Posted on 09/18/2004 7:16:47 PM PDT by JackelopeBreeder
Baltimore, Md. - A federal judge has ruled that an Anne Arundel County man can sue the FBI (website) agent who shot him in the face after mistaking him for a bank robber. Special agent Christopher Braga shot 21-year-old Joseph Schultz during a botched arrest in March of last year.I haven't found anything more recent than the November 2003 story. It sounds as though a civil case is proceeding. I don't know if Mr. Schultz received compensation from the FBI for his medical treatment.Braga had asked the judge to dismiss the case, but the judge granted him only a partial victory - dismissing negligence claims and other allegations, but not the excessive force claim.
The judge dismissed all claims against another agent at the scene, Lawrence Brosnan. One claim remains against a third agent, Henry Hanburger, on grounds he improperly ordered a stop of the car Schultz was in.
http://www.wjla.com/../../news/stories/1103/110348.html <-- Nov 14, 2003
by Gregory Kane, The Baltimore Sun [US]
July 14th, 2002White is the lawyer for FBI Special Agent Christopher Braga, who shot Joseph Schultz in the face March 1. Braga and other agents had stopped Schultz's girlfriend, Krissy Harkum, as she drove her Pontiac Grand Am along Fort Smallwood Road in Anne Arundel County. Schultz was a passenger in the car. The feds were looking for a bank robber. Problem was - not the only one in this case, and not the biggest - Schultz wasn't the guy.
On July 2, an Anne Arundel grand jury refused to indict Braga for making Schultz endure years of facial reconstructive surgery. Braga had committed neither first-degree assault, second-degree assault nor reckless endangerment, the grand jury ruled after carefully considering the weighty matter for all of 20 minutes.
http://newsfrombabylon.com/article.php?sid=1829 <-- Not original source
And simple misspellings and typos are abundant in the article. For instance...
...and who better to spread the message of hat than neo-Nazi and white supremacists," Straus said.Sometimes those "messages of hat" will get you shot. ;^)
Riddle allegedly neo-Nazi
Bill Straus, the Arizona regional director of the Anti-Defamation League, has a different view on one of the men - Riddle - who he said is a neo-Nazi and is the main recruiter for a group calling itself the Arizona Guard, a militia-type organization established to do armed patrolling of the Arizona border with Mexico "from a compound in Douglas."
TOTAL BULL$HI+ and quite typical, the feds probably are figuring out Riddle is gonna live and now they are gonna pour on the demonizing "krap-ola." He will be a pedophile next...
Dore said "Riddle is not a Nazi sympathizer, although the 22-year-old man who is reported in a coma in the Tucson medical facility, subscribed to some of Hitler's views."
Check out which ones....
The only Nazi-like view Riddle supported was that a nation must have secured borders to protect its sovereignty, Dore said.
So protecting the international border is what the fbi considers to be Nazi activity and beliefs? The fed's just might want to reconsider..
Article IV, Section 4,
The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion
Article I., Section 8,
The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States; . . .To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union,suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions.
Why... yes! That WOULD be the United States Constitution, thank you. Apparently (and it ain't the first time) that the fbi in that neck of the woods has called normal Americans "nazis" because those very same Americans support the U.S. C-O-N-S-T-I-T-U-T-I-O-N, nothing more.
Said it before, I will probably have cause to say it many more times, the feds have become a bunch of sloppy thugs.
Heard a lot of rumors. Still waiting to see the CCTV camera footage from the ranch that day.
They stationed guards, had watches...patrols. Tell me there was no video monitoring in place.
The story keeps changing. We're not going to get the truth for years on this one....just like the others.
/tinfoil
And if he was --- it's not a good thing --- but what's the difference between any of those and the Muslims except the Muslims are arab supremists. FBI agents aren't even shooting suspected Al Queda sympathizers yet Riddle apparently committed no crime. It's not a crime to be a racial supremist per se --- or why isn't the FBI shooting La Raza members?
If they were Nazis wouldn't they be looking for Jews? --- and you aren't going to find all that many Jews on the border. Or has the label been expanded to include all types who don't want a wide open border? Because if so then it would have to include many hispanics also living on the border who aren't in favor of open borders and uncontrolled immigration.
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