In what many gun owners will consider an act of karma for the ATF’s recent pistol brace guidance, a federal agent was tased earlier this year by two police officers in Columbus, Ohio, while he was attempting to confiscate a shotgun. The agent is seeking damages from the two officers and the city for the “physical and psychological” injuries he suffered during the incident.
Agent James Burk, a 16-year veteran of the ATF, said in his lawsuit that he was working a “routine” assignment on July 7 to confiscate a shotgun from someone who was not permitted to own a firearm, according to local media.
The homeowner called 911 when Burke knocked on the door and demanded that he produce his credentials. The dispatcher told the homeowner not to open the door and dispatched to the scene two 20-year veteran officers, Joseph Fihe and Kevin Winchell.
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Wonder if this is the same James Burk, ATF, who got busted stealing wine from a Kroger's in 2015? https://www.wcpo.com/news/local-news/hamilton-county/delhi-township/james-burk-atf-agent-charged-with-stealing-wine-from-kroger
ReplyDeleteGood memory and I had but a fleeting remembrance of the story. I'll bet on the same one. :) Thanks.
DeleteYep. https://koliasa.com/atf-agent-sues-city-of-columbus-ohio-2-cops-for-detaining-tasing-him/
DeleteThanks.
DeleteEven the local cops are tired of the ATF's cow excrement.
ReplyDeleteYes I was surprised at this.
DeleteDouchtard SHOULD be wearing a UNIFORM that is PLAINLY marked denoting him as a FEDERAL AGENT instead of banging on doors BY HIMSELF in STREET CLOTHES. The assclown should be happy he didn't get SHOT. This whole thing stinks.....Fed agents don't make SOLO visits in STREET CLOTHES to a house to confiscate an "illegal" weapon. They show up in numbers DRESSED ACCORDINGLY, they should be notifying the local LEO agencies what they are doing, where and when to prevent such an event. I'd bet my next paycheck this criminal pinned to a badge was attempting to obtain a firearm illicitly for some personal reason.....and odds are it would have been used to set up some innocent person.
ReplyDelete100%! I've had three meetings with the FBI in the last few years and there are always two and one talks while the other jots down notes. They were gentlemen.
DeleteYou should NEVER EVER agree to an inteview with the FBI....EVER unless the interview takes place in YOUR lawyers office with the entire interview being VIDEOTAPED/Recorded. And under those conditions the agents will almost ALWAYS decide they don't wish to interview you. The method you describe is THE CLASSIC method they use to entrap innocent people. They do an interview with one talking and the other writing notes. A few months later they ask for ANOTHER interview and ask similar questions and take more notes. If the notes from the two interviews are NOT IDENTICAL you are ipso facto guilty of LYING TO A FEDERAL AGENT....which is a crime. Although it's PERFECTLY LEGAL for THEM to lie to YOU.
DeleteThat is what Martha Stewart went to prison for. She pleaded guilty to lying to an agent because she got caught in this exact trap. Rule number one.....NEVER TALK TO A FEDERAL AGENT unless it is at YOUR lawyers office and HE records it.
" If the notes from the two interviews are NOT IDENTICAL you are ipso facto guilty of LYING TO A FEDERAL AGENT....which is a crime. Although it's PERFECTLY LEGAL for THEM to lie to YOU."
ReplyDeleteDan, it should be THE OPPOSITE since they are OUR EMPLOYEES working UNDER OUR DELEGATED POWERS!!
I think you're right about not talking to them except to ask them questions and asking to see their ID's and DL's. Ask if they have a 4th Amendment warrant and if they have the permission of your County Sheriff to be in his and your county. --Ron W