unfortunately it is seldom those that get elected pay the price...

“Unintended: A Theory of Taser / Weapon Confusion”

A Force Science Institute article about how it’s possible to confuse a TASER and a handgun. It states that there have been 18 such incidents reported since 2001, and includes this statement:
“We can observe in each of these cases that the officers drew the Taser with their dominant hand (the same hand an officer would routinely use to draw their firearm). This was apparently the case even when the officers conducted a cross draw.”

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Originally posted by Ronin1069:

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Originally posted by kimber1911:
Brooklyn Center Mayor, does not think Police Officers necessarily need weapons.

Go ahead buddy.
Now is the time to bring in a Social Worker to lead the Police Department.
Let’s try that.

I try to stay out of these conversations, but my God people. Wake up and remember that your votes have consequences.

Someone needs to show the Mayor the uncut video of the recent murder of New Mexico Trooper Darian Jarrott.

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Originally posted by wcb6092:
Officer who fatally shot Ashli Babbitt in Capitol riot won't face charges, Justice Department

https://justthenews.com/govern..._campaign=newsletter

The U.S. Capitol Police officer who fatally shot Ashli Babbitt in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot will not face criminal charges, the Justice Department said Wednesday.

Federal prosecutors determined there was insufficient evidence to support a criminal prosecutor against the officer, a statement from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for D.C. said, according to NBC News 4.

The 35-year-old Babbitt was attempting to enter a broken window on a door into the Speaker's Lobby on the House side of the U.S. Capitol Building when she was shot, in a chaotic scene, captured on bystander video, that showed demonstrators trying to getting into the lobby, off the House floor, when members frequently gather.

“The investigation revealed no evidence to establish that, at the time the officer fired a single shot at Ms. Babbitt, the officer did not reasonably believe that it was necessary to do so in self-defense or in defense of the Members of Congress and others evacuating the House Chamber,” the statement said.

So we cops can shoot unarmed trespassers? Hmmm, i guess I missed that in the police academy.

What would the secret service have done if this was the White House instead of the Capital? I’m ashamed the Capital Police let them get inside my Capital regardless of political ideology. There is no doubt secret and top secret information is inside of that building that should be protected. Would you feel the same way if the mob had been a bunch of Chinese members of the CCP?

So many people are letting their emotions get in the way of their ability to think. While Ms. Babbitt’s death is tragic, she is the victim of her own stupidity. Unarmed or not that group of idiots that stormed the Capital building could have done irreparable damage to our national security. Individuals get exponentially more stupid as large groups turn into mobs.

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Originally posted by dking271:
So many people are letting their emotions get in the way of their ability to think. While Ms. Babbitt’s death is tragic, she is the victim of her own stupidity. Unarmed or not that group of idiots that stormed the Capital building could have done irreparable damage to our national security. Individuals get exponentially more stupid as large groups turn into mobs.

Anti-American Leftists Democrat’s HAVE done, and continue to do ‘irreparable harm’ to our national security!

Ashli Babbitt was UNARMED!!

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Originally posted by nhracecraft:

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Originally posted by dking271:
So many people are letting their emotions get in the way of their ability to think. While Ms. Babbitt’s death is tragic, she is the victim of her own stupidity. Unarmed or not that group of idiots that stormed the Capital building could have done irreparable damage to our national security. Individuals get exponentially more stupid as large groups turn into mobs.

Anti-American Leftists Democrat’s HAVE done, and continue to do ‘irreparable harm’ to our national security!

While being supported by a complicit media.

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Originally posted by Edmond:

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Originally posted by nhracecraft:

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Originally posted by dking271:
So many people are letting their emotions get in the way of their ability to think. While Ms. Babbitt’s death is tragic, she is the victim of her own stupidity. Unarmed or not that group of idiots that stormed the Capital building could have done irreparable damage to our national security. Individuals get exponentially more stupid as large groups turn into mobs.

