COLUMBIA, S.C. – A lawsuit has been filed against the York County Sheriff’s Office in South Carolina by a man alleging that the deputies fired at him nearly 50 times during a mental health crisis while he was seated in a parked truck with a shotgun in his lap, despite his claim that he had his hands up.
In May of 2021, Trevor Mullinax survived being hit nine times, including three head wounds, as stated in the lawsuit filed earlier this month.
Police dashcam footage released by Mullinax’s attorneys revealed that the four sheriff’s deputies began firing only a few seconds after arriving on the scene and shouting “Hands!” multiple times.
PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) — A man was accidentally shot by police with his own gun in Philadelphia’s Germantown section earlier this week.
It happened around 4:14 p.m. Monday on the 5700 block of North 21st Street.
Police say a 62-year-old man was walking his dog on a leash near 20th and Chew streets when one of two loose pit bulls began to attack his dog.
The man reportedly tried to pull the dogs apart but was unsuccessful. That’s when police say the man shot and killed the attacking dog.
The man, who was licensed to carry, then walked home to the 5700 block of North 21st Street to take care of his injured animal.
At some point after the gunfire, the man was able to flag down a 14th District officer to report the incident.
According to police, the man told the officer that he had just shot the dog around the corner and that his gun was in a holster on his side.
The officer told the man that he would have to secure his weapon, and the man placed his hands above his head so the officer could gain access to the weapon, authorities said.
While trying to remove the weapon, authorities say the officer accidentally shot the man in the leg.
A firearm could be SAO, DAO, SA/DA, hammer fired, striker fired, with a frame-mounted safety or without, carried with one in the chamber or not, half cocked or fully cocked, or not cocked at all, with a modified competition trigger or factory trigger, among many other idiosyncrasies and differences.
It is a stupid policy to disarm someone by handling their weapon unless there has been a crime. Touching another man’s weapon is the dumbest thing a police officer could do in just about any situation. I honestly cannot think of an exception to this rule.
I’ll reach out to the police commissioner’s office to see if that’s formal policy for the Philadelphia Police Department, but I probably won’t hear back.
And remember boys and girls, “You’re never in more danger than when the police are around. Get away from them as quickly as possible. No situation is so dangerous that it cannot be made worse by the presence of the police.”
They couldn’t have cared less about the man’s legally obtained firearms.
New York citizen with 0 criminal record posts photos of a 3D printed AR lower on Reddit. NYPD (and presumably other agencies) magically have all of his credit card records and internet history within days showing "parts" purchases to complete the receivers. NYPD costume… pic.twitter.com/03EBzeeS0n
Watch the entire video. Furtive movement. That’s their excuse for arresting and throwing a man in prison for a year after they had let him go.
This is the stuff of school yard bullies, whether they bullied little boys and girls, or got bullied, they learned it without learning that you don’t do that.
They’re learning this somewhere – probably in police academy, or perhaps from the public prosecutors. A furtive movement is reasonable excuse for beating someone up, or illegally detaining them, or throwing them in prison.
An experienced investigator in officer-involved shootings who viewed the footage said he understands why Mr Dotson would have a gun ready after getting a knock unexpectedly late at night.
However, the officers believed they were going into a domestic violence situation and they are taught domestic violence calls are among the most dangerous, said Edward Obayashi, who is also deputy sheriff and policy advisor for the Plumas County Sheriff’s Office in California.
He said officers on domestic violence calls can find themselves facing people “hell-bent” on killing officers or being killed by officers themselves.
“I’m not saying this is the situation here,” Mr Obayashi said.
“But the officers definitely — based on their training and experience nationwide — are taught this. As soon as they saw the gun, instinctively that’s exactly what went through their mind.”
They’re a gang, and the gang leaders are teaching them all the wrong things. I’ll say it again. My son did room clearing in Fallujah for seven months, and never shot any innocent people. It’s possible to be a man, not to be so timid and scared, and to do this the right way. Unleashing cops who have been trained to be unaccountable monsters has ruined their reputation. And properly so.
Don’t talk to cops. Don’t open the door for them. Get away from them as soon as possible. “You’re never in more danger than when the police are around.” Calling cops to a scene only makes it more dangerous by orders of magnitude.
The ordinance was submitted by Neadeau (police chief), and states “It is not feasible nor in the public interest to subject recordings made by body-worn and in-car cameras to the EBCI’s [Eastern Band of Cherokee Indian’s] public records law…”
A more blatant and obvious lie cannot be imagined. Consider the assertion: it’s not in the public interest to be able to hold the police accountable for unwarranted raids or public executions.
First up in this most recent but awful recent procession of the ugly and parade of the vulgar is a report from New Mexico.
