https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/01/politics/fbi-agent-charged-shooting-maryland-metro/index.html
"asked Valdivia for money and when Valdivia said that he didn't have any, Slaughter walked away spewing expletives, prosecutors said in court on Tuesday. Valdivia, who was promoted last year to a supervisory special agent, told Slaughter to watch his mouth. The FBI agent's response caused Slaughter to turn back around and get into Valdivia's face before two shots were fired, prosecutors said."
Here's an ironic quote from his attorney salient to my point ...
"Bonsib says Slaughter provoked Valdivia with "threatening and aggressive behavior -- at close range" that put him in "imminent danger" of getting into a fight and Slaughter getting hold of his gun. Bonsib says that prior to the December incident, Valdivia never discharged his firearm in the line of duty.
"It is clear that Eddie Valdivia acted to prevent what was about to be a physical confrontation with Mr. Slaughter," Bonsib says in a news release. "Eddie Valdivia's opinion of the danger posed by Mr. Slaughter was properly and correctly based upon his training and experience dealing with violence.""
His training caused him to have a last word with a retreating "threat" and to call that threat back and pull a gun on that threat in a crowded passenger car and without ever identifying himself as law enforcement, shoot him??
"Prosecutors said at Valdivia's initial appearance that he hadn't identified himself as an FBI agent until after the shooting. He did not know Slaughter nor was he aware of Slaughter's criminal history prior to the shooting, prosecutors said.
After the Metro Transit Police completed their investigation on December 21, they turned over all their evidence to the Montgomery County state's attorney for review. A grand jury indicted Valdivia on Thursday and a warrant was issued on Friday, according to online records."
The charges are pretty heavy, but the agent almost killed someone and possibly might have killed an onlooker or two, also. I imagine the FBI will also deal him even if he gets letoff by a jury morphing his misdeeds into self defense.
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