A lot of people assume cops are gun people. Wrong. I once met a police officer who couldn’t tell me what kind of bullet fed his firearm. No really. He tried to fob me off with a lame joke: “whatever it wants.” But I could tell he simply didn’t know. I didn’t press the point, if only because he had a gun. Don’t mess with a man with a gun is an important rule of thumb—lost on “security” at the Corinthian Lounge and Restaurant in the 7100 block of Windsor Mill Road in Baltimore, Maryland. ‘Cause the unnamed bouncer-type dude decided to get into a little argy-bargy with Officer Jamar Lloyd Barnes. Officer Barnes responded by pulling his gun and threatening to shoot his server. “City police said Barnes is assigned to the Central District’s community stabilization unit and is still in his probationary period,” The Sun reports. “He has been suspended without pay pending a review, according to spokesman Anthony Guglielmi, who said the department is ‘committed to holding officers accountable.’” And disarmed, we presume.
Actually the Sun article says that Barnes threatened to shoot when approached by “security” and once outside the restaurant refused to obey police officers that were called to the scene. He’s toast.
Write in haste, repent at leisure. Text amended.
He was canned:
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