On December 13, Florida native Jason Arrington ran a red light near the intersection of 27th Street and Main Street in Jacksonville’s Brentwood town. We’ve all likely been guilty of this at some point. An officer with the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office ( JSO ) witnessed this action and pulled him over, but the traffic stop didn’t exactly go as planned.  ,
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Arrington was asked to step out of his car and place his fingers on his vehicle after he informed the police that he had a legitimately owned gun and that he had informed him of it. Back-up arrived on the scene, and, according to Arrington, the back-up agent began to search him and attempted to remove the weapon.  ,
” She tugged on the weapon the first time, therefore she tugged again”, Arrington said in a statement on Friday. ” That’s when I told her,’ Hey, let me unloosen my buckle because it’s strong.’ She might have become anxious or whatever, and she pulled hard two more times, which is when it discharged, which shot me in the upper thigh, shoulder, and came out on my right side.
Arrington added that she didn’t even comprehend why the officials wanted to take the gun off anyway. He claimed that he was unaffected and that he carried out all the required tasks, including keeping his hands on his car after being shot. The JSO stated that it could take six to eight months despite a request to transfer the bodycam images.  ,  ,
On Friday, the firm announced on X that it is conducting an “active domestic affairs research”. Usually, when an agent is involved in a firing, it would do what it calls an “administrative assessment of a critical event”. The sheriff’s department added,” As is usual in these types of studies, the officer under exploration may have his or her legislation enforcement power rescinded. This officer has been given the authority to resign, and the agent was placed in an administrative position until the ongoing domestic affairs investigation is finished.  ,  ,
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Only five days after the shooting, JSO reportedly released an inner note on December 18 that teaches soldiers how to handle a person who is carrying a gun.  ,
The investigating official bears the costs of proving that a person is ineligible to carry a concealed weapon, not an automated notion. Officers should not seize a firearm ( i .e. remove it from holster, car, pocket, bag, etc. ) unless they have an articulable suspicion that the detained person poses a threat to the safety of citizens or officers or has knowledge that the detained person is ineligible to carry a concealed firearm. from one freely carrying it”, the letter stated, according to First Coast News.  ,
” Reaching for one’s gun is a huge problem because you don’t understand how they have it secured, if they secured it correctly, if they know everything about gun safety”, former FBI agent and law enforcement professional Dale Carson told WJAX-TV, Jacksonville’s CBS online.  ,
Arrington, who works as a crane operator, said the incident has interfered with his job, making it harder to perform his physical duties. ” It damaged me pretty good”, he said on Friday. He also disclosed his intent to sue the JSO on Friday. He said,” I just hope they do a lot better and we don’t run into this again”, adding,” I look at them a lot different”.  ,
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” Gun owners in this state should be able to carry their firearms, without the fear of an officer pulling them over on the side of the road”, his attorney, Kay Harper Williams of the Witherspoon Law Group, said, adding that Arrington’s civil rights were violated.  ,
You can watch Arrington’s entire press conference here:  ,
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