The issues of the case don’t interest me that much, although I agree that violence can only be used when there is a threat of serious injury. For example, see Tennesse v. Garner, where the SCOTUS concluded that a LEO cannot discharge his weapon at someone fleeing.
Anyway, the more interesting thing to me is the issue of qualified immunity. As I’ve said so many times before, qualified immunity is an obscene witch’s brew concocted by the courts with no basis in constitutional law for the sole purpose of protecting the agents and enforcers of the state.
I’m glad John is teaching a young man to defend civil rights. I’m sure he’ll turn into a good lawyer. Liberty University is producing some very good graduates in all areas of specialty.
I said he wasn’t a real man and needed to go learn to train, care for and work with farm and ranch animals. Better still, as a beginner he needs to “pick” (or clean out) stalls for a few months, carrying horse shit out of their way so it doesn’t ruin their hooves.
So is there a contrasting example of how real American men behave around good dogs?
They’ve been caught secretly putting cameras in women’s locker rooms, on camera invading men’s homes and working through their belongings for things, and on and on. The list is long and available on this site, but also available at the YouTube channel The Civil Rights Lawer.
He gives us this update. Can you imagine going on record under oath writing the sequence of events and other supposedly factual information about a home invasion your department perpetrated when you were not there? Can you imagine being a prosecutor who brought a case against a man and bringing witnesses, none of whom perpetrated the police attack on the man in court that day as a witness?
This may very well be the most corrupt police department in the nation, and that’s an ignominious list indeed.
We’ve said it hundreds of times, but this guy is a good example of how (a) you never talk to the police, and (b) you never give them permission to do anything. That’s what this crook was seeking.
The LEOs are good examples of highwaymen, simple crooks who steal from others, except in this case, under the color of law. The prosecutor who did this is equally a crook.
Apparently, it’s commonplace across America to teach police officers that conducting an investigation means they can do whatever they want.
Note in this first case that, in order, (a) she stopped the wrong individual, (b) apologized to him, (c) told him pointedly that he had broken no laws, (d) demanded his identification, (e) then told him failure to provide identification was obstructing a police investigation.
Note the logical problem they create for themselves (and the individual they’re stopped). A person has not violated any law, the officer demands ID, the individual is under no legal obligation to provide ID if there isn’t articulable suspicion of a crime, and then the whopper at the end, failure to provide ID is obstructing a police investigation.
Under that schema, there is never a time when an individual can refuse to provide ID because the cop can claim that they are “conducting an investigation” (a fabricated crime that even if it did occur, occurred after the erroneous stop because there was no articulable suspicion of a crime). This is a “Morton’s Fork.” The individual hasn’t committed a crime and thus no ID can be demanded, but an ID can be demanded because the demand itself cannot be refused or else the individual has obstructed an investigation.
This is the game idiots play, and it twists the ruling of the SCOTUS in “Terry Stops.”
Here is the lawsuit. The girl is a wrong and gullible but perhaps teachable, at least until she has her conscience seared by her co-workers. The supervising officer is just plain stupid, reactionary, volatile, bossy, and clearly not a thinking man. He’s perfect to be a cop according to modern hiring practices for LEOs.
The next case is like unto it. The cops demand to come within the property lines because, guess what, “they are conducting an investigation.” There’s that phrase again.
Here’s a quick note to cops everywhere. Conducting an investigation doesn’t give you the right to violate civil rights, regardless of what the wicked instructors have taught you in the police academy. You should know better.
These guys are just as bad as the ones above and obviously couldn’t care less about the constitution or their oaths. They are also obviously bullies.
This is a sickening video. For heaven’s sake – it’s a golden retriever. It’s a golden! How is that guy in any danger? Have you ever been around goldens before? That dog was desperate to make a new friend, that’s all.
That idiot cop deserved all of the opprobrium he got, and much more.
*WARNING* – a dog gets shot in this video
Ohio cop shoots harmless golden retriever with its tail waging then continues shooting the dog as it flees the violent officer and Dixie (the dog) ultimately dies.
