{"id":357395,"date":"2026-06-12T05:28:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T05:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/357395\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T05:28:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T05:28:19","slug":"california-police-officer-accidentally-shoots-another-cop-in-horseplay-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/357395\/","title":{"rendered":"California Police Officer Accidentally Shoots Another Cop in ‘Horseplay’ Incident"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Pasadena police officer is coming under fire … after accidentally shooting another cop in what is being described as a “horseplay” incident.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, Pasadena PD publicly released a dashcam video from September 7, 2025 … which shows a police vehicle approach two officers standing in front of another cruiser.<\/p>\n

\"Pasadena<\/p>\n

Pasadena Police Department<\/p>\n

You can see one cop quick-draw his gun and point it at the officer in the driver’s seat of the car that’s pulling up on them, before ultimately putting it back in his holster.<\/p>\n

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That’s when PPD says the officer in the driver’s seat — who’s out of frame — pulled his own gun in response … and it accidentally went off.<\/p>\n

The department says the bullet fired through the vehicle’s windshield, hitting the first cop in the arm. According to a news release, this went down in the department’s parking structure. PPD says the injured officer has since recovered.<\/p>\n

\"Pasadena<\/p>\n

Pasadena Police Department<\/p>\n

In a video statement, Police Chief Gene Harris called the shooting “unsafe and out-of-policy horseplay involving loaded firearms.” PPD says they’re investigating the incident alongside the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office.<\/p>\n

Chief Harris says the department’s doled out “disciplinary measures” … but didn’t go into detail about who’s in trouble or what the punishment is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Pasadena police officer is coming under fire … after accidentally shooting another cop in what is being…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357396,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,145498,108947],"class_list":["post-357395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-pasadena-police-department","tag-police-vehicle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}