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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nWednesday morning we all woke to the news that two Boston cops had been shot by Kirk Figueroa when the police intervened in a domestic dispute. Figueroa was a Boston constable who had passed local background checks for the job – he served papers in civil litigation. According to one police official, he was like a milkman, providing a service and not authorized to carry a weapon.<\/p>\n
He also had a security company – Code Blue Protection Corp. According to the Army Times<\/a>, before that website went belly-up, it claimed that Figueroa had been an Army military policeman for ten years. The Boston Herald<\/a> wrote about him;<\/p>\n Kirk Figueroa, the 33-year-old man killed in a frenetic Wednesday night firefight, left a paper trail that spanned the East Coast and describes him, in part, as an ex-Army Reservist well-versed in handling guns and private security.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n According to the Times, though, he had enlisted in the Army Reserves and that’s as far as he got;<\/p>\n Figueroa, founder of Code Blue Protection Corp., claimed on his company’s website, www.elitepolicing.org, he served nearly a decade as an MP, but he served a mere five months, according to an Army spokesman.<\/p>\n “Mr. Figueroa never attended basic training or advanced individual training. He did enlist in the U.S. Army Reserve in February 2003, but received a hardship discharge five months later,” Wayne Hall said in a statement. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n So he was an Army reservist in the most remote sense of the term – he’d never spent a day in any kind of training beyond a little drill and ceremony.<\/p>\n He injured two police officers, but despite his body armor, other officers were able to put him down. I heard reports yesterday that claimed that he used an “assault rifle” against the police, but, it turns out that he had a shotgun, not a rifle. <\/p>\n Reportage on the incident wasn’t the media’s finest hour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"