DRY BLOOD ON COP'S GUN

March 14, 2008 -- "One of the guns used by an undercover detective in the 50-bullet barrage on Sean Bell and his two friends had blood on it, prosecutors said yesterday.

Detective Chris Florio, who collected the guns after the shooting to inventory them, testified that the Glock semiautomatic used by Detective Gescard Isnora had dried blood spattered on it.

"I noticed when I picked up the gun and turned it over, some blood had flaked off," he said to a packed audience in Queens Supreme Court, including Bell's fiancée, Nicole Paultre-Bell, and the Rev. Al Sharpton.

"That was what drew my attention," Florio said.

Florio, a prosecution witness, said he ran a test to make sure it was blood and then sent the sample to the Medical Examiner's Office for identification.

Although prosecutors did not reveal whose blood was on the gun, the evidence prompted Bell supporters to say that Isnora, who fired 11 shots, was close enough to see that the men were unarmed.

Michael Hardy, a lawyer for Paultre-Bell, speculated that Isnora "either touched the victims with his weapon when the shooting was over or it splattered."

Although prosecutors did not reveal whose blood was on the gun, the evidence prompted Bell supporters to say that Isnora, who fired 11 shots, was close enough to see that the men were unarmed"

So what do we know as FACT?

A 3rd generation GLOCK 26 was fired to slide lock. The NYPD uses Speer Gold Dot 147 grain ammunition, a round not know for impressive expansion but that shouldn't matter in the least.

The following is conjecture and that's pretty much all that the prosecution HAS.

Since the lab couldn't identify the blood and it had dried to "flakiness", it could have gotten on the gun in any number of ways, and without specific typing can hardly be called "evidence". The slide is serrated, and the grip is finger-grooved and stippled to a degree. In searching the wounded men it would not have been unusual for blood to be transferred from the officer's hands (glove encased by then to be sure) to the weapon. For Detective Florio to have found this to be strange is strange in and of itself.

How long did it take for Sean Bell to expire? As long as one's heart beats, blood is pumped and squirted and leaked, and let's not forget that there were others in the vehicle who were hit as well. The inside of that car would have been splattered with still liquid blood, and ANY lawyer worth half his fee would have brought in a conga line of EMS individuals asking them how much blood THEY had on their person.

Using a short-barreled 9mm handgun isn't the fastest way to kill a man, and that's part of the reason the cops shoot, then shoot some more. This means gore and plenty of it. Lots of leaking holes. Might be time for somebody who actually knows something about firearms and gun fights to assist in helping these men with their defense, but since it's NY this isn't going to happen and for a myriad of reasons.