Thinking ahead, when does the lawsuit get filed against the port authority? They created an environment in which he was too intimidated to handle his gun correctly, which led to his inept attempt to conceal it, which led to the AD.
I'm thinking $20 mil would be a nice nut.
Als flashing back to a Wambaugh novel in which a story is related about a rookie cop who blew a hole in the roof of his prowler with his 12 guage, and went in to the chief in a panic, and said "I, um had an,....accidental discharge!" The chief tried to calm him down saying, "Son, just calm down, this happens to me ALL the time,..."