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Update to story discussed June 2018. Third degree assault plea. DENVER — A dancing FBI agent who accidentally shot a man in the leg after doing a backflip at a Denver bar will avoid jail time after pleading guilty Friday to third-degree assault. Chase Bishop, 30, struck a plea deal with prosecutors and was sentenced to two years of probation, The Denver Post reported . Footage of the June 2 shooting at Mile High Spirits and Distillery shows Bishop dancing in the middle of a circle of people before doing the backflip. The gun falls to the ground mid-flip and discharges as Bishop picks it up. The agent then puts the gun into a waistband holster and walks away with his hands up. “My whole goal in life is to care, protect and serve people,” Bishop told the judge Friday. “I never expected the result of my actions to lead to something like this.” Bishop, who will serve his probation in Georgia, was in Denver on FBI business and was off-duty at the time of the shooting. FBI spokeswoman Kelsey Pietranton declined to say if he would continue to work at the agency. RELATED STORY Dancing FBI agent accused of accidental shooting at Denver nightclub allowed to carry gun again The man who was shot, Tom Reddington, 24, spoke emotionally in court about how he lost his job at an Amazon warehouse after the shooting, his chronic pain and his concern that he may never be able to run again. “I have done months of physical therapy,” he said. “I have sought counseling. However, being in public, especially seeing law enforcement with guns, makes me very uncomfortable.” Reddington added that he does not hold a personal grudge against Bishop. “I’ve done stupid things at bars to impress girls, too,” he said. LINK: https://wgntv.com/2018/12/21/d...r-bar-pleads-guilty/ | ||
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You seemed pretty unconcerned after booger hooking that round off. Like not giving a shit at all where that round went. JAGOFF. | |||
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...held to a higher standard... please ------------------------------------------ Proverbs 27:17 - As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another. | |||
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Seems like a pretty dang reasonable punishment to me... What do you suggest? ______________________________________________________ Often times a very small man can cast a very large shadow | |||
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He needs to be sent on a hunt for a new job. That would be reasonable. ________________________________________ -- Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past me I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. -- | |||
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^^^^^^^ YEP. ---------------------------------------- “The further a society drifts from truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.” | |||
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I know a certain Gov employee I use to work with that had a DUI and was prosecuted for vehicular manslaughter for killing 3 people in the crash he caused. He just lost his license for life and got to keep his Gov job. I bet nothing happens to this guy. I don't agree with it though. The Civil liabilities will come next and the FBI will be paying out since they have the deep pockets. If he gets fired, that will be why. ---------- “Nobody can ever take your integrity away from you. Only you can give up your integrity.” H. Norman Schwarzkopf | |||
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F amous. B ut. I gnorant. End of Earth: 2 Miles Upper Peninsula: 4 Miles | |||
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Fixed it.  | |||
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Seems to me this should have been a civil matter rather than criminal one. | |||
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| Peace through superior firepower  |
Yeah. Actually, I feel kinda sorry for the guy. He was negligent but he didn't mean to harm anyone. And then there's this horse shit from the guy who caught the bullet: Uh huh  | |||
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My exact thoughts!! That guy sees a big payday coming. Elk There has never been an occasion where a people gave up their weapons in the interest of peace that didn't end in their massacre. (Louis L'Amour) "To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical. " -Thomas Jefferson "America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great." Alexis de Tocqueville FBHO!!! The Idaho Elk Hunter | |||
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You got that right. ____________________________ NRA Life Member, Annual Member GOA, MGO Annual Member | |||
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^^^^ Yep. Just greasing the skids for his big payout. Icarus flew too close to the sun, but at least he flew. | |||
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Frivolous lawsuits are one thing (a decidedly bad thing). But if you get shot by a government employee who is fucking around like that, you damn well ought to get paid. If we (as a country, and as a system) sincerely embrace the notion that fines are an effective and necessary tool for modifying behavior (and not just a way to fleece citizens of cash), then it better fucking work both ways (and thus be directed AT the government some times, like this or wrongful imprisonment and the like). Pay the man who got shot. Pay him double-plus-bigly. Pay him so much the negligent shooter in question can't even be afforded to be retained any longer. Pay the shot man so much that the FBI feels the sting and wakes the fuck up and trains it's people well. Or admit that fines are a bullshit excuse to tax and steal. You can't have it both ways. Pick one. | |||
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Totally agree^^^^^Pay The Man! ------------------------------------ Good men must sometimes do bad things to bad people; to keep them from doing bad things to the innocent !! | |||
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