Notes from the Resistance
A masked gunman opened fire on a backyard barbecue in Brooklyn around 10:30 p.m. on Saturday, wounding eight people. The victims include four boys aged 6, 7, 12, and 14 and a 21-year-old woman who remains hospitalized after being shot in the chest. While there was no argument prior to the shooting, police are investigating a potential link to a confirmed gang-related homicide. [More]
Where’s Real Man when you really need him?
[Via Jess]
The DEA, under President Joe Biden’s leadership, is at the center of a jaw-dropping “drugwalking” scandal that revealed the agency allowed 1.8 million fentanyl pills to be delivered, a move that a whistleblower says “100 percent got people killed.” [More]
Criminals in government literally believe they can get away with anything.
Are they wrong?
[Via Michael G]
Despite being suspended from the San Antonio Police Department for allegedly serving a homeless man a sandwich containing dog feces, former officer Matthew Luckhurst has been named police chief of Benavides, Texas. City officials praised his “exemplary” recent record and said a thorough background check justified the controversial hire. [More]
Back the Brown…?
Who better to give authority, a gun, and a badge to than a proven sadistic, perverted bully?
[Via bondmen]
ICE arrests criminal illegal and teacher wanted for her involvement in a TDA gang mass shooting [More]
I could see her in a bell tower screaming “Sanctuary!”
Forget it, Jake. It’s Chi-Town.
This is what Democrats, teachers unions, and No Kings pinkos are bent on imposing everywhere, in Everytown.
[Via Michael G]
The gun violence narrative starts falling apart under the data [Watch]
I may write this one up– I see some good stuff we can use and some assumptions screaming for clarification.
[Via Dan Gifford]
The feds were closing in, and the key players in a massive criminal corruption scheme were starting to get worried. That’s what KRQE News 13 has learned from newly unsealed federal documents, detailing the FBI’s wiretapped phone conversations between Albuquerque Police Department officers and the law firm they were conspiring with. [More]
Kinda makes you want to turn in those guns to them, doesn’t it?
[Via Steve T]
Journalist Murdered in Mexico Received Threats from Law Enforcement [More]
Why should the peces gordos have all the fun?
[Via bondmen]
Supreme Court Declines to Hear Innocent Man’s Case Seeking to Hold Federal Agents Accountable for Brutalizing Him More Than a Decade Ago [More]
Name them/
Are they still employed?
Find out what they eat for breakfast.
[Via Michael G]
Shootings increased near Chicago’s closed schools that sat empty, study finds [More]
So abandoned yet readily accessible buildings provide shelter for nefarious activities to go basically unchallenged? Who could have foreseen that?
It’s like providing the petri dish and the agar and then acting all surprised when something nasty grows in it.
Funny: As demand for schools went down, Stacy Davis’ compensation has gone up…
Don’t worry, though: The population is growing again!
International migration has helped boost Chicago’s population in the past few years. More immigrants moving into Chicago have helped offset the number of residents leaving Illinois.
Forget it, Jake. It’s Chi-Town.
When we compare these broader estimates, Australia’s rape and sexual assault rate is roughly three times higher than that of the United States. Australia’s assault rate is about twice as high, and its burglary rate is about 2.5 times higher. [More]
The factor in that 52% of U.S. counties where Americans can be armed to the teeth are as peaceable — or more so — than countries where government enforce a monopoly of violence.
[Via Jess]
Sheriff’s Deputy Fired for Allegedly Pointing Gun at Bar Patrons [More]
“Fired”…?
What about arrested?
OK, had to go to another source…
[Via bondmen]
Boy, 14, arrested for armed robbery of kids’ lemonade stand in Southie – Boston police are still searching for a second suspect in connection with the incident. [More]
And naturally, half the money raise in the reopening will be donated to groups demanding even more predator empowerment. That the victims’ parents went along with that tells me all I need to know about them.
[Via Edmund M]
An Ohio police chief was arrested in Pinellas County Thursday after being indicted on 70 counts of sexual misconduct stemming from an investigation involving a minor. [More]
It’s not like this isn’t a thing we’ve been talking about for some time. But in fairness, accusations 15 to 20 years later raise huge red flags for me.
For starters, without physical evidence and credible corroborating actual witnesses of abuse in progress, how do you prove beyond a reasonable doubt?
[Via Sweet Babboo]
Rob Reiner’s son Nick fights for $1.5M trust fund access to bankroll high-powered murder trial defense [More]
Give the poor kid a break. He’s an orphan.
And that’s mighty big of his attorney.
Looks like someone focused on the wrong tool.
6 people hurt in stabbings at Penn Station, authorities say [More]
And, of course, “Under New York Penal Law § 265.01-e, public transportation infrastructure — including train stations, subway stations, rail cars, buses, and bus terminals — is classified as a sensitive location. The state’s official concealed carry FAQ confirms that licensed carry holders generally may not bring a firearm into a sensitive location…”
Knives and stabbings aren’t allowed either, so there’s that.
Brendan Banfield, a former Internal Revenue Service (IRS) law enforcement officer, claimed he shot Joseph Ryan after he came across Ryan attacking his wife on the morning of 24 February 2023. But prosecutors said Brendan Banfield and au pair Juliana Peres Magalhães set Ryan up in a scheme to kill Christine Banfield, a pediatric intensive care nurse. [More]
“Former”?
So a LEOSA beneficiary…?
The jury didn’t factor in that the poor guy is a widower?
Hey, any tips for The Guardian…?
[Via Steve T]