Both have been arrested for theft of a firearm, and the ex-felon was charged with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. If they get a decent lawyer, they just might beat those charges.
They didn’t steal the gun- it was left in a public bathroom.
There is no evidence that the convicted felon ever had possession of the handgun.
The state could argue that they knew it was a crime because they concealed the handgun when they walked out of the gas station, but a decent lawyer will claim that they concealed it because open carry is illegal in Florida.
The only crime that was committed here in my opinion, is that the Deputy left his firearm where anyone could reach it- with the barrel wedged into a toilet paper roll in the stall of a public bathroom. Those two are no more guilty of stealing that firearm than the deputy is in trafficking firearms.
I would not have been as calm about this stop as this guy was, especially when the cop grabbed me by the throat. The officer involved is Matthew Mercado of the Walnut Ridge, Arkansas police department.
When the man in the video, Adam Finley, went to the Walnut Ridge Police Department to complain, he was given citations for refusal to submit to arrest and obstructing governmental operations with the tickets being written by officer Matt Cook with the permission of Police Chief Chris Kirksey. After a trial on April 3, 2017, in Lawrence County District Court, Finley was acquitted of the charges.
Finley sued, and the city of Walnut Ridge settled out of court, paying him $57,500 in damages.
I used to be fairly backing of the cops. No longer. As far as I am concerned, the police are an out of control, armed, criminal gang of violent assholes who only use force when they know the subject of their bullying behavior can’t fight back.
My wife is an adjunct professor at a college. She teaches online classes in finance, economics, and an intro course in the Microsoft Office suite. The Microsoft class is a good one, because the state of Florida requires one semester of computer education in order to graduate, so there are a lot of students who take those classes.
The policies of the courses are set by the college. Every professor has the same policy- no late work is allowed, no cheating, etc. This is to make sure that the lessons are the same for everyone to ensure consistency.
The class covers a different program every few weeks: Office, Excel, Powerpoint, etc. The assignments go as follows: they are taught how to use the features of the program, then are given a file that they have to make edits to. The edits that they must make are spelled out, the student then makes those edits, saves the file, and turns it in to the professor. The file has a digital watermark to ensure that students aren’t merely sharing the file and turning in each other’s work. They have two weeks to complete the assignment- it’s due on Sunday night at midnight.
In her Microsoft class, she has 90 students. The first assignment was due at the end of the second week, consisting of making 25 edits to an Excel Spreadsheet. It’s an intro class, so the edits aren’t difficult. Still, this is what happened:
fully 24 of them didn’t turn in the first assignment, and instead sent her an email asking for more time. Because the spreadsheet is being edited in the school’s environment, she can see how they are progressing. 21 of the 24 students didn’t even begin to work on the assignment until the day it was due.
Five students didn’t turn in an assignment, nor did they bother to message her as to why. They didn’t even attempt to work on it.
Another 6 students were caught turning in assignments with other students’ watermarks.
Then there was the student who takes the cake- he sent her an email complaining that he got an A on the first week’s assignment (introduce yourself to the class by posting an intro to the class discussion page), but now has a 23% in the class because he didn’t do the assignment, but that’s not fair because he doesn’t even OWN a PC or a Mac, and it’s not fair to penalize him for being poor and not owning a computer. In an online class about computers, when there are computers free for students to use in the campus library. He complained that the assignments should be able to be completed on a cell phone.
Fully 40% of the students in her classes are failing because they didn’t even TRY to get the assignment done in the two weeks that was allotted for them to complete it.
So my cranky assed wife spent the day dealing with students’ emails about why they didn’t get their work done, and why they are failing her class. For those of you in the workforce- these people are going to be working with you any time now, and this is the work ethic you will be dealing with.
Ed and Brian Krassenstein were making money from Ponzi schemes and illegal porn sites. One of the web addresses that they owned was 17onlygirls (dot) com. They were domain name squatters who specialized in web addresses that promoted child porn and illegal Ponzi schemes. Ponzi fraud type sites were also a part of their business. They ran investment forums TalkGold and MoneyMakerGroup until the Department of Justice accused them of profiting from Ponzi scheme promoters through the sites. They owned tens of thousands of web domains, which they sold to the highest bidder while pretending not to know that the domains would be used for.
Screenshots of his messages from 2007 appear to show him negotiating over buying three addresses: TeenPies.com, TeenPie.com, and TeenPorn101.com.
There is no suggestion that the Krassensteins ran porn sites themselves. But by buying porn site domains, they stood to gain from selling or leasing those addresses.
