Seven California Highway Patrol officers and a nurse have been charged with involuntary manslaughter nearly three years after the in-custody death of a man who was pulled over for a traffic stop in Los Angeles County and repeatedly said “I can’t breathe” before losing consciousness. [More]
You’ll “Back the Blue” if we have to turn you that way!
Police took semiautomatic rifles, a shotgun and handguns from the Rangers and said they arrested two gang members on previous warrants. None of the Rangers were arrested, though police were frustrated residents hadn’t called them sooner. ″There is a fine line between self-defense and vigilantism,” a police spokesman said, according to the AP. [More]
If the Rangers had been aiming to misbehave, they’d have been the ones disarming the police.
The suspect who allegedly wounded a King County Sheriff’s deputy after opening fire while they were serving an eviction notice in Seattle on Monday has been identified as a transgender member of the Democratic Socialists of America. [More]
Engel said that Malone was right-handed and as the officer smashed the victim’s vehicle window with the baton in his right hand, the firearm in his left hand discharged with a bullet striking Poulin. “There was no intention to pull the trigger,” Engel said. [More]
Funny… every time I’ve practiced weak hand shooting it hasn’t made me forget Cooper’s Rules. Then again, I’ve never had the professional training to assess a situation dangerous enough to draw a gun on a suspect with that hand, either.
Patrol rifle stolen from trooper’s cruiser overnight in Malden, Massachusetts State Police say [More]
Why is it when in the hands of the “Only Ones,” DSM propagandists acting as state enforcer cheerleaders rather than government watchdogs call them “patrol rifles, but when owned by citizens, as is their right recognized by the Second Amendment, they disparage them as “assault rifles,” and “weapons of war suitable only for killing as many people as quickly as possible”?
Seven members of the Adams County Sheriff’s Office who raided Joseph Foreman’s home last year are now suing him claiming, among other things, that he invaded their privacy. Four deputies, two sergeants and a detective are claiming Foreman (a.k.a. “Afroman”) took footage of their faces obtained during the raid and used it in music videos and social media posts without their consent… They’re also suing on civil grounds, saying Foreman’s use of their faces (i.e. personas) in the videos and social media posts resulted in their “emotional distress, embarrassment, ridicule, loss of reputation and humiliation.” [More]
After they invaded his privacy.
To paraphrase Rhett Butler, they should be humiliated, and often. And by someone who knows how. But they’re trying to hide from that:
Ladies and gentlemen, the hysterical musical stylings of Afroman!
Shouts of “he has a gun, he has a gun” are then heard on the video. Also heard is someone shouting that the person with the gun is pointing it at people. The deputy then moves toward a man and orders him to “drop the gun,” while a second deputy appears to struggle with the man’s left hand. The video then shows the unidentified deputy firing several rounds at the nearby man. The wounded man is then seen collapsing by a pickup truck. [More]
I’m not sure what to make of this aside to note that having a gun in your hand and a cop nearby do not generally result in happy endings.
Several highlights: The family is Christian. None of the deputies [had] body cams. That’s a violation of Virginia law. Henrico County has refused to implement the Marcus Alert system. If they had, Ivo might still be alive.
Even though some officers had AR-15s themselves, they concluded they needed more firepower. They opted to wait for a Border Patrol SWAT team, with better body armor, shields & tactical training — even though the unit was based more than 60 miles away. [More]