CNN: ‘Every Place We Have Checked’ Where Flanigan Worked, ‘It Ended Badly’

‘The news director, the then news director, said he was fired because of very odd behavior, and the shooting suspect filed a lawsuit claiming racial discrimination’

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BALDWIN: "There was a lawsuit that he filed some years ago -- tell me about that." 
GRIFFIN: "Let's start, Brooke, by saying let's not say his name, why not. I'll called him the dead suspect." 
BALDWIN: "Fine by me." 
GRIFFIN: "But every place that we have checked he has had a short stint of employment that seems to have ended badly. That seems to be the case as well when he worked in Tallahassee, Florida, as a reporter. He worked there one year before he was fired there in the year 2000. The news director, the then news director, said he was fired because of very odd behavior, and the shooting suspect filed a lawsuit claiming racial discrimination. In the suit he claimed that a producer claimed him a, quote, monkey and other allegations of racism were made in that lawsuit that, quote, black people are lazy one of his co-workers told him according to that lawsuit. It was settled out of court. We don't know the disposition of it, but there seems to be a history everywhere this person has worked where he's been a very difficult employee to work with, and very difficult to his employers."

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