I just don’t know what to say any more. Perhaps people will start to wise up rather than the usual, silly, mistaken “back the blue” mantra we hear everywhere. Heroes of the community.
I have tried so hard to explain to those who would listen that you simply cannot keep up the same things and have any community respect at all. Universal hatred of you and what you do will be dangerous for you, making you even more paranoid and mentally unstable than you currently are.
I’ve given suggestions to the police before and then even again. Work as a hired hand on a farm or ranch, or even better, be a volunteer to some farmer or rancher who needs the help. Learn to bale hay; lean to be a Farrier; learn to doctor animals; learn to train dogs; learn to care for animals.
But it seems that they hire the lowest IQ, least mentally stable, and most dangerous to mankind and beasts they can find. As long as this is the case, they will only increase community hatred for themselves.
Again I say, you’re never in more danger than when the police are around. Get away from them as quickly as possible – you, your family and your beasts. There is never a situation so bad and so dire that it cannot be made worse by the presence of the police.
As for me, I know how to handle dogs, and I would have been buddies with that dog in less than a second. I’m not a dog handler (although I could be), I’m just a normal American male. Cops apparently are not.
A jury has acquitted on all counts the former school resource officer who stayed outside during the February 2018 massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida – absolving him of wrongdoing in the rare trial of a law enforcement officer for his response to a mass shooting.
Scot Peterson, 60, took off his glasses and wept in court as the judge read off the verdict, finding him not guilty of seven counts of felony child neglect, three counts of culpable negligence and one count of perjury.
“I’ve got my life back,” Peterson, a former deputy for the Broward County Sheriff’s Office, told reporters outside court, describing the years since the shooting as “an emotional roller coaster.”
I couldn’t care less what sort of emotional roller coaster he’s been on nor how he feels about any of this. He’s a coward. Regardless of what the law requires, he should have been a righteous man and, if necessary, given his life for the children.
Having said that, this is the right legal decision. Holding police responsible for the protection of life runs afoul of court decisions in the following cases.
Progressives hate the police except for when they enforce laws they want (that means against everybody but them as was the case with Antifa), and the traditional conservatives are the only ones left who believe the myth that the police are there to serve and protect. They are not, nor have they ever been. They are agents of the state and will behave that way at every opportunity. No court ruling has ever said police are there to protect citizens.
It is the responsibility of every good man to defend his family, and thus should men be armed and capable of doing so. As for schools, if you want them to be safe, hire people who are under contract to do that, harden the entrances, and give teachers weapons. Better yet, get your children out of public schools and home school them to learn math, physics, chemistry, rhetoric and logic, and theology.
Don’t conflate the fact that this man was a coward with the notion that the police are there to protect you or your children. That’s what you and your weapons are for.
On June 7, a property owner in Virginia filed suit against the Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources (VDWR) and three conservation officers that work for the state agency. In his lawsuit, filed in Henrico County Circuit Court, Josh Highlander claims that multiple game wardens wearing camouflage entered his private 30-acre parcel without his consent or knowledge—alarming his wife and young son and confiscating a game camera in the process.
Highlander is being represented in his case by the Institute for Justice (IJ), a non-profit Arlington-based law firm with a history of backing landowners in private property disputes against state wildlife agencies. According to IJ, the incident occurred on April 8, 2023, the opening day of Virginia’s spring turkey season.
The lawsuit says that Highlander legally harvested a turkey on his property on the morning of April 8 before logging his kill on the VDWR mobile app. It then alleges that, several hours later, three VDWR officers parked their trucks in a cul de sac, a few hundred yards from the property line, and walked through an adjacent private parcel into Highlander’s woods.
According to Highlander, his wife spotted a camouflaged figure moving through a forested part of the family property that afternoon while playing basketball with their 6-year-old son. When she alerted Highlander to the person’s presence, he said he went outside to check the woods, finding only an empty post where one of his game cameras had been mounted in the middle of a food plot.
