Red Flag Laws Don’t Apply To LEOs
BY Herschel Smith
5 years ago
He shoved her to the ground, kneed her in the back and handcuffed her so she couldn’t take their baby and leave, she told police. When she tried to get away, she said, he grabbed her hair and pushed her face into the door frame.
Police photographed her swollen right eye for evidence.
But his actions that summer night in 2007 — and the domestic abuse, false imprisonment and battery charges that followed — didn’t cost Vidal “Dustin” Contreras his job.
The Kern County Sheriff’s Deputy was allowed to plead no contest to a single, far-less serious charge: disturbing another person “by loud and unreasonable noise.” Not only did Contreras keep his badge, he went on to be a human-trafficking detective with a troubling record of investigating cases involving vulnerable women.
You see, it’s because their real concern has nothing to do with violence against women or anyone else. It has to do with maintaining that monopoly of force, thus ensuring that those who are sworn to keep the elitists in power still have their weapons, while you don’t.
On November 11, 2019 at 9:39 am, Heywood said:
“It has to do with maintaining that monopoly of force, thus ensuring that those who are sworn to keep the elitists in power still have their weapons, while you don’t.”
*slow. clap*
On November 11, 2019 at 11:30 am, Frank Clarke said:
I grew up in Brooklyn in an age when being able to improvise a firearm was considered “a life skill”. And it’s kind of like riding a bicycle: it doesn’t take long to reacquire the skill even after years of non-use. Certainly, others had mastered the art, and certainly, this talent was not confined to Brooklyn.
You can’t stop the signal. That genie is already out of its bottle.
On November 12, 2019 at 12:01 am, Papa said:
Monopoly of force.
That’s what it boils down to.
On November 12, 2019 at 3:44 pm, Jack Crabb said:
Magic blue costumes, indeed.
NWA was right all those years ago.