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To all the excellent posts above, I would add simply that we should not overlook the fact that this incident did NOT take place in the training facility. It took place in the parking lot, which is ... the street.
One of the early posts raised what may be the key point. The two trainee officers had transitioned out of simunitions mode to live ammo mode when they were on the street, and they forgot that critical fact when they decided to get a headstart on the upcoming exercise. That this was even possible suggests that the department did indeed (for whatever reasons) use the officers' actual duty weapons for simunitions F-O-F training rather than dedicated simunitions weapons.
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