Daily Archives: 2/23/2018
Whose job is it?
Cop Suspended As Video Shows He Cowered in Fear as Shooter Slaughtered Kids in The School
By
Matt Agorist –
February 22, 2018
Parkland, FL — Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel, during a press conference on Thursday, announced that he has suspended the deputy who was responsible for “protecting” Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School after surveillance video showed that he cowered outside of the building instead of using his weapon to engage the shooter.The deputy in question, Scot Peterson chose to resign Thursday as a result of being exposed.
“I am devastated,” Israel said. “Sick to my stomach. He never went in.”According to Broward, who described what happened, Peterson remained outside of the building while Cruz was inside slaughtering defenseless students.
Apparenlty we still lacked the ‘good guy with a gun’, instead having the ‘I got a gummint paycheck’ dude instead.
Add that bit of law enforcement action to the stack of reports where people who KNEW the nutcase reported his stated intentions, and the little pit where he was reported the FBI for his OWN statement about wanting to be a school shooter.
“See something, say something” indeed.
And there’s this bit of sunshine, as well:
Dart warns of ‘dramatic increase’ in people charged with gun crimes released on electronic monitors
Megan Crepeau – Chicago TribuneCook County Sheriff Tom Dart says hundreds of people charged with gun crimes have been released from the County Jail on electronic bracelets in recent months as a result of attempts at bond reform, raising public safety concerns.
Yep, same ‘Chiraq’ that saw sixty-two shot and killed since the beginning of the year – the same ‘Chiraq’ that saw six shot and killed LAST WEEKEND, the ‘Chiraq’ that drives gun laws in Illinios to draconian measures, the same city that DEMANDS more and stricter gun laws – THAT city. And it’s a revolving door when criminals are convicted of breaking existing laws and they’re put back out on the streets on the honor system.
I am, of course, side-stepping the fact that when a miscreant is hauled in on charges, gun violations often disappear early on in the plea-bargaining to keep from bringing a case to an actual trial.
Yeah, we NEED more gun laws, okay?
He had weapons of math instruction…
You know, I really TRY to give certain institutions the benefit of the doubt in view of certain events, but folks, they’re straining my resolve.
Student investigated after allegedly saying a math symbol looked like a gunCriminal charges will not be filed against a student after allegedly saying a math symbol looked like a gun.
On Tuesday afternoon, Allen Parish Sheriff’s Office deputies investigated an allegation of terrorist threats at Oberlin High School, according to the department’s Facebook page. The investigation revealed that a student was completing a math problem and drew the sign for square root. Deputies say another student made a comment that the symbol looked like a gun and several other students made similar comments. According to investigators, the comment made by the student in question “could” sound like a threat when taken out of context.
This:
Of course I might be unnecessarily harsh and judgmental if I were to point out that most ‘professional educators’ and law enforcement officers were able to attain their positions of responsibility without ever being exposed to that image.
File this one under ‘That’ll teach ’em’.
Today in History – February 23
1455 – Traditional date for the publication of the Gutenberg Bible, the first Western book printed from movable type. Printed in Mainz, Germany, where I was stationed 1974-77. They have the Gutenberg Museum, with an original Gutenberg bible as one of many interesting displays. I spent three great years in Mainz.
1778 – American Revolution: Baron von Steuben arrives at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania to help to train the Continental Army. This is regarded as the birth of the drill sergeant.
1836 – The Battle of the Alamo begins in San Antonio, Texas. Sometimes you have to fight, knowing that you might lose…
1847 – Mexican-American War: Battle of Buena Vista – In Mexico, American troops under General Zachary Taylor defeat Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna. If we’d have hanged him after we captured him following the Battle of San Jacinto, we could have saved a lot of trouble. The guy was a psychotic, murderous thug.
1903 – Cuba leases Guantánamo Bay to the United States “in perpetuity”. I’m surprised that obama didn’t give it back.
1945 – World War II: During the Battle of Iwo Jima, a group of United States Marines and a commonly forgotten U.S. Navy Corpsman, reach the top of Mount Suribachi on the island and are photographed raising the American flag.
1945 – World War II: Capitulation of German garrison in Pozna. The city is ‘liberated’ by Soviet and Polish forces, where ‘liberated’ means rule by ONE murderous dictatorial regime is replaced by rule by another murderous dictatorial regime for the next forty-odd years.
1954 – The first mass inoculation of children against polio with the Salk vaccine begins in Pittsburgh. Polio was the big “scare” disease when I was a kid. You seldom hear of it today. Two years later me and my brother and sisters stood in LINE to get the vaccine. Polio was the big scare when I was a kid. Now you never hear of it. But vaccines’re bad, huh?