Paper: Photographer shot by cop who mistook camera for gun

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press


Andrew Welsh-huggins, Associated Press
 Updated 4:14 pm, Tuesday, September 5, 2017

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A photographer for a small news organization who was shot by a sheriff's deputy who mistook his camera for a weapon is uninterested in seeing the officer punished, the newspaper said Tuesday.

Photographer Andy Grimm left the office Monday to photograph lightning when he saw Jake Shaw, a Clark County sheriff's deputy, performing a traffic stop in New Carlisle, north of Dayton, The New Carlisle News reports .

Grimm got out of his Jeep to take pictures of the traffic stop and started setting up his tripod and camera when he was shot in the side, the newspaper reported. The shooting happened about 10:15 p.m., according to the sheriff's office.

"I turned around toward the cars and then 'pop, pop,'" Grimm said in the newspaper's story.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/News-organization-says-employee-shot-during-12172794.php

[truthisfreedom]

1. Uhh, no. Unless the cop yelled "FREEZE! PUT DOWN THE GUN!" that never happened. He just shot someone

because he's an improperly trained idiot with a hair-trigger finger and no sensibility of his own.

[2naSalit]

2. I'd be...

suing quickdraw McGraw.

[Judi Lynn]

3. The Latest: Ohio to prosecute deputy who shot photographer

Updated 4:06 pm, Tuesday, September 5, 2017

NEW CARLISLE, Ohio (AP) — The Latest on a news photographer shot by a sheriff's deputy (all times local):

5 p.m.

The Attorney General's office says state prosecutors will handle the case of an Ohio deputy who shot a photographer for a small news organization after apparently mistaking his camera for a weapon.

The announcement Tuesday means most aspects of the shooting in New Carlisle near Dayton are being handled by state officials.

The investigation already has been turned over to the Bureau of Criminal Investigation, a division of the Attorney General's office.

More:
http://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/The-Latest-Deputy-who-shot-photographer-is-12174635.php

[Thor_MN]

4. I can see that if he was wearing the same hoodie as the picture on the left

how he could be mistaken for a dangerous, scary criminal...

Seriously, how many criminals bring a tripod to steady their aim in that idiot's neck of the woods?

[rpannier]

5. Weird part of the story is

They apparently know each other and are have no grievance against each other
Town is rather small, where everyone knows each other
The deputy sounds like a real life Barney Fife
Maybe he should keep his bullets in his pocket from now on

on edit
An update on the news organization's Facebook page says Grimm is "is very sore but otherwise is doing fine" after surgery and doesn't want Shaw to lose his job.

"This is a small town. Everybody knows everybody. Everybody looks out for one another," Dale Grimm, Grimm's father and the publisher of the weekly paper along with two others, said in a phone interview Tuesday morning.

Dale Grimm said it's not clear what the deputy was thinking.

[Aristus]

6. Um...if you see somebody setting up a weapon on a tripod there, Deputy Dawg,

you're probably in a war zone. If not, hold your fire until a weapon is confirmed, idiot!