Anti-American Leftists Democrat’s HAVE done, and continue to do ‘irreparable harm’ to our national security!

While being supported by a complicit media.

I'll just bet the media is glad that they're back to covering peaceful protests, as opposed to the attempted violent overthrow of our gov like in January.

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Originally posted by dking271:
There is no doubt secret and top secret information is inside of that building that should be protected.

Not that the idiot didn't deserve to get shot but secret and TS information isn't just stored inside of a building in the open. There are various levels of security.

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Originally posted by nhracecraft:

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Originally posted by dking271:
So many people are letting their emotions get in the way of their ability to think. While Ms. Babbitt’s death is tragic, she is the victim of her own stupidity. Unarmed or not that group of idiots that stormed the Capitol building could have done irreparable damage to our national security. Individuals get exponentially more stupid as large groups turn into mobs.

Ashli Babbitt was UNARMED!!

Anti-American Leftists Democrat’s HAVE done, and continue to do ‘irreparable harm’ to our national security!

I agree on both points. Breaching a window in a secured area of a building as important as our country’s Capitol building while a man being paid to protect it is pointing a gun at you, is stupid on epic proportions. I do not disagree that the loss of her life was tragic and in many ways should be remembered as the second “shot heard around the world”. I firmly believe that January 6th will be remembered as the exact point in time that this crisis capitulated and began a war to save the idea of America. If it was a BLM/Antifa commie I would feel the exact same way.

The lawlessness of the left and their ideology has done and continues to do irreparable damage to this country. Inciting the mob to storm the castle and the complete lack of resistance by the Capitol Police in charge of defending it was IMO by design. It changed the whole narrative of a stolen election and the massive fraud that took place during the election. It allowed the people trying to overthrow our government to turn the conversation to Trump and gave them fodder for another phony impeachment crusade. The unintended consequences of the Capitol mob and the tragic death of Ms. Babbitt, is that it displayed just how frightened these commies are of the people they intend to subjugate. Raising a standing army and surrounding their castle with fences and barbed wire. We continue to look like a third rate banana republic. They are terrified of us! They want to disarm us and subjugate us. They are now forced to go all in, trying to pack SCOTUS and proposing DC become a state. As a result, the Federal government is becoming less relevant as can be witnessed by the States pushing back. My fight is now at my state and local level. Benjamin Franklin famously said, “where Liberty is, there is my country”. I’ve moved away from the state I grew up in because the values shifted away from those that reside in my heart. I will do it again if my state does not fight the tyranny coming from the left and their desire to forcibly take over America. Let us not lose sight of this very fact. We are in a fight for our very existence. Our country is bifurcated into two ideologies that can not coexist. We are only as free as we allow ourselves to be.

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Originally posted by trapper189:
According to the Star Tribune, at least one city council member voted to oust Boganey from the job he’s held since 2006 not because he had done a bad job, or because he’d done anything wrong, but “because she feared for her property and retaliation by protestors if she had voted to keep him.”

“He was doing a great job. I respect him dearly,” Council Member Kris Lawrence-Anderson said, according to the Star Tribune. “I didn’t want repercussions at a personal level.”

Piece. of. Garbage.
If you are going to be on a board or a council, you are to put aside your own interests and consider what is best for the organization. If you are too much of a coward to do that, the correct action is to resign.

https://www.breitbart.com/poli...democrat-run-cities/

In 12 American cities run by Democrats, the murder rate is skyrocketing, according to a study by the Law Enforcement Legal Defense Fund (LELDF).

Nationally, the murder rate has hit a 26-year high.

The LELDF study sees a direct correlation between the Democrat party’s anti-police rhetoric and how Democrat-run cities have turned that rhetoric into action through police budget cuts, mandates that reduce policing efforts such as stops and arrests, a lack of criminal prosecution by far-left prosecutors, and the morale issues that have resulted in a massive number of retirements.

