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ICE gunman fired during job counseling [Long Beach, CA]
Associated Press ^ | 2/17/2011 | AMY TAXIN and GREG RISLING

Posted on 02/17/2012 4:05:46 PM PST by Hunton Peck

The FBI says a fatal shooting in a Southern California Immigration and Customs Enforcement office occurred as an agent was being counseled on his performance by a high-ranking ICE official.

Federal officials on Friday identified the gunman as 45-year-old supervisory special agent Ezequiel Garcia and the victim as 51-year-old Kevin Kozak...

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: dhs; ice; longbeach; workplaceshooting
...as in, "opened fire", not "was fired".
1 posted on 02/17/2012 4:05:50 PM PST by Hunton Peck
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To: Hunton Peck
Oh, I'm fairly sure the terms are synonomous in his case.

/johnny

2 posted on 02/17/2012 4:07:55 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: Hunton Peck

He was apparently terminated.


3 posted on 02/17/2012 4:09:57 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Hunton Peck

That’s the kind of stuff that ends up on your performance review.


4 posted on 02/17/2012 4:13:50 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: Hunton Peck

Hate crime?


5 posted on 02/17/2012 4:24:25 PM PST by Wage Slave (Army Mom!)
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To: JRandomFreeper

“You can’t fire me! I’m dead!”


6 posted on 02/17/2012 4:39:38 PM PST by Hunton Peck (See my FR homepage for a list of businesses that support WI Gov. Scott Walker)
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To: Hunton Peck
Ezequiel Garcia

Unfortunately, the hiring standards for Spanish Speakers is so appallingly low, you get some folks who really don't have any business with a gun and a badge.

If you're fluent, the background investigation is essentially thrown out.

CBP (another DHS agency) keeps a list of "Honor Betrayed" employees who broke the law. The astonishing over representation of people with latin surnames defies description.

7 posted on 02/17/2012 4:41:24 PM PST by End Times Sentinel (In Memory of my dear Friend Henry Lee II)
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To: Billthedrill
That’s the kind of stuff that ends up on your performance review.

Oh yeah. Goes in your permanent record, if I'm not mistaken.

8 posted on 02/17/2012 4:45:35 PM PST by Steely Tom (Obama goes on long after the thrill of Obama is gone)
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To: Hunton Peck
LOL!

/johnny

9 posted on 02/17/2012 4:46:23 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: Hunton Peck

That was the first thing I wondered!

The next thing I thought was “How do you go about job counseling a guy with a gun on his hip?”

“So, we have had some complaints about your behavior. Not ME of course, I think you’re great, but others... and um, I don’t get it ‘cuz like I said, I like you.. well, not that others don’t like you but....”


10 posted on 02/17/2012 4:47:55 PM PST by 21twelve
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To: 21twelve

ICE would easily replace the half of its Spanish-speaking agents—preferrably the half who should not have a gun or a badge (”We don’t need no stinking badges!)—with copies of Rosetta Stone’s Spanish language software and some time for their agents to learn to speak Spanish at least well enough to say, “Drop your cheese! That’s not cho’ cheese!” (Read that last sentence slowly if you are from Southern Ka-lee-for-nee-uh.)


11 posted on 02/17/2012 5:05:53 PM PST by MIchaelTArchangel (Romney ruined Massachusetts. Now he wants to ruin the nation.)
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