A Florida man skilled the shock of his life when he was unintentionally shot together with his personal gun by a police officer throughout a visitors cease … and now he is telling TMZ how profoundly this agonizing expertise has sophisticated his profession.

Jason Arrington tells us he blacked out when Jacksonville Sheriff’s Officer Mindy Cardwell unintentionally pulled the set off as she tried to take away his gun from his waistband … sending a bullet via his proper hip space, exiting close to his kneecap. He says his first thought was he would die proper then and there.

BTW, he was legally carrying the gun — a Glock .45 semiautomatic pistol — which he had let Officer Shaun Lowry learn about early on within the December cease, for allegedly operating a crimson gentle. For everybody’s security, Lowry requested him to step out of the automobile … which is when issues shortly went south.

The wound will get even deeper — Arrington says Cardwell by no means apologized to him … he says she did nothing however anxiously stroll in circles whereas he was gushing blood as a result of her negligence. Different officers utilized a tourniquet earlier than paramedics arrived.

To make issues even worse … Arrington — a crane operator — tells us his job efficiency has suffered for the reason that damage, and his plans of changing into a service provider seaman have been utterly squashed. He was tremendous near taking the subsequent step in his profession and even handed the written check. Now … he predicts his bodily state will maintain him off that job path perpetually.

Arrington is at present going to bodily remedy to assist his physique heal … and psychotherapy to assist with the trauma sustained from this wild incident.

Arrington and his attorneys are engaged on a lawsuit now. Legal professional Kay Harper Williams didn’t specify a greenback quantity, however she says they may plead the jurisdictional threshold to account for all of Arrington’s everlasting accidents, his restoration, and his misplaced future incomes capability.

As for Officer Cardwell … she was slapped with a cost of incompetence and proceedings have begun to formally boot her from the sheriff’s workplace. The state won’t be going after her for prison expenses, Harper Williams confirms to us.