They were being investigated by the FBI. A civil asset forfeiture was filed against them. Federal agents raided their homes and seized almost half a million dollars from the brothers in 2017, obtained from selling ads for Ponzi schemes on investment web forums that they ran. They entered a plea agreement to forfeit the some of the profits and avoid jail.
In exchange for returning some of the funds, the Krassenstein twins gave up nearly half a million dollars of the millions that they made on the Ponzi and porn site schemes that they were accused of, and the FBI agreed not to prosecute them. That was in August of 2017.
Just after that, the Krassensteins purchased a Twitter account that was being run as a Justin Bieber fan club, because the account had a follower account that was over half a million people strong. This allowed them maximum reach. Keep in mind that this was bought after the FBI let them keep money from the illicit gains of their Ponzi and porn site business. It certainly gives the impression that at least some of the funds for that purchase were gains from the business activities that the DOJ was investigating.
Then the Bieber account transitioned to become one of Trump’s largest critics on Twitter. Today, the accounts of those two fraudsters have almost 2 million followers and are major supporters of both Democrats and Harris, while being major critics of Trump.
So two guys who were admittedly involved in child porn sites and were alleged by the DOJ as being involved in Ponzi schemes, Fraud, and porn sites enter a plea agreement where they return a fraction of what they were alleged to have defrauded people out of, and the investigation is dropped. Then they use large sums of money to buy influence on social media and immediately begin targeting the President of the United States (Trump) as part of a coordinated a propaganda and disinformation campaign. Now they are shilling for Kamala Harris and the Democrats on social media.
Now that the facts are done, we get into my conclusions. This has all of the appearances of being an FBI (or other intel organization) funded and controlled operation.
I’ve been asking where the money to influence elections and favoring Democrats is coming from. My theory is that the sums of money are so large that it must be a nation state that is sponsoring the billions (perhaps tens of billions) of dollars that is being used to influence our elections. No individual has that kind of money to toss around without sure results.
The answer that most easily fits all of these facts is the most frightening of any possible one that I can come up with: I think that the nation state that is funding the rigging of US elections is none other than the US government itself. The money is being funneled from the US bureaucracy through the Ukraine, China, through criminal organizations, and through grants to NGOs to benefit the members of our elected officials, who in turn are giving large sums of money to the swamp. This is more frightening than thinking a foreign nation is interfering. A representative government that is interfering in its own elections is the most frightening of all scenarios.
This would explain why the left has so much money, how the riots and election shenanigans were so well coordinated, and how the Wuhan lab was being funded by Fauci to perform gain of function research is all explained when looked at through this lens. It explains why almost no one in the riots of 2020 faced jail time, while those who participated in J6 are rotting away even four years later, many without trials and only charged with trespassing or other minor crimes.
This is why Trump is their enemy. He swore to drain the swamp, without even realizing that he was up to his ass in alligators. This is also why I fear that the days of this blog are coming to an end. I am willing to argue with idiot leftists. I have no illusions of being able to stay active criticizing the American version of the KGB or the Stazi. I do not want to be vzyali.
Via Wirecutter. An intoxicated Sheriff shows up at the home of a man in a neighboring county, making threats and claiming to have used a police database to look the man’s record up. Here is a video of the encounter:
This is why you don’t answer the door. Tell him to fuck off, close the door, and don’t engage him.
Misusing police databases is a felony.
Then he says “I’m gonna get your ass another way.” That statement is now a lifetime get out of jail free card. If he is ever arrested for anything from spitting on the sidewalk to murder, all his defense attorney has to do is play this video.
Then the sheriff walks up to the man and punches him in the face. A Federal felony. (Deprivation of rights under color of authority)
Then he and his wife stood on the property making accusations while filming everything, even after being told to leave. That is trespassing, and if he has a police issued firearm with him, this is also a felony.
He drove there. That’s DUI.
He contacted the local prosecutor, who told him that he didn’t see any violations of the law in this video. This man doesn’t need to be calling and making complaints. He needs an attorney, and he needs one yesterday.
A couple won $3300 at the Indian casino in the Tampa area. I’ve gambled there a few times myself. They were followed home by a couple of the local Amish population. The robbers shot both of them before robbing them. The left always tells you that these robbers are just looking for money to feed their kids, and all you have to do is give them what they want. This case proves this to be untrue.
Why is there a screaming chick on every shooting video? What does shrieking do to help anyone?
Note that the bad guys just started shooting, without making demands first. How can you give them what they want, if they start shooting before saying a word?
