Delta Air Lines pilot is mistakenly handcuffed, shoved in shower and interrogated for more than an hour - after FBI and DOD agents broke into the WRONG hotel room during training exercise

Daily Mail ^

[CraigEsq]

This was a case my law firm handled:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4661882/NY-teacher-thrown-ground-cop-bungled-drill.html

[Skywise]

This is how they TRAIN?!

They TRAIN in this Gestapo manner?!

[Mark17]

I can’t wait to hear the FBI’s rationale for this.

That ought to be good.

[OHPatriot]

I just have a bad feeling that one of these days one of these “raids” is going to go terribly wrong and dead bodies will be on both sides. We are getting too close to April 19 for DOJ Gestapo to be “playing around.”

[Myrddin]

Law suit and early retirement for the pilot.

[Hot Tabasco]

Since this was just a training exercise, mistakes are sure to happen.

[popdonnelly]

Our FBI is a joke. It won’t improve until idiot is out of the White House and the top management at the FBI is changed.

[CatOwner]

There will be no punishment.

[Paladin2]

The USA has become a dystopian, ‘Rat controlled, fascist, neo-Marxist gulag.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

This was probably some sort of “real-world” training exercise. Remember back in 2002 when two Special Forces candidates mistakenly thought that a North Carolina sheriff’s deputy was part of the training scenario and tried to overpower him? It did not go well for the soldiers.

[Mark17]

There will be no punishment.

They will probably get promoted, the pieces of 💩

[Paladin2]

Some local prosecutor in a non-’Rat controlled city needs to charge the Fey Wray and the Meritless Garland for all sorts of crimes steming from this abuse.

At least 35 felony counts.

[Paladin2]

“Not a Joke!”

[alternatives?]

Wonder when they read him his rights.

[sport]

He was lucky they did not kill him.

[Paladin2]

Thanks for posting. I had never seen that quote before, but it’s a good one.

Long history, apparently, of that sort of observation:

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/05/26/fire-servant/

[Paladin2]

How much did she get?

[Pilsner]

In his book Spy Catcher, Peter Wright wrote a similar MI5 training mishap. The trainees broke into the wrong apartment in London, and went to work enthusiastically on the "training subject", ignoring his protestations that he had no idea what their questions were about. But this guy was not an innocent airline pilot, but a jewel thief, who, thinking he had been taken by criminals who were playing mind games, tried to win his freedom by handing over his stash of stolen gems.

The trainees panicked when they realized the "training subject" wasn't playing mind games with them, but was a civilian, and a criminal. They called their superiors at MI5, who were appalled at thought of the publicity a police investigation would bring. The thief was given a few hours to get out of England, and the jewels left to be found after an anonymous tip to the police.

[CaptainK]

I can’t believe the pilot opened door. I’d be calling the front desk and 911 if somebody banged on my hotel door in the middle of the night.

[Paladin2]

I thought ButtEdge was in charge of Trains.