In 2020, across the nation, homicides jumped a whopping 25 percent, which took us all the way back to the bad old days of 1995, the year before a violent crime and murder spree that launched in the 1970s finally started to come to an end.

“This data confirms that in places where law enforcement saw the most resistance from community leaders and calls for less policing, we saw more homicides,”

“Progressive prosecutors made it clear that making arrests for drug and weapons crimes that will go unprosecuted only exposes officers to the risk of disciplinary action, lawsuits, and criminal prosecution. So, to mitigate that risk, police took a more passive approach.”

Some examples…

Democrat-run Chicago: arrests/stops are down 53 percent, murders are up 65 percent.

Democrat-run New York City: arrests/stops are down 38 percent, murders are up 58 percent.

Democrat-run Louisville: arrests/stops are down 35 percent, murders are up 87 (not a typo) percent.

Democrat-run Minneapolis: arrests/stops are down 42 percent, murders are up 64 percent.

Democrat-run Los Angeles: arrests/stops are down 33 percent, murders are up 51 percent.

Democrat-run St. Louis is now “America’s Murder Capitol.” In 2020, the murder rate hit “a 50-year high, with 87 out of every 100,000 residents being murdered.” You are now three times more likely to be murdered in St. Louis than in Mexico.

In Democrat-run Portland, the study says after the policing budget was slashed by $12 million and three police units were eliminated, “shootings climbed 173 percent [not a typo] percent and murders rose 255 percent [not a typo].”

The study further points out this is not the first time this has happened. Back in 2015, after riots occurred over yet-another media hoax, arrests dropped 28 percent and murders rose 55 percent. ( Baltimore ? )

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“Progressive prosecutors made it clear that making arrests for drug and weapons crimes that will go unprosecuted only exposes officers to the risk of disciplinary action, lawsuits, and criminal prosecution. So, to mitigate that risk, police took a more passive approach.”

If the prosecution in the area isn't going to even try to put people you arrest on specific types of arrests, then no reason to even try to bring in suspects in specific situations.

Then again that's the point of having this type of legal circus going on, to stop the arrests of specific type of people and lower the numbers for those demographics.

There is a point to be made, if you're not going to spend the money to hold people in jail, and overcrowding is a problem, covid, costs, lack of funds, then, just eliminate the problem by reducing incarceration...

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Democrat-run Louisville: arrests/stops are down 35 percent, murders are up 87 (not a typo) percent.

Not only that, but Louisville Metro PD is 200 officers short in manning. And the new Police Chief (who was the Chief in Atlanta last year when it all went to hell there; good job qualification!) says that the “police culture” needs to change before any progress can happen.

Given that the Breonna Taylor situation is still unresolved, and we are now getting ready for the Derby, and the weather is warming, I fully expect the “Spring Riot Season” to begin within the next couple of weeks.

somehow I am having a hard time feeling bad

but given the margins by which libtards were elected in those shangri-la's, the only positive note is that its quite likely that there are more libtard victims than American's

they are reducing their own voting base

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somehow I am having a hard time feeling bad

but given the margins by which libtards were elected in those shangri-la's, the only positive note is that its quite likely that there are more libtard victims than American's

they are reducing their own voting base

For every “voter” they lose they’re sure to shore up the numbers with fraud...

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Democrat-run Chicago: arrests/stops are down 53 percent, murders are up 65 percent.

Democrat-run New York City: arrests/stops are down 38 percent, murders are up 58 percent.

Democrat-run Louisville: arrests/stops are down 35 percent, murders are up 87 (not a typo) percent.

Democrat-run Minneapolis: arrests/stops are down 42 percent, murders are up 64 percent.

Democrat-run Los Angeles: arrests/stops are down 33 percent, murders are up 51 percent.

Surprised stops and arrests are not down more.
See now evil, speak no evil.
Officers are risking their freedom every time they try to enforce the law.
It would be pretty arrogant to think you could never make a mistake while someone is resisting arrest.
It’s a good thing I am not an officer.
The instant someone started to resist arrest, it would be hands up walk away, not going to risk it.

