Miami gunman who went on racist tirade banned from pretending to be a Navy SEAL

[ck4829]

Joseph Fucheck, a white Miami man who pointed a gun at a Black homeowner and hurled a racial slur, has pleaded guilty, accepted probation and will have to complete the usual array of conditions, such as mental-health counseling, substance abuse treatment and staying away from the victim.

But there’s one unusual requirement: He’s banned from pretending to be a military or police man.

The reason: Fucheck, 60, had for years been posing as a former police SWAT leader and Navy SEAL, donning a bogus military uniform, bragging about his supposed medals for valor, even getting free drinks. “Damn right, I carry a gun because I’m a 35-year former Navy SEAL! Go look at my Purple Heart!” he yelled during the June 2020 incident.

The plea deal, struck on Monday, concludes the case against Fucheck, whose racist tirade was captured on camera and led to his arrest for aggravated assault with a firearm with prejudice. The criminal charge was enhanced under Florida’s “hate-crime” law, which stiffens the penalties and makes the crime punishable by 15 years in prison.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/miami-gunman-went-racist-tirade-123840748.html

He should have stuck to pretending to be a Navy SEAL on the internet.

[Vogon_Glory]

1. What's more, this guy had never even been in the military.

Not only never been a SWAT member, never been a SEAL, never even been a serviceman.

Talk about stolen valor.

[Aristus]

2. These poor deluded assholes never seem to understand that military enlistment documents

are public records. These things are easy to confirm or rule out.

And the more one of these idiots tries to worm out of it with "Well, what I did was so hush-hush, there are no records of it", the more I just accept that they're more full of shit than a septic tank.

On edit: secret clearances are not everything the movies make them out to be. I spent a year on the battalion's operations staff when I was in the Army. I was required to have a 'classified' document clearance. It didn't qualify me to be James Bond, just to make coffee and acetate map overlays for the unit field leaders while on maneuver exercises.

[XanaDUer2]

3. Psychoes love pretending this stuff

I read this all the time

[Hugh_Lebowski]

4. Probably common in people with narcissistic personality disorder (nt)

[TheRealNorth]

5. I thought Republicans made pretending to be a veteran a Federal crime?

Are you telling me they won't go after one their own. Color me not shocked. IOKIYAR.