Suit alleges Minneapolis cops planted gun by man they killedI'm trying to square that with Sgt. Garcia's (!) "good tactics and excellent officer survival skills," but I don't speak that much "Only One-ese"...
Fong Lee's family claims police had recovered the same gun in a burglary years before. [More]
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Somebody please remind me again of how it's just a few bad apples, that most are honest. Please, I think I'm losing my faith in that bullshit.
ReplyDeleteDusk. A masked man emerges from the shadows. Leaping from the fire escape in the alley, he somersaults twice before alighting in front of the startled patrolman. A lightning flick of the wrist, a flash of steel in the moonlight, and the officer is on the ground, clutching his forehead. As his comrades, alerted by his screams, approach the scene they behold a gruesome sight. Slashed with surgical precision on the downed man's brow, dripping blood, is a simple scarlet letter: Z.
ReplyDeleteI should have made that three simple scarlet letters: III.
ReplyDeleteCops planting a throw-down gun is more common than the "authorities" are willing to admit.
ReplyDeleteMinne-rotten-apolis.
ReplyDeleteDon't the Twin Cities of Minnesota abhor guns and want them out? And don't their cops show up in these pages regularly for some gross misconduct?
Defender, yes, they do. In the cities and in the capitol. But I used to have some in-laws from Minnesota. They weren't city folks. They weren't easy to intimidate. Nor did their friends buy into the "fairy" beliefs of the city dwellers.
ReplyDeleteTwo of my favorite people have now passed on, but those hard-headed Norwegian/Swede sonsofbitches didn't then,, and wouldn't now bend to the will of anybody who would deny their rights. PERIOD!
My ex-father-in-law, a remarkably nice and pleasant man, once told the local game warden that if he really thought he should confiscate the more than 100 year old stuffed owl on his mantle, because of some "stupid shit thought up in Washington" that would save the ecology, he had better come prepared for a gunfight. His son was a State Trooper, his son's wife was a deputy sheriff, it made no difference. Floyd knew what was right and he defended it.
Old age and ill health got him. I still miss him. Though I am thankful every day that his daughter is out of my life, and has been for more than three decades.
Something i told the English which they neglected to publish is this; "There are times when one does not obey. Grown-ups know when those times are."
Floyd knew. Rest easy (FAST EDDIE) Floyd Berg.