Notes from the Resistance
Michael Byrd, who fatally shot rioter Ashli Babbitt as she tried to break into the Speaker’s Lobby, will be promoted to captain, according to an internal announcement reviewed by CQ Roll Call that lists more than 30 employees moving up the ranks on Sunday. [More]
Reinforcing their Dunning-Krueger self-evaluations and rewarding them is one way to keep the ones on the fence from spilling their guts. And this Byrd fool is incompetent enough to believe he deserves it.
[Via Andy M]
A motorcyclist died in a crash after a New York City police sergeant threw a cooler at his head [More]
If we’d done that they’d call it an assault cooler, with no legitimate thwarting purpose, but in this case it’s a patrol cooler.
[Via Steve T]
75 officers on leave after ‘thousands’ of shots fired in Garfield standoff [Watch]
A breakdown of who fired what and how many times would be interesting.
The cat’s away… Seems like a pretty good time to misbehave…
And yeah, looks like this story’s usefulness is pretty much over…
[Via 1Gat]
The two-step is a tactic where a state trooper will pull an individual over for a traffic infraction and, after issuing a ticket, take steps back toward their vehicle. They will then turn around and initiate a new interaction with a driver, which the highway patrol classifies as a voluntary stop. [More]
If they’re not free to leave without getting double-tapped, it’s hardly voluntary.
[Via Steve T]
Maui Tragedy Makes a Strong Pro-Second Amendment Point [More]
Although there is a certain cannibal food truth to ““People are stupid and they were going to die anyway.”
[Via Michael G]
“Community heroes” at their bravest…
How could you be part of this and not wake up screaming in guilt and shame?
Sure be nice if there was some personal accountability at the end of this trail…
But “oath keepers” are the enemy…
Hawaii Island officer arrested for burglary and assault [More]
I guess he didn’t quite have enough to try for a red flag order and do it “legally”…
[Via Steve T]
“Only following orders” — this is why the authoritarians are so determined to smear and destroy the concept of Oath Keepers and Three Percenters.
Been a while since I’ve seen these clips. The thought strikes: Whatever became of excuse-making JBTs-by-their-actions Fred Bible and Chris Montgomery?
The thought also strikes in all this time I’ve never seen one “commonsense gun safety advocate” condemn this tyranny.
“Few bad apples” my … eye. Every damn one of them. And remember, all good “conservatives” say “Back the Blue!”
[Via Jess]
Nine current or former Antioch and Pittsburg police officers and one community service officer were charged Thursday in a federal corruption investigation that found evidence they committed civil rights violations and fraud in an effort to get a pay raise and lied on reports to cover up use of excessive force, U.S. authorities said. [More]
What is it about Democrat capos?
And don’t they know the underbosses and consiglieres will tell them when they can take their cut?
[Via Jess]
Georgia man finds squatters in his home, calls police, gets arrested for home invasion [More]
Sounds like a case for justifiable use of force to me. The “Only Ones” who would stop it are the ones whose sole purpose is “to secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity.”
Without that there is no consent of the governed.
I’m particularity sensitive to the state favoring parasites because this happens to coincide with my receiving a letter from the county mandating a huge increase in my property taxes. So allow me to segue into something tangentially related.
For a supposedly Republican state, all my reps from City Council on up sure are quiet about this. I went looking for organized tax protesters and the closest thing I could find was an Ohio Tea Party Facebook group with fewer followers than I have that’s totally focused on Donald Trump memes.
The one state senator I did find offering a tepid way to recalculate reappraisals and focused on farms was sabotaged by Republican “leadership.” I’m thinking it was probably all noise anyway, because I see the same “conservative” co-sponsored SENATE BILL 54, to “Establish the New African Immigrants Grant and Gift Fund.”
The GOP is tone deaf. And suicidal.
[Via bondmen]
Not exactly Scot Peterson or a Hero of Uvalde, is he?
All I can say about the perp is “rigorous.”
Hey, that’s not going to get me in trouble with Ed, is it?
And how come we can’t get bodycam footage for Craig Deleeuw Robertson?
[Via WiscoDave]
IRS agent shot and killed by another agent in training accident in Phoenix, per ABC15 sources [More]
Popular reaction is less than sympathetic.
[Via @jumpinjonnydee]
An off-duty Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy has been shot and killed by police after they say he pointed a gun at them on a golf course in Southern California. [More]
This was suicide by cop.
You know, “gun violence.”
[Via Jess]
From Denver, another tragic story about cops shooting and killing someone holding a “weapon” that turned out to actually be a harmless object. In this case, an officer with the Denver Police Department (DPD) shot and killed a man armed with a marker. The officer (whose name has not been released) said she believed that 36-year-old Brandon Cole had been holding a knife when she shot him on the evening of August 5. [More]
Unmarked, unnamed, unaccountable…
[Via Michael G]
