a) For you Generation Kill watchers, the Capt. speech about not retreating under fire sounds just like Godfather’s speech after they almost called in a close fire mission.

b) Why are these guys such terrible shots? I’m thankfully no one in the house was injured, but c’mon. The homeowner hits his targets and these cowboys just shoot up the house and kill the sofa?

c) Does it really take 7 months to figure out you need to do some “policework” to collaborate the stories of criminal informants?

I stumbled onto your blog and read a few post. I like your style of writing.

Well, there is that check that they’re going to — sooner or later — write to the Khang family. If they do the honorable thing and recognize his brave defense of his family against unknown home invaders (which they were, up until the moment that the 911 operator explained to his wife that the home invaders were the police, at which point he put down his gun), that check will have more zeroes on it.

Which, of course, I’ll have to help pay for; I live in Minneapolis, and we taxpayers get to foot the bill for MPD misbehavior. Yay, us.

If anyone has a good reason why we shouldn’t view law enforcement as an occupying standing army I’d like to hear it.

Ditto, Dave. But then again, who said I was normal? ;)

Living in a military town in the South is . . . interesting . . . to say the least. It’s like: America! Fuck yeah! in most places you go. Kind of scary. Oh well, at least I’m not paying out of my ass for everything like I was in California . . . yet.

Khang was also in harm’s way and shot at and shot. But Khang actually went beyond the actions of the officers. Unlike the officers:

1. Khang had no special training (so far as I know).

2. Khang had no time to prepare for the raid.

3. Khang was where he was supposed to be (unlike the officers).

4. Khang had no back-up. He was on his own.

The City Council can pass an honorary resolution recognizing Khang’s efforts to protect his family. What argument would they now have for failing to do so?

h/t: Radley Balko…

It was in the Rants And Raves section of Huntsville Craigslist. The specific post where I got the quote came from here:

http://huntsville.craigslist.org/rnr/756780557.html

There are some other posts on the subject before and after and it gets confusing as to what is what because it is not truly threaded. CL R&R is not to be taken seriously, I know, but I was posting something there (if you want to laugh perhaps check my post To the old man with the cane that lapped me – you may find it amusing) and saw a bunch of stuff about corrupt cops and the like and, well, my curiosity was piqued. I had to have a gander. And was promptly disgusted by a lot of what I found, mostly the attitudes and out and out racism. I don’t follow local news as much as I should so I have never heard of anything they are talking about with regard to the jails, either.

Please stop bringing up these kinds of things, it only upsets the police officers, and as we can see, they aren’t too bright, are armed and face no down side to shooting you.

Does the Minneapolis police department have a room numbered 101?

Maybe not, but the Feds have Guantanamo, and Syria, and Egypt, etc. And the Telecoms are immune to criminally spying on you, and the commercial airlines are pitching in with transport. And Due Process has become the-president-says-so. We’re kind of far along to turn back the clock on this stuff peacefully.