Now why would I emphasize a thing like that?
That right there is one upright officer of the law. She knew it was wrong to begin with then she tried to flee the scene of an accident.
State Sponsored Criminal #368: Erica Montanez
Because really, shouldn’t everyone just yield to the drunk cop trying to go straight in a left turn only lane?
via Bob S
This is going into the count because the deputies were ultimately responsible. They went to the wrong house. It was their job to verify they were at the proper address prior to initiating contact. Further it was their job to properly identify themselves. Not that it would really help much because I’m not going to believe someone at OH ‘Dark Thirty when they’re claiming to be the cops.
Further the only people we have left to tell what happened are the officers themselves. It is only their side of the story we are hearing and it could be they embellished it specifically to ensure they would remain “justified”.
The fact is as long as we have qualified immunity, innocent people will continue to die from deputies half-assing their police work. Why should they do the job proper and right when Qualified Immunity will shield them from their gross negligence.
Let this be a serious lesson in NOT opening the door at bum fuck thirty in the morning. I find it interesting though that the victim supposedly had his gun pointed at them and neither of them was shot as the victim returned fire. I think this is a classic case of the victim armed himself and the officers felt that made them justified in shooting him.
State Sponsored Criminal Count #367: Officer John Doe
Because doing your job right is too much work when you don’t have consequences if you screw up.
via Robb – His discussion on it is here.
See the disclaimer as always. But I had to admit I laughed about the following:
Heck none of us could figure out how the hell he was so effectively able to jump the curb, both front and rear, and make it through the bushes. Even more entertainingly, it appears they had left their car to go in to work. I guess they just figured they’d take care of it later.
Most entertainingly though was the email sent out about it:
Hello,
There is a white Buick License Plate XX XXXXX that has gone over the parking lot curb into the bushes just above XXXX. Facilities has been notified as well.
I love how it was the equivalent of, “You Left Your Lights On.”. I put my truck into a ditch, but at least it made sense with it being wet clay. This was a paved parking lot with a curb and everything. The WTF factor is strong with this one.
Here’s more pictures:
Emily Miller gives us a nicely detailed guide on what it takes to exercise a Constitutionally guaranteed right in our nations capital. Here’s a nice excerpt, I would highly suggest reading the whole thing.
I’ve been writing this guide bit by bit from the day in Oct. 2011 when I first went to the District’s firearm registration office and said, “I want a gun.” Back then, I expected it to take a few weeks and cost $60 to have a firearm at home. I was off by a few months and $375. Also, I believed that documenting the process for the newspaper would mean a few stories about long lines and frustrating bureaucrats. I was far off the mark.
When I started, there were 17 steps to getting a legal gun in Washington. However, as my series exposed the particularly burdensome requirements to gun ownership, the city council moved to remove some of those barriers. Now there are 12 steps that take much less time and the cost has decreased by $262.
Even with the improvements I still say its way too much. Especially considering one should be allowed to vote without showing ID, but look at the barriers to gun ownership.
These barriers are numerous and the biggest is a financial hurdle that many may not be able to overcome. Imagine adding a $125 transfer fee plus an extra $48 dollars in asking the police department for permission to own a firearm.
Not to mention the additional 10 day waiting period which does nothing but make sure that someone who may legally own a firearm isn’t able to purchase one when they really need it.
Name one single other right that has these types of bars against their exercise. There is no waiting period on free speech. If someone says something bad about you, you are not prohibited from writing about them for 10 days while your blog registration application comes through. You are not required to pay a fee to the state for the permission to create a blog or computer, or network connection to run your blog. You are allowed to write freely in defense of your character.
Contrast that to firearms where an abusive-ex can threaten you, and you are now stuck waiting for 10 days. You have a pile of fees to pay both to a monopolistic FFL and the police department for the permission to have an effective tool of self-defense. A right guaranteed by the US Constitution and stated as applying to the individual in the McDonald decision is subject to fees and limitations of its exercise. The consequences in this latter case though can be lethal for the person whose rights are being violated.
Instead of allowing free exercise, they create a maze of bureaucracy to be followed, which does nothing but ease the government in their efforts to infringe a right while appearing to allow for free exercise.
If your laws need a guide in order explain to people how to exercise a right, there is something grossly wrong with the design of the system. It is obviously designed and engineered with the intent of stopping people from exercising that right. The politicians and people responsible should be run up on 18.242.
I applaud Emily Miller for her efforts in correcting this wrong. While she has made considerable advancement as can be seen, there is still a long way to go. I doubly appreciate that she created that wonderful guide to aid others through the bureaucratic nightmare that are D.C.’s gun laws.
Normally TMW does these posts, she hasn’t been as active about it lately though. Also when we do them it focuses on people’s belief that it can’t happen here. Usually someone says a variant of the following, “I never thought it could happen here.”
Well this one close enough to home for some of us that it should drive the point home.
Everything that has just occurred took place, not in minutes, but seconds. From the initial observation of the man… to his strange question… to the attack… and finally to the assailant running off took a total of maybe less than ten, not more than fifteen seconds. The sheriff’s department was called… the young gal… all of sixteen… was taken to the hospital for treatment… and the assailant was caught… found lying on the ground under another camper not far away… apparently under the influence of drugs.
Go read Dann’s post, seriously, it is a prime example of how quickly the world can change, and no place is safe. This particular incident occurred at a County Fair, with her parents close by and a friend sitting next to her.
Many of us exercise risk management and the thing is, like firearms, “Is Life, Is not Safe.” Everything in life has risk, some things are lower risk that others. Ultimately though your number can be called. It may be an unlikely event, but it very well could be called out. It can happen without warning and without cause. It can happen there, it can happen here. It can happen to anyone, anywhere, anytime.
I carry a gun, among other tools because I won’t get a warning if my number is going to be called. I could very well only have seconds to identify my number is up and to react.
When you are in the wilderness you are not in a Disney movie. The animals do not think of you as their friend. You are either food, a threat, or something to be watched. So with those things in mind, if traveling in the wilderness you need to be ready to deal with animals that may find you a nice dinner.
This woman though isn’t alone in her mistaken belief, preview this list of incidents previously discussed here:
So yet again we have the oh so familiar incident where a couple of people. I think my favorite was she used bear spray and it continued to charge. I think this is the money quote:
Carry your damn guns. You never know when you may need it, two and four legged varmints are both dangerous.
Where you want to work on something but at the same time you want to go work on a bunch of other stuff.
Yeah today is one of those days. On the upshot I did discover a new theme I prefer for the site while working on the pet project. I’m doing some other stuff around the house in preparation for some stuff going on later this month.
I’ve also been working finishing up my stage designs for August. I’ve got two more stages to go. I did however make one stage that was an adventure into minimalism, making due with less. It’s a short stage, but should be fun never the less. I have discovered though it takes practice to think about Revolver, L-10, Limited, and Open and coming up with different solutions for each. Even more so trying to avoid the wide open hole to let someone just completely wreck the stage.
I need to shoot more stages though to help the creativity. I would go work nationals as staff. I think I’ll plan on trying to do that next year.
Hey, I thought it was funny. Besides how else do you think they get made? I know the answer to that question and I think when it comes to most people, just look at the picture and believe it. It’s not that far off from doping, which is how it’s really done.
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