Damn. This guy should have retired. He’s dangerous to have around. He’s dangerous in many ways, one of which we already know about, but this feels worse. Our country is falling apart with no guardrails. And now he shows up again. Can we please get rid of this guy? Thank you, Raw Story:
Newly-released communications reveal that Border Patrol commander Greg Bovino did not discipline or investigate an agent who shot a U.S. citizen, and instead immediately praised him and offered to exempt him from the retirement age. The documents, flagged by the Chicago Tribune, come as a federal court reviews the incident during last year’s “Operation Midway Blitz” in which Marimar Martínez, a local teacher, was shot five times.
The agent in question has been identified as Charles Exum. Body camera footage shows the agent’s Chevrolet Tahoe collided with Martínez’s vehicle, after which Exum got out of the vehicle, and five shots could be heard off camera. The government’s assault charges against Martínez have since fallen apart, and she is moving to sue over her ordeal.
Please forgive my slang, but you go grrlll! We need to support her and hope she takes them to the cleaners! This is some shizzle. We know almost nothing about the case other than the agent’s name, her name, and that she was shot by the agent off-camera. Wonder where the observer’s video is for this. The agent hit *her*, not the other way around. There is apparently no audio for us to hear at the moment, so we don’t know what happened before the shots.
“The materials, obtained by the Tribune through an open records request after a judge agreed to lift a protective order, also included an email to Exum from Bovino … praising the agent on the afternoon of the shooting,” said the report. “‘Good afternoon,’ read the email, which was sent at 3:11 p.m. on Oct. 4, when Martínez was still hospitalized and had not yet been charged. ‘I would like to extend an offer to you to extend your retirement beyond age 57…. In light of your excellent service in Chicago, you have much left to do!!'”
What a sonuvabitch. *Praising* someone for SHOOTING someone. That’s pretty damn backwards if you’re a law officer of sorts and you shoot people for no reason except bullsh!t. This guy is detestable. What’s worse is that he’s not the only one. The other shooters have all been whisked away, and it’s probably a 99% certainty that they won’t be charged.
While this was going on, said the report, Exum “exchanged a series of texts with his wife as well as a group of fellow agents under the name ‘Posse Chat.’ In one of them, someone Exum identified as ‘the guy from Vermont’ wrote, ‘Good job brother, glad you are unharmed and get to live to tell the story.'” The Vermont agent replied, “You are a legend among agents you better f—— know that. Beers on me when I see you at training.”
Following nationwide outrage and protests over a crackdown in Minneapolis that left two people dead, the Trump administration transferred Bovino back to his old position in California, seen by many observers as a demotion and a tacit acknowledgement of the backlash. Bovino was shortly after ejected from a Las Vegas bar for “safety” reasons.
Hmmm, could we call that ‘get out of my bar, we don’t want you here’? That would be glorious if it was. We likely wouldn’t want anyone like that at our workplace, either. And there are many people who detest him, no matter where he is. I would slap him if he ever showed up where I am. Seriously. Probably get arrested, but it would be worth it, I think. Since it never will, we can just enjoy the thought. See you soon!
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Not a moral among ‘em.
I think I read something where he was kicked out of the Las Vegas bar for being intoxicated and you know what goes with that-belligerent.