Gas station clerk in Canton Ohio engages three armed robbers:
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Kills two, is wounded but is expected to recover.
Gang youths try to rob a group of Milwaukeeans.
Law-abiding Milwaukee citizen with carry permits shoot back.
He fatally shot one of the robbers, a 15-year-old known gang member who was already the victim of another non-fatal shooting on August 1.
The teen had previously been charged with armed robbery, auto theft, theft, and fleeing.
Innocent babes in the woods mowed down in the prime of life, unjustly?
Well, mowed down in the prime of life, sure. The rest of it?
Police have arrested another two 14-year-old males, a 16-year-old male, a 17-year-old female, and an 18-year-old male.
Police say this particular group is responsible for multiple armed robberies that have recently hit Milwaukee. Police say the group may be responsible for “dozens” of robberies over just the past three days.
“This is criminals that are running around the city creating opportunities for them to rob people all over and this was just the timing,” Alderman Jose Perez said. “This has nothing to do with the district or the neighborhood.”
Deaths are rarely a good thing.
But better the bad actors than the good ones. Sorry to say.
Hard to believe it’s been twenty years since Guy Harvey Baker – a Gulf War Marine veteran with, clearly, mental illness issues – killed officers Ron Ryan, Tim Jones, and a police dog named Laser.
The PiPress has a fairly good retrospective of the events – with one crucial omission:
Ryan, 26, was checking on a man — Guy Harvey Baker — who was sleeping in a car in a parking lot at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in the Dayton’s Bluff neighborhood about 7 a.
He picked up a .38-caliber revolver from his lap and shot Ryan.
Scores of officers joined the search for Ryan’s killer. Jones had the day off, but he came in to help.
Laser picked up Baker’s trail about 10 a.m. on Conway Street, not far from Johnson Parkway.
Mara Gottfried’s story is excellent. But she leaves out how the police actually found Baker’s “trail” on Conway later that morning – and, in a way, the story of a man who is both the story’s unsung hero and third (human) victim.
Lyle Granlund – 48 years old, at the time – was having breakfast with his kids on the upper level of a three-plex he owned across from the parking lot. One of his sons yelled that there’d been a shooting. Granlund grabbed a handgun and loaded three rounds – all he could grab at the moment – and went to his window. He saw officer Ryan on the ground, and saw Baker driving toward another woman, standing in the doorway of a nearby apartment building, apparently getting ready to rub out the only known witness to the shooting.
Granlund – an expert marksman – pondered taking out Baker. But he held up, worried that the Ramsey County attorney, the infamously anti-gun Tom Foley, would prosecute him. So he opted to fire two shots through Baker’s back window, shattering it and leaving the rounds (intentionally) in Baker’s dashboard, to hopefully scare Baker off and mark the car for the police. He saved his third round, in case Baker decided to come for him. But no – Baker accelerated away from the scene of the Ryan shooting…
…and it was by the shattered window that the SPPD found Baker’s trail, a couple hours later, nearby on Conway Street.
I interviewed Granlund later that year, for the old Gun Owners Action League (a predecessor of GOCRA) newsletter. Granlund told me that while the SPPD remained officially mum about his contribution to that day’s search, more than one senior Saint Paul cop had come to his door in the following days, paying their respects to his effort to save their fellow officer. A lieutenant left him his SPPD tie pin – a gesture that Granlund, in our interview, still found deeply touching.
I wrote about Granlund again, almost ten years ago, in a piece that includes a lot of useful background and a link to a now-disappeared column by Ruben Rosario.
Granlund was right, of course; Foley did try to prosecute him. Their attempt to get him for “reckless discharge” foundered when the police lab found Granlund’s two rounds exactly where he said they’d be in Baker’s car. The Ramsey County Attorney’s office dropped its attempt to prosecute Granlund only when the SPPD told Foley he’d get no cooperation from the police. Someone listing himself as a retired SPPD cop tells the story in this thread.