It seems that not everyone is happy with the notoriety of BLM in Louisville.

https://www.wave3.com/2021/04/...le-rep-attica-scott/

April 15, 2021 at 10:32 AM EDT - Updated April 15 at 7:34 PM
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - Breonna Taylor’s mother called out Black Lives Matter Louisville and Kentucky Rep. Attica Scott, using the word “fraud” to describe both in a Facebook post.

“I have never personally dealt with BLM Louisville and personally have found them to be fraud, Attica Scott another fraud,” Tamika Palmer wrote Wednesday.

In the post, Palmer gave credit to local activist Christopher 2X, the Montgomery family and activist group Until Freedom, as well as those at Jefferson Square Park, nicknamed “Injustice Square” last year during the height of protests that followed the police shooting death of her daughter.

“I’ve watched y’all raise money on behalf of Breonna’s family who has never done a damn thing for us, nor have we needed it or asked, so Talk about fraud,” Palmer wrote.

WAVE 3 News has left a message with BLM Louisville and is trying to contact Scott. This story will be updated when either responds.


Read Palmer’s full Facebook post below.

Tamika Palmer
on Wednesday
I think it’s crazy when people say they’ve been here since day 1, let me be clear Christopher 2x, The Montgomery family (Angie, Cheri, TiJuan & Craig) is the one and only day one’s not to mention Breonna’s friends and family but they’ve never needed Recognition immediately following is Until Freedom... I have never personally dealt with BLM Louisville and personally have found them to be fraud, Attica Scott another fraud, Then There’s the people at injustice Square a.k.a. BREEWAYY who has been 100 and held it down but that doesn’t go to say everyone down there but they know who they are & also never needed recognition...I could walk in a room full of people who claim to be here for Breonna’s family who don’t even know who I am, I’ve watched y’all raise money on behalf of Breonna’s family who has never done a damn thing for us nor have we needed it or asked so Talk about fraud. It’s amazing how many people have lost focus Smdh. I’m a say this before I go I’m so sick of some of y’all and I was last anybody who needs it I’m with this shit enough is enough‼️

17 Albuquerque officers quit the APD emergency response team (ERT).
Tired of being second quessed.

Last weekend there was rumors of proud boys coming to Albuquerque.
So counter protesters gathered downtown. No proud boys showed up probably a hoax. One patriot showed up with a long gun and a couple of kids in tow. APD was there and suggested to the man with long gun and kids to just go home.
Not good enough for the mayor and media. They wanted public hanging.
APD finally caved in and said that they would mail a citation to the man with the long gun and kids for " child endangerment ".

APD' s ERT team has now mostly resigned.

https://www.koat.com/article/l...-to-protest/36137537

Don’t know the numbers, but dem led Austin murders are up. Travis County DA says no one should be in jail because they cannot afford bail. It’s noted that recent shooters were wearing ankle monitors.

Art Acevedo, Houston’s police chief (formerly Austin’s) resigned as murder rates are up in the dem led city.

“Terror By White Supremacists”: BLM Denounces Coverage Of Co-Founder’s Real Estate Purchases While Facebook Censors Story

https://jonathanturley.org/202...ebook-censors-story/


We recently discussed the move by Twitter to block the tweet of sports journalist Jason Whitlock criticizing the BLM co-founder Patrisse Khan-Cullors for purchasing a $1.4 million home in a secluded area of Los Angeles. A self-professed Marxist, Cullors has reportedly purchased four homes worth more than $3 million and has looked at real estate investments in places like the Bahamas. As with the censoring of a New York Post article on the Hunter Biden laptop story, Twitter was criticized for the censoring of the story and later said it was a mistake. Now, Facebook has reportedly blocked the underlying New York Post report about the controversy. In the meantime, BLM itself insists that the controversy is little more than terrorism from white supremacists.


