Now supposedly this ban doesn’t affect places that sell things like grocery’s and convince stores unless they fall under the purview of the “health department”. I.E. this mainly affects fountain drinks. I don’t care, and the whole thing is absurd, especially when in light of the following: Continue reading →
So what, they couldn’t hit the broad side of a barn, is that really surprising for law enforcement? No, but this isn’t acceptable, especially given the fear was over a dog.
Some residents of the apartment complex complained that the shooting, which sent at least one bullet through an apartment door, was unnecessary and put residents in danger.
“I think this is appalling, seeing what I saw firsthand as a direct witness,” said Patti Meadows, who said she called police Internal Affairs to complain following the incident. “They put others’ lives in danger. This was not an environment to pull guns out.”
Meadows said she was standing near the officers on an upstairs walkway when they opened fire. The boxer dog wasn’t being aggressive, she said.
Another witness, Hailey Brown, told The Daily she offered to put the dog back inside the apartment after officers opened the door and let it out.
Some time’s you have to quote a chunk to illustrate the whole problem. Note the officers opened the door that let the dog out. The owner offered to take the dog and lock it up, instead they fire 13 shots into an apartment complex with innocent bystanders around. While in a good shoot, officers are often protected from the danger of a shoot through, this would be a hard justification. This story from Uncle today shows what should happen before officers discharge their weapons.
That was an aggressive dog that needed killing. A dog looking at you does not equal aggression, though many officers seem to feel that is the case. Unless it is obviously trying to bite you, suck it up there chief. Even more than that, let the barn latch on your arm so it won’t take 13 bullets to hit it in a friendly rich environment.
I will say they at least scored a 38% hit rate, however that makes me believe the dog wasn’t as mobile or aggressive as they claim. However this right here was the icing on the cake:
Wonder if they would say the same thing if it wasn’t officer friendly shooting through a dog, but instead a non-anointed citizen shooting through Cujo. We constantly hear about how we’re accountable for every bullet, and I’ve had conversations with friends whom I respect quite well and the above actually appears that it would hold true. However they would put it to a jury to decide, doubly if you were dealing with a local choir boy where you passed the initial interview.
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Because when you’re bummed you’re on duty on New Years, shoot someone’s dog to liven it up. Leave your mics off then it’s your word against everyone else’s, don’t worry about safety though because there’s no criminal intent right!?
I still haven’t written up a couple posts from Boomershoot. It hasn’t been as much laziness as I have had other things of interest distracting me. From ideas, to projects, to wish lists(migrating the platform for the blog from Drupal)*.
There is one story from Boomershoot I do need to write up. The lesson though evidently was skipped over yesterday during some testing with Ry and Joe.
You see, after one of the boomers went boom, Ry had a new look.
I made the mistake of standing just slightly further back than Ry, not thinking about the amount of rain and how close we were. I had the same outfit afterwards.
(Yes it was cold).
Eventually I will write up a post on what happened at Boomershoot, one of the other reasons for the delay is it will also contain a review of the eye protection I’m wearing.
On to testing:
So Joe and Ry had a couple project ideas they were working on and I offered to go out and help. While they were working on mixing up explosives for some of the tests I worked on an idea Joe had for making primers go bang.
In this section, I verify that all that Hollywood crap is exactly that. Ry had a setup to create an arch between two wires with AC. It didn’t make the primer go boom. Joe had another idea using DC to make the primers go boom. Stuff got warm but still no joy. Then by luck I inadvertently made the circuit pass through a piece of metal in the primer construction. That turned into a light bulb filament. I attached a primer to it, rigged it up and gave that a shot. 10 seconds after connecting the battery I hear a pop. So heat, not electricity makes the primer go bang.
So they go bang, but not enough for solid computer control. Well we still have the question of will boomerite go off? Put it in the bag of boomerite, wire it all up and it was the most anti climatic thing I’ve ever seen. The pop was so faint I could hear the conversation between Ry and Joe who were further away than the primer.
So primers were a bust, what about the lift experiments for getting a good fuel air mixture? I have video for that, and everyone likes vide!
This is probably one of the more interesting stills from the testing.
You can see the water vapor form the lift, this was with ground under the targets. Ry also had some targets with bags of water underneath. I’m not sure it really made a difference, though it’s hard to tell with a sample size of one.
We have a new target type we’re seriously considering putting out for the shooters. This year things were a bit more difficult that usual. Target distribution didn’t end up in the amounts we would have preferred. This resulted in a lot more 4 and 3 inch targets on the hill than we would have liked. Believe me, I don’t like it when that goes wrong. I made a nice quote of the day that made everyone chuckle but no one remembered to actually blog it… yet another story to be told about this year.