The New Mexico State Police released additional information Thursday on a deadly shooting that happened the day prior in Farmington after officers mistakenly responded to the wrong home and shot one of its occupants to death.
In a Thursday statement, the NMSP said an officer with the Farmington Police Department fatally shot the victim, identified as Robert Dotson, 52, after responding to a call for a domestic violence incident at around 11:30 p.m. Wednesday.
Farmington police officers responded to the area but visited the wrong address.
“Once on scene, officers mistakenly approached 5305 Valley View Avenue instead of 5308 Valley View Avenue,” the NMSP said. “Officers knocked on the front door of 5305 Valley View Avenue and announced themselves as Farmington police officers. When there was no answer at 5305, officers asked their dispatch to call the reporting party back and have them come to the front door.”
The addresses are located across the street from one another. Police said the occupants of 5305 Valley View Avenue opened the door armed and an exchange of gunfire ensued.
“Body camera footage shows as the officers backed away from 5305 Valley View Avenue, the homeowner, Robert Dotson, 52, opened the screen door armed with a handgun. At this point in the encounter, officer(s) fired at least one round from their duty weapon(s) striking Mr. Dotson,” police said.
The NMSP added: “After the initial shooting, Mr. Dotson’s wife, also armed with a handgun, fired from the doorway of the residence. Once again, officer(s) fired. Once she realized that the individuals outside the residence were officers, she put the gun down and complied with the officer’s commands.”
If one doesn’t know who is at the door making a commotion, it seems to make perfect sense to go armed. But in fact it doesn’t. If police can shoot you with immunity for simply being in possession of a firearm, then the RKBA doesn’t exist at all.
Second, the wisest counsel would say don’t open the door for police. Just like you never talk to the police without a lawyer, you don’t open the door for the police. Simply don’t do it, especially if you’re in possession of a weapon. Don’t let your dog[s] out or they will also get shot by Barney Fife. Ensconce inside your home and assess the situation, but don’t believe for even a single second that the police are there to protect your safety. In fact, there is no situation so bad and so dire that it cannot be made worse by the presence of the police.
Two police officers in Clearwater, Florida, were suspended following an incident wherein they both shot at each other in the darkness. They responded to a call about a man firing a gun in his backyard. They approached silently, in the darkness, positioned themselves, and when the man fired a round, they both essentially mag-dumped at each other. One of the officers was hit.
Reid fired 18 rounds and Woodie fired six, according to internal affairs documents. Reid fired toward where he saw a “muzzle flash,” believing that direction to be Wassman’s location. However, he did not see Wassman, internal affairs documents say.
Woodie told internal affairs he saw a person in dark clothing holding a gun and believed he was firing at Wassman. However, one of Woodie’s bullets grazed Reid’s arm, and officers also found four “projectile materials” from Woodie’s rounds in a neighboring home.
The violations of extremely important rules of safety are so stark it boggles the imagination. Don’t shoot if you don’t know what you’re shooting at. Know your target and what’s behind it. The Supreme Court decision in Tennessee v. Garner, and so much more that it’s just not productive to lay out all of the failures here.
Third up in this display of foolishness comes straight to you from the FBI and SOCOM.
Members of the FBI and the US Army Special Operations Command who were conducting a training exercise in downtown Boston raided the wrong hotel room and detained the person inside before realizing their mistake, the FBI said in a statement to CNN.
The FBI said its Boston division was helping the military with a training exercise around 10 p.m. Tuesday “to simulate a situation their personnel might encounter in a deployed environment.”
“Based on inaccurate information, they were mistakenly sent to the wrong room and detained an individual, not the intended role player,” the FBI said.
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An officer with the US Army Special Operations will lead the investigation into the incident, Burns told CNN Friday. The investigation will be an administrative fact-finding inquiry, but it can result in recommendations that could lead to judicial proceedings under the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
It’s a wonder they didn’t kill anyone.
Good grief. Have things gotten so bad in SOCOM that they have to take lessons in how to screw up from the FBI? My son did this for real among real bad guys in Fallujah and could teach them how to do this right. Better yet, there are tactical trainers out there who make a living doing this (here you must be careful since there are also some fakes, like the FBI, and also some trainers who don’t believe in the RKBA and would tyrannize the American people).
The point is that the FBI is the very last place SOCOM should go for training. If they have fallen to that level, America’s armed forces are truly in trouble.
I knew a sergeant in a local PD who knew that I have a penchant for 1911s. He told me once that he wouldn’t trust any officer in his department to carry or decock a hammer fired pistol, even if it’s a backup pistol to his service issued firearm. Of course, you must know what you’re doing with a striker fired gun too, but he’s a wise man to restrict his officers to something he thinks they can handle.
