Posted on 08/27/2015 8:06:25 AM PDT by RightGeek
The cold-blooded Roanoke killer kept getting fired, kept threatening co-workers, and kept claiming he was the real victim.
Vester Lee Flanagan claimed in a suicide note Wednesday that June’s massacre of black parishioners at a South Carolina church was “the tipping point” that sent him on the path to murdering two journalists on live television Wednesday.
But in court papers and interviews with The Daily Beast, former colleagues describe Flanagan as a problematic employee, who was repeatedly reprimanded for his harsh treatment of coworkers, and complained racism was behind harsh evaluations of his work.
“He just had a history of playing the race card,” former WTWC anchor Dave Leval told The Daily Beast. “I know he did that in Tallahassee a couple of times…”
The day Flanagan was fired from a Virginia TV station in 2013, his bosses called 911 because of his volatile behavior—an incident captured on camera by Adam Ward, a man who would later become one of his victims.
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“The fact that he kept his job was because he was an African-American gay man. That’s pretty hard to say no to,” Sextro told The Daily Beast.
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There comes a point where the risk of major payouts as a result of a workplace violence incident outweigh the risk of a major payout from an EEO suit. When that point is reached it’s the least-worse option to fire the guy and write the EEO payout off as a cost of doing business.
You can share facts (”he was terminated for excessive absences”) as long as there is no prohibition written into a separation agreement. Where former employers can get into trouble is sharing subjective opinions (”he didn't get along well with co-workers”) that are not backed up by contemporaneously written, objective documentation and that could be construed as libelous.
As expected the media is blaming this on lack of gun control instead of the real problem which is Obama and friends promoting hatred of whites. All black failures are blamed on white racism leading to resentment and violence. The Charleston church shooter was motivated by blacks attacking whites, and the Virginia shooter motivated by the Charleston shooter attacking blacks. NO ONE IN THE MEDIA WILL BLAME THE RISE IN RACE BASED KILLINGS ON OBAMA.
Someone has some splaining to do.
followed them from the studio.had a rental probably knew they or some one would ID his personal vehicle
Shouldn’t Roanoke be in flames about now?
If Obama had a son, ....this guy would definitely be him.
I believe there are laws about bad mouthing former employees...not sure not an HR type
I believe they can ask if they were fired or quit.
One will be unfit for freedom in a rational society unless one has acquired at least one occupational skill, and one has acquired a moral conviction that his life remains his own responsibility,not the duty of other persons.
I said the same thing. Only someone at the station would know that. The station has a problem on the inside. BTW, who thinks a Gay, Black reporter would get his permit turned down.
Why, that'd be like firing the Preezy!
I believe you can say “fired for cause”.
I’m not sure thats right. Risk mitigation in this case always assumes worst-case scenarios. Which would be the deaths of multiple staff members at the hands of an employee known to staff and management, even documented, of having a history of violent outbursts.
Those sorts of payouts are going to exceed, far exceed, anything sort of EEO-related settlement.
There is nothing as vindictive as a bitter old queen.
Most stations' news crews move around town in vehicles with the station's logo painted on the van. It would be easy enough to lie in wait near the station and follow them on their first assignment. He would have known the routine.
He may also have had access to the station's employee scheduling software, if they failed to remove privileges when he was fired (it is amazing how often HE forgets little details like that).
I would imagine that TV news markets are close-knit. Word eventually gets out on problem employees. It happens to a degree in my profession, engineering. There is a formal reference process and then there is an informal process where one calls colleagues that they know and get information that way.
I worked with someone who was diagnosed with paranoid schitzophrenia 8 years earlier. We did not know it at the time of hire. He never told anyone including his own roomates and friends. We just knew that he acted creepy and treated most co-workers poorly. We let him go only have 5 months and after traumatizing the entire office. 1-1/2 years later, he murdered his roomate and now is in prison for 60 years. Yes, it is very hard to get any information on someone legally. This guy got hired again and again with great first impressions.....you only began to see problems about 1-2 weeks later. Companies are scared of wrongful termination and crazies and grievance whores benefit from this.
Played the Race Card for Years, Brooklyn Attitude wrote:
“The Charleston church shooter was motivated by blacks attacking whites, and the Virginia shooter motivated by the Charleston shooter attacking blacks. NO ONE IN THE MEDIA WILL BLAME THE RISE IN RACE BASED KILLINGS ON OBAMA.”
Thank you
Slowly but surely black conservatives are comming forth accepting the reality that Obama created this hyphenation of Americans using race for his own political purposes. Which I’ve been posting here in FR’s for years was employed as a political tactic to defer any constitutional questioning action of the 1st branch by the 2nd branch of government.
Here is what they’re saying
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3323814/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3324514/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3325168/posts
they were at the lake to do a story on its 50th anniversary. station probably said the day before that there would be a broadcast, and interview at the site.
unfortunatley, they probably tipped him off, by accident.
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