'Go look at my Purple Heart!' Miami man who went on racist tirade posed as Navy SEAL

[douglas9]

During a racist tirade caught on video, Joseph Fucheck waved a pistol around while yelling at a Black homeowner in North Miami-Dade. “Damn right, I carry a gun because I’m a 35-year former Navy SEAL!” he yelled. “Go look at my Purple Heart!”

Detectives found that supposed Purple Heart when they raided Fucheck’s Miami apartment, along with Navy certificates, dress uniforms and even portrait photos of Fucheck decked out like an admiral in front of an American flag.

None of it was real.

Fucheck, 58, has been masquerading as a Navy SEAL for years, adding another twist in the strange story that made headlines across the country. The Navy SEAL Museum in Fort Pierce, which maintains paperwork for all SEALs since World War II, has no record of him. A real retired Navy SEAL, who tried confronting Fucheck a few years ago, called the man’s bogus dress uniform a “total and complete mess.”

Even Fucheck’s own daughter says he never served in the military. She said Fucheck adopted the persona nearly a decade ago, making a sort of shrine to himself and his phony military service in his home — complete with folded-up American flag. He also liked to get free drinks at restaurants while wearing his uniform.

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/crime/article244021122.html

[Xipe Totec]

1. Another bone spurred rodeo clown. nt

[captain queeg]

2. Yep two peas in a pod commander bone spurs and admiral dress-up

[CurtEastPoint]

3. His daughter continued...

“He’s a narcissist,” she told the Miami Herald. “He just has to be the center of attention.”

[Maru Kitteh]

7. Sounds like he will be

One of the most charming guys in jail someday.

[JI7]

9. Sounds like Trump without the money from his dad

[Ferrets are Cool]

10. This

[RhodeIslandOne]

18. When's he running for Congress?

[rockfordfile]

4. The Neo-Nazis are showing themselves.

[Siwsan]

5. Perhaps requiring a DD-214 to get ANY military/veteran insignia license plate is a good idea

When I got mine, in Michigan, I filled out the application and brought along my DD-214, figuring they would ask to see it. They didn't! However, I'll need it when I 'upgrade' my license to an enhanced, Real ID with veteran's insignia.

[Andy823]

6. I think a lot of trumps

"Rambo" crowd who show up at events dressed in combat gear, and carrying assault weapons, have never served a day in the military, they just want to "play" soldier and intimidate people.

[dalton99a]

11. +1

[hunter]

13. It's a very strange form of cosplay.

Some of these guys (it's usually guys) put a lot of money into it, especially when they start buying expensive trucks and guns.

When you confront them on their bullshit nothing changes.

I think this sort of masquerade demonstrates a certain lack of imagination.

If you are going to be a super-hero, go big. Be a starship captain, Wonder Woman, Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico...

[samnsara]

8. the racists (they say) are usually lawyers wearing rolexes!

[Alacritous Crier]

12. I know those guys...

who run the Navy Seal museum don't play around with "stolen valor." They have a bunch of YouTube videos busting clowns like this to their faces.

[hunter]

14. Valor isn't something that can be "stolen." You've got it, or you don't.

The guy in this story is dangerous because he's a racist who threatens his Black neighbors with guns, not because he's pretending to be a Navy Seal.

Actual Navy Seals can be a danger to themselves and others as well.

[Alacritous Crier]

16. That's just the term they use on their website and YouTube page.

[dware]

15. And another POS stolen valor

puke.

These stolen valor pukes are nothing more than wannabe's who couldn't make it in the military so they go out and buy ribbons/medals and the uniforms that go with it and pretend to be this great hero because that's all they can do...……..pretend.

If this stolen valor puke was getting free drinks while in his fake uniform, he's committed a federal crime and should be arrested and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

[greenjar_01]

17. Good God!

The Trumpies have sure thrown in with some real choice specimens. Fookin' 'ell.

[Goodheart]

19. I wonder whom he voted for.

[dware]

20. Well, I can say with near certainty that it wasn't Hillary Clinton.

More than likely it was cadet Bone Spurs, otherwise known as The Mango Menace.

[Goodheart]

21. I wasn't REALLY wondering. :)

[dware]

22. I know,

but I just couldn't pass up the opportunity to get the dig in against cadet Bone Spurs, otherwise known as The Mango Menace.

[Wounded Bear]

23. Faux moral outrage and stolen valor...

Quite a specimen.

[snort]

24. He's got nuthin on me!

Signed: John Rambo