Where a Hispanic Catholic, and a Computer Geek write about Gun Rights, Self Defense and whatever else we can think about.
You figure somebody has all The Matrix DVDs.
Well, sure as shit he can’t carry concealed with that get up. But couldn’t at least get some sort of retention holster? Maybe he could not afford it because he spent the money on the 30 round mag and he is still making payments on the tats.
I’m still making my way through The Mist.
Faithful readers would know that I made a valiant attempt at Fear the Walking Dead.
I am noticing a new trope emerge in these shows. Call them the Noble Junkie. It is similar to the Erudite Stoner but not a pot smoking hippy throwback. The character is addicted to something hard like opiates or meth. They are having some sort of existential crisis and their “hit rock bottom” addiction gives them some sort of spiritual clarity.
In Fear the Walking Dead, Nick the Junkie somehow ends up being a super survivor because he is a junkie.
In The Mist, the Junkie girl is a street wise, get-er-done sort, not held back by middle class social mores.
I don’t from which Hollywood sphincter this character came from, but it needs to go back there quick.
Being a rock-bottom junkie isn’t doesn’t give a person nihilistic superpowers to handle an apocalypse.
The problem is, that being a Junkie, as soon as the craving hits, they will undermine the survival of the whole group to get their next fix.
What I have learned from these pose apocalyptic TV shows is this: if you have a junkie in your group, just take them aside and shoot them in the first 5 minutes. The strife they bring you is not worth the gritty emotional insight they bring to the situation.
But according to experts, there’s no reason the officers’ body cameras should not have been switched on when they approached Damond’s home.”The policy requires [Minneapolis police officers] to turn the camera on prior to use of force, and it goes on to say if it’s not turned on prior to force, it should be activated as soon as it is safe to do so,” said Teresa Nelson, interim executive director for the American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota.”So we have two officers who, after using deadly force — taking someone’s life — didn’t activate their cameras,” Nelson told NBC News. “That’s astounding to me.”
Source: Lack of Police Bodycam Video in Minneapolis Shooting Astounds Experts – NBC News
What is astounding to me is that Ms. Nelson is called an expert. I have no idea why the officer had his gun out, but after pulling the trigger and shooting somebody, his body and brain are going to be affected by a massive dump of adrenaline plus all the emotional baggage that comes with shooting anybody. To think that somebody (specially a rookie cop) can be calm enough to follow some protocol that probably was never practiced under pressure is asinine.
But then again is the ACLU which needs to raise shit in order to raise funds. This is how false narratives get started and then people get all pissy because the evidence does not end matching the Narrative they invested so heavily with their emotions.
What happens after a shooting in terms of emotions is wonderfully explained by Massad Ayoob in DVD # 7 of the Armed Citizens’ Legal Defense Network. The membership costs $135 a year and the 8 DVDs you get are worth double and triple that just by the info you are gonna get. And believe me, you will learn stuff and correct others you thought you knew.
On Saturday Night, Justine Damond, was shot and killed by a Minneapolis police officer who were responding to a 911 call.
Here are the details I managed to gather from the early reports.
This struck me as odd. The officer that shot had to have shot past his partner, right over his lap. That’s not an easy angle to pull off.
The second report I read of the indecent shows I was right.
He is believed to have been sitting in the passenger seat of a police car when he shot across his partner killing Ms Damond, local media has reported.
This reinforced my belief that this was an accidental discharge. The officer either was getting his gun out or was trying to re-holster it when he fired.
But then more details emerged. The officer’s body cameras were not on.
The officer who shot was “inexperienced” with two years under his belt.
The inexperienced officer joined the Minneapolis Police Department a little over two yeas ago.
Lastly, and here is where things turn ugly. The officer who shot was named Mohamed Noor and was publicly celebrated for being one of nine Somali-American police officers in Minneapolis. This is the largest Somali community in America.
Minneapolis is also one of the most Liberal cities in America (ranked No. 6).
Here is what I believe. Noor was a massively unqualified affirmative action hire. Someone felt that the MPD needed some more Somali officers for public relations.
His lack of qualifications is evident in that fact that he was called “inexperienced” with two years of service. He was also riding with another officer. I don’t know how the MPD works, but you rarely see two officers in a patrol car together outside of training.
I believe that the body cams were off because the officers didn’t want to capture on video just how much of a walking fuck-up the mayor’s celebrated “golden boy” was in real life. Noor jumped the gun, literally, almost shot his partner, and killed woman because he never should have had a gun in the first place.
Maybe I am wrong, and a bit prejudiced. There are just too many coincidences here for me.
I have a feeling as this story gains more national attention, reports are going to come out from anonymous officers as to just how bad Noor was and how his passage through the police academy and field training was the result of PC politics and not any level of competency.
Or I could be wrong.
