‘You f—ed up’: Cop accidentally shoots fellow officer while wrestling man holding lighter mistaken for gun, bodycam shows

A report about a suspicious person in Miami Beach, Florida, possibly carrying a handgun ended with a police officer accidentally shooting a fellow cop. And it turned out the only thing the man was carrying was a metallic lighter.

Law&Crime obtained police body camera footage from the incident as well as the report from the State Attorney’s Office that cleared Miami Beach Police Officer Shenaqua Stringer of criminal wrongdoing. According to the report, the police department received a 911 call shortly before 12:30 p.m. on March 2 about a man walking on the Venetian Causeway who may be armed with a gun.

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Stringer was the first officer on scene and saw the man walking and saw him “reaching into his right pocket and retrieve an unknown object,” the report said. Stringer took out her gun and approached the man. Meanwhile, Officer Fabio Bolanos drove up in his patrol car from the opposite direction. He ran up to Stringer and the man as she was taking him to the ground while holding her gun in her right hand. Bolanos started to help Stringer gain control of the man. Suddenly the gun went off, hitting Bolanos in the right calf.

The injured officer is in obvious pain as Stringer calls for help.

Miami Beach Officer shootingBackground: Miami Beach police Officer Shenaqua Stringer wrestles with a man thought to have a gun. (MBPD). Inset: Officer Fabio Bolanos, who was accidentally shot by Stringer (Miami Beach Police FOP).

“Why’d you do that?” the subject at the center of the call says as he’s lying face-first on the ground. “Ain’t nobody do nothing. You f—ed up his leg. He’s bleeding a lot.”

Blood pools around the man.

“Hey,” he shouts. “Blood is dripping on me.”

Bolanos continues to moan in agony as he and Stringer try to put him in handcuffs.

“Hurry up because I need a tourniquet,” Bolanos said.

“I know,” Stringer responds. “Hold on.”

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