Highlander’s brother, Rob Highlander Jr., was cited for hunting turkeys over bait several miles east of Josh Highlander’s property on the same day that the alleged incident took place by one of the officers he is suing. According to the lawsuit, responding agents seized two of Rob Highlander’s trail cameras after issuing those citations.
Rob Jr. is contesting that ticket, saying that he was hunting turkeys on a legal food plot with no bait. He says the bait that the agents accused him of using was actually fresh millet seed that he’d legally spread while replenishing the food plot earlier in the year. Virginia wildlife code defines “bait” as “any food, grain, or other consumable substance that could serve as a lure or attractant.”
When contacted by Field & Stream, the Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources declined to comment on any specifics related to the “pending litigation.” But VDWR Public Information Officer Paige Pearson confirmed in an email that it is lawful for a Virginia game warden to carry out an active investigation on private property without a warrant—or the consent or knowledge of the landowner—so long as those activities are executed “within constitutional bounds.” It is also lawful, she confirmed, for a warden to deploy game cameras on private property, or to seize game cameras off of private property during an investigation—again, as long as it’s done “within constitutional bounds.”
I don’t even know what that means. It sounds to me like she is saying that it’s okay to violate the constitution as long as it’s done constitutionally. So here’s a challenge question for her. Can she explain what it means to violate the constitution as long as it is within “constitutional bounds?” Do your homework and provide examples.
I don’t think it should be hard at all – just be honest, tell the truth, and be true to your oath. Be prepared to find another job if you need to. It’s better to bag groceries or load trucks at Lowe’s than to answer to God for malfeasance. But here is his story.
It was 2007 and I was assisting a call with an officer I’d never met before. He was from another team working overtime. Right in front of me he broke a kids nose with a punch. The septum was clearly deviated and blood was everywhere. The kid was handcuffed and the officer enquired of me “what should ‘we’ arrest him for?” “What did he do?” I enquired. “He called me a name.” he said. After 20 mins of him trying to persuade me we should fabricate a crime he had to let the kid go. “We need o do notes, get our story straight” he then told me. I don’t need assistance in writing what happened. I found a quiet place and wrote the facts. As I wrote I was joined by a female A/Sgt who knew this officer. She spent 20 mins trying to convince me this kid was a “shitbag” & my notes should ‘reflect the danger he posed’. I was disgusted. We don’t behave this way.
Oh, but you do indeed behave that way. This is a Canadian cop and he has all the proof in court documents, but it’s the same in the U.S.
As for all of those “constitutional Sheriffs and Deputies,” it’s important to know where they really stand. Here is a good analysis of what likely really happened at that gun store in Montana.
Guess what? The Great Falls, Montana, PD provided perimeter security for the IRS and ATF [5:48 in the video].
There you have it. Even in Montana, the cops have been corrupted. The Great Falls PD should have arrested the IRS and ATF agents when they showed up in the city limits.
Witness this first incident. It was clear from the beginning that the man wasn’t carrying a firearm. I’ll also make another observation. This is one good reason why open carry should have been passed by the controller pols in Florida – return the right to openly carry a firearm and the idiot wouldn’t have had a reason to conduct the stop to begin with.
But on to the incident. Fat boy got upset that the female cop didn’t get what she wanted out of the man, and so fabricated some unreasonable justification out of whole cloth to arrest him. It was a capricious arrest, and they lacked the authority to do it.
The female cop, on the other hand, was a “mean girl,” or got bullied by mean girls in school, and takes it out on everyone she meets, I estimate. She is carried away with her authority.
But here is the problem. They will be retrained, they lost a few days without pay, and fat boy was demoted. But other than that, there is nothing learned from this. The Sheriff said they didn’t rely on their training. That’s of course incorrect, as they know the law and where the lines are. They just don’t care. Without a change in hiring practices to emphasize moral virtue above all else, this will continue across the country, which means no one will have any respect for cops by the time this is all over.
Also witness in the second incident that the cops lied under oath. You know that’s what happened. There isn’t a cop in America who doesn’t understand “Terry Stop” and the limits on their authority to detain and arrest. They just both lied and got away with it, again pointing to the lack of moral virtue in these people.
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