A family dog was the victim of the review of multiple previously undisclosed “intentional shootings” in which FBI agents were found guilty, according to a new report.
Consistent Freedom of Information Act requests from The New York Times over the past decade have tracked the FBI’s internal review, specifically of what the agency called “bad shoots”. On Sunday, the newspaper detailed the latest findings culled from a trove of records that identified two of the rare cases in which officers actually had trouble unloading their weapons.
“One involved an Arkansas officer who shot a suspect who was fleeing arrest. That officer resigned before he could receive a 55-day suspension without pay,” The Times reported on data collected from documents dating from 2017 to 2021. “The other involved an officer in California who fatally shot a family dog that he said bit him during a ‘family dispute’ while he was out of service; received a five-day suspension.”
A third incident had become public knowledge and involved an off-duty officer firing his gun from the window of his home in Queens, New York, wounding a man who was trying to steal his car. Despite being fired, Navin Kalicharan has continued efforts to overturn the firing, according to his attorney Larry Berger.
“While neither of the shootings, both of which took place in 2017, was a big mess, their publicity is remarkable,” the Times report continued. “For many years, FBI agents almost never got in trouble for intentional shootings. The two episodes, detailed in records obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request, add to a pattern small but growing that suggests it’s not so safe anymore.”
The report stated that after the 1992 shooting in Ruby Ridge, Idaho, in which a Justice Department review found the FBI to be to blame for clearing agents, a renewed review policy identified at least 150 intentional shootings that caused death or injury to people between 1993 and 2013.
Of those, FOIA documents reviewed by the Times indicated that there were only two “bad outbreaks” that each occurred in 1996; one involving a fleeing suspect and the other a shooting of a dog. When the orders were carried out, the latter were detailed as “routine” and therefore “considered flawless”.
By comparison, the 2017 incident in Riverside County, California, listed aggravating factors in favor of suspension without pay as improper storage of the officer’s firearm and firing his weapon at another person too often nearby when he shot and killed his own family dog that had bitten him. that day after biting him “six weeks earlier during a previous family dispute.”
Attorney Dana J. Boente, who served as the agency’s general counsel from 2018 to 2020, told the Times, “Every time you have a ‘bad shot’ it’s important for a lot of reasons.”
“You don’t want reckless people to be officers. And you want to make sure you have a great review system that’s fair and rigorous,” he added.
Details surrounding the Arkansas shooting highlighted the difference between compliant and non-compliant use of a firearm, as an unsuspecting officer was said to have “fired three to four rounds” at a suspect which trapped the officer between his vehicle and another.
“But as the car began to drive away, a second officer fired another shot at the suspect, which also missed him. The officer later stated that he had thought the suspect posed an imminent danger to the police officials in ‘adjacent parking lots’ and for patrons at a nearby restaurant, but the bureau’s shooting incident review group rejected that justification,” the Times reported.
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A native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College, where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and seeker of truth, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and dog, and when he’s not researching current events and their impacts, you’ll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel ·the.
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