Oh yeah – and Granlund was denied a Minnesota carry permit; the SPPD that (quietly) regarded him as a hero also didn’t think he had any reason to need one.
Gottfried picks up the story from 20 years ago today.
Baker heard the dog whining outside a fish house where he was hiding, saw Jones through the window and, through the side of the shack, shot the 36-year-old officer with the gun had stolen from Ryan. When Laser bit his leg, he shot the dog, too.
No prosecutor will ever issue an indictment, and no jury will ever hear the case – but in a very real if indirect way, Officer Jones was killed by official gun-control hysteria.
The tragedy didn’t end that day. When I spoke with Granlund, probably in September or October, he was clearly upset that he’d not been able to save Jones by killing Baker. It went much deeper than that; Granlund spent the next ten years depressed about the episode. He died in 2004 of a heart attack, at age 58, and is buried in the same cemetery as Officer Ryan.
The lesson? Let nobody tell you that an armed citizen can’t do immense good; one, and God only knows how many more, people are alive today because of Granlund’s action.
And let no weasel government official get away with terrorizing the law-abiding citizen without a fight – preferably ending with a prosecutor sent to the unemployment line at the polls.
The families of the slain officers are the main focus of Gottfried’s story, of course. I’ll urge prayers – or whatever your worldview does – for the families on what has to be a miserable anniversary.
Armed robber tries to stick up a store in North Minneapolis.
Minneapolis Police responded to a report of an armed robbery just before 9 a.m. at the Handy Stop on the 2600 block of West Broadway Avenue. When officers arrived, they learned an armed suspect entered the store and attempted to rob it at gunpoint.
Armed store owner had a dissenting opinion:
Police said at some point, the suspect and the store owner exchanged gun fire. Nobody was hit as a result of the gun fire, and there were no injuries in the incident. The suspect fled the scene before officers arrived and is still at-large.
There are few news stories in the world that make me happier than criminal scum leaving the premises, in cuffs, on a stretcher or, Heaven forfend, a gurney (let’s not call it “happy” in this case), or even at a dead run with soiled undies as a law-abiding citizen sweeps up shell casings behind him.
They’ve just got to set Michael Bloomberg spinning in the coffin he sleeps in.
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
Two shots, two hits. Nice shooting, especially as he was taking fire at the time.
This being Chicago, I’m amazed the citizen wasn’t arrested too.
The good guys won one, anyway.
Citizen in Alabama shoots, kills man who was herding customers in a dollar store into a back room at gunpoint.
It seems like a no-brainer, right? Man with a gun is herding innocent third parties into a back room like a bunch of cattle.
Well, in Alabama it is. Alabama has a “stand your ground” law, which says a law-abiding citizen has no “duty to retreat” when facing a lethal threat.
Minnesota, of course, has no such law. If the same episode happened in Minnesota, what would happen?
That would depend entirely on the vicissitudes of the county attorney. In Pennington County, the county attorney would likely buy the citizen a drink. In Dakota County, Jim Backstrom – who has a long history of lying about law-abiding citizens and their right to self defense – would likely find any excuse he could to file charges.
What does it say about our legal system when a persons’ freedom, life, liberty and exercise of their Constitutional rights is governed entirely by the whims, prejudices and bigotries of partisan hacks living in sinecures?
Detroit mom repels three armed daytime home invasion robbers.
Her weapon of choice? A “Hi-Point” carbine – a pistol-caliber semi-automatic rifle. It’s lighter, handier, and doesn’t have the overpenetration of a full rifle-caliber rifle (or intermediate-caliber “assault rifle”), but has better accuracy and, perhaps most importantly, that “I’ve got a F***ING MILITARY GRADE RIFLE, AS***LE!” vibe about it.
Open note to the Detroit cop at the end; yes, you’re gonna get ’em – but how about a shout-out to the woman who actually took three scumbags off the street?
