Chief Albert also recommended that Kevin Wheeler, a 5 year veteran, and Juan Vera, a 4 year veteran, be dismissed after internal an investigation found that both men gave false accounts of an incident involving ECD deployments. On October 18, 2011, Wheeler and Vera responded to a call of a man armed with a machete. Both men ended up administering ECD deployments on the man. Vera deployed his ECD once, while Wheeler deployed his twice. As all ECD deployments are automatically video-taped, a review of those recordings showed the man was unarmed when the ECDs were used, and posed no serious threat of bodily harm to either officer at the time. Despite this, both Wheeler and Vera issued statements to their supervisor immediately after the incident claiming the subject was armed, and did pose a physical threat to them.