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14-04-06, 06:54 AM
Black DEA Agent Who Shot Self In Foot Sues U.S.
Seeks damages for distribution of humiliating gun accident video
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0411061foot1.html
Too funny. The guy shouldn't get a cent - imo.
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14-04-06, 06:24 PM
Zagahwa,
Anybody could have done what that man has done. It was an accident and he didn't mean to do what he did. I agree that the tape shouldn't havebeen made public like that and I understand why the man want to sue. I'm not trying to be funny, this man only made a mistake. How about some of these DEA agents who purposely kill people. Somebody needs to address their " training".
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Zagahwa,
Anybody could have done what that man has done. It was an accident and he didn't mean to do what he did. I agree that the tape shouldn't havebeen made public like that and I understand why the man want to sue. I'm not trying to be funny, this man only made a mistake. How about some of these DEA agents who purposely kill people. Somebody needs to address their " training".
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Sure it was an accident... and he seems like an okay guy. A little dumb - but anokay guy.
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The tape is hilarious - He's talking about how he is a trained professional and that only he can handle a gun and then he shoots himself in the foot.
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Americans are lawsuit happy ... this guy should just laugh it off with everybody else.
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Of course, very few people in america can resist trying to make some cash if the opportunity for a lawsuit, any kind of lawsuit,presents itself. I understand it, but I don't haveany sympathy and I don't think he should get a dime of taxpayer money.
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17-04-06, 05:02 AM
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Zagahwa,
Anybody could have done what that man has done. It was an accident and he didn't mean to do what he did. I agree that the tape shouldn't havebeen made public like that and I understand why the man want to sue. I'm not trying to be funny, this man only made a mistake. How about some of these DEA agents who purposely kill people. Somebody needs to address their " training".
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Sure it was an accident... and he seems like an okay guy. A little dumb - but anokay guy.
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The tape is hilarious - He's talking about how he is a trained professional and that only he can handle a gun and then he shoots himself in the foot.
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Americans are lawsuit happy ... this guy should just laugh it off with everybody else.
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Of course, very few people in america can resist trying to make some cash if the opportunity for a lawsuit, any kind of lawsuit,presents itself. I understand it, but I don't haveany sympathy and I don't think he should get a dime of taxpayer money.
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It's hard to laugh at something like that off when your career is pretty much shot because of it. No one is going to take this guy seriously in his profession now. Pretty much because his company turned him into a laughing stock. They could have suspended, fired him, or keep an incident report for him but what they did pretty much crossed the line I think. He should sue.
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17-04-06, 06:50 AM
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Zagahwa,
Anybody could have done what that man has done. It was an accident and he didn't mean to do what he did. I agree that the tape shouldn't havebeen made public like that and I understand why the man want to sue. I'm not trying to be funny, this man only made a mistake. How about some of these DEA agents who purposely kill people. Somebody needs to address their " training".
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Sure it was an accident... and he seems like an okay guy. A little dumb - but anokay guy.
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The tape is hilarious - He's talking about how he is a trained professional and that only he can handle a gun and then he shoots himself in the foot.
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Americans are lawsuit happy ... this guy should just laugh it off with everybody else.
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Of course, very few people in america can resist trying to make some cash if the opportunity for a lawsuit, any kind of lawsuit,presents itself. I understand it, but I don't haveany sympathy and I don't think he should get a dime of taxpayer money.
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It's hard to laugh at something like that off when your career is pretty much shot because of it. No one is going to take this guy seriously in his profession now. Pretty much because his company turned him into a laughing stock. They could have suspended, fired him, or keep an incident report for him but what they did pretty much crossed the line I think. He should sue.
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I see what you are saying ... but those are strong grounds to fire this man. I am afraid when he shot himself in the foot he in all probability ended his career. With the job comes a tremendous responsibility just like a surgeon has a responsibility to always "get it right". I sympathize with him but he probably needs to find another profession – his carelessness could have easily killed someone.
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If the man is able to retain his job then he should have to endure the humiliation and slowly work himself back into the good graces of the department.
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To even have a case the man has to prove that DEA officials leaked the tape, and that this was a violation of ethics.
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But you know, it is my taxpayer dollars which fund the courts. And even if he doesn’t win a settlement I am paying the costs for this guy to have his day in court. Does’nt this seem cockeyed to anyone else ? I go to work everyday and do a good competent job. This guy shoots himself in the foot and it costs me and others taxpayers money.
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17-04-06, 03:50 PM
Zaghawa,
When you look at the tape( Ok, I will admit to some degree, I giggled a little at it) it looks funny, but I have to put my self in that man's shoes and see if it is funny. To be honest, if I was in that man shoes, I don't think it would be asfunny to me if I was the but of all of those jokes. Unfortunately and unbeliveably, something that look as funny as that can be pontentiallycareer damaging for him. With law enforcement you cannot afford to make an ounce of a mistake. If You make a mistake , such a case of with that man, you are not suppose to be in possesion of a gun or any kind of defense weapons until you are proven of being capable of handling it.
Just imagine what those same people laughing at him ae saying " Man, I don't think I want that man to take care of me, he doesn't know who to handle a gun" People would probably be weary of him. Members of the DEA are probably weary of that thought and with him being an instructor, he always expected to be professional in the eyes of his trainees. We can laught it off, but I understand why he isn't laughing.It's not as funny where it can affect his job and his pay.
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17-04-06, 04:23 PM
he could have accidentally shot someone in the room had the bullet ricocheted off the ground or something...
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17-04-06, 05:34 PM
I remember seeing this awhile back, I laughed then but having seeing it again he as every right to sue.
What I never relised till now is that he asks the person looking after the guns if the gun was empty, he pointed to the roof with the slide pulled back and fired....nothing, he went to holster it and bow!!! If you can't trust the people you work closely with......
That video should not have been released considering he is DEA he has every right to sue. Fortunately it was his foot that was shot.
The world's full of them..... and you know it!
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18-04-06, 01:34 PM
DtotheJ,
Yep! Excellent point. That could be you , me and anybody else he could have accidently shot at.
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