{"id":11520,"date":"2018-06-03T18:44:51","date_gmt":"2018-06-03T22:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=11520"},"modified":"2018-06-03T18:44:51","modified_gmt":"2018-06-03T22:44:51","slug":"dancing-fbi-agent-drops-gun-during-backflip-and-shoots-man-in-leg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2018\/06\/03\/dancing-fbi-agent-drops-gun-during-backflip-and-shoots-man-in-leg\/","title":{"rendered":"Dancing FBI agent drops gun during backflip and shoots man in leg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">An off-duty FBI agent accidentally shot a bystander in the leg when his gun fell from its holster as he cavorted on the dance-floor of a bar in Denver, Colorado, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Video widely shared on Twitter shows the agent strutting his stuff and then performing a backflip.<\/p>\n<p>The gun falls to the floor and, as the agent goes to grab it, fires a shot.<\/p>\n<p>The fellow customer hit by the bullet was taken to hospital with a non-life-threatening injury.<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear if the agent, who has not been named, will face charges or disciplinary action.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Denver Police investigating accidental shooting from gun of an off-duty FBI agent\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ueO1mFzr92Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The video shows that his wild moves on the dance-floor had attracted an appreciative crowd at the Mile High Spirits and Distillery bar on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>But the mood quickly changed when the gun went off. As shocked patrons look on, the agent retrieves his weapon, holds up his hands and leaves the floor.<\/p>\n<p>Denver Police Department said the agent &#8220;was dancing at a nightclub when his firearm became dislodged from its waistband holster and fell on to the floor. When the agent retrieved his handgun an unintended discharge occurred&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The statement added: &#8220;The victim was transported to the hospital with a good prognosis.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Police spokeswoman Marika Putnam said the agent was taken to a police station and later released to an FBI supervisor.<\/p>\n<p>The Denver District Attorney&#8217;s office said the incident remained under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-us-canada-44349521\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">An off-duty FBI agent accidentally shot a bystander in the leg when his gun fell from its holster as he cavorted on the dance-floor of a bar in Denver, Colorado, police said. Video widely shared <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2018\/06\/03\/dancing-fbi-agent-drops-gun-during-backflip-and-shoots-man-in-leg\/\" title=\"Dancing FBI agent drops gun during backflip and shoots man in leg\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11522,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,14,3],"tags":[539,4015,5185,300],"class_list":{"0":"post-11520","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-strange-news","9":"category-usa","10":"tag-colorado","11":"tag-denver","12":"tag-fbi-agent","13":"tag-shooting","14":"pmpro-has-access"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11523,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11520\/revisions\/11523"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}