You’re never in more danger than when the police are around. Do everything humanly possible to get away from them as quickly as possible.
Found it. Make them famous. Sergeant Glenn Rigdon is the NHP officer (badge no. 140)- Ordered the seizure Trooper Chris Brown of the Nevada Highway Patrol (badge no. 250)-made the stop DEA Agent Shane Murray
I have several remarks about the events depicted and discussed below, but make sure to watch the entire video.
First, none of this would happen if the cops involved – FedGov and local/county/state – didn’t want to engage in it. In other words, they like beating people up. There is no other explanation for this. This is sociopathic behavior.
Second, the problem is exacerbated when local/county/state LEOs are deputized as agents of the federal government, whether FBI or Marshals Office or whatever. Far from being protectors of rights and peace officers, as would need to be the case if the notion of second amendment sanctuaries means anything, it’s apparently too tempting when a local LEO hears the words “Deputized as a Federal Marshal.” They can’t turn it down under their own volition. They are in need of a body of laws and regulations on the local and state level telling them they cannot do that without state penalties.
Third, they should not be armed. They have all proven much to contemptuous of rights and liberties, and much too dangerous, to walk around armed. In the case of most LEOs, they are “armed to the terror of the public,” as contrasted with open carriers who obey the law, and act in a peaceful manner.
Fourth, whatever body of law that supports the notion of qualified immunity must be turned back. It essentially means that LEOs, especially federally empowered LEOs, can violate constitutional liberties and rights with no remedy by those they have offended. This is prima facie ridiculous, and certainly wasn’t envisioned by the founders. The founders fought a war to stop this sort of thing and then prevent its recurrence.
Fifth, the FedGov has no business in local and state matters. Fusion centers and joint operations task forces should be banned by law.
Today’s decision upholding qualified immunity is compelled by our controlling precedent. I write separately only to highlight newly published scholarship that paints the qualified-immunity doctrine as flawed— foundationally—from its inception.
For more than half a century, the Supreme Court has claimed that (1) certain common-law immunities existed when § 1983 was enacted in 1871,2 and (2) “no evidence” suggests that Congress meant to abrogate these immunities rather than incorporate them.3 But what if there were such evidence? Indeed, what if the Reconstruction Congress had explicitly stated—right there in the original statutory text—that it was nullifying all common-law defenses against § 1983 actions? That is, what if Congress’s literal language unequivocally negated the original interpretive premise for qualified immunity? Professor Alexander Reinert argues precisely this in his new article, Qualified Immunity’s Flawed Foundation—that courts have been construing the wrong version of § 1983 for virtually its entire legal life.
Wait, what?
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In arguing that qualified immunity is flawed from the ground up, Professor Reinert poses a provocative question: “If a legislature enacts a statute, but no one bothers to read it, does it still have interpretive force?”9 It seems a tall order to square the modern qualified-immunity regime with Congress’s originally enacted language. But however seismic the implications of this lost-text research, “‘[a]s middle-management circuit judges,’ we cannot overrule the Supreme Court.”10 Only that Court can definitively grapple with § 1983’s enacted text and decide whether it means what it says—and what, if anything, that means for § 1983 immunity jurisprudence.
If was a gambler, I would lay all of my money down on the SCOTUS not turning back such awful, wicked doctrine and qualified immunity. Thus, the LEOs dispatched by the FedGov will become ever more hated, performing ever more cruel deeds as they see that they have no check on their behavior.
I’ve watched John Bryan do God’s work for several years now in WV, and he is in large measure responsible for shining light on the complete corruption of the WV state police.
He’s lost some significant cases, but solely because of the horrible rulings by the Fourth Circuit, a gaggle of sophomoric, pompous and unscholarly rubes second only to the second circuit. They found against the defendant in the case of a young man carrying an AR-15 to hunt Coyotes, claiming directly against what they claimed in U.S. versus Black, and going on a diatribe against the rifle itself. Just several months ago, even after Heller, McDonald and Caetano, went on another diatribe against the AR-15 and ruled in favor of Maryland’s AWB in Fianchi v. Fosh (and the SCOTUS had to send it back to the Fourth Circuit for reconsideration under Bruen, just as they are pressing the Second Circuit to make the right call for gun owners in NY).
Anyway, even though Bryan has lost some cases, in every case I can think of, his arguments were sound and the fault lies with stupid courts. But he has won many cases, and managed to bring a lot of light to the corruption in WV on the local and state level, and at least a modicum of justice for his clients.
This is just a terrible catalog of goofy, dangerous and unnecessary foibles in a very short amount of time committed by the best and brightest America has to offer. The list is culled from many examples I have and is not even nearly comprehensive.
