On Saturday, August 3, 2019, Patrick Crusius, 21, killed 23 people and wounded 23 others at a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas (see details here). The victims ranged from 2 to 82 years old. Crusius didn’t know any of them. Goaded by online haters, he “wanted to stop a Hispanic invasion of[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Crime’
Unindicted co-conspirator?
People who lived through the 1970s will recognize this terminology. The “unindicted co-conspirator” in the Watergate scandal, which sent several of President Nixon’s closest associates to prison, was Nixon himself. Now the phrase is being revived to insinuate Trump committed crimes[...]
January 28th, 2023 - 10:05 pm § in Donald Trump, Law and Courts
New York Times alleges stunning corruption by Barr, Durham
Warned by Italian authorities that Trump was involved in financial crimes, Attorney General Bill Barr and Special Counsel John Durham protected him by accusing the FBI of wrongdoing. That’s what months of investigative journalism by the New York Times uncovered, and prominent legal experts are[...]
Baby with a gun? Lock his dad up!
Prosecutors should go to the mat with Shane Osborne, 45, of Beech Grove, Indiana, whose diaper-clad toddler was seen roaming the halls of an apartment building with a loaded gun and going “pow-pow-pow!” (photo, left). Osborne (photo, right) is an ex-felon who can’t have a gun. Stat[...]
When you should take a plea deal
Richard Barnett, 63, a self-employed contractor from Gravette, Arkansas, is the man kicking back behind Nancy Pelosi’s desk on January 6, 2021, in the infamous photograph below. He was arrested two days later, and spent three months in the D.C. jail, giving jailers a hard time and complaining [...]
January 10th, 2023 - 7:05 pm § in Law and Courts
The Old West in Port Orchard
Now that American society is saturated with guns, it’s not surprising people are resorting to them with increasing frequency. Washington self-defense law is clear: You can legally use deadly force only to defend yourself or another person from an imminent threat of death or great bodily harm. [...]
How to take guns out of the wrong hands
The rest of the world thinks America’s gun policies are crazy. A majority of Americans think so, too. Guns are simply too accessible, and in the hands of people who plainly shouldn’t have them. We really don’t need examples; mass shootings, school shootings, and gun crimes speak fo[...]
January 6th, 2023 - 4:32 am § in Law and Courts
The case against the Idaho murder suspect
“In the early hours of November 13, 2022, four University of Idaho students were fatally stabbed while they slept in an off-campus three-story rented home in Moscow, Idaho. On December 30, 2022, a suspect, 28-year old Bryan Christopher Kohberger was arrested,” Wikipedia says (here). Ok[...]
January 3rd, 2023 - 9:09 pm § in Misc.
Traffic stop (video)
An Indiana state trooper pulled over this driver at 3:52 pm on December 15, 2022, for following too close. If he’d known Idaho police were searching for this vehicle, he wouldn’t have let the driver go on his merry way. (Update: Vox reports he was pulled over at the request of surveillan[...]
January 2nd, 2023 - 3:39 pm § in Law and Courts
Another case of trigger-happy vigilantism
Quadarius McDowell, 30 (photo, left), of Decatur, Georgia, took his car to a tire shop (photo below) on Saturday, December 31, 2022. When he saw Daniel Gorden, 24 (photo, right), a tire shop employee, moving his car he assumed Gorden was stealing it and shot him to death (see story here). McDowell w[...]