The tubes though are 1.5 inches in diameter (inner) and 4 feet long. We figure we can put them horizontal or vertical. Either it will require precision on at least one axis to make a successful hit at distance. Personally I think they’d just be fun. Yeah you want to get a boomer, but if it was easy that wouldn’t be saying much now would it?
*I’m in the beginning stages of investigating moving from Drupal to WordPress. The latest version of Drupal is lacking a bunch of the features I want that help me with my blogging. I could write and build the features I need but I don’t blog as a forte into working on the computer. I have enough other projects that the last thing I want to do is work maintaining my website. The migration however has me a bit nervous mainly because I don’t want to break any incoming links for other sites to material I’ve written here. I think I have a solution to the issue, but even then it will probably take me about 48 hours to rip apart the databases and port the content to WordPress. I have a VM I am using as a testing area currently and I’m learning what exactly is going to have to happen and how to do it before I bite off more than I can chew.
But why would I post this under accountabiliabuddible? This text is why:
Just got back from talking to the detectives. They wanted to record my
side of the story as a witness. They asked me if I had heard them say
they were Sheriff’s, I said yes they did 2 or 3 times. They asked if I
heard them say stop resisting, I said yes I heard them 2 or 3 times.
They asked if I thought they were being too rough, I said not at all.
They asked what I had said when the girl said “he’s not resisting” and I
answered saying “I told her he is resisting twice.” They also asked if I
thought he was resisting, and I said definitely, he would have been in
custody in 2 seconds if he wasn’t.
They thanked me for being such an awesome witness and being on their
side, otherwise that girl could testify saying that he was not
resisting and hurt their case. One of them ended up with a sprained or
broken finger. They said it probably won’t go to court, but if it does
they will likely have me testify.
That’s the thing about people recording interactions with the police. I have no horse in the race. While I do run the criminal count, I would be as pleased as punch if the day came and I couldn’t get new material for it. I am more than happy to hold officers accountable, not just for their bad actions but their good ones as well.
The video in this case both corroborated the officers statement, as well as the witness statement. It was good for the officers, not bad. The only officers who would fear video like that are one’s breaking the rules on a regular basis. The bad part about breaking the rules is when the time comes you do need to do something for real, you’re liable to shoot yourself in the foot because you’re “trying to protect yourself.”
I applaud the officers for their professional conduct. It made this case clear and concise and helped prevent false claims from putting them in the count which I wouldn’t have liked.
Now, Minick’s widow and mother are filing a federal civil rights lawsuit against the city of Nashville, the Metro Police Department, sheriff’s office, the hospital and the deputies, claiming false arrest, false imprisonment, cruel and unusual punishment and inhumane treatment.
But no crime was committed, according to investigations by Metro Police, the sheriff’s department and the grand jury. They concluded that deputies used proper force in restraining a violent man in a hospital.
This is a nasty one. Why? Because honestly as we’ve seen lately people do get that violent while on drugs. It is a chaotic scene that is dynamic and while one may not intend for something to be lethal it does happen. I think in this case, it’s a very grey area where blame cannot be clearly established. So why would I include it in the count?
The answer is simple, they investigated the incident themselves. That does not bode well for the departments faith that their officers did no wrong. If they really had faith they would call in an independent third party. Am I really that wrong when the FAA and NTSB did exactly that recently?
Why not ask the state patrol, or another county to investigate the incident. It would have helped keep the whole incident on the up and up. Instead they investigated themselves, when honestly an external investigation is the only way they could have had a prayer of actually surviving.
State Sponsored Criminal #345: John Doe
Because that independent third party thing is never needed unless both parties involved are “anointed”.
Of course it will, because that’s what a law IS: When you pass a law, you are effectively saying “This
thing is of such momentous import that, if you do it (or don’t do it,
whichever,) we will compel you with force, and will back that force with
the guns of the state. This is something that is so important that compliance is worth, push come to shove, shooting people.“
[Seriously I wish that NYC’s soda law was all just a dumb joke, but alas it isn’t. Some moron actually feels a 44 oz soda is worth threatening and possibly killing another human being over*. I wish more people would get this through their head. Government is force and they must use force to enforce the laws. That’s the thing with laws and government. When you say, “There ought to be a law!” You’re saying, “The state should shoot that individual when he refuses to cooperate.” Please, realize new laws for petty childish crap is NOT a solution to what you think is a problem.
*While they haven’t put a gun in someone’s face yet, it is only a matter of time till it happens. If you’re willing to put a gun in someone’s face, the intent is to convey their impending mortality, whether the officer really wants to shoot or not.]
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