Posted on 08/02/2019 10:24:43 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
A Birmingham, Alabama, police officer staged his own shooting last week in a grab for "stolen valor," leaving the department "polarized and hanging its head low," the police chief said Thursday.
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Smith said Buchanan was patrolling near railroad tracks along the Birmingham-Tarrant border early on July 21 when he radioed a call for help, with gunshots audible in the background.
Fellow officers searched for Buchanan for more than half an hour before Tarrant officers found him on the ground beside the tracks, "appearing to be unconscious and holding his gun," Smith said. Buchanan's police car was found nearby with a bullet hole through the front window, he said.
Buchanan was found to be uninjured when he was taken to University of Alabama-Birmingham Hospital, NBC affiliate WVTM of Birmingham reported at the time.
"I'm here to talk about stolen valor, stolen honor and an attempt to stage a shooting that has left this department polarized and hanging its head low in disbelief," Smith said Thursday.
"Our investigation has concluded that this entire event was a hoax," he said. "The radio call, the shots fired, the help call, lying injured on the tracks, the damage to the police car — all a hoax.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
Next up - retire this cop with a full disability pension.
Kinda like Hillary dodging sniper fire in Bosnia?
He’s no more a mental case than Jussie Smollett was. He planned this in detail and with full knowledge of what he was doing which just makes him an asshole. Like Jussie.
not that it makes much difference I guess, but the guy is not white....perhaps he was relying on the fact that society can not call into question the integrity of blacks at any level because to do so would be “rasist”....
You nailed it.
Mentally ill people can be found everywhere especially at demonrat rallies....
Rookie mistake.
Give him a do-over.
Police Dept used to hire ex military.
Now they use every crazy they can dig up.
It is scary the quality of the people they hand a gun.
I watched a prison guard in training nearly shoot herself on the target range at “FrontSite” in NV.
They removed her and told her to get some basic firearm training before she came back.
Yeah, when you’re unconscious but uninjured,
eyebrows will raise.
Yeah, when you’re unconscious but uninjured,
eyebrows will raise
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That is called taking a nap.
This is taught in the race of professional victims and feminist playbooks. Make up fictitious acts of racism or attacks against one if one is black or a feminist. It is SOP for the race of affirmative action and radical females.
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