... everybody has jumped to conclusions based on no evidence.The only thing we know is that a mistake was made.
We dont know if the driver took action prior to being shot.
A lack of evidenece, facts or a complete story doesn't matter - some of these folks here simply have an agenda and all they need to further that agenda is a story like this -
- the more devoid of facts the better ...
The driver is not the suspect the FBI was looking for.Now it could be negligence that has crossed the line into criminal behavior. In my state it is refered to as reckless endangerment if the injured party lives. Alternatively it was raw naked abuse of power.The agent had time to walk to the car.
There was no statement from the FBI alledging any hostile behavior by the person shot.
There was no mention made of an attempt to verify that the person shot was the armed and dangerous suspect the FBI said it was seeking at the time this individual was shot.
It appears routine police procedure was not followed. Had the individual who was shot been driving a vehicle that was registered to the person being shot we may presume that fact would have been immediately forthcoming.
Stay well - stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown
"Anytime anyone gets shot, whether it's the right or wrong person -- we are traumatized by it as well," said FBI spokesman Peter Gulotta today, commenting upon a Maryland confrontation in which a bullet became lodged in a motorist's face. Gulotta, who worked as post-liposuction therapist in Southern California before joining the Bureau, spoke to reporters after news broke that the face in question belonged to an, apparently, innocent motorist and not a heavily armed bank robber.
"We must get beyond those unhelpful stereotypes of FBI Agents that stubbornly cling to the national consciousness," implored the therapist Fed "and grow out of the good guy/ bad guy dichotomy of our childhood."
Gulotta is credited with replacing photos of controversial FBI Founding Father J Edgar Hoover in bureau offices throughout the country with the slogan "If we weren't busy solving crimes we could re-decorate your house".
"We sorely needed an image lift and this was a way of reassuring Americans--the majority of whom are now women--that we can mean business and still be sensitive," explained a long-time bureau secretary, now retired. The phrase lost popularity in the hinterlands, however, in the wake of the Ruby Ridge and Waco operations.
"We should have stuck with it," contends Gullota." It was a good slogan. A purposeful slogan."
But, in spite of the fact that in many ways the Bureau, like the military, is far ahead of the general poplulation in terms of its heightened cultural consciousness, the slogan was retired.
"Many Americans, unfortunately , cling to cruel outmoded notions about interior decorators, and I guess higher ups were not ready to march with the flow of a different river," sighed Gulotta, shaking his head sadly.
The dapper lipo-crime fighter was soon back with a new slogan, certain that the words--"Your Face is Our Face"-- would inspire trust in the heart of the population at large--whatever their political beliefs.
Now, the Bureau is reeling in the wake of a cruelly ironic incident in which a motorist's face appears to have interrupted the flight path of a bullet fired from an FBI Agent's M4 Carbine assault rifle.
The Bureau has refused any official comment on the incident itself except to warn: "It would be irresponsible and premature to tie the face in question with any of the other faces Americans have witnessed recently in the news, driving airplanes into buildings or burning down Black churches in the South."
In the meantime, Agent Gulotta must once again call upon his vast experience as a cosmetic surgery therapist to comfort traumatized agents involved in the mysterious, violent confrontation.
"A highly trained professional walks up to car expecting to see a violent bank robber and is, instead, shattered by the vision of some rube's dumbfounded face with a giant hole in it."
Gulotta is confindent that the "bad old days of black-and-white," as he put it, are long gone at the Bureau. Replaced, he fervently hopes, by a more comforting set of pastel ethics that will provide aid and comfort for traumatized agents. To that end he will be conducting a series of seminars titled: "The self-esteem of my bullet" to help Agents pick the pieces of their lives out of the unknown face that stuck itself into the wrong place at the wrong time.
His previous program "My flame-thrower is OK--I'm OK" is credited with saving a number of Agents in the wake of the Korsh cult's attack upon officials at WACO