In related news, Nicholas Johnson, author of Negroes and the Gun, willl be joining me tomorrow on the NARN.
Heather Martens (DFL 66A), on the line from fantasy-land: “There is no history of [a citizen with a legally-carried firearm] being a meaningful deterrent or being able to stop an attack”. (Star-Tribune, November 27, 2012).
Reality: Man with carry permit thwarts armed robbers who’d pistol-whipped shopkeeper in Northeast Minneapolis:
Inside his neighborhood market, Mohamed S. Ahmed was screaming for help after a pair of armed robbers had left him bleeding.
They’d pistol-whipped him, pointed the gun at his face – and they weren’t done yet:
Outside the northeast Minneapolis store, two men pounded on the window, trying to get back into the University Market after Ahmed managed to lock them out.
“They seemed really agitated, super agitated,” said Matt Dosser, who was walking by about 9:30 p.m. Tuesday. At first, “nothing made sense, then I saw the gun.”
Dosser, who has a permit to carry a gun, reached for his own weapon.
One of the robbers “turned around and looked at me,” Dosser recalled. “He stared at me. I had my weapon up. I didn’t point the gun at the person. I had it at the ready, out of the holster.
The robbers scampered away like the cowardly pieces of demi-human garbage they are.
On Wednesday, police spokesman John Elder called Dosser’s actions “a noble thing. He acted honorably. Did this person possibly save [Ahmed’s] life? Absolutely.”
Why does Representative Heather Martens hate Arab grocery store workers?
UPDATE – And More Reality!: Shelley Leeson sends another recent episode; an Uptown resident scares off a crowbar-wielding burglar.
Why does Heather Martens hate construction workers and fathers?
I almost missed this one in the scrum of this past few weeks.
A couple of weeks ago, when Representatives Paymar and Martens tried to jam down a ban on law-abiding citizens carrying their legally-permitted firearms in the Capitol complex, the Strib’s Abby Simons wrote the paper’s follow-up piece.
It ended with a quote from Representative Martens; like most of Martens’ statements, it reeks of crap from rhetorical stem to stern. But I’ll emphasize the part I want to focus on today:
Heather Martens, executive director [Ha ha ha! – Ed.] of Protect Minnesota, an organization geared toward ending gun violence [Ha ha ha! – Ed.] and an advocate for the ban, said the intimidation happens when a loaded firearm is worn openly, as it was earlier this year during a hearing.
“There is no history of someone like that being a meaningful deterrent or being able to stop an attack,” she said.
If you read this blog, you are smarter than that.
John Lott showed how “someone like that” – multiplied by millions – have deterred hundreds of thousands of crimes in shall-issue states, as compared with discretionary or non-issue states (back when there were more of both).
As to stopping those attacks? Well, we’ve been through this before. Here’s a partial list of attacks stopped by law-abiding, non-police, private citizens with legal firearms:
If Heather Martens – or any of her supporters and employees – are talking, the rule of thumb is “assume they’re lying”. Because they are.
This coming Saturday, Minnesota’s self-appointed gun-grabber elite are going to try to squeedge some more juice out of waving the bloody shirt of Newtown:
To Remember: A commemoration of the Sandy Hook school victims, and all victims of gun violence — 9:30 a.m. at Westminster Presbyterian Church, 1200 Marquette Ave., Minneapolis. To RSVP, click here. Space is limited. This event is co-sponsored by Moms Demand Action, Mayors Against Illegal Guns and Organizing for Action.
They’ll then attempt to hold a meeting to promote more laws that would have had no effect on Newtown, or any other real-world gun violence.
But there’s another anniversary this coming week; tomorrow, in fact. And it deserves a memorial – because unlike every single thing proposed by “Protect” MN, Moms Want Action and the Felon Mayors, it actually saved lives.