First up, cops in Colorado handcuffed a woman, put her in the back seat of a squad car, and then chatted with each other about the woman. The problem is that they parked their car on railroad tracks. Yes, seriously, railroad tracks. The car was hit by a train shortly thereafter. Here is video.
The most serious, necessary, and fundamentally requisite thing you’ll ever do as a worker in a manufacturing plant, power plant, construction zone, or working with lifting and rigging, scaffold building, or basically for anyone who can be held liable for injuries or cited by OSHA, is work safely. Safety training is so important that it interrupts work activities, even critical ones. You’re never late with safety training – ask me how I know. You don’t climb stairs in a plant environment without holding both rails, or else if someone sees you, you might lose your job. You never climb above a few feet off the ground without lanyards and harnesses.
It gets even more serious if it has to do with basic radiation safety, the annual retraining and testing taking a day to complete before you’re allowed in an RCZ. If anyone ever sees you knowingly violating those protocols, security is called, you’re ushered off the premises, and management will collect your stuff and send it to you at home. You’ve lost your job.
Those cops didn’t even think about safety. Not the safety of the woman in the car, nor even their own safety. Safety comes first, in everyone you do, in every activity in which you engage. I’m left wondering if those cops would even have been able to pass basic safety training or recall what they learned while in the field.
BUFFALO, N.Y. — Buffalo Police tell 2 On Your Side an Internal Affairs investigation is underway after an officer’s rifle fell off a roof and onto a sidewalk during the St. Patrick’s Day Parade on Sunday.
“This is something that doesn’t happen, can’t happen, nor I’ve never heard of this happening,” said Joseph Gramaglia, Buffalo Police commissioner.
Pictures shared with WGRZ by Andrew Mavrogeorgis show the officer positioned on top of the building at 560 Delaware Avenue at Allen Street in downtown Buffalo. The rifle is perched on the edge, on top of a stand, a short distance from the officer.
Gramaglia told 2 On Your Side that the officer was acting in an overwatch position, a security measure that offers the department a vantage point during mass gatherings. He said an ongoing investigation by the department indicated that a heavy wind gust caused the rifle to fall from its perch and off the edge of the building.
He does not believe the officer mishandled the firearm.
“It’s not that it was physically being handled, it wasn’t dropped,” Gramaglia said.
It was mishandled, but it wasn’t. It dropped, but it wasn’t dropped. But it gets better and the excuses start.
“These weapons are not something like a handgun or something where you could just pick it up and the average person would know how to utilize it,” said Jeff Rinaldo, retired Buffalo Police captain.
No, of course not. No one knows how to use a rifle. But the best is coming up.
“It’s not the days of old when I was on patrol and we had officers out. You’ve got to have highly trained tactical officers now in these in these situations.”
This “highly trained tactical officer” who didn’t mishandle his rifle which wasn’t dropped, mishandled and dropped his rifle. If you did that in the Marine Corps you would have spent some time in the “room of pain.” At least that would have happened ten years ago. As for now, it’s anyone’s guess.
Up next, they don’t know the law. They never seem to know the law. This video from one of my favorite lawyers (except for Stephen Stamboulieh) who explains the whole silly affair.
Next up in this parade of the obscene, Uvalde police are making excuses, the real one being that they are cowards. “He has a battle rifle!” Despite John 15:13, they just gave up and let someone else do the hard work, and even prevented fathers from going in to get the little ones. What they’re doing now is figuring into the gun controllers’ calculus.
The cowards in the Uvalde Police Department that allowed a shooter to rampage inside a school for an hour before responding decided to peddle liberal gun control talking points to excuse their spinelessness.
Uvalde Police Department Sgt. Donald Page told investigators that they knew the weapon that the shooter had “was definitely an AR” and, therefore, “There was no way of going in. … We had no choice but to wait and try to get something that had better coverage where we could actually stand up to him.” One officer called it a “battle rifle.” The Texas Tribune, of course, ate this up, declaring that “The AR-15 was designed to efficiently kill humans.”
The Uvalde cops are weaponizing anti AR-15 sentiments to excuse their appalling incompetence and cowardice and people are eating it up. You're giving these people a pass because of their political utility to you. https://t.co/5POZBKj9WC
But remember boys and girls, they are the best, brightest and bravest America has to offer.
The reality is different as I’ve observed so many times before. You’re never in more danger than when the police are around. Get away from them as quickly as humanly possible.
And never, ever believe the myth that they’re there to protect you or your loved ones.
It’s like the Keystone cops, but with military hardware. Remember, with a simple signature of a police captain, they can go purchase machine guns and train them on you or your family … after busting down doors in wrong home raids.
Basically, this has unfortunately become the picture of cops in America.
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