POLITICS: A Florida man was pulled over by the cops and his life changed after this blunder – USSA News

Getting pulled over by the police is never a pleasant experience. 

One man had a traffic stop go wrong in the worst way possible. 

And a Florida man was pulled over by the cops and his life changed after this blunder. 

Police accidentally shoot a man with his gun during a traffic stop 

A routine traffic stop in Jacksonville, Florida turned into a nightmare for Jason Arrington when a sheriff’s deputy accidentally shot him with the gun he was carrying concealed. 

He ran a red light at the intersection of 27th Street and Main Street in the Brentwood neighborhood of Jacksonville. 

A Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office Deputy pulled him over in what should have been a routine stop. 

Arrington was legally carrying a gun in his truck and informed the female deputy that he was armed when he was pulled over. 

He followed the deputy’s instructions to get out of the truck and place his hands on it.

Another officer began to search him and tried to remove the gun. 

“She tugged on the gun the first time, then she tugged again,” Arrington said in a statement. “That’s when I told her, ‘Hey, let me unloosen my belt because it’s tight.’ I don’t know, she might have got nervous or whatever and she pulled harder two more times and that’s when it discharged and it shot me in my upper thigh, hip and came out on my right side.”

Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office faces a lawsuit after accidental shooting 

Arrington claimed that he followed all the commands from the sheriff’s deputy and never posed a threat to them. 

He even kept his hands on the vehicle after he had been shot. 

The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office opened an internal affairs investigation after the accidental shooting. 

“As is customary in these types of investigations, the officer under investigation may have his or her law enforcement authority rescinded. That authority has been rescinded for this officer and the officer was reassigned to an administrative position until the active internal affairs investigation is complete,” the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office said in a statement. 

Arrington requested the bodycam footage from the police, but that could take six to eight months to be released. 

Former FBI agent Dale Carson told WJAX-TV that reaching for a gun is a dangerous situation. 

“Reaching for someone’s handgun is a huge problem because you don’t know how they have it secured, if they secured it properly, if they know anything about gun safety,” Carson explained. 

Arrington is filing a lawsuit against the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office after the injury caused him to miss time at work at his job as a crane operator. 

“I just hope they do a lot better and we don’t run into this again,” Arrington said. “I look at them a lot different.”  

Arrington’s attorney Kay Harper Williams said that her client’s civil rights had been violated. 

“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,” Williams said. 

The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office released a memo after the shooting outlining the proper procedure for handling firearms. 

“The burden of proving an individual is not eligible to carry a concealed firearm falls on the investigating officer and is not an automatic presumption. Unless an officer has articulable suspicion that the detained person presents a threat to the safety of citizens or officers or has knowledge that the detained person is ineligible to carry a concealed firearm, officers should not seize a firearm (i.e. remove it from holster, vehicle, pocket, bag, etc.) from someone lawfully carrying it,” the memo stated. 

Jason Arrington’s routine traffic stop became a disaster because the sheriff’s deputies did not know what they were doing. 

DeSantis Daily will keep you up-to-date on any new developments in this story.