At around 3:25PM on December 11, 2012, Jacob Tyler Roberts walked into the Clackamas Town Center Mall in Portland Oregon. He was wearing a ski mask, and carrying a stolen AR-15-pattern rifle with five magazines, a total of 150 rounds. He donned the ski mask and carried the rifle openly; witnesses apparently thought it was a paintball outfit, and that the rifle was a toy. One woman reportedly told Roberts to take off the mask – it looked “Creepy”. Roberts didn’t respond.
He walked to atrium in the middle of the mall, and started shooting. He fired off his first magazine, killing two – Cindy Yuille, a 54 year old hospice nurse, and Steven Forsythe, a youth sports coach – and hitting15 year old Kristina Shevchenko in the chest (Shevchenko managed to walk out of the mall, and survived the incident).
Then, as Roberts turned a corner and reloaded, he ran into Nick Meli, a citizen with a .40 caliber Glock 22 and an Oregon carry permit. Meli drew – but didn’t shoot. According to some stories, Meli froze; in others, he saw that there were civilians in the background that would be in danger if he missed. Either is a fairly normal response under such conditions.
But Roberts ran away. He ducked into a JC Penney and ran into a storage corridor, where he pointed his rifle at Penneys employee Rok Sang Kim – but turned, ran down a stairwell, and shot himself.
Drawn by reports of a mass shooting, dozens of ambulances turned out – but only Shevchenko was treated for any injuries.
The Lesson: After the Columbine shooting – where a SWAT team waited outside the school for four hours before moving to engage the shooters – law enforcement went on a crash course of learning how to deal with mass shooters. The lesson learned? Don’t wait. Get in, get at the shooter.
It wasn’t about testosterone; examination of mass shooters showed that most of them are deeply narcissistic and intensely delusional. In almost every case, the shootings were planned to a fine sheen, like a military operation, if the military were run by delusional people.
And that while the plans were intricate, the shooters’ mental state meant that any serious hiccup to the plan would send them off the rails. And by “serious hiccup”, they meant “someone putting up meaningful resistance”.
And so cops changed their tactics; rather than wait for SWAT, cops are now trained to get in, find the shooter, and put some lead on the target. Because nothing disrupts a lunatic’s plan like having lead sailing past your head (to say nothing of through one’s chest).
But here’s the little secret; it doesn’t have to be a cop doing the resisting. History is full of examples of individual citizens putting up armed resistance to mass shooters, and ending the shootings:
And of course the the Clackamas Mall shooting.
Second-Guesses: There are those in the gun-grab movement who try to minimize, discount and ridicule the effect that an armed citizen can have in a mass shooting. Some scoff that Roberts, and the shooter in the Colorado Springs episode, had jammed guns – as if clearing a jam is anything unusual (especially in an AR15) much less time-consuming to fix.
But in both shootings, the jam was accompanied by a citizen facing the shooter down (and in Colorado Springs, seriously wounding him).
The underlying point – mass shooters tend to abandon their plans when they’re faced with active, armed, potentially lethal resistance – stands. Passive resistance – “lockdowns”, kevlar whiteboards – are better than nothing, provided the mass shooter allows them to be better than nothing.
Consequences, Intended And Otherwise: The Gun Control “Gun Safety” movement yaps a lot about “preventing gun violence” – while pushing policies that have never prevented and shall never prevent a single crime.
And yet a year ago tomorrow, Nick Meli likely saved more lived that all of Michael Bloomberg, the Joyce Foundation, and Rep. Heather Martens’ efforts likely ever will, ever, for all eternity.
And so for that, we should pay homage at 3:25PM tomorrow.
Two of the gun-grabbers’ favorite conceits:
Both lefty memes were, um, shot full of holes earlier this week:
The victim of an attempted robbery in St. Paul took action when one of the robbers pointed a gun at him, firing his own gun and wounding one of the robbers.
No, it’s not Mario Van Peebles gone terribly to seed. It’s Michael Galloway, alleged accomplice to robbery. Photo courtesy of the Saint Paul Pioneer Press.
