Albany, Ga. cop arrested for firing his service weapon into the air on New Years..

[Ghost in the Machine]

Lee County deputies arrest APD officer
Jan. 2, 2010
Lee County Sheriff’s Office deputies arrest an Albany Police Department officer for shooting his service weapons as the new year clocks in.
Posted: 12:00 AM Jan 2, 2011
Reporter: Pete Skiba
Email Address: [e-mail]



ALBANY, Ga. — An Albany Police Department officer went to jail with two friends on the first day of the new year in Lee County, a Lee County Jail report stated.

Grady J.W. Rachel Jr., 28, was arrested at about 12:05 a.m. Saturday for discharging a firearm in a subdivision and disorderly conduct, said Lee County Sheriff Reggie Rachals.

“The deputies arrived and witnessed the shooting,” Rachals said. “In this day and age, they took no chances. They ordered them to drop their weapons and get down on the ground. They got in the dirt, offered no resistance and were arrested.”


“We had call after call in the neighborhood of shots fired coming in, Rachals said. “He (Rachel) was firing his MP5 semi-automatic rifle.

There were at least three dozen shots fired from the rifle. That rifle is part of his SWAT equipment.”

http://www.albanyherald.com/home/headlines/Lee_County_deputies_arrest_APD_officer_112758409.html

[Richard Steele]

1. The entire concept of "being a cop" tends to attract people who should never be cops.

Bullies, morans, the type of idiots who would empty an MP5
into the AIR in an urban environment.

[Ghost in the Machine]

2. I can't disagree with that at all...

... though I do know a couple of good cops personally..

:hi:

[leveymg]

3. Drunk and disorderly and armed. A little bit?

Happy New Year in the slammer.

[hlthe2b]

4. Good... much deserved firing...

[RamboLiberal]

5. Dumbass - he should be fired n/t

[proud2BlibKansan]

6. A man in my city was killed when I was a kid

when some idiot fired a shot into the air and the bullet landed on the man's head.

Don't remember if it was New Years Eve. But I think of this every time I hear of another idiot firing a gun into the air.

[alarimer]

7. And yet cops who actually kill people are rarely fired.

They are usually not even charged with anything. By those standards, this guy should keep his job.

Now I think it is stupid what he did but maybe just worthy of a suspension without pay or whatever.