I recently shot and killed a woman.
Leaning into her car’s open passenger-side window, I fired my weapon just as she pulled out a pistol, partially hidden under her thigh, and pointed it at me.
I was lucky.
I should have noticed the pistol sooner. Had I been a split-second slower in pulling the trigger, the outcome would have been different.
I was lucky because the incident was a simulation at the FBI Citizens’ Academy.
The academy is a series of six classroom seminars the Cleveland FBI office offers to a couple dozen community leaders each year to give them a behind-the-scene glimpse of the bureau’s work investigating public corruption, cyber theft, domestic terrorism and child prostitution, among many other crimes.
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