The Keystone Cops with Military Hardware
BY Herschel Smith1 year, 9 months ago
This is just a terrible catalog of goofy, dangerous and unnecessary foibles in a very short amount of time committed by the best and brightest America has to offer. The list is culled from many examples I have and is not even nearly comprehensive.
First up, cops in Colorado handcuffed a woman, put her in the back seat of a squad car, and then chatted with each other about the woman. The problem is that they parked their car on railroad tracks. Yes, seriously, railroad tracks. The car was hit by a train shortly thereafter. Here is video.
The most serious, necessary, and fundamentally requisite thing you’ll ever do as a worker in a manufacturing plant, power plant, construction zone, or working with lifting and rigging, scaffold building, or basically for anyone who can be held liable for injuries or cited by OSHA, is work safely. Safety training is so important that it interrupts work activities, even critical ones. You’re never late with safety training – ask me how I know. You don’t climb stairs in a plant environment without holding both rails, or else if someone sees you, you might lose your job. You never climb above a few feet off the ground without lanyards and harnesses.
It gets even more serious if it has to do with basic radiation safety, the annual retraining and testing taking a day to complete before you’re allowed in an RCZ. If anyone ever sees you knowingly violating those protocols, security is called, you’re ushered off the premises, and management will collect your stuff and send it to you at home. You’ve lost your job.
Those cops didn’t even think about safety. Not the safety of the woman in the car, nor even their own safety. Safety comes first, in everyone you do, in every activity in which you engage. I’m left wondering if those cops would even have been able to pass basic safety training or recall what they learned while in the field.
Next up, here is a report from the great northeast.
BUFFALO, N.Y. — Buffalo Police tell 2 On Your Side an Internal Affairs investigation is underway after an officer’s rifle fell off a roof and onto a sidewalk during the St. Patrick’s Day Parade on Sunday.
“This is something that doesn’t happen, can’t happen, nor I’ve never heard of this happening,” said Joseph Gramaglia, Buffalo Police commissioner.
Pictures shared with WGRZ by Andrew Mavrogeorgis show the officer positioned on top of the building at 560 Delaware Avenue at Allen Street in downtown Buffalo. The rifle is perched on the edge, on top of a stand, a short distance from the officer.
Gramaglia told 2 On Your Side that the officer was acting in an overwatch position, a security measure that offers the department a vantage point during mass gatherings. He said an ongoing investigation by the department indicated that a heavy wind gust caused the rifle to fall from its perch and off the edge of the building.
He does not believe the officer mishandled the firearm.
“It’s not that it was physically being handled, it wasn’t dropped,” Gramaglia said.
It was mishandled, but it wasn’t. It dropped, but it wasn’t dropped. But it gets better and the excuses start.
“These weapons are not something like a handgun or something where you could just pick it up and the average person would know how to utilize it,” said Jeff Rinaldo, retired Buffalo Police captain.
No, of course not. No one knows how to use a rifle. But the best is coming up.
“It’s not the days of old when I was on patrol and we had officers out. You’ve got to have highly trained tactical officers now in these in these situations.”
This “highly trained tactical officer” who didn’t mishandle his rifle which wasn’t dropped, mishandled and dropped his rifle. If you did that in the Marine Corps you would have spent some time in the “room of pain.” At least that would have happened ten years ago. As for now, it’s anyone’s guess.
Up next, they don’t know the law. They never seem to know the law. This video from one of my favorite lawyers (except for Stephen Stamboulieh) who explains the whole silly affair.
Next up in this parade of the obscene, Uvalde police are making excuses, the real one being that they are cowards. “He has a battle rifle!” Despite John 15:13, they just gave up and let someone else do the hard work, and even prevented fathers from going in to get the little ones. What they’re doing now is figuring into the gun controllers’ calculus.
The cowards in the Uvalde Police Department that allowed a shooter to rampage inside a school for an hour before responding decided to peddle liberal gun control talking points to excuse their spinelessness.
Uvalde Police Department Sgt. Donald Page told investigators that they knew the weapon that the shooter had “was definitely an AR” and, therefore, “There was no way of going in. … We had no choice but to wait and try to get something that had better coverage where we could actually stand up to him.” One officer called it a “battle rifle.” The Texas Tribune, of course, ate this up, declaring that “The AR-15 was designed to efficiently kill humans.”
The Uvalde cops are weaponizing anti AR-15 sentiments to excuse their appalling incompetence and cowardice and people are eating it up. You're giving these people a pass because of their political utility to you. https://t.co/5POZBKj9WC
— Noam Blum (@neontaster) March 22, 2023
But remember boys and girls, they are the best, brightest and bravest America has to offer.
The reality is different as I’ve observed so many times before. You’re never in more danger than when the police are around. Get away from them as quickly as humanly possible.
And never, ever believe the myth that they’re there to protect you or your loved ones.
It’s like the Keystone cops, but with military hardware. Remember, with a simple signature of a police captain, they can go purchase machine guns and train them on you or your family … after busting down doors in wrong home raids.
Basically, this has unfortunately become the picture of cops in America.
GM 🌞
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