How a DEA agent returned to work in Jackson after a murder charge: ‘They tried everything they could to get us not to charge him’ [More]
Harry Bryant’s getting to be quite the regular around here.
[Via Remarks]
Notes from the Resistance
How a DEA agent returned to work in Jackson after a murder charge: ‘They tried everything they could to get us not to charge him’ [More]
Harry Bryant’s getting to be quite the regular around here.
[Via Remarks]
Agents actually fired their guns accidentally more often than they fired them in the field according to an audit by Treasury… [More]
Yeah, but the important thing is they went above and beyond being “willing to use deadly force, if necessary” by being willing to use it when unnecessary!
RELATED UPDATE
Practice makes perfect… [More]
A deputy sheriff in Calaveras County was arrested last month for allegedly being an addict in possession of a firearm… Ball has a history of alcohol and opiate abuse, investigators say, adding that he’d recently relapsed. [More]
So they knew he was an out-of-control armed junkie who by law is not allowed to have a gun? And turned him loose on the rest of us?
The sheriff is saying “investigators discovered…” about multiple rehab attempts, but the way this is carefully worded avoids the question of if they were in the dark about his condition from the outset.
Lawsuit Uncovers the Inside Story of the FBI’s Plans to Take Security Deposit Boxes without Charging Owners with Crimes – Newly released court filing demonstrates how feds planned to take property collectively worth more than $100 million from US Private Vaults’ customers [More]
So who’s in jail over this?
[Via Michael G]
Windsor officers sued over traffic stop of Black man protected from some claims, judge rules [More]
Some general rules of thumb that work most of the time and have kept me from being assaulted and kidnapped on more than one occasion: Be the adult on the scene. Don’t argue and resist. By the same token, don’t consent and/or volunteer information. File any resulting complaints when you’re safe.
[Via Mack H]
Richmonders demand answers about alleged mass shooting plot: ‘We don’t deserve to be shut out’ – ‘This is something that could have affected every single person in this neighborhood’ [More]
Am I wrong to suspect when this is all said and done, somebody could end up disgraced and out of a job?
[Via Mack H]
Off-duty police officers will no longer be allowed to carry their weapons while attending the New York State Fair, police departments were notified Tuesday in an email obtained by NewsChannel 9. [More]
Welcome to the party, pals!
Ah, well, what could happen?
[Via bondmen]
Authorities said deputies in the Florida Keys have fatally shot a pilot who was deputized to carry guns on planes in what a sheriff calls an apparent “suicide by cop.” [More]
So are they walking back “federal law enforcement officer” or just recharacterizing it?
[Via Jess]
Hospital employee arrested after 39 guns, ammo found in office closet [More]
I can’t really find anything about the guy aside from this story, but the bottom line from what’s been reported is he’s facing years in prison, he hasn’t hurt anybody, and if the stuff was his, unless and until he abuses others with it, it’s his birthright to have…
Could be he’s a lunatic. Without due process before disarmament, we can’t legitimately tell. And New Jersey “Only Ones” aren’t exactly the benchmark to use…
[Via bondmen]
‘I ended the discussion’: Richmond Police Chief Smith says he will no longer talk about alleged mass shooting plot [More]
An honest overseeing government would give him the choice to either spill or take the Fifth. An honest media would demand it. As would a citizenry “guard[ing] with jealous attention the public liberty.”
What does that tell us about Richmond?
[Via Mack H]
Nearly 2,000 NYPD cops quitting before getting full pensions — a 71% jump from 2021 [More]
As far as I’m concerned, that’s 2,000 more I can lift a finger to.
[Via bondmen]
Another former Loveland police officer will spend time behind bars for her role in the violent arrest of a 73-year-old woman with dementia. [More]
Anybody see anything about roughing up mentally incapacitated old ladies on the disqualifier list?
And I wonder if they could get a job protecting Phil and the Borough Council…?
[Via bondmen]
“By adopting this ordinance, the Borough Council will make it clear that our public buildings, such as our schools, our library and our community center, should be free from the dangers of unlicensed, poorly trained or troubled gun owners, while accepting our law enforcement officers who are doing their duty.” [More]
Because everyone’s safer with “Only Ones“!
And speaking of duty…
[Via Jess]
In a court filing Thursday, prosecutors say former Rocky Mount Police Sgt. Thomas Robertson used his law enforcement training to block police officers who were trying to protect the Capitol from a mob’s attack on Jan. 6, 2021. [More]
They train you to block police officers?
Or more likely they want to make an example out of him just in case any others are getting ideas on orders not to obey and when it’s appropriate to be a citizen first…?
[Via bondmen]
Madison County Sheriff Buddy Harwood recently unveiled his plan to put gun safes containing AR-15 rifles in schools so school resource officers can respond faster to a school shooter, rather than standing by and waiting for local police to respond to the scene. [More]
I don’t suppose one in every classroom for the actual “first responders” is in the cards…?
[Via Robert J]
‘Thought I Had My Training Gun’: Ex-Officer Charged in Special Officer’s Killing in DC Library [More]
And right before that he must have told “Only Ones” founder Lee Paige to hold his beer.
Urban libraries have to have their own police details? Do they have “patrol rifles“? I remember when a stern old lady going “Shhh!” was enough, back in the days before society became “progressive” and needed all these rules.
[Via several of you]
A now-former school resource officer in South Carolina has been charged by state police after authorities say they found 15 explicit images of a 17-year-old student on his cell phone. [More]
Just like the old man in
That book by Nabokov
[Via Steve T]
Tangentially-related UPDATE:
And Tom Wolf and the PA Dems say “Hold our beer.”
[Via Michael G]
“We really don’t know where they got the Dogwood Dell thing. I’m not sure where that came from,” said Sam Simpson, an attorney for Balacarcel, following the Wednesday hearing. “Because they dropped it in a pretty quick manner, we haven’t really gotten to see all the evidence they might have.” [More]
Does this mean the informant is not the “hero” he’s been made out to be? I’m trying to figure out why gun charges would be dropped unless the evidence was illegally obtained, and I haven’t given up on my “Only One trying to get around a warrant” hypothesis.
I don’t suppose anyone in power is interested in coming up with a fix for the real issue here…?
[Via Mack H]
California ‘Detective of the Year’ busted for sending sexually explicit messages in child sex sting [More]
Maybe he was just trying to establish a restaurant preference ahead of the big date…
[Via bondmen]
Firearms must be transported unloaded and inside a trunk or cargo are of your vehicle. Firearms should be either wrapped, cased or boxed. Magazines and ammunition must be in a separate area of the vehicle (such as the backseat). Firearms must be in working condition. [More]
So how is an elderly widow giving up her late husband’s gun and who knows nothing about them supposed to safely determine all that?
[Via bondmen]
Cop Arrested for Ramming His Cruiser Into a Horse, Driving On Top Of It So His Partner Could Shoot It [More]
This is where that extra training comes in. I mean, who among us a) would even think of doing that, and b) follow through with it?
[Via An Hour of Wolves]
The Minneapolis Police Department’s “buyback” program allows organizations, sports teams or neighborhoods to buy extra overtime police patrols. But the program has been criticized as inequitable and further stretching the department’s resources at a time when some less wealthy neighborhoods say police are totally unresponsive. [More]
So will the 911 dispatcher tell callers their plan doesn’t cover that because the extra bodies are servicing rich white Democrats?
Or just let them be surprised…?
[Via bondmen]