the view point of the video seems to be from a camera mounted above the door. The door to the Interview room is left open throughout the video, and what I assume are the Subject’s personal articles are left on the counter in the room with him. A Male gives the guy a bottle of water, and he shoots himself a moment later.

Does anyone know the story for this? I would like to find the context and background to have better training value.

M-11

BulldogNY
03-16-2008, 05:50 AM
http://www.snopes.com/photos/gruesome/interrogate.asp

GroundPounder01
03-16-2008, 09:20 AM
Its nice to know the source now.. That was part of training in our academy and the facts are not what we were informed of!

Georgetime
03-25-2008, 08:41 PM
That was a powerful training video... That and the fact that somebody made it into our county jail with a small gun inside his shoe are the reasons I shake my arrestees down good and then wand them with a handheld metal detector. I missed a dagger in a pants leg once when I was still fairly new on the job.