365: Brooke Plesnar - Colleyville Synagogue Hostage Standoff

Former agent Brooke Plesnar reviews the Colleyville synagogue hostage crisis, where a British national took four people hostage, including Congregation Beth Israel's rabbi. The FBI's Hostage Rescue Team (HRT) was deployed. While negotiations for their safe release were underway, the hostages were able to escape unharmed. HRT engaged and killed the hostage-taker. Brooke investigated this case while assigned to the Dallas Division as a member of the Fort Worth, Texas, Resident Agency's Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF). She served in the FBI for five years. Check out episode show notes, photos, and related articles:  https://jerriwilliams.com/365-brooke-plesnar-colleyville-synagogue-hostage-standoff/   FBI Agents Association Statement on Reports of FBI Agent Firings https://www.fbiaa.org/fbi-agents-association-statement-on-reports-of-fbi-agent-firings/     Video Statement from Mike Clark, President of the Society of Former Special Agents of the FBI https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1LpgzZQFf2/     Buy me a coffee - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/JerriWilliams Join my Reader Team to get the FBI Reading Resource - Books about the FBI, written by FBI agents, the 20 clichés about the FBI Reality Checklist, and keep up to date on the FBI in books, TV, and movies via my monthly email. http://eepurl.com/dzCCmL  Check out my FBI books, non-fiction and crime fiction, available as audiobooks, ebooks and paperbacks wherever books are sold. https://jerriwilliams.com/books/