This POS cop, Keith Buchanan, wanted hero status so bad that he actually staged a fake attack on himself.
Birmingham police officer Keith Buchanan was found lying on train tracks, not speaking, his patrol car riddled with bullets, after putting out a call for "shots fired" to dispatchers last month. At least three law enforcement agencies blocked off roads to ensure Buchanan was rushed to the hospital with no delays as dozens of cops showed up to the hospital to show their support. But then it was determined he had not been shot. And now it has been determined he had made the whole thing up in what Birmingham Police Chief Patrick Smith calls an example of "stolen valor."
https://newsmaven.io/pinacnews/cops-...Ue0S61rcpPEVg/
“Our investigation has concluded that this entire event has been a hoax -- the radio call, the shots fired, the help call, lying injured on the tracks, the damage to the police car -- all a hoax,” Smith said. “We found nothing to support the officer’s accounts of this incident. And I cant say it enough: we will always be in relentless pursuit of our suspects, even when one of those suspects is one of our own.”
https://www.al.com/news/birmingham/2...cials-say.html
Birmingham PD held a press conference to address the hoax.
https://www.facebook.com/CBS42News/v...0240744097458/