Category: Dumbass Bullshit

QMC sends us a link to Fox News which tells the story of Adrianne D. Jennings, 40 and Francho S. Bradley, 59 who were arrested in Boston when they were found with a cache of weapons in a hotel room. Bradley claimed that he was on a secret government-sanctioned operation and refused to give police further details;

The report said the couple faces eight counts of possession of a large capacity firearm, three counts of possession of a silencer and other charges including possession of a firearm without a license and possession of a bump stock.

The two are being held without bail after being arraigned Monday in Lowell District Court in connection with a large seizure of weapons.
Twelve bump stocks were found in the hotel room of the Las Vegas massacre shooter. Lawmakers, including some Republicans are concerned about their capabilities but what are they?

Robert Normandin, who represented Bradley at the arraignment Monday, told the paper that his client is a veteran and the weapon accessories were “props” and not actually functional. Normandin reportedly said his client uses them as he conducts business.

I guess “large capacity firearms” are those types that can operate on “full semi-automatic”.

Bradley drove across the country from Texas to Boston with the weapons.

The Daily Caller reports that the lawsuit that Ahmed “Clock Boy” Mohamed’s lawsuit against the Irving, Texas Independent School District that his father filed in his name, was dismissed by U.S. District Judge Sam Lindsay earlier this week.

Mohamed’s device included batteries, a printed circuit board, wires, a transformer, a timing display panel, and an alarm bell. On the day of the incident, two teachers advised him to keep the mechanism hidden before he was summoned to the school principal. He was arrested but the charges against him were dropped in short order. The school district assessed a three-day suspension against him.

Last year, a judge dismissed a law suit against the Center for Security Policy and our friend Jim “Uncle Jimbo” Hanson filed by the teenager and his father for comments Hanson made about the “clock” looking like a bomb.

That’s the headline to the CNN article. While it’s mostly accurate, the “teacher” was actually a local reserve police officer and the mayor pro tem of Seaside City, California.

Anyway, he pointed his gun at the ceiling and had a negligent discharge. One student was struck in the area of his neck by a bullet or ceiling fragment (pictured above).

“I think a lot of questions on parents’ minds are, why a teacher would be pointing a loaded firearm at the ceiling in front of students,” Superintendent PK Diffenbaugh told CNN affiliate KSBW. “Clearly in this incident protocols were not followed.”

A lot of questions should be on the minds of the people who hired him to be police officer, too. Questions like “Why is this guy our mayor?” and “Who gave this guy a gun?”

Again, as always, it’s people who are the problem, not the guns. In the Army, we said that the nut behind the trigger needed an adjustment.

On NBC’s Meet the Press yesterday, according to Yahoo News, Chuck Todd asked Elizabeth “Pocahontas” Warren why she won’t take a DNA spit test to shut up her opponents, most importantly, President Trump who calls her Pocahontas at every chance because of Warren’s questionable claims to a native-American heritage. Warren responded;

Rather than address that question specifically, Warren told a story about how her mother and father, born and raised in Oklahoma, met as teenagers and fell head-over-heels in love. Her father’s family was bitterly opposed to their relationship, she said, because her mother was part Native American, but the couple eloped and persevered.

“That’s the story that my brothers and I all learned from our Mom and our Dad, from our grandparents and all of our aunts and uncles. It’s a part of me, and nobody is going to take that part of me away — not ever,” Warren said.

After hearing this story, Todd returned to his initial concern: Why not do genealogical research or take a DNA test to find out her actual heritage? What’s wrong with knowing whether her family’s story was the truth?

“I do know. I know who I am. And never used it for anything, never got any benefit out of it anywhere,” she said.

My follow up question would have been something about “how can they take anything from you?” You know, if a DNA test would prove her heritage. Unless, of course, she knows what the results would actually be – that she’s 100% full of crap. European crap. No one can take from her something she never had.

Bobo sends a link from KCRA which reports that Hasta Muerte Coffee, an employee-owned co-op in Oakland, California has refused service to police for the “physical and emotional safety of our customers and ourselves.”

Last Friday February 16th a police (OPD) entered our shop and was told by one of our worker-owners that “we have a policy of asking police to leave for the physical and emotional safety of our customers and ourselves.” Since then, cop supporters are trying to publicly shame us online with low reviews because this particular police visitor was Latino. He broadcasted to his network that he was “refused service” at a local business and now the rumblings are spreading.
We know in our experience working on campaigns against police brutality that we are not alone saying that police presence compromises our feeling of physical & emotional safety. There are those that do not share that sentiment – be it because they have a friend or relative who is a police, because they are white or have adopted the privileges whiteness affords, because they are home- or business- owning, or whatever the particular case may be. If they want to make claims about police being part of the community, or claims that race trumps the badge & gun when it comes to police, they must accept that the burden of proof for such a claim is on them. OPDs recent attempts to enlist officers of color and its short term touting of fewer officer involved shootings does not reverse or mend its history of corruption, mismanagement, and scandal, nor a legacy of blatant repression.

I sure hope that their name, “Hasta Muerte”, “Until Death” in English, isn’t prescient.

Fox News tells the story of a 14-year-old in San Bernardino County, California who was making traffic stops and conducting phony domestic abuse investigations around town dressed as a county deputy and driving his great-grandfather’s SUV;

Detectives determined in the course of their investigation that the boy interacted with at least two other people while impersonating a deputy.

“The suspect again activated the emergency lights mounted in the vehicle, causing a white male, approximately 16-years old, to come out of his house,” the sheriff’s office said. “The suspect again claimed to be investigating a domestic disturbance call. When he was told, there was no disturbance, the suspect left.”

On the same day, the teen also pulled a woman over and gave her a warning before letting her go, officials said.
Teen Cop 3

Items authorities found belonging to a 14-year-old who impersonated a police officer in Southern California. (San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Office )

Deputies later stopped the Ford Explorer and found the uniformed teen inside.

During a search of the 14-year-old’s home, detectives found the uniform worn during the incident, in addition to a large amount of counterfeit money, fake guns, ballistic vests and other law enforcement related items.

If only there were laws that made this stuff illegal so kids wouldn’t be tempted to do this stuff. Junior was on probation at the time of his arrest.