text: A Lake County sheriff’s deputy is out of a job after officials say he waved his firearm and stun gun while quoting lines from Denzel Washington's character in "Training Day," a movie about a corrupt law enforcement officer. 
   
   Deputy Dean Zipes was fired April 21, according to an internal affairs report obtained by WESH 2 News. 
   
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   Authorities say Zipes rubbed his pistol and Taser together in the direction of a convenience store in front of a police trainee. An internal affairs review says the action replicates a scene from the 2001 movie. 
   
   Zipes told investigators he was trying to be funny. 
   
   The report says Zipes twice pulled his firearm in an office setting, voiced racial slurs, made a motion to draw his gun at a pizza delivery driver and became upset after not receiving free Starbucks coffee. 
   
   During the incident in which he made a motion to draw his gun at the delivery man, Zipes joked that the delivery man was alleged murderer Markeith Loyd, the report said. 
   
   AlertMe ||||| LAKE COUNTY, Fla. - A Lake County deputy was fired for "reckless behavior" for waving his gun around in public. 
   
   A supervisor said the deputy posed a "serious safety concern to citizens and other deputies," according to an internal affairs investigative report obtained by News 6. 
   
   Deputy Dean Zipes had his department issued handgun in one hand and a Taser in the other, according to colleagues who witnessed the incident. 
   
   He also recited lines and re-enacted a scene from the movie "Training Day," starring Denzel Washington, according to the report. 
   
   In the movie, Washington plays a crooked LAPD officer. 
   
   In one scene, Washington confronts a suspected rapist and points two guns back and forth from his chest to straight out in front of him, then rubs the weapons together. 
   
   News 6 uncovered video from a Lake County deputy's patrol car that shows Zipes re-enacting the scene using his Taser and department-issued weapon. 
   
   The incident happened in the parking lot of the Sheriff's Office substation in Minneola, according to the report. 
   
   A deputy in training who witnessed it reported "Deputy Tammy Peshek was upset that Deputy Zipes would act in an unsafe manner.” 
   
   “And in public where a civilian could drive by and witness it," Peshek said during an interview with a supervisor after the incident. 
   
   It happened in February, and News 6 has learned Zipes was already under investigation "for pulling his firearm out of his holster twice in an office setting and using racial slurs," according to the internal affairs report. 
   
   In another incident, a deputy reported being in the break room when Zipes "pulled his weapon out of his holster, pointed it at the glass 
   
   windows and stated he never got to shoot the gun," according to the report. 
   
   Zipes was terminated April 21st for harassment, on duty use of a firearm, and other violations, according to the report. 
   
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target: – A Florida deputy was fired last month for impersonating one of the most famous corrupt cops in movie history. The Orlando Sentinel reports Deputy Dean Zipes was outside a sheriff's substation in Lake County around 4am last February with a police trainee and other deputies when he started quoting a "profanity-laced" speech given by Denzel Washington in Training Day. He then rubbed his pistol and Taser together in the direction of a convenience store in what an internal affairs review says mimicked Washington's character, according to WESH. WKMG reports another deputy "was upset" Zipes was acting "in an unsafe manner" where a member of the public could potentially see him. Zipes told investigators he was just joking around. “I am not a rogue, reckless, dangerous, insane guy that slipped through the cracks at the hiring process and somehow got a gun and a badge,” the Sentinel quotes Zipes as saying to investigators. He told them he's "going through some stuff." Zipes was fired April 21, with a supervisor saying he created a "serious safety concern" for fellow deputies and civilians. There are also reports Zipes pulled his pistol twice in an "office setting" and used racial slurs. He reportedly motioned to pull his pistol on a pizza delivery person he was pretending to mistake for an accused cop-killer, and also once "made a scene" at a Starbucks when they wouldn't give him free coffee.