Remember the FBI Agent Who Accidentally Shot Someone While Doing a Backflip? This Is His Fate.

townhall.com ^ | 12/27/2018 | Beth Baumann

[rktman]

Yeah, last time I nearly killed someone with a drunken negligent discharge the judge said I should be more careful next time. WTH? Seriously? You think any of us would have gotten the same "special" treatment? Oh, duh. Employee of the DOH-J. Never mind. In days past, that would have been the end of his career. Maybe it will but the agency hasn't said that yet.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Remember the agent who shot himself in the foot in front of a classroom? Was that an FBI agent as well?

[Sirius Lee]

Two sets of laws. One for the masters. One for us serfs.

[Yo-Yo]

[blackdog]

Judge Karen Brody didn’t want the stigma among the DOJ elites as having been the judge who “Flogged the Bishop”.

[digger48]

He’ll probably be moved up the ladder in the FBI

[rktman]

Looks like he needs a better IWB holster too. Then he’s all like “It’s okay I’m LEO.” Booze and guns never mix well. Or back flips.

[Blue Jays]

"...BANG!..."

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Even in embarrased haste, wouldn’t the MAIN consideration be returning the firearm safely to holster without SHOOTING an innocent? It really is not that difficult just to be a calm, restrained, and friendly party-goer when armed.

[Leep]

PSA:
Do not gun and backflip while drunk.
Unless you are a trained professional.

[pepsionice]

Twenty years ago...his FBI supervisor would have heard the story....brought the guy in and put the guy into some deadend office filing situation. If this had been my situation...I’d mandate three years with limit of one single bullet on his person (the Barney-solution).

[Rebelbase]

I think he was DEA.

[TexasGator]

Dude. He was fired way back.

[SamAdams76]

The two years probation is dumb and pointless. When I think probation, I think of a thug in need of babysitting and checking up on. What is the probation officer going to do with this guy? Remind him not to do backflips in nightclub with a gun in his waistband?

A more apt punishment would be drumming him out of the FBI and having him reimburse his victim for any out-of-pocket medical expenses as well as loss of pay, etc.

[piytar]

Wow. True stupidity. He got off easy. Wonder why? /sarc

[rktman]

From the article:

“The FBI refused to say whether or not Bishop will still have a job with the agency.”

So, I don’t know. You are I would have been. Just because we’re on FR if for no other reason. LOL!

[yesthatjallen]

Plaxico Burress.

[SaxxonWoods]

He’s got a great future as a trick-shot artist!

How many people can shoot someone while doing a backflip?

[MileHi]

You think any of us would have gotten the same "special" treatment?

No. And why no reporting on the blood alcohol test?

[bgill]

You and I, us little nothings, would be spending the rest of our lives in prison.

"unsuring that this type of incident does not happen again"

Uninsuring? Did the DA really say that? No wonder the guy only got 2 years probation.

[Mouton]

Cannot say today but back in Hoover’s day, inspectors would have been in the air in five minutes from DC to Denver and a desk would have been warmed up for him in Butte assuming he was not fired.

There was a book out long ago titled: no left turns. It was about some of the funny stories of the Hoover FBI personnel actions. The title was developed from warnings given to drivers of Hoover’s car when he was visiting from DC. Seems one time one of the drivers making a left turn got into an accident so from then on all drivers were told to make three rights rather than a left turn.