WLOS news in Asheville, NC is reporting that former Asheville Fireman Charles Diaz has plead guilty to assaulting a cyclist in the summer of 2009. The assault occurred when Diaz pulled over an Asheville cyclist and his family “out of concern” for the safety of the couple’s child, whom they were carrying in an approved seat on their bike. The confrontation escalated to the point where Diaz fired his gun at the cyclist. The bullet pierced the helmet of the victim.
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The Asheville Citizen report on November 20th may be found HERE!
Until later,
- Zeke
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Thanks for reporting this. I wondered what happened in this case. Now, what will the sentence be? --jim
He was sentenced to 4 months active sentence followed by 30 months of probation and a requirement that he attend anger management classes. The prosecution used one of his supervisory evaluations within the Fire Department as evidence of a an ongoing inability to control his anger. As I recall, the evaluation indicated that he had a tendency to get involved in matters and then "blow them up".
- Zeke
Thanks Zeke, Four months jail does not seem appropriate for the crime. The vid is "interesting." Link #2 is not working. I trust something good will come of this. --jim
Thanks for the note on the broken link. I think the original story link had expired so I found an AP report and replaced it so the second link should be live again.
I too hope that something positive can result from this. Unfortunately, there is probably an equal chance that the two communities will only become more polarized over it.
-Zeke
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