FBI agent describes Arundel shooting

Baltimore Sun ^ | May 29, 2003 | Gail Gibson

[Mrs Double Tap]

An FBI agent who mistakenly shot an unarmed Pasadena man in the face last year says in court papers that he believed the unwitting victim was a wanted bank robber who was reaching for a weapon when, "in a split-second decision," the agent fired "a single shot for his and his fellow officers' safety."

Special Agent Christopher R. Braga offered his first detailed account of the event in court papers made public yesterday as he and two other agents argued that a $10 million federal lawsuit brought by shooting victim Joseph C. Schultz lacks merit and should be dismissed.

[Mrs Double Tap]

I checked to see if this has been posted and didn't find it. If it has been posted, my apology and please remove.

[Mrs Double Tap]

Dang it, I posted under my wife's login. This article was posted by Double Tap.

[Double Tap]

OK, now I'm logged in.

[friendly]

A remnant Clintonista rouge FBI dude shooting as usual at the unarmed. Would have gotten a major promotion under Reno/Clinton Justice Dept.

[Quick Shot]

A lttle cross dressing tonight...

[Double Tap]

ROTFLMAO!!!

I knew I would catch hell for that bonehead move. Next folks will say I'm posting inflamatory threads and hiding behind my wife.

[muawiyah]

Braga's lawyer should be denied the opportunity for sepukku since his plea on behalf of this ill-begotten "fibbie" is totally without redeeming virtue.

Braga's only honorable course of action is to simply throw himself on the mercy of the court. Anything else is disgusting beyond belief.

Frankly, Braga should pay for his stupidity and not me as a federal taxpayer. I don't care if it reduces him to penury. Heck, if it had happened earlier he might have found Eric Rudolph even sooner over at the community dumpster.

[Double Tap]

Perhaps I could get you to use your ping list?

[sourcery]

In other words, the agent just admitted in open court that he mistakenly killed an innocent person. The only question remaing, then, is the amount of the damages, since all that ever matters regarding civil damages is whether or not you have wrongfully injured someone.

Intent to do wrong is an issue that only matters in a criminal prosecution. The agent's belief that the victim was a dangerous criminal reaching for a gun might save him from a criminal prosecution, but it should not shield him and his employer from a civil suit for damages. If you think otherwise, try your argument out the next time you are at fault in a car accident. Your lack of malicious intent, confusion, temporary blindness, mechanical breakdown, or whatever, won't reduce the dollar amount of the judgement against by one penny.

[Unicorn]

BTTT

[Bonaparte]

Can't blame him for trying, especially after Horiuchi did even worse and got promoted for it.

[Double Tap]

I'm pretty sure the fella that got a 5.56mm in the face lived. I agree with the rest of your statement.

[JCG]

Interesting that this article says nothing about the victim being an Eagle Scout.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/638897/posts

America's Fifth Column ... watch PBS documentary JIHAD! In America
http://video.ire.org/10650.ram (Requires RealPlayer)

Who is Steve Emerson?

[coloradan]

Indexing. The FBI agent who mistakenly shot an unarmed Eagle Scout in the face with a (1) short-barrelled (2) fully automatic (3) >10-round magazine post-1994 .223 machine gun admits he shot an innocent person, and wants to throw out a lawsuit against him as being "without merit."

[LibKill]

"As he did, let him be done unto."

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

Does this make you one of those Transpostersm sort of like a transgender?

[Yeti]

he and two other agents argued that a $10 million federal lawsuit brought by shooting victim Joseph C. Schultz lacks merit and should be dismissed.

" ..lacks merit..." -- Just a bullet in the face, nothing to get snippy about.

[Howie]

[Double Tap]

Transposter BTTT

[Nov3]

He is sorry guys. Move on.