https://taskandpurpose.com/news/video-va-employee-body-slamming-veteran/
Okay, I just need to vent here. I don’t expect anything to be done. Nothing is ever done. I was a victim of “military medicine” for 20 years so I speak from experience.
But this is outrageous! A 73-year old Vietnam veteran went to the VA to discuss a hernia operation. While sitting in the waiting room (probably for hours) he had to go to the bathroom. He knocked on the door to let the “patient advocate” know he would be in the bathroom — on the off chance he might be called while he was gone. The SOB at the door starts off by jabbing his finger in the man’s face. Then, he pushes this 73-year old man, who looks to be much smaller than him, into a corner, chokes him with both hands, throws him across a chair, and kicks him in the head while he’s lying on the floor. Then he leaves the room, leaving the unconscious man on the floor. And the CENSORED still has his job!!! He should not only be fired, he should be in jail for assault and battery!
This is unacceptable! This will not stand! These are my guys! They went through hell in Nam for nothing, only to come home and get spit on for having done what their government demanded they do. The names of a lot of my graduating class are on that wall in D.C. The ones who made it home deserve better than this!
Okay, rant over. Resume normal discord.
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That is disgusting, he should indeed be in jail.
There are problems here that can be solved.
One is that the VA is protected by sovereign immunity. A private hospital would be in court for permitting this.
There are things that the VA does better than the private sector, like managing prosthetics, but other services for veterans can be had cheaper and better through Tricare.
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I wish I could get my brother to believe that.
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I suspect the employee will be charged, convicted and imprisoned. Until then, firing might be tough since he is not convicted of anything yet.
Government institutions do have some immunity, but not impenetrable. Police forces in cities and states have paid out millions each year to victims of abuse. Not readily, or without egregious cases perhaps, but the immunity is not ironclad.
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I know I’m preaching to the choir here, but in any of the many jobs I’ve had over the years, in the private sector and the government, if I had ever so much as punched a patron, much less body-slammed and kicked a patron, and the evidence was on video, I would have been shown the door that day.
And there were multiple occasions when punching would have justified! But, in civilized societies, you just don’t do that. (Okay, I just answered my own question.)
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“Okay, I just answered my own question”
Doncha hate it when that happens?š
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What in the world could lead up to such an aggregious response. I think there is more to the story but there is no excuse for this. I know for a fact that a government GS could easily be immediately suspended or fired for this and if a contractor he would at least be invited to leave the building for good. He was arrested thankfully.
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What in the world could lead up to such an aggregious response. I think there is more to the story but there is no excuse for this. I know for a fact that a government GS could easily be immediately suspended or fired for this and if a contractor he would at least be invited to leave the building for good. He was arrested thankfully. And yes he was eventually suspended without pay.
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