Let’s check out the people who did the shooting:
Tristan Wright
Marcus Jenkins. He has a history of being a criminal loser in Hillsboro- multiple evictions, crimes, and even charges of aggravated battery, which was pled down to misdemeanor simple assault.
A third suspect, who was the getaway driver, is still being sought. The couple who were robbed?
Waving cash around and being ostentatious with gold chains and a large, expensive gold watch is just asking to get robbed. I know that society shouldn’t be that way, but the reality is that you can’t show off wealth, or criminals will be tempted.
So how can you avoid this happening to you?
White chick and black boyfriend robbed by black males. If you hang out with the most violent demographic in the nation, you will get caught up in violence. Don’t hang out with black people. They are the most violent, criminal demographic in the nation, making up 13% of the US population, but committing 56% of the homicides. If you hang out with them, you will likely get caught up in their culture of violence and crime.
Be armed when you go places. (Even though casinos are off limits in Florida for carry- have it in your car, or find another way)
Keep your eyes peeled for people who are following you. The investigators informed the couple that the suspects had been shadowing them for two hours, tracking them back to their home, yet the couple didn’t see the men following them.
California Senate committee advances a bill that would provide no money down/zero percent interest home purchase loans to illegal immigrants. The amount of the loan is for up to 20% of the home’s value, and is intended to permit the illegal to come up with the down payment for a traditional mortgage. The loan is to be repaid when the home is refinanced, sold, or transferred. If a family decides to hold on to a home, there are no provisions for repayment, potentially allowing the loan to not be paid back. Ever.
No add to this Harris’ proposal to hand out another $25k, and you see what’s going to happen in California. Illegals will be the only ones who can afford homes in California.
Those of you who read this blog know that I am not shy about posting and calling out the cops when they screw the pooch. Let’s look at this fatal shooting to see what happened. Youtube won’t let me embed the video, so I will wait here while you take a look.
He passed a cop on the highway at 105 miles per hour. In every state that I am aware of makes it an arrestable offence to exceed the speed limit by more than 30 miles per hour. Not only that, but the tags that were affixed to the Dodge truck were registered to a Subaru Forester. Both of these facts meant that the driver was getting put in handcuffs and probably going to jail.
What the deputy couldn’t have known at the time of the stop was the motorist he had stopped had just been exonerated after serving 16 years for a crime that he didn’t commit. That likely contributed to his actions that day on the side of the road, but again, the cop didn’t know any of this, nor does the exoneration have any bearing whatsoever on the shooting. All the cop knew was that the man was being belligerent, noncompliant, and was physically attacking him.
The family of the deceased man has hired Benjamin Crump (don’t they always?) and are suing the deputy and his department for unlawful and excessive force. This is the dream of black families- you have a family member that runs afoul of the law, fights with an armed person, then sue them to win the ghetto lottery.
Voice commands (that didn’t work- the reply was “I ain’t doing shit.”)
Open handed technique- the man grappled with the deputy
Less lethal- note that this is another case where a TASER didn’t work. He rode out the shock, then swept his arm to rid himself of the wires, then began to physically attack the officer.
Less Lethal 2- Now the ASP baton was brought into play, and the man became even more aggressive, grabbing the cop by the throat with enough force to bend him backwards while yelling, “Yeah, bitch.”
Lethal- having exhausted the rest of the force continuum, he shot the man.
Later in the video, you can see that the cop was so exhausted from the fight that he was likely going to be overpowered if it had continued.
“And when they want to use excess force there, you have other parts of the body. You can shoot, you don’t have to always kill somebody,” [the dead man’s mother] said.
This is an example of the “shoot to wound” versus “shoot to kill” myth. That was exhausted earlier in the force continuum when the open hand, TASER, and baton failed to control the attacker.
“I’m not going to jail,” Cure says at one point.
Well, he was right about that. He went to the morgue, instead.
I don’t have a problem with the officer’s actions in this incident.
More to the story on the cops who were ambushed in Eustis last week. The cops entered the house and split up. They obviously didn’t clear the rooms very well, because one of the occupants got behind one of the cops and shot him in the back. The other cop fled, and the arriving backup didn’t have the balls to go in and rescue their comrade.
When the wounded cop ran out of ammo, the occupants of the house simply walked up and shot him. When the dead cop’s phone rang, the occupants answered it to find out it was the dead man’s wife. They taunted her.
Local media is making a big deal out of the fact that the home had a stockpile of guns, ammunition, food, and bottled water, and lacked cell phones, regular phones, or a television. OK, a stockpile of guns, ammo, food, and water describes most of the households in Florida.
