This has been one of the last items that Governor Scott has done before going to DC.  Mr. Pollack has been very verbal and not relying on the traditional talking points in his criticism of the Broward School Board and the Broward’s Sheriffs Office. Doing so, he has gained many enemies within the Liberal community, including criticism that he is not qualified for the job. Of course this is the same people that think Fake Survivors David Hogg and Emma Gonzalez were God’s answer to Gun Violence and sent them in a tour.

But that is not the point I wanted to make. There is a reply that left me with my mouth agape in its sheer stupidity:

Here is a person, I presume a Gun Control advocate saying that she does not mind having unstable teachers with kids for several hours a day as long as they are not legally armed. Once again: she does not mind crazy teachers with kids inside a locked classroom.

So, if they are unstable, what is gonna stop them from bringing a gun to class? Or poison the kids? or play machete Jenga with their bodies?

I know people in Broward County and they are all not this profoundly stupid. But I guess there are enough of the Stupid kind to vote Democrat over and over.  That is why I see nothing being solved by the Parkland Shooting Report unless Governor-Elect DeSantis is willing to face a tsunami of bad press and even worse Social Media.

I have yet to see her doing or even acting in a professional or even serious manner.  I get the feeling she is treating this as a video game and thinking she just achieved a new level in the game and got an extra crate of goodies.  I don’t think it has dawned on her she is there to serve and that she may have to take a vote which can result in deaths or injuries to people.

Slow Motion Train Wreck.

Joe decides that he’s had enough of Tom’s body odor and fires an unjustified and murderous shot at Tom with the full intent of unlawfully killing him.  Joe, however, is a bad shot and misses Tom. Instead, the round hits and kills Harry, against whom Joe had no murderous intent.  Can Joe be charged with the intentional murder of Harry?

One might argue that Joe never had any intent to murder Harry (only to murder Tom), so he ought not be criminally liable for having intentionally murdered Harry.  The doctrine of transferred intent, however, holds that the murderous intent Joe possessed towards Tom has transferred to Harry, and so Joe can indeed by tried for the intentional murder of Harry.

This same doctrine of transferred intent also applies in a positive sense, however. That is, if  Joe had instead fired the shot at Tom in lawful self-defense, he had good (not bad) intent in firing that shot. If Joe misses and instead kills Harry, Joe’s good intent at firing the shot towards Tom is transferred to Harry, and thus Harry’s killing is lawful self-defense–even though Joe never intended to shoot Harry and Harry never presented any threat towards Joe.

Transferred Intent: Also, “Awful but Lawful”

I should be posting Andrew’s articles more often because they are quite illuminating and has no problem slaughtering sacred cows. In fact, bringing you the reality of the law and not what we wish the law would say and do is his specialty.

Don’t follow his articles at your own risk.

Video does not stop, it jumps to another story. My apologies, not my doing.

And the judge continued:

“The Klan doesn’t exist anymore,” he said. “Who doesn’t care about black lives now? I’ll let you answer that. I’m tired of black men killing black men. If I offended anyone … I can’t help it.”

Judge goes on tirade about black-on-black crime, saying it puts Klan to shame

The sad reality is that he is right: nobody will hear it. The cycle of death will continue unimpeded.

Sorry for the Facebook video. I could not find another version.

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McThag posted about this experience in the VA regarding a vitamin D deficiency. I chuckled because I had a similar experience with a former private doctor.

Doc: You have a low-level of vitamin D. I am going to give you a supplement.
Me: Cool, thanks.
Doc: I wonder why is it so low.
Me: 10 years working nights and I don’t do sunlight.
Doc: Well you should. A nice 30 minute walk every day will help you with that and to lose weight.
Me: You did read my medical history, right? Family history of  basal carcinoma, I already had it (I point at my nose) and fractured vertebrae? Or do you think I walk with a cane because it makes me look cool?
Doc: <mumbles something and changes subject. >

I have respect for good doctors, but zero when it comes to servile admiration for any doctor. It comes from having peeked many years behind the curtains and knowing how many times they actually wing it and fuck it up royally.

Reader CJ sent me this article. I remember reading about the accusation in a very light way back then, but I admit I did not mind much nor I followed up since we were buried in an avalanche of crap back then.  I guess we assumed Sheriff Israel allowed Deputy Peterson to retire so fast and fully benefited as a way to keep him quiet and cover up for the deadly and cowardly screw up. But this article points out in the direction that Peterson cashed a huge chip to avoid a lengthy wiping in the media and other places.

Some now think they have found the answer in a single incident that occurred in 2014. A police report shows that’s when Israel’s then-17-year-old son, Brett, was accused of participating in a sexual assault of a 14-year-old boy at Marjory Stoneman Douglas  High School.

The case was investigated by Scot Peterson — the armed deputy who took cover while children and staff were shot last February. Using the Obama-era guidelines, Peterson’s recommendation helped his boss’s son receive just a three-day suspension.

Fla.: The Sheriff, the Sheriff’s Son, and the ‘Coward of Broward’

And we are not talking about giving a wedgie to somebody:

According to the four-page report filed by Peterson, the victim, who was a freshman at the time, alleged that Israel, then the school’s starting quarterback, held him  down while another senior kicked him, grabbed his genitals and rammed a  baseball bat between his buttocks, simulating rape.

That is way beyond simple bullying even way back to my High School years. Maybe it was the Hispanic thing, but if you touched somebody’s ass, you better be ready to have some blood leakage out of your face.

People familiar with the case say Peterson could have referred Israel for felony charges, but reduced the crime to “simple  battery,” making him eligible for a leniency program requiring no arrest. “The school district’s disciplinary matrix requires no law  enforcement action required regarding the incident,” the deputy wrote.

BSO had history of manipulating crime reports to make it look like crime goes down and it is solved faster than with any other agency. That is how they convinced many towns in Broward to use them as their LEO agency. IIRC, this was published in the Miami Herald some years back I think when they were about to absorb Fire department responsibilities too.

“A child was sexually assaulted and Peterson reduced the charges to fit a matrix and report it as information. This allowed the  deputy to put it away and not do anything,” said Arreaza, who is suing both Israel and Peterson on behalf of Anthony Borges, a  Stoneman Douglas student who survived the massacre, despite being shot five times.

Arreaza said that the same lax disciplinary culture meant Cruz was never expelled or sent to the juvenile justice system despite committing  multiple offenses every year throughout middle and high school. Peterson was warned at least twice of the threat Cruz posed  as an active shooter,  but failed to investigate the matter. Peterson had an office on the Stoneman Douglas campus, where he’d been posted for nine years.

This matrix is still up and running in many school districts. You may have forgotten another case where an alleged angel mowed down by a furious redneck was not quite the angelic figure, but his crimes were toned down or “disappeared” in order to make the school look good: Trayvon Martin.

Let us not forget that Trayvon was going to school here in Miami-Dade but was sent up north to his dad because his mom could not control him.  But by looking at his school report, you would swear he was almost a teen version of an apostle.

I really do not expect changes, new governor or not. Unless there is a nice multi-million dollar retirement package ready for Israel,  he won’t be leaving. In fact there is a verbal faction demanding he be left alone because only the voters can remove him from office since he was elected and they would get their chance in 200. Kinda ironic because it is coming from the same people demanding the impeachment and removal from offices of President Trump.

Oh well.