Hero cop of Pulse shooting is being terminated from force

[DonViejo]

Source: USA Today




Christal Hayes, USA TODAY Published 9:47 p.m. ET Dec. 5, 2017 | Updated 10:36 a.m. ET Dec. 6, 2017

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Omar Delgado, 45, a corporal at the Eatonville Police Department, was one of the first officers at the club in the early hours of June 12, 2016, after a gunman killed 49 people and injured dozens in what is now the second-deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history.

Delgado, who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder as a result of witnessing the carnage, scoured through bodies that littered the ground and helped survivors get to safety. One of the clubgoers he helped was Angel Colon, who was shot six times. The pair’s story of survival and their growing friendship grabbed headlines around the world.

The department is terminating Delgado from the force at the end of the month, Eatonville council members confirmed at a meeting late Tuesday. His last day on his $38,500-a-year job is scheduled for Dec. 31.

An extra six months on the job would have allowed Delgado to receive 64% of his salary with benefits for life, the Orlando Sentinel reported. Since he will leave the force before making it to 10 years, he will receive 42% of his earnings, the paper noted.



Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/12/05/hero-cop-orlandos-pulse-shooting-terminated-force/925724001/

[dlk]

1. No Good Deed Goes Unpunished

[snooper2]

2. Cops there get 64% of their salary after working only 10 years?

[Egnever]

3. Yea but the salary

38k to put your life on the line is fucking ridiculous. No wonder we have cops shooting people. Why would any sane person do that for that kind of money.

I sure as hell wouldn't.

After 10 years of that BS you would need to retire.

[marybourg]

4. It's not much of a salary,

if that report is correct.

[Stryst]

6. Even at 42%

He's going to be making 50% more than my wife and I make together on combined SSI and VA.

[marybourg]

7. Not exactly apples to apples comparison.

[Stryst]

8. I'm not sure exactly what you mean?

I'm a disabled veteran who got pushed out of the military before I could get full benefits, so it seems like a pretty similar situation. Only I didn't have an organization full of murderers threaten politicians who wouldn't sweeten my benefits package and shrink the threshold to earn them. Instead of getting automatic benefits, I had to prove I deserved them.

I'm sorry if I offended anyone, but as a veteran who follows the news and sees what the police have become in this country, seeing how golden their benefits package is and how little they have to do to earn it means I have very little sympathy for this man. He had to wade through corpses? Quick show of hands of who had to do that in Iraq and certainly aren't getting any 42% benefits for them.

Now, I honestly don't know what you mean, and I'm sorry if I vented on you.

[RhodeIslandOne]

9. Funny enough many of your fellow vets are probably cops now

Look, this guy was a hero, and suffered a similar PTS event similar to war. Seeing all this bodies, I can’t imagine....

We need to stick together and stand for all people like this.

[marybourg]

10. No disrespect intended; I'm grateful for your service to our

country. You were the one who compared your situation to the policeman fired because he developed PTSD, not me. That said, pensions are "deferred compensation"; SSI, well, it's not. Therefore they are not both apples.

[Aristus]

5. His replacement will be a white supremacist who will initiate pullovers for 'driving while black'.

He will then turn off his body-cam and start blasting everything in sight because he felt his life "was in imminent danger" from the unarmed black man in the Toyota with his wife and children.

Replacement cop will then be put on paid leave until the department decides not to charge him, or manages to successfully plant a gun in the car.

Lather, rinse, and repeat.

[OriginalGeek]

12. Well, probably not in Eatonville

It's a historically and predominantly black community.

[Blue_Tires]

11. wow...

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