[FreeBeacon] A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit by a security guard who was injured during a 2015 terror attack by ISIS radicals in Garland, Texas. Bruce Joiner alleged the FBI was liable, arguing the bureau had prior knowledge of the impending violence and had even helped incubate the idea with attackers, but then failed to stop it.Joiner was shot in the lower leg after Elton Simpson
| ...African-American known wolf who turned to Islam in high school to keep himself from running with a wild crowd, but found jihad instead. The FBI first noticed him in 2006 when he befriended a man trying to set up a jihadi cell in Phoenix, then stopped him from joining Al Shabaab in 2010... |
| ...born in Garland, Texas to a Pakistani father and an American mother, he was an outgoing teenage heartthrob back at his fancy private school in Islamabad but failed at everything he tried after his divorced mother brought him with her to America, so he turned to his dad’s religion for solace. Along with Phoenix roommates Elton Simpson and Abdul Malik Abdul Kareem, he looked around for a jihadi project — and this nice little massacre seemed just the ticket... |
| That was Pamela Geller’s effort. As far as I know, there was not a second one. |
Documents released through other court cases, however, revealed how close the FBI was to the action of the attack, which has since drawn media and congressional scrutiny.
Shortly after the "Muhammad Art Exhibit" event was announced in early 2015, the undercover agent who had been infiltrating the small cell of radicals texted Simpson, saying, "tear up Texas."
Additionally, the undercover agent was in a separate car directly behind Simpson and Soofi when they opened fire and had been taking pictures of the attackers' car just seconds before the shooting began.
When the first shots were fired, the undercover agent fled his own vehicle, but was apprehended by local police, at which point the agent told police he was undercover with the FBI.
Joiner claimed the FBI was liable for his injury and was seeking millions in damages but has consistently maintained that his lawsuit was about getting information from the bureau to uncover the full extent of their actions leading up to the attack.