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Police bodycam video was released Thursday after an officer shot a man Wednesday in the Russell neighborhood. A neighbor said she called police because a man appeared to be doing drugs outside a home near Magazine and 26th streets. When three First Division officers arrived, the neighbor told them that the man had gone into a vacant house. According to the police chief, Officer Sarah Stumler, Officer Aaron Seneker and Officer Braden Lammers went into the house and announced their presence multiple times while searching the house. Chief Steve Conrad said as officers were leaving the house, Stumler, 34, noticed Bruce Warrick, 38, hiding behind a mattress that was leaning against a wall in the front living room area.
On her bodycam video, Stumler can be heard shouting, ‘Show me your hands,’ and firing one shot seconds later. Warrick was still behind mattress when he was shot in the abdomen. Warrick was taken to University Hospital, where he had surgery and is still hospitalized. Stumler has been relieved of her police powers, pending the outcome of the investigation. The Public Integrity Unit is investigating. No weapon was found in the house during a search Wednesday.
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"On her bodycam video, Stumler can be heard shouting, 'Show me your hands,' and firing one shot seconds later. "
NO, she shouted "Show your hands!" and fired one round less than half a second after shouting the command. She fucked up.
Some pretty stupid @$$ comments here
I thought when you say “show me you hands" ,you're suppose to wait for the dude to show you his hands..
She really knows how to punctuate a sentence. I believe 2:43 was an exclamation point.
Start shopping for a new career that better matches your nail polish.
Lol well she was a police officer.
And here we have a bad cop
That's one shinny kitchen floor.
A Louisville Metro Police officer who shot a man in an abandoned home in March 2017, later explaining she meant to turn on her gun's flashlight and not fire, has been suspended for 10 days.
Louisville Police Chief Steve Conrad suspended Officer Sarah Stumler for 10 days last week, according to disciplinary records obtained by the Courier Journal.
Those records indicate Stumler and Conrad met on Jan. 16 for a pre-termination hearing, which according to department policy is scheduled when the chief "believes that termination/discharge is the correct discipline…"
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Sarah Stumler
Stumler acknowledged in that meeting that she violated the department's care of firearms policy, which in part instructs officers to not "use or handle firearms in a careless or imprudent manner."
Bruce Warrick, 38 at the time, was shot almost immediately after being found by Stumler as she and other officers searched a house at 26th and Magazine streets on March 2, 2017, on reports of a man inside doing drugs.
An unarmed Warrick survived the shooting but underwent multiple surgeries. The city settled a lawsuit with Warrick for $1.8 million last summer.
Stumler's body camera footage showed that as she looked behind a box spring that was leaning against a wall she found Warrick, who stood in the shadows.
"Show your hands," she yelled, before raising her gun and firing once.
“I meant to turn the light on to see what was behind the mattress and accidentally pulled the trigger,†she later told department investigators.
Stumler was put on administrative leave after the shooting with her police powers suspended.
In a rare move, the shooting was presented to a Jefferson County grand jury in May 2018.
The grand jury declined to indict Stumler on a second-degree assault charge. Though, in another unique act, it did issue commentary on the case, recommending annual low-light training using the weapon-mounted light and and having officers pledge to not use their trigger finger to operate the light.
As the Courier Journal found last year, the shooting revealed a lack of thorough policy on the use of weapon-mounted lights and prompted training and policy changes.
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Stumler used a mounted flashlight popular with officers, which attached to a rail beneath the barrel of her gun. She explained to investigators she used her dominant hand to try and hit a switch on the side of the light and instead pulled the trigger.
In 2018, the department added a section on weapon-mounted lights to its firearms policy, explicitly banning the use of the trigger finger except in “extreme emergency situations.â€
Department leadership told the Courier Journal that mounted lights will be part of recruits' mandated equipment while in the academy and officers would be retrained on on using the weapon-mounted lights, regardless of whether they're actively using one.
DID SHE JUST ACCIDENTAL DISCHARGE INTO AN UNARMED SUSPECT? GOTTA LOVE THE BADGE BUNNIES IN THE COMMENTS SECTION VERBALLY BLOWING OFFICERS THAT MAKE CLEAR PROFESSIONAL FUMBLE AND FAILURES
ðŸ‘ðŸ‘👠"Nice one"smh
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Where are you shot? Bitch you should know you fucking shot him
LOL THAT WAS UNCALLED FOR……imagine this girl playing football and losing she then go's and shoots the whole team lmfao 🤦â€â™‚ï¸ðŸ˜‚… i feel for the guy he DONE NOTHING BUT HIDE!
or hide and seeks she find you she kills you.. would be a great story for a movie
To those saying she shot too soon, well you was not there and did not see hat she saw. He could have been reaching or doing something that looked like he had a gun or weapon. She also said "shit" because she knew even if it was a JUSTIFIED shoot, its still a nightmare of paperwork and interviews about it.
she should lose her job but it's clear she didn't mean to do it….she's incompetent but it doesn't make her a bad person
BOOM!! SHOW ME YOUR HANDSðŸ–ðŸ–💩
Hope he is OK. Hope she is now on welfare.
"Hey, I'm gonna give you to the count of ten, before I pull the trigger"
"1..2..10!!!"
another scared female cop
He literally almost got away with it.
I am always for the cops till it gets straightened out. But dang girl. You shot him before he could move.
Lmfao!!! I wouldn’t want to come to her house unannounced 🤣
Did he death?
Stumler is a stumbler!
Typical pig don’t matter the sex they’re all worthless. I can’t breathe 🤣🤣🤣🤣
City settled lawsuit brought by homeless man,, for 1.8 Million . Ain't homeless no more !!
what!? why????
Where are you shot she says? Sounds like she don't even know where she's aiming
she shouldn’t be a police she got freaked out and pulled the trigger and they are suppose to stay fairly calm unless in a bad situation