08-27-2013, 07:31 PM
The incident you relate was an accident, made worse by the poor decision to drive while under the influence. He was held to a higher standard of consequences than the wannabe snipers who went up as a group with an ROE they all knew didn't pass muster of day 1 in Quantico's FBI Special Agent Course.
That is well-documented by some of the agents themselves, as well as the Danny Coulsen, the career FBI man who claims responsibility for standing up the HRT. The Congressional Investigation into it found the FBI, ATF, and US Marshals in the wrong side of the law, and ordered millions of dollars in damages to be awarded to the victims.
Lon Horiuchi later went to be employed with HS Precision. Monroe, his "sniper buddy", is now employed by Troy. I, having been a satisfied Troy customer for years, was totally shocked when I learned this. I would never have guessed that Troy would ever in a million years hire such an agent with such a tainted record. He will be a liability to any organization that pays him to train them, because their mistakes in the future will be scrutinized, and once an attorney learns that they had Monroe train them, it will be a field day. Doesn't matter even if the officers followed protocol, because an attorney can make a solid case that the officers were only following bad policy-bad policy that was crafted or influenced by Agent Monroe. Ignorance is not a defense, especially in use of force incidents.
That is well-documented by some of the agents themselves, as well as the Danny Coulsen, the career FBI man who claims responsibility for standing up the HRT. The Congressional Investigation into it found the FBI, ATF, and US Marshals in the wrong side of the law, and ordered millions of dollars in damages to be awarded to the victims.
Lon Horiuchi later went to be employed with HS Precision. Monroe, his "sniper buddy", is now employed by Troy. I, having been a satisfied Troy customer for years, was totally shocked when I learned this. I would never have guessed that Troy would ever in a million years hire such an agent with such a tainted record. He will be a liability to any organization that pays him to train them, because their mistakes in the future will be scrutinized, and once an attorney learns that they had Monroe train them, it will be a field day. Doesn't matter even if the officers followed protocol, because an attorney can make a solid case that the officers were only following bad policy-bad policy that was crafted or influenced by Agent Monroe. Ignorance is not a defense, especially in use of force incidents.