Detroit Cops Stage Purse Snatching--FBI Agent Almost Shoots 'Em

by Monica Davis

It doesn’t get any better than this.  The beleagured Detroit Police Department had staged a training operation for its officers. The news media was filming the training operation, which had a major SNAFU. An FBI agent put a monkey wrench in the works.  He apparently that the staged event was real, and almost shot a police officer.

We still don’t know if the cops got trained, or not.  Or, what they got trained in.  Perhaps lack of comminication, maybe?

A training exercise that went awry on Wednesday almost ended in the death of a Detroit police officer. According to reports, 

someone approved of a Detroit police officer simulating a purse snatching at a gas station while  being filmed by a TV news crew. This silly stunt may’ve gone off without a hitch had not an FBI agent been at the gas station as well.“The event takes place. The officer takes the purse, runs around the gas station. As he’s running, an off-duty FBI agent is pumping gas. He witnesses the whole thing. He gives chase. He pulls his weapon, and as he turns the corner around the gas station, he’s stopped by another officer, who identifies herself as a police officer and don’t shoot, don’t shoot, this is a scenario,” said Detroit Police Inspector Shawn Gargalino.

Gargalino went on to say that the Detroit cops put people’s lives at risk. MOREHERE