The Florida Highway Patrol has fired an 18 year veteran trooper after a pistol whipping incident in his front yard. According to Bianca Prieto’s story in the Orlando Sentinel FHP Fires Trooper Accused of Pistol Whipping Teen trooper Charles Davis was apparently annoyed by the young kids making noise in front of his house. Trooper Davis got into an altercation with one of the teens, and the teen put the trooper in a “choke hold”. After telling the teens he would calm down, Davis then went into his house to retrieve a gun. Davis swung the gun at another boy’s head, striking 17-year-old Justin Roy’s head and body, causing a small cut and laceration. As the Orlando police were investigating the incident, Trooper Davis became extremely agitated and began making off the wall comments. Trooper Davis told the investigating officers that next time he was confronted with this situation “he would kill the kids and leave the bodies for us to clean up on the lawn”. This is not Trooper Davis’s first brush with the law. He was apparently investigated for disorderly conduct in 2007 and an unknown violation in 2006, for which he served an 80 hour suspension from the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles.