{"id":31421,"date":"2021-08-11T13:36:15","date_gmt":"2021-08-11T13:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=31421"},"modified":"2021-08-11T13:36:21","modified_gmt":"2021-08-11T13:36:21","slug":"chipman-derails-black-atf-agents-career-with-false-accusation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=31421","title":{"rendered":"Chipman Derails Black ATF Agent&#8217;s Career With False Accusation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:3648,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/thereload.com\\\/black-atf-agent-says-biden-nominee-falsely-accused-him-of-cheating-on-promotion-assessment&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/thereload.com\\\/black-atf-agent-says-biden-nominee-falsely-accused-him-of-cheating-on-promotion-assessment\\\/&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/thereload.com\/black-atf-agent-says-biden-nominee-falsely-accused-him-of-cheating-on-promotion-assessment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stephen Gutowski of The Reload has a story<\/a><\/strong> today of how David Chipman derailed a promising black ATF Special Agent&#8217;s career with a false accusation of cheating in a promotion assessment. Chipman&#8217;s accusation required a two-year investigation into the matter which effectively took this Special Agent out of contention for further promotions even though the agent in question was eventually cleared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cI couldn\u2019t believe it when it happened,\u201d the agent told\u00a0<em>The Reload<\/em>. \u201cBut when I read about his other comments, in my mind, I was like \u2018that motherf*****.\u2019 That\u2019s what happened. He said, \u2018Hey, a lot of African Americans qualified to be promoted on this certification list; they must have been cheating.\u2019 And then he had to go and find one. I happened to be that one.\u201d<\/p><p>He said he believes Chipman\u2019s allegation after the in-person test was motivated by race.<\/p><p>\u201cI believe it had to have been a bias,\u201d the agent, who spent more than 25 years at the agency, said. \u201cMy answers were just \u2018too good.\u2019 And my thought is he just said, \u2018this black guy could not have answered this well if he wasn\u2019t cheating.&#8217;\u201d<\/p><p>The agent said he was cleared by a Department of Justice (DOJ) investigation, but not before his career took a hit. He said the protracted investigation effectively paused the promising career he\u2019d built.<\/p><p>\u201cI was cleared as I should have been,\u201d the agent said. \u201cBut it was very painful because it was two years out of my life where my career was sidelined for something like that. And it caused me a lot of stress and my family a lot of stress. And it kind of disenchanted me with the idea of management.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>In the in-person assessment, the Special Agent was given a scenario and asked how he would handle it. In this particular case, unbeknownst to Chipman the scenario was something this agent had been doing as part of team for a number of years. The agent did well on it which led Chipman to make his false accusation of cheating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/thereload.com\/black-atf-agent-says-biden-nominee-falsely-accused-him-of-cheating-on-promotion-assessment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read the whole story <\/a><\/strong>which has been corroborated by another ATF agent. <\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Gutowski of The Reload has a story today of how David Chipman derailed a promising black ATF Special&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[371,1192,699,1824,86,5640],"class_list":["post-31421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-batfe","tag-david-chipman","tag-presidential-nominations","tag-racism","tag-stephen-gutowski","tag-the-reload"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31422,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31421\/revisions\/31422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}