“These individuals that wrote these letters surely weren’t with him at 10:30 at night in a crack house with a large amount of firearms and drugs,” Gilbert said.

Ok, where the fuck are these LARGE amounts of drugs that they seized? hmm?

And what the fuck does being somewhere at 10:30 at night have to do with anything? I forgot black adults were supposed to have a curfew.

13 People wrote letters in support of Foster including 5 Buckeye teammates and former NBA ( and OSU Basketball) Jim Jackson. The principal of a high school in my town and charities also wrote supporting letters.

This is what the FOP guy said to the camera

” The 13 people who wrote letters obviously weren’t there when he was hanging out at a crackhouse shooting police officers.”

The reason the judge gave was the seriousness of the case. It also turns out that he will have another bail opportunity next week, when a grand jury meets to officially indict him. According to the story, the indictment is expected.

Or maybe the grand jury will have some guts. . . . Nah.

“I think any person that has a firearm and is willing to shoot at any person is a dangerous person unless that person is a cop,” Garrison said.

There fixed it for Garrison. Frankly, I think the guy is a completely disingenuous jerk, exactly the wrong person to hand special powers too along with a gun.

In recent years, 10TV has joined officers on similar raids throughout the city.

Which is why 10TV wont be asking any tough questions. Don’t want to mess up the cozy relationship that gets them their ratings.

It’s why people never can understand the ACLU and KKK representation. If you want the rights to apply to you, they have to apply to everyone or you can quickly find yourself as an “undesirable” or “not considered deserving” etc.

I’m getting tired of waiting for these guys to raid a senators house so this era can finally be over with…..le sigh.

Former Ohio State football player + Columbus, OH = “he’s one of the good ones”.

Another big questions I have about this story is why is it relevant to the story that he played football in college? Every article I have seen about this mentions that irrelevant fact.

I feel much safer having it handy in case of a break in. (It has happened to the apartment below me – in the middle of the day. I was home and unarmed at the time. Luckily the guy was satisfied with what he got in that one stop and didn’t go to another apartment.) If it happens to my place – and I really don’t hope so- I will shoot first and verify the intentions after.

If police insist on performing “no-knock/no announce” raids like these, it’s a no-brainer that there is going to be some officers getting shot. What kind of policy is this? With the amount of armed citizens, it’s going to happen more and more.

Hopefully someone with sense changes this idiotic policy and decides the loss of life is not worth it.

Besides, the bad guy is the one who was arrested. Everybody knows that.

And I’m sorry, if some unidentified assailant shoots at you through a door, you have all the moral justification you need to shoot back.

Anyone even trying to break into your house is a threat and justifies whatever means necessary to stop it. I will not wait until the intruder sucessfully makes it into my home to then politely inquire if they’re a criminal or a cop, or a criminal pretending to be a cop, or a criminal who is also a cop.

And you know, maybe if there are so many people who don’t know these are cops, you’d think the freakin’ cops would be a LOT more punctilious about making sure the whole damn neighborhood knew they said they were cops.

Something drives them to invade with impunity. This is a big part of why armed citizens are so dangerous to agents of the state (when they engage in these types of activities), and why they prefer unarmed subjects instead.

As an armed (for now) citizen (for now) I’m able to protect my family well at the expense of armed invaders. Increasingly those invaders are our public servants.

And I’m sorry, if some unidentified assailant shoots at you through a door, you have all the moral justification you need to shoot back.

And you know, maybe if there are so many people who don’t know these are cops, you’d think the freakin’ cops would be a LOT more punctilious about making sure the whole damn neighborhood knew they said they were cops.

By the way, theCitizenNothing above is different from this Citizen Nothing, who usually posts at Hit & Run. But I don’t disagree too much with the sentiments expressed.

I haven’t been over to H&R in a while, sorry for confusing the name. I started using it when a ‘roided-up goon at copswritingcops called me out for being just a citizen nothing, not an elite LEO with post-human abilities and judgement (and 2yrs of college).