by making trouble for him by questioning a decision to go on private property in pursuit of a story. at that point, in a meeting with a manager and hr, he raised some concerns with hr of perceived unfairness and those accusations or concerns were immediately investigated and found to be without merit. shortly after that, he confronted an anchor in the hallway, an anchor who was assigned by a producer to review one of his stories and he was not happy about that. at that point, management made the determination that it was the appropriate time to separate him from the company. on february 1st, 2013, two news managers and the hr manager notified flanagan of the decision to terminate his employment. he reacted negativelily and said they would have to call the police because he was going to