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FBI agent whose gun went off while doing dance backflip taken into custody
NBC News ^ | 12 June 2018 | Daniel Arkin

Posted on 06/12/2018 12:44:45 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT

Chase Bishop, 29, was being held in a detention center in downtown Denver. He faces charges for second-degree assault but he has not been formally charged, according to NBC affiliate KUSA.

Bishop is not assigned to the Denver office but works out of Washington, D.C., sources told KUSA.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: accidentaldischarge; banglist; chasebishop; fbi
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Still wondering if Chase Bishop isn’t a fake ID. One of a few that the Feebs have on hand for embarrassing situations.


61 posted on 06/13/2018 3:39:29 AM PDT by mewzilla (Has the FBI been spying on members of Congress?)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

A bad-dancing FBI agent is arrested, but FBI agents involved in treason are walking among us, as free as birds.


62 posted on 06/13/2018 4:05:45 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Have an A-1 day.)
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To: precisionshootist

Hi precisionshootist,
No problem discussing this, I am not an expert, though.
You could find one here: https://www.jurispro.com/category/firearms-and-ballistics-s-359
I’ve read a couple experts (Mr Massad Ayoob is one, books, articles, testified at more than 1,000 trials on self-defense) and “experts” take a broad view on this.

A hostile prosecutor can charge anyone, and an anti-gun jury can convict. No one forced the FBI guy to pick up the gun, he willfully reached down and grabbed it, and, he willfully pulled the trigger... no one forced him to pull it, and it didn’t go off by itself. Once you willfully put on a gun, you cannot “accidently” do something, you are responsible for every step in its use. It does not work to say, “I pulled by mistake, because... drunk, impatient, scared, embarrassed, thought the gun was empty, etc.”

It may be like, bringing a wonderful pit bull into a nursery school and the dog “accidently” bites a child.

The FBI guy brought a gun into a room full of people, did backflip which tossed the gun out, he reached down and pulled the trigger and shot somebody... every step was willful, every step could have been prevented. Just my understanding.


63 posted on 06/13/2018 5:23:10 AM PDT by RCFlyer
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

Simple....an affirmative action hire. Since he was white and male, and watching his dancing antics, you can guess what group he belongs to.


64 posted on 06/13/2018 9:12:18 AM PDT by nobamanomore
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To: precisionshootist
I’m not fan of the FBI but to charge this guy with assault seems over the top. I’m not a lawyer but I think you have to show intent to harm someone to prove assault. This was very clearly an accidental discharge. The agent was surely negligent but no way this was assault.

Some states have different degrees of assault one of which could be an assault through negligence. A negligent act resulting in personal injury to another person.

In Connecticut he could be charge with 3rd Degree Assault a misdemeanor.

by causing, with criminal negligence, physical injury to another person with a deadly weapon, a dangerous instrument, or an electronic defense weapon.

65 posted on 06/13/2018 2:00:07 PM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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