Crime

The student who let the school shooter in Dallas into the school through a door that allowed him to circumvent security should face charges as an accomplice.

Black dude died in the Bahamas after spitting at someone. The parents claim he was beaten to death. I don’t know why the parents are upset. The new rule is that you can stab someone in the chest if they touch you or your stuff.

Just another black on black homicide.

I slam cops when they are wrong, but let me flip to the other side and support them on this one. I was loosely involved with the events here. Be aware, the details are a bit disturbing.

Years ago, we had a teacher at the local school that was molesting a young child. This teacher was well liked, the students, his fellow staff, and the parents all loved him. The scores that his students received were at the top of the scale. I believe he was even teacher of the year a couple of times. No one suspected a thing.

I can’t remember for sure, but I think the victim who came forward was in Kindergarten or first grade. Like I said, this was years ago. Probably more like 20 years ago. This teacher would play a game with this young girl that he called the “finger game.” In this game, he would have her stand with her back to him and put her hands behind her back. The teacher would then put one or more fingers in her hand and she would have to tell him how many fingers were there. The game eventually changed, and it wasn’t fingers that he was putting in her hand. Yeah, disgusting shit.

The child told her parents, who reported the incident to the school. The principal investigated and decided that the accusation was unfounded. The accusations went away. Six months later, another parent came forward and was dismissed the same way, only this time the parent didn’t let it lie: they went to the police. The cops investigated and arrested the teacher. During the investigation, it was discovered that this teacher had molested more than half a dozen students over at least one school year. There may have been more victims, it’s impossible to know at that age. It also turned out that there were at least three school officials who knew about the accusations but didn’t take action because they didn’t find any evidence that they were true. The record in court painted a different story. I am including statements from one of the trials so you can read it for yourself, but I have made some slight edits to remove names.

The father told the Principal that he liked the teacher and did not want to get him in trouble, but the father wanted the game to stop. The Principal talked to two of the students, and they confirmed that this game had taken place after school while they were waiting to be picked up. One of the girls used the term “wiener” in describing the game, and one said she heard a sound like a zipper during the game. After interviewing these two students, at approximately 2:00 p.m. that day, the Principal called the Human Resources (“HR”) Department and told the Director of HR that he had received a complaint from a parent about the teacher that involved a game being played after dismissal that the father thought seemed unconventional.

Instead of notifying law enforcement, the school district’s HR department decided to investigate for themselves. They investigated for a week before finally calling the police.

The police went to the school, arrested the principal and a few other school staff members. You see, teachers are mandatory reporters- they are required to report all suspected child abuse to law enforcement and/or children and family services. It isn’t the job of school officials to investigate crimes- they are required to report them.

The press at the time was busy reporting about how the teachers were being unfairly accused of sex crimes by an overzealous police department that was out of control.

The principal was even more popular than was the teacher, and a large group of parents and teachers went to the next meeting of the local government, demanding that the charges be dropped and the police involved be fired for daring to arrest this principal, teacher, and other school staff members. The school district superintendent released a statement saying that he was fully supporting the school officials, and that they wouldn’t be fired. 

The teacher was charged with multiple counts of child abuse and of lewd and lascivious molestation of children under the age of 12. He reached a plea deal and pled guilty to one count of child abuse. He received a sentence of 8 days in jail, with credit of 8 days for time served, 5 years of probation during which he could not work with children, and a fine of less than $400. His teaching license was revoked. Pretty light penalty, I would say.

The school staff all had their charges dropped. They sued the city and the police officers involved. The case was settled. I can’t find a record for what happened to the teacher. He seemingly vanished. I am guessing that he changed his name. Of the school staff members, one wound up as a groundskeeper, one died a couple of years later, and the third now works for Publix supermarkets.

I sometimes wonder how those children are coping. They are now in their late 20s and some likely have school aged children of their own.

A plumber is called out for a clogged drain. The plumber clears it and charges $235. Three days later, the clog returned. Since it was a weekend, the plumber charged $390. The restaurant questioned the plumber about the quality of his work.

The next day, the plumber returned and clogged the pipe with an inflatable plug and sent them a message that they had an hour to pay him or he was going on vacation and they would be screwed until he got back.

That isn’t how business is done. You don’t get to enter my property uninvited to sabotage my business over a billing dispute. The cops, useless as usual, claimed it was a civil matter and refused to get involved.

At that point, i would have gone outside and beat me some plumber ass. If vandalizing my plumbing is a civil matter and not a crime that the police will do anything about, then you have to do a self help solution.

My advice to the restaurant is get a new plumber.

A study of records shows that CCW holders stopped 180 of 515 active shootings in the decade that ended in 2023. When the study excluded gunfree zones, it turns out that there were 350 active shooters, and private citizens stopped more than half of all active shootings, did so with fewer lost lives, and fewer bystanders hit.

In fact, in those 180 shootings, only one innocent was hit by the CCW holder, only two of the CCW holders was killed, and none of them were of any hinderance to law enforcement. In 44 of those shootings, the CCW holder was injured.

Compare that to the police. In the 156 active shooters stopped by law enforcement, police accidentally shot the wrong person 4 times, killing fellow officers twice and private citizens twice. That’s more than double the rate of private citizens accidentally shooting a bystander.

During the events, 27 police were shot and killed while trying to stop an active shooter, a 7.7 percent rate, which is nearly six times higher than the rate for private CCW holders.