IMO Most likely jacket fragments hit her hand, not the whole bullet. Says it hit her badge, so probably started breaking up. (the media is not the most accurate source of information
Do I detect a hint of double standards here? Methinks if a civilian had "accidently" shot a colleague the sheriff's department would be falling all over themselves to charge him/her with something. How likely is it that, even in Tennessee, they would just throw up their hands and say "accidents happen"?
With this attitude, they will continue to happen. What is being claimed is a rationalization to downplay the incident like it could not have been prevented and is just one of those things, but when a drunk driver accidently runs over a cop due to a comparable lapse of cognition and without intent of harm, they get pretty mad and talk about all sorts of criminal charges. The don't consider it an accident per se, even though the drunk calls it that.
One was new with little record. The other now has a major screwup on his record where he shot and wounded another cop in a non life threatening situation where no loaded gun should have been.
