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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   
      
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