Former WDBJ Worker: After Being Fired, Flanigan Threw Violent Tantrum

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BALDWIN: "--And they were murdered on live television and the man who was holding the gun was someone who worked at the TV station before, and you know him as well. 
REYNOLDS: "Yes. He was a reporter when I was there. He -- personally I was -- he was all the time in the studio. He was not the best co-worker, and, you know, he's very aggressive towards people. He couldn't take criticism, and he took it personally, and at the station he was let go and threw a huge tantrum that caused a lot of our co-workers to fear our own safety. There were -- like we were in a lockdown the day that he was fired, and a few days later we had like police detail that kind of watched over the station because we didn't know the extent of I guess his mental illness." 
BALDWIN: "Hang on a second. I've seen people be fired and I've seen human resources be killed and I've seen people being walked out of buildings but your building was on lockdown because of this. When you say he threw a tantrum, be specific." 
REYNOLDS: "Well, I wasn't there. I came in like a few hours later after the tantrum and the aftermath of the tantrum was there use newsroom desk, computer monitors and things thrown on the ground. People were shaken and like in tears because they experienced something so horrific at that time. Police officers were there in our building watching over us." 
BALDWIN: "Now, I don't know how long you -- how long ago you left the station or even -- I don't even know how long ago he left the station or was told to leave the station but was this a name that still resonated in the newsroom. Was this a name that people still sort of remember him and were worried about him or was his presence long gone." 
REYNOLDS: "Well, I left probably a few months after he was fired, so I don't have any perspective of how his name is still on the newsroom. What I do know is he filed a lawsuit against the company and that lawsuit this year did not succeed in his favor so I don't know if that's pent up aggression from the lawsuit. He felt that his firing was racially motivated." 
BALDWIN: "You know, larell, the theme of racism has come up now that we've learned he sent this 23-page fax. I don't know how much you've been following. He sent this fax up here to ABC News and part of the fax in addition to calling himself a powder keg that was one day going to go boom, just quoting him, he also said he was motivated by that church shooting just a couple of months ago in Charleston, south Carolina, which was racially motivated, and so he was apparently infuriated by that, and a couple days later that's when he bought the gun. What did he ever talk to you about anything race-related while you two were at the station?" 
REYNOLDS: "You know, I just thought about this. He did kind of approach me one day, and he was kind of like us, we need to stick together, and he insinuated like that the black people in the company needs to watch out for each other, so he always had that racial awareness and the company even though it didn't exist, to my knowledge, to my experience, to how the company was."