"...Equal Employment Opportunity Commission which ruled that the use of background checks in hiring is racially discriminatory. In 2012, the EEOC issued "guidance" to the nation's businesses, citing statistics showing blacks and Hispanics are convicted of crimes at significantly higher rates than whites. Therefore, the EEOC ruled, excluding job applicants based on their criminal records would have "a disparate impact based on race and national origin."
The TSA is responsible for issuing TWIC credentials and has a history of hiring felons for their ranks.
Quoting Debbie Schlussel's discussion on this subject, from 2010:
If the TSA will hire a convicted felon robber, who wont they hire? And why is the TSA screening us, when the agency refuses to screen . . . its own employees? Absurd is an understatement. Is the TSA really this desperate for employees? Are there really so few qualified unemployed Americans applying for a TSA position?
Despite his priors, and potential exposure to prison dawa, this Savage's most recent act of trespass and murder have been immediately deemed unrelated to terror.
Of note in the above report is the consistent 'know nothing' characterizations/silence about this Savage's character by his neighbors and employers.
Few circumstances yield such consisent silence about a criminals character.
That guy should never have passed a background check to receive a pass onto that base.
Then, when he came on base that night and did not have all of the necessary paperwork, despite his pass, he should never have been allowed on base.
Heads need to roll.
I talked to some folks on NNS (Norfolk Naval Station). Apparently the young Petty Officer 2nd Class, Mark Mayo, was the Head of the Base Watch. He saw the truck come on base and was suspicious because of an incident with a similar truck (different driver) some days earlier.
He followed it and when he saw it stop near the USS Mahan and the driver get out and start up the gang way...he began running to the ship. The Sailor at the top of the gangway on watch was a female sailor whom this person approached and then began struggling with. He (this large, powerfully built ex-convict who had spent time in prison for attempted murder and crack cocaine) overpowered her and took her gun.
That’s when Mayo arrived and pushed the female sailor to the deck and himself took the bullets the intruder fired. That gave the other sailors on watch on the USS Mahan the time to fire their weapons and cut the intruder down.
Jeffrey Tyrone Savage
A min-or-it-tie contractor, no doubt.
She didn't know nufin' bout a guy who drove her truck having a crack conviction, or killing someone.
Di-ver-sit-tie is are strengf!
Also, the Petty Officer who was disarmed was female. This fact was avoided in the article. Did the physical mismatch have anything to do with the subsequent shooting?
Sickening. and I’ve only opened one of the articles... apparently, the ‘new’ screening system doesn’t even have access to the NCIC database???????? How the frick does THAT happen??/rhetorical question..
Maybe, Savage will have voting privileges restored now he is dead.
Jeffrey Tyrone Savage