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  Msg # 1921 of 1954 on ZZNY4434, Thursday 9-28-22, 9:13  
  From: TRUTH IN MEDIA REPORTING  
  To: ALL  
  Subj: Documents Show mentally ill negro queer   
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 From: lying-pricks@msnbc.com 
  
 In March 2012, Vester Lee Flanagan II achieved what he had been 
 seeking: a return to television news after a long hiatus. But 
 documents filed in a civil court case showed that soon after Mr. 
 Flanagan€s arrival at WDBJ, a television station in Roanoke, 
 Va., station executives and rank-and-file employees were deeply 
 concerned about his conduct. 
  
 The documents were exhibits in a lawsuit that Mr. Flanagan 
 pursued against WDBJ after he was fired by the station, which 
 was grieving on Wednesday after the authorities said Mr. 
 Flanagan killed two of its employees, Alison Parker and Adam 
 Ward. 
  
 There was €a heated confrontation€ with another reporter on 
 April 28, 2012. Less than a month later, Mr. Flanagan, who used 
 the name Bryce Williams while on the air, clashed with a 
 photographer. And six days after that, there was another dispute 
 between Mr. Flanagan and a photographer. The conduct, a station 
 executive told Mr. Flanagan in a memorandum, €resulted in one or 
 more of your co-workers feeling threatened or uncomfortable,€ 
 the documents showed. 
  
 €We want you to work on the tone of your interpersonal 
 relationships and exercise great care in dealing with stressful 
 situations or disagreements and your response to them,€ the 
 executive, Dan Dennison, wrote. €You need to always work as a 
 member of a collaborative team and allow your teammates to do 
 their jobs and not assume that you alone are concerned with high 
 quality standards.€ 
  
 At the time, Mr. Dennison, who declined an interview request on 
 Wednesday, cautioned Mr. Flanagan that further trouble could 
 lead to dismissal. But station records showed that Mr. 
 Flanagan€s tenure became no less turbulent. 
  
 About two months after his initial missive to Mr. Flanagan, Mr. 
 Dennison wrote that Mr. Flanagan€s €behaviors continue to cause 
 a great deal of friction€ and that the new multimedia 
 journalist€s job was in jeopardy. Mr. Dennison ordered Mr. 
 Flanagan to contact the company€s employee assistance program. 
  
 €We will continue assisting you with your professional growth 
 and development,€ Mr. Dennison wrote, €but we can no longer 
 afford to have you engage in behaviors that constitute creation 
 of a hostile work environment.€ 
  
 Mr. Flanagan, however, continued to draw criticism. In November 
 2012, Mr. Dennison said Mr. Flanagan had breached the company€s 
 journalism standards when he wore a sticker supporting President 
 Obama. 
  
 And that December, Mr. Dennison wrote a memorandum that detailed 
 what he described as €recent examples of lack of thorough 
 reporting, poor on-air performance or time management issues.€ 
  
 As the winter wore on, station officials decided to fire Mr. 
 Flanagan. When they told him, an internal memorandum recounted, 
 he responded, €You better call police because I€m going to make 
 a big stink. This is not right.€ 
  
 Station officials chose to contact the police, and officers 
 physically removed Mr. Flanagan. In one instance, one document 
 said, Mr. Flanagan tossed a baseball cap at one executive. 
 Another memo said Mr. Flanagan handed over a wooden cross to an 
 executive, saying, €You€ll need this.€ 
  
 As Mr. Flanagan left, the records showed, he complained to an 
 officer. 
  
 €You know what they did?€ one memorandum quoted Mr. Flanagan as 
 saying, €They had a watermelon back there for a week and 
 basically€ used a racial epithet to refer to him. 
  
 Mr. Ward, a cameraman with WDBJ who was killed on Wednesday, 
 recorded the dismissal, and records showed that Mr. Flanagan 
 briefly turned his attention toward Mr. Ward on the day of his 
 firing and told him to €lose your big gut.€ 
  
 Mr. Flanagan later sued the station for, among other complaints, 
 retaliation, wrongful termination and racial discrimination. 
  
 In May 2014, Mr. Flanagan wrote to a judge in Roanoke and said 
 that his experiences at the station were €nothing short of vile, 
 disgusting and inexcusable,€ and he demanded that a jury of 
 African-American women hear a civil lawsuit against the station. 
  
 The case was dismissed in 2014 after a judge found that the 
 matters had been €fully and completely resolved and compromised.€ 
  
 http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/27/us/documents-show-virginia- 
 shooting-suspects-turbulent-tenure-at-tv-station.html 
  
 -- 
 Illegal alien muslim Barack Hussein Obama seizes on this tragedy 
 caused by one of his mentally ill homosexual, black racist 
 supporters, to wave the flags for more gun control. 
                                                € 
  
 --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05 
  * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2) 

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