spooked cop wildly shoots thru closed apartment door, hears screams and fires more shots

[Demovictory9]

My Summary... cops are walking thru an apartment building to speak to Mr. fyle. Another tenant kicks his door shut. Officer Leibfried hears the banging noise and decides to fire shots thru Mr. Fyle's closed door. Mr. Fyle screams. Offier Leibfried fires two more shots thru Mr. Fyles door.

https://www.dailydot.com/irl/video-cop-shoots-man-through-door/

Recently released body camera footage shows a police officer in Minnesota firing several shots through a closed door, injuring a man.

The footage shows the officers seeking cover before Leibfried says “shots fired” over the radio. About 10 seconds after the banging noises were heard, Leibfried pulls out his gun, firing into the door, which had no signs of damage, four times.

Fyle, 23, can be heard yelling out in pain and pleading with the officer to stop. Leibfried fires an additional two rounds into the door. Fyle, along with others in the building, can still be heard screaming.

“Please! Stop!” Fyle screams. “Can I open the door? Stop! Ow! I got shot! Open the door! Open the door! Please! Stop!”

He repeats “stop” at least nine times, Twin Cities reports.

Leibfried then calls for medical assistance for Fyle.

Before the incident occurred, the officers had already decided that there “did not appear to be probable cause” to arrest Fyle but that they still wanted to speak with him. Leibfried failed to announce himself as police.

Leibfried has since been charged with intentional and reckless discharge of a firearm. The footage was released after his attorney requested to dismiss the two felony firearm charges against him. Sixth Judicial District Judge Sally Tarnowski upheld the charges on Monday.

Duluth police said Leibfried will remain “off-duty indefinitely,” according to Twin Cities.

Fyle still has a bullet lodged in his back and has since retained an attorney, though it remains unclear what legal action he plans to take.

[Trueblue1968]

1. lock up the cop ....10 years in jail. no more of this crap

if this was a regular person, they would be in the slammer right now.
i am sick and tired of cops who shoot first and after an innocent is dead, then they ask questions.

[yonder]

2. Shooting at sounds and all he gets charged with is

"intentional and reckless discharge of a firearm"?

I just don't know how this shit is going to stop without teeth in the way cops are dealt with.

Anyone else without a badge wouldn't be walking away had they been shooting blindly into a closed door at "sounds".

[uponit7771]

3. omfg, he'll get 6 months time off with pay

[SheltieLover]

5. Right!

Terrible punishment!

And taxpayers will have to pay lawyers & any fines imposed!

[Aussie105]

4. It's that heightened sense of alertness cops have.

It's part of their training.

Only defense against the killers, murderers, child molesters, drug dealers, ghosts and ghoulies that inhabit this Earth. I bet there is one right behind that door!

Cops need lightening fast reflexes, to meet threats with intelligent and considered and appropriate responses.

Is generating paranoia part of the training program? Seems that way.

Instead of a considered response, we get . . . door slams, cop freaks, cop fires randomly. Loud noise, scare bad guy!

I guess their training sucks?

Fyle could sue the police department for inadequate and inappropriate training practices?
(And not handing out tranquilizers to up tight officers before going on duty.)

Things would have gone differently if US cops didn't carry guns out on the beat. As in most civilized countries.

[MagickMuffin]

6. He should be fired, he didn't know WHO he was shooting or injuring

could have been a child. He didn't know, unless he was wearing those special glasses that can see through objects.

[Aristus]

7. Shit. Cops are such fainting nancies.

They are proof-positive that you should never give a gun to someone who wants one.

Wanting one seems to be a pathology.

[Ilsa]

8. That cop is an idiot. And cruel.

And I hope will be unemployed, and the defendant in a lawsuit.

[Demovictory9]

10. Logically. Mr fry's door wasnt open and bullets didnt fire outwardly thru door

So even if the cop believed shots were fired..he should have known they wetent fired from frye's apt

[Iggo]

9. I want the same thing to happen to that cop as would happen to me...

...if I did that to a cop.

Equal protection under the law.