People are still baffled by declaring the death of Jim Brady a homicide. From what I have read, D.C. works under the “One year and One Day” rule that would have dismissed any charge of murder automatically. So why eve bother? Re-reading the USA Today article, this section caught my attention this time:
As a result, D.C. Metropolitan Police are investigating the death of the former White House press secretary and gun control icon. Hinckley was found not guilty by reason of insanity for the shooting that left Brady partially paralyzed.
Now, for the tin foil hat part: We are talking about the same Police Department that alongside the DC council is under legal mandate to come up in less than 90 days now with a way for citizens of the District to carry a firearm outside their homes. The way these people operate is to delay and delay and then ask for an extension till they manage to come up with a May Issue regulation so twisted that is almost as good as not even trying to apply for it but somehow satisfies the court. So I would not put pass them to parade around the memory (and if it wasn’t too tacky, the body) of Jim Brady to seek mercy from the court of law and the court of public opinion. Basically to wave the bloodied shirt with the subject still inside, pretty much Hamas-style.
Just a twisted thought…
That’s actually the plan. No tin foil necessary. The plan has always been so outrageous as to be thought by the general public that “no one could really be that ridiculous”, so ‘they’ must be right, and the rest of us should change our ways and get in line.
Or maybe the DC homicide department was trying to boost their clearance rate. “It’s a murder, and I already know who did it, lieutenant.”