Fla. Officer Suspended For Tear-Gassing Street

TALLAHASSEE, Fla.- A Tallahassee police officer is suspended after playing a practical joke on another officer. Officer David McCranie was suspended without pay for three weeks for accidentally tear-gassing a neighborhood. McCranie violated departamental policy when he set off the gas canister on another officer during a training in September. The tear gas wafted to a row of homes where children and others were playing outside. Eleven people were treated at the scene for tear gas inhalation. None had to be taken to the hospital. McCranie was also thrown off the department's TAC team, similar to a SWAT team, used in high-risk arrests, hostage situations and with barricaded suspects. Tear gas is one of many tools they use.

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