Reporter Who Badgered Elderly Robbery Victim Fired

-By Warner Todd Huston

You may recall the report last October of the story of reporter Rebecca Aguilar of Fox 4 in Dallas, Texas who confronted and badgered an elderly victim of several robberies who responded to his attackers with deadly force. Aguilar was seen in her interview keeping the poor fellow from shutting his car door as she accusingly asked the man if he was “a trigger happy person” because he had killed the robbers who accosted him.

Well, we have an update on this pushy, unfeeling reporter, It seems she’s been fired.

In a telephone interview Wednesday night, Aguilar, 49, said she was checking her mail at mid-afternoon that day when she noticed an envelope under her front door mat. It informed her that Fox4 was exercising an option to drop her at the halfway point of a two-year contract that began on March 6, 2007.

“No doorbell, no knock on the door,” said Aguilar, who had been on paid suspension since Oct. 16th following her controversial interview with an elderly West Dallas salvage business owner who had shot and killed two alleged burglars within three weeks time.

Aguilar’s controversial, attack dog-like interview of James Walton, the elderly business owner, is quite a show. In it Augilar treated this 78-year-old man as the criminal. Mr. Walton, though, had been robbed countless times and was only protecting himself.

As was reported last October, the Dallas police are defending Walton’s actions. According to some reports Mr. Walton has made over 40 calls to police concerning break ins.

Police said Mr. Walton is allowed to protect his property. No charges were filed against him Sunday, though the case will be referred to a grand jury, police said.

“He’s got a right to defend his property. What gives a stranger the right to go in and vandalize or burglarize his business?” said Dallas police Sgt. Gene Reyes. “He’s within every legal right to do this.”

But despite that he is the victim, Aguilar treated him as the criminal. By her accusatory tone, you’d have thought it was the robber’s Constitutional right to rob the old man instead of his right to defend himself!

(Also see video at BreitbartTV)

In any case, it seems as if justice is done and this ignorant woman has been canned. Good for Fox 4.


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Warner Todd Huston is a Chicago based freelance writer, has been writing opinion editorials and social criticism since early 2001 and is featured on many websites such as newsbusters.org, townhall.com, New Media Journal, Men’s News Daily and the New Media Alliance among many, many others. Additionally, he has been a frequent guest on talk-radio programs to discuss his opinion editorials and current events. He has also written for several history magazines and appears in the new book “Americans on Politics, Policy and Pop Culture” which can be purchased on amazon.com. He is also the owner and operator of publiusforum.com. Feel free to contact him with any comments or questions : EMAIL Warner Todd Huston


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