Various conservative sites reported this week that Facebook users could not share the link to a story that shed light on Cullors’ multi-million-dollar splurge on homes. Fox News reported that “an error message appears whenever users try sharing the article on their personal Facebook page or through the Messenger app.”

Cullors has not denied the purchase or the real estate investments, including in her statement below to the controversy. The story was widely circulated because Cullors has long insisted that she and her BLM co-founder “are trained Marxists. We are super versed on, sort of, ideological theories.” She has denounced capitalism as worse than Covid-19.

Critics like Nick Arama of RedState pointed out: “[I]t’s interesting to note that the demographics of the area are only about 1.4% black people there. So not exactly living up to her creed there.”

Moreover, the head of New York City’s Black Lives Matter chapter called for an independent investigation into the organization’s finances in the wake of the controversy.

The New York Post and other publications reported that Cullors is eyeing expensive properties in other locations, including the Bahamas. However, I noted earlier that there is no evidence that this money came from BLM, which has reportedly raised almost $100 million in donations from corporations and other sources. Indeed, Cullors seems to have ample sources of funds. She published a best selling memoir of her life and then a follow up book. She also signed a lucrative deal with Warner Bros to develop and produce original programming across all platforms, including broadcast, cable and streaming. She has also been featured in various magazines like her recent collaboration with Jane Fonda.

Cullors responded to the controversy but did not deny the underlying facts:

“This movement began as, and will always remain a love letter to Black people. Three words – Black Lives Matter – serve as a reminder to Black people that we are human and deserve to live a vibrant and full life. I worked multiple jobs across many organizations my entire life. I’m also a published author, writer, producer, professor, public speaker, and performance artist.”

She later denounced the coverage of her alleged hypocrisy as an effort to “take[] away from where the focus should be – ending white supremacy”.

The main issue for me is not the house or the claimed hypocrisy. It is the censorship of Twitter and now Facebook. Cullors is a public figure who is subject to public scrutiny and commentary. Twitter is rife with a such criticism over the lifestyle choices of figures on the right ranging from Donald Trump Jr. to Rand Paul. That is an unfortunate aspect of being in a high visibility position. I would be equally concerned if criticism of Trump Jr.’s big game hunting exploits or Giuliani’s lavish tastes were censored.

As stated recently in testimony before the House, I remain an unabashed “Internet Originalist,” favoring the free forum for speech that once defined these Big Tech companies. The expanding censorship of the Internet continues to show bias and contractions as politicians push for “robust modification” to silence opposing views of everything from climate change to social justice. Twitter and Facebook now actively determine what people should know and discuss on matters of public interest.

BLM however is denouncing the coverage as raw racism. In a statement, it insisted that Cullors has only made $120,000 from BLM. Once again, I see no evidence that Cullors has taken any money inappropriately from BLM. To that end, I can see why BLM would issue a strong statement to knock down any suggestions of fraud or self-dealing with BLM funds. For any such organization, suggestions of fraud can have a serious impact on corporate and individual donations. As for Cullors herself, her own corporate deals would give her ample money for these real estate investments if the story is accurate.

Yet, BLM added that the reporting about her properties “continues a tradition of terror by white supremacists against Black activists.” What is odd is that the head of NY BLM was that one of those calling for an investigation and presumably it is not part of that “tradition of terror by white supremacists.”

Most of the coverage concerned the irony of Cullors investing millions in real estate given her public persona as a dedicated Marxist. Indeed, some on the left have denounced her as a hypocrite after the disclosures of her investments and homes. Cullors has told followers that “While the COVID-19 illness is tragic, what’s more tragic is capitalism.” Nevertheless, BLM called the coverage of the Cullors investments as a familiar “tactic of terror time and again, but our movement will not be silenced.”

As noted earlier, the greatest irony may not be the home purchase but the corporate support. A professed Marxist, Cullors has not only been paid handsomely by corporations like Warner Brothers but is being actively protected by corporations like Twitter and now Facebook in blocking the underlying story.