ORLANDO, Fla. — Five and a half years after the Pulse massacre, some Orlando police officers are still fighting for their pensions, saying they have PTSD.
On Thursday, one of those officers was supposed to find out whether her pension would be granted, but a last minute delay put it on hold for at least a month.
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An attorney said he never received important documents he says he needs to review former police officer’s Florence Vicil-Anaya’s pension case.
Vicil-Anaya’s attorney said her independent medical report shows that she does have post-traumatic stress disorder, but the city is contesting it.
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The Fraternal Order of Police is not representing the former police officer. Sources tell Channel 9 she was written up for using a baton on a theft suspect in July 2018.
A man was in handcuffs, but police struggled to get him into the car, and Vicil-Anaya hit him to get his legs off the door jam.
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But Orlando police said she resigned from OPD after being sustained in an internal investigation for not having bullets in her gun for two weeks. At that same time, she filed the claim of PTSD, something that could be a sticking point.
OPD has two cases still left from the Pulse massacre and one from the shooting death of Lt. Debra Clayton.
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