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10th February 2016, 09:28 AM
Cop Never Fired After 2 Fits of Road Rage – On the 3rd Fit, He Shot a Lady in the Head for Honking http://thefreethoughtproject.com/officer-accused-road-rage-shooting-prior-anger-issues-cop/ Source: The Free Thought Project (http://thefreethoughtproject.com/officer-accused-road-rage-shooting-prior-anger-issues-cop/)
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Houston, TX — It was recently revealed in court documents that a former police officer who shot a woman in the head during a road rage incident has a history marred with violence and anger issues.
Kenneth Caplan, a reserve deputy constable with Harris County Precinct 6, was charged last year (http://thefreethoughtproject.com/driving-highway-cop-shoots-woman-head-cutting/) with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after shooting a woman in the head during a fit of road rage.
The officer was reportedly driving on the 610 Loop at Stella Link when he cut off a 20-year-old woman who was also driving on the highway. The woman responded by pulling in front of him, and cutting him off. Next, the off-duty officer pulled up next to her car, pointed his gun directly to her window, and fired.
Now, the lawyer for the victim is saying that Caplan should have never been a cop to begin with and that the police department had many opportunities to see that he had anger problems.
“What sticks out is this was not an accident, this was an incident waiting to happen. First, when I read it, it was chilling,”attorney Steve Couch said. (http://abc13.com/news/work-history-raises-questions-about-ex-deputy-accused-in-road-rage/1194243/)
“It’s a huge question mark, in my opinion,” he added.
Couch was referring to the former officers employment file, which shows that he had 21 different jobs in the past five years, 12 of which he was fired from for undisclosed reasons. He was fired from more than half of the jobs that he had in the past five years.
His time as an officer was also filled with disciplinary problems. In just two years working at Precinct 6, Caplan had five different anger-related complaints filed against him, including two road rage incidents. In one of the road rage situations, the Caplan threatened a mother and her three children. On another occasion, he got into a road rage squabble with another police officer.
Couch also suggests that Caplan was allowed to pass through police academy despite the fact that he was initially kicked out. Couch also said that the doctor responsible for giving the former officer a psychological evaluation may have not even done her job.
“I engaged a psychologist that said she (Busick) fell short of the standard in testing and evaluating Caplan if she tested him at all,” Couch said.
Caplan claims both that he shot the woman in self-defense and that he shot her by accident.
“She was trying to run us into a wall. She got shot. The gun went off but it was an accident. It was self-defense,” Caplan said.
Caplan also downplayed his sketchy work history, saying that he did not care about the jobs that he was fired from.
“When you have a job you don’t care about, you really don’t care if you get fired or not,” he said.
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Houston, TX — It was recently revealed in court documents that a former police officer who shot a woman in the head during a road rage incident has a history marred with violence and anger issues.
Kenneth Caplan, a reserve deputy constable with Harris County Precinct 6, was charged last year (http://thefreethoughtproject.com/driving-highway-cop-shoots-woman-head-cutting/) with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after shooting a woman in the head during a fit of road rage.
The officer was reportedly driving on the 610 Loop at Stella Link when he cut off a 20-year-old woman who was also driving on the highway. The woman responded by pulling in front of him, and cutting him off. Next, the off-duty officer pulled up next to her car, pointed his gun directly to her window, and fired.
Now, the lawyer for the victim is saying that Caplan should have never been a cop to begin with and that the police department had many opportunities to see that he had anger problems.
“What sticks out is this was not an accident, this was an incident waiting to happen. First, when I read it, it was chilling,”attorney Steve Couch said. (http://abc13.com/news/work-history-raises-questions-about-ex-deputy-accused-in-road-rage/1194243/)
“It’s a huge question mark, in my opinion,” he added.
Couch was referring to the former officers employment file, which shows that he had 21 different jobs in the past five years, 12 of which he was fired from for undisclosed reasons. He was fired from more than half of the jobs that he had in the past five years.
His time as an officer was also filled with disciplinary problems. In just two years working at Precinct 6, Caplan had five different anger-related complaints filed against him, including two road rage incidents. In one of the road rage situations, the Caplan threatened a mother and her three children. On another occasion, he got into a road rage squabble with another police officer.
Couch also suggests that Caplan was allowed to pass through police academy despite the fact that he was initially kicked out. Couch also said that the doctor responsible for giving the former officer a psychological evaluation may have not even done her job.
“I engaged a psychologist that said she (Busick) fell short of the standard in testing and evaluating Caplan if she tested him at all,” Couch said.
Caplan claims both that he shot the woman in self-defense and that he shot her by accident.
“She was trying to run us into a wall. She got shot. The gun went off but it was an accident. It was self-defense,” Caplan said.
Caplan also downplayed his sketchy work history, saying that he did not care about the jobs that he was fired from.
“When you have a job you don’t care about, you really don’t care if you get fired or not,” he said.
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