"Officer held in robbery ‘wanted to die’" by Associated Press | June 12, 2010
MINNEAPOLIS — A SWAT officer who held up a suburban bank and who is accused of robbing several other businesses was worried about his wife and sick daughter, and tormented by nightmares from his time fighting in Iraq, his attorney said in a court filing yesterday.
Timothy Carson, 29, was so overwhelmed in the months before the January bank robbery that he “just wanted to die,’’ so he decided to commit a robbery and end his life in a confrontation with police so his wife could get an $250,000 insurance payout, according to the document filed by federal defender Andrea George....
George asked US District Judge Patrick Schiltz to give Carson the minimum sentence, saying he was under a tremendous amount of stress and needs psychological treatment, not a lengthy prison sentence.
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They sure can find the WAR MONEY when they NEED TO, 'eh, used-up and discarded veterans.
And you are going to kill me during the martial law time to defend this government?
Why not JOIN US instead?
WE DID NOT SEND YOU AWAY OVER and OVER AGAIN by TELLING YOU LIES!
Carson entered the
Entering the U.S. prison system and the world of torture would be familiar to anyone who has been in Iraq; however, not from the side the soldier is on now.
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Speaking during a Senate Appropriation Defense Subcommittee hearing today, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates demanded that the $33 billion war funding bill be approved by Independence Day.
I guess that must be for your raise, soldier.
What a f***ing a**hole, huh?