One of the robbers [Marcel Lee Galloway] simultaneously fired in the direction of the victim, who was not hurt, according to a criminal complaint filed Tuesday.
Galloway was hit in the leg.
Yep – it was justified. And in John Choi’s Saint Paul, you gotta figure the County Attorney’s office did its darnedest to prove it wasn’t.
The article relates that two men – listed as “VT” and “TG” – got off work in downtown Minneapolis, where they work as bar bouncers. They drove to a check-casheria on University at Lexington, by the White Castle, around 3AM to cash their checks:
VT, who is 31, saw two males approaching them as he walked to the passenger side of the car and heard the sound of a gun racking a round. A man in a baseball cap, later identified as Galloway, pointed a gun at VT and told him not to move. VT told TG, who is 26, not to move because he feared they would be shot if they did.
The two scumbags lifted TG’s money. VT hid his wallet before they could get to him. The robbers frisked him, and found nothing – which has been known to make robbers upset. I add a bit of emphasis:
“VT was afraid that he and TG were going to be shot” and reached under the passenger seat to grab his SIG Sauer P250 .45-caliber handgun, which he has a permit to carry, the complaint said. “VT feared the two men didn’t believe him when he said he didn’t have any money, and he was afraid they might come back.”
A SIG/Sauer P250 in .45. Relatively inexpensive, reliable as the rising sun (like all SIG products), and – most importantly of all – at the scene.
The robbers crossed into a Dairy Queen parking lot and the man in the stocking cap raised his handgun and pointed it toward TG and VT.
VT then fired at the robbers, the complaint said, and the man in the stocking cap simultaneously fired once in VT’s direction. VT fired five times and his second shot struck Galloway.
The gunman ran off. The police caught Galloway.
A couple of bets to place, here:
Any action on that bet?
By the way – while it wasn’t a “homicide” (Calloway will live) this is yet another defensive gun use carried out by Minnesota’s 160,000-odd carry permit holders.
A woman with a carry permit breaks up a robbery at a Denny’s in Houston:
At around 4 a.m. Thursday, a man who does not want to be identified, said his brother was robbed by six men with guns at a Denny’s off the Gulf Freeway in southeast Houston.
“I don’t know if it was random or someone set him up. Because he got his own label,” said the victim’s brother.
His brother’s wife was in the restroom at the time, but when she exited the restroom she saw the group of suspected robbers. Police said that’s when she pulled out her gun and shot at them.
“She said she came out of the restroom and saw my brother on the floor. That’s when she started doing what she gotta do. She got a license and she’ll do anything to protect her kids and my brother,” he said.
Police said there was a shootout, but it is not known how many shots were fired at the time. However, police said the gunshots did hit cars in the parking lot.
No word of any charges filed against the woman; if there were, I suspect we’d have heard of it.
But Texas has a “Stand your Ground” law. Law-abiding citizens involved in otherwise legitimate self-defense shootings (i.e. in which they are not willing participants.
Us proles? We’re smarter.
Guns save the lives of real Americans.
Story first. Then a quiz:
It was an extremely scary situation when a female bank teller and her husband were kidnapped from their home and forced to drive to the bank where the wife worked to help the thieves steal money from a safe after hours.
According to KHOU, the couple was at home, when two armed men, who knew the wife was a bank teller, forced their way in and held the couple at gunpoint.
The suspects forced the couple into their own car, made them drive to the bank, and had the wife remove money from the safe.
Afterwards, the robbers told the husband to drive away – in a completely different direction. To the dreaded “Secondary Crime Scene”, where anyone with a brain knows your odds of survival are in the single digits.
At some point during that drive, the husband was able to gain access to his personal firearm, which was in the vehicle.
He opened fire on the suspects, hitting both of them. One of the suspects died of his injuries and the other is in serious condition.
The suspects are described as brothers, aged 20 and 21, who live in the community.
