{"id":127326,"date":"2022-06-30T09:15:45","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T13:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=127326"},"modified":"2022-06-30T10:09:29","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T14:09:29","slug":"va-suspends-lawrence-gaillard-without-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=127326","title":{"rendered":"VA suspends Lawrence Gaillard without pay"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Lawrence<\/a><\/p>\n

As you guys remember, Lawrence Gaillard was a VA patient advocate who assaulted an elderly veteran. As of the time of the posting, there was a question about what action would the VA take against him regarding his VA employment. Thanks to \u201cChannel 2 Investigates\u201d presenting the video of the assault, events got underway that resulted in Gaillard’s suspension without pay.<\/p>\n

Yahoo! News:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Channel 2 Consumer Investigator Justin Gray first broke the story of the attack and first shared the video, which shows employee Lawrence Gaillard shove the 73-year-old veteran into a door, then throw him to the ground by the neck and kick him in the head. The attack happened at a VA office at Fort McPherson on April 28.<\/p>\n

The victim, Phillip Webb, suffered from a brain bleed so bad he doesn\u2019t remember the attack.<\/p>\n

Gaillard is now suspended, but it took nearly two months for the VA to take action.<\/p>\n

Gray spent a month and a half trying to get hold of the video, but it wasn\u2019t until after the story aired on Channel 2 Action News that Gaillard was finally suspended without pay.<\/p>\n

The U.S. secretary of veterans affairs, Denis McDonough, is now commenting on the video.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know, I watched that video and it is heartbreaking,\u201d McDonough said. \u201cIt\u2019s abhorrent the behavior that\u2019s depicted there. On behalf of the VA, I apologize to that veteran.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yahoo! News has the article here<\/a>. Thanks to Anonymous for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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