Posted on 03/02/2002 1:20:32 PM PST by Donald Stone
Edited on 09/03/2002 4:50:01 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
FBI agents searching for an armed bank robber pulled over the wrong car last night on Fort Smallwood Road in Pasadena and shot a man in the face who had no connection to the crime, authorities said.
The 27-year-old victim, whose name was not released, was flown by helicopter to Maryland Shock Trauma Center and is expected to live.
"Anytime anyone gets shot, whether it's the right or wrong person -- we are traumatized by it as well," said FBI spokesman Peter Gulotta. "This is not something that we like to see happen. The circumstances will be thoroughly investigated."
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But no more traumatized in the latter case than in the former, I'll bet, eh, Mr. Fibber?
You are right about that,it is a very competitve field.
Annapolis is the heart of the Maryland State government,so the FBI agent that is head of the Annapolis field office must have special qualifications in order to protect Maryland's politically corrupt at the federal,state,and local level and their cronies in the private sector.
Years ago when I first spoke briefly to Midura, he was simply a special agent in the Baltimore FBI office.
In early 1999 I learned he had been promoted to Special Agent in Charge of the Annapolis FBI field office.
Shooting victim was armed with a pack of cigarettes. The FBI agent was heard to say, "I shot him to protect the passengers in the vehicle from the effects of second hand smoke..."
poor, poor FLEOs. I'm sure that this is devastating them & they probably haven't gotten over the Post Traumatic Syndrome
from Waco and Ruby Ridge yet. Golly gee, I sure hope this doesn't impair there efforts to search for all those terrorists still on the run in the US.
Come to think of it, Waco and Ruby Ridge is probably why they were unable to get Mohhamad Atta and the rest of his
crew that were here on expired visas and such prior to 9-11. Congress better raise our taxes to get these dedicated public servants some therapy.
Yes
Yeah. Somebody needs to get a knife and cut...Oh, you said casTIGated! Oh, well, either way.
If? Damn the SOB stops the wrong car and shoots an unarmed man in the face and their investigating if he should be charged with a crime. Unbelievable.
"...civil rights division of the U.S. Department of Justice."
How about his God given unalienable rights?
"An FBI agent walked up to the car and fired a single bullet from an M-4 assault rifle, hitting the male passenger in the face, authorities said."
Damn even if this was the guy is this how the FBI arrest's people buy shooting first than asking questions?
"The FBI would not comment last night on why the agent fired the weapon, whether it was a mistake or an attempt at self-defense, Gulotta said."
How can it be an attempt at self defense unless the guy in the car attempted to attack the agent? What a crock of #@&+
INVESTIGATED? Bullfeathers!! When is someone from the FBI gonna swing for this?
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