By the way, one of the self-defense questions I get most often is “is there a site that chronicles self-defense cases?” Clayton Cramer retired his excellent “Armed Self-Defense” site a few years ago – but the site posting this piece, Guns Save Lives, is stepping in to fill the void.
Now, the quiz. It’s aimed at all you leftybloggers out there who, in the absence of any knowledge or intellectual curiosity on the subject, labeled the “stand your ground” as “Shoot First” laws.
The gentleman in this storyshot first.
What do you think would have happend if he’d shot second?
Answers please.
Thugs case a pregnant woman’s house…::
It all happened in broad daylight on Monday afternoon. That’s when the first man walked up to her kitchen door and began pounding and ringing the doorbell. He was clearly checking to see if anyone was home.
The woman recalls, “He started ringing the doorbell, probably 50 times, fast — ding, ding, ding, ding!”
The woman, who is nine weeks pregnant, was feeling sick and was in her bed. Not expecting anyone to visit, she called her boyfriend and then phoned police.
Beat in mind – the men had ignored two dogs, including a pit bull. Getting a dog is the first thing most lefty hamsters suggest, rather than gunning up.
Anyway – dogs, locks and calling the cops didn’t work:
“About three minutes later, my dogs started barking again and I looked out the window and now there are two guys standing outside my home,” the woman recalled.
Within mere seconds, she heard the loud “bang” of the kitchen door being kicked open. With footsteps coming her way, she quietly stepped upstairs.
And what do you do when passive defense fails?
“So then I hustled up the stairs to grab our gun, and I came down and I loaded it and cocked it,” said the homeowner.
With a single pump of her 12-gauge shotgun, the would-be burglars bolted out the door and through the backyard.
“Yes, a shotgun racking is something you don’t forget if you’ve ever heard one. So, it frightened these two suspects off right away, they took off running,” said Coon Rapids Police Captain John Hattstrom.
Congratulations, law-abiding, armed and pregnant home-owner!
Make no mistake about it – killing a human being, even in self-defense, is a tragedy.
In the case of homicide justified in self-defense, it’s the second-worst tragedy there is.
The Hennepin County Attorney has h declined to prosecute Christopher Lamotte – a bouncer at Grumpy’s Bar, in Northeast Minneapolis – for the shooting of Tirso Gomez. Gomez allegedly attacked the bouncer with a knife after a closing-time altercation outside the bar:
Minneapolis police asked that no charges be filed, as investigators thought it was a justified killing. Prosecutors agreed, telling FOX 9’s Paul Blume on Friday it was “a valid claim of self defense.”
The Hennepin County attorney’s office said bouncers are not afforded any special privileges in their role as security enforcers at bars and clubs. The right to have a weapon on site is up to individual management and ownership. There was no sign on the door at Grumpy’s banning guns.
I wonder if a bouncer in Saint Paul could expect the same sort of justice.
Amid the scrum of personal and political news of this past week or so, I almost missed this one; the apparent self-defense shooting late Saturday night at a northeast Minneapolis bar involving a bouncer with a carry permit:
Tirso Cruz Gomez, 24, of Columbia Heights was found bleeding to death from a gunshot wound when police arrived at Grumpy’s Bar, 2200 NE. 4th St., shortly before 1 a.m.
Police have spoken to the bouncer, who was detained at the scene and later released. The investigation will be passed on to the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office, which determines whether charges will be filed.
Minneapolis Police Sgt. William Palmer said, “It does appear from our investigation that the bouncer was attempting to defend himself against an attack with a knife.”
The whole thing smells like booze, as it were – at least, on the part of Mr. Gomez:
It wasn’t clear why they were fighting. Gomez had apparently been at the bar earlier that evening before the confrontation, a witness said.
The bouncer has a legal permit to carry a pistol, police said, though they declined to make his name public.
According to witnesses, Mr. Gomez apparently left, and – against his mother’s wishes – came back to the bar, got into a scrap with the bouncer, and pulled a knife.
[The bouncer] tried to take the knife away from Gomez, and he required stitches for hand wounds, Palmer said.
The police – notwithstanding that the Minneapolis cops will generally “arrest the gun” in any sort of shooting incident where they can find a shooter – did not arrest the bouncer at the scene. However, the Hennepin County Attorney’s office – a famously anti-gun institution – still has the option to try to prosecute. And when anti-gun, DFL-linked organizations want to squash a legitimate shooter, they’ll find a way.
Remember – if the Henco Attorney wants to file charges, self-defense in Minnesota is considered an “affirmative defense”; in effect, the shooter, no matter how justified, admits “Yes, I shot the “victim”, but the shooting was justified” – and then takes on the burden of proving it was justified. And when you see the phrase “takes on the burden” in a legal context, what that means is “get ready to spend months in court and tens of thousands in legal bills”, because you are fighting the County.
As we’ve noted in this space in the past, there are four criteria for this affirmative defense: one must reasonably fear death or great bodily harm, must not be a willing participant in the squabble, must make a reasonable effort to disengage, and the lethal force must be reasonably appropriate. And when you see “Reasonable”, above, that means “would convince a jury”.
So let’s break it down:
Fear of Death or Great Bodily Harm: Dude. Knife. Done deal.
Lethal force is appropriate: Dude. Knife. Done deal.
Must make reasonable effort to avoid use of lethal force and must not be a willing participant: these two scare me – not because I believe the bouncer was wrong (given what I’ve seen – and the story seems to be pretty thoroughly reported), but because I can easily see a Henco Attorney, operating at the direction of a city administration that actively tries to discourage the law-abiding from defending themselves, telling a jury “bouncers get paid to fight with people! He should have run away!”, and “See? He tried to grab the knife! He was a macho guy who mixed it up, and then pulled a gun and shot when he got the worst of it!”. And I can see a jury, sitting in a nice, well-lit jury room with hours to make the decision, being inveighed to decide that the twerp attorney has a point.
This is why Minnesota law needs to be changed to allow the system to decline to charge obvious cases of self defense (if, indeed, that’s what this case is – and I will assume it is until I have reason to believe otherwise) – to remove the prosecutors’ discretion to prosecute the otherwise-impeccably-law-abiding purely to advance an administration’s political policies.
Will this story appear in the Strib?
A shooting occurred uring an armed robbery attempt in Excelsior overnight. It happened at the Lakeshore Market on Highway 7 shortly after 10:30 pm. Two men wearing masks entered the store and encountered a clerk with a gun. Police chief Brian Litsey says at least one of the robbers was shot and wounded.
Being Excelsior, there’s a decent chance that the shooter will not be considered the real criminal.
Still, chalk one up for the good guys.
Tuscon homeowner beats back four armed scumbagswho attack his home, apparently wounding one of them.
On the other hand, the first guy in the video is carrying an AR15. Good to see how all those “assault weapon bans” that made it so expensive to buy the cool firearms have been so effective in disarming criminals.
Homeowner kills intruder:
Gerald Whaley told police that he was home alone when he heard what sounded like several intruders breaking in through his garage about 11 p.m. Minutes later, he shot a burglar once with the .22-caliber rifle he kept loaded by his bed. The intruder stumbled downstairs and collapsed in the home on the 11700 block of Bittersweet Street.
Whaley, who had no phone, got dressed, climbed out onto a second-floor deck and went next door to call police. The intruder was dead when police found the youth, whose name wasn’t released Tuesday.
And then the Strib reporter dug up a Dostoyevskian biography on Mr. Whaley, detailing years of housing code citations – possibly germane to the shooting – and his battle with the Anoka-Hennepin School Board, which isn’t.
This is the same Strib that figured that reporting Alan Fine’s complete innocence of a charge in a 35 inch story reported on page A1 was being excessively thorough.
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