{"id":1026,"date":"2007-07-09T05:52:42","date_gmt":"2007-07-09T11:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/index.php\/2007\/07\/09\/shots-fired-walls-stoned\/"},"modified":"2012-04-12T06:28:08","modified_gmt":"2012-04-12T11:28:08","slug":"shots-fired-walls-stoned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1026","title":{"rendered":"Shots Fired, Walls Stoned"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been writing about the Martin Treptow case for about a month now.<\/p>\n

The case – in which a citizen with a carry permit shot a police officer who was alleged to have been undercover at the time – has been a strange one to watch.\u00a0 Treptow was never charged with any crime; his permit wasn’t suspected (normal, pro-forma, after a citizen shooting – and shooting a cop is anything but pro-forma).\u00a0<\/p>\n

And then there’s the dilatory release of official details on the case.\u00a0 Dilatory to the point of illegal.<\/p>\n

Joel Rosenberg has a long, detailed post summing up the case<\/a>…so far.\u00a0<\/p>\n

You need to read the whole thing.\u00a0<\/p>\n

From Joel’s “conclusion” (because this is nowhere close to over):<\/p>\n

Mrs. Treptow told Anoka County 911 that; it’s in the transcript, in black and white.\u00a0 Let’s be clear:\u00a0 within seconds of the shooting, the Treptows have called 911, explained the situation, in detail — and notice how cool-headed both of them appear to behave, despite the fear and shock that comes through even on the transcript.\u00a0 The entire Treptow family — husband, wife, and two small children —\u00a0 quickly proceed to a safe place to wait for the arrival of the police.<\/p>\n

“We’ve got kids in the car.\u00a0 I got a five month old and a, a six year old.”\u00a0 <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But even though Mrs. Treptow has been very explicit that she and her husband have their two small children with them — and this is just horrible — the Anoka County authorities dispatch numerous armed men to arrest Martin Treptow at gunpoint, without informing those armed men that Mr. and Mrs. Treptow have their two small children in the car.
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“We’ve got kids in the car.\u00a0 I got a five month old and a, a six year old.”\u00a0 <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There’s a basic rule of gun safety:\u00a0 know your backstop.<\/u>\u00a0 In this case, the cops’ backstop included two small, frightened children . . . and Anoka Communications, which had known from the beginning —
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“We’ve got kids in the car.\u00a0 I got a five month old and a, a six year old.”\u00a0 <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

— that the cops’ backstop included two small, terrified children . . .
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“We’ve got kids in the car.\u00a0 I got a five month old and a, a six year old.”\u00a0 <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

… didn’t even mention that.\u00a0<\/p>\n

There’s lots I’m still wondering about, in all this.\u00a0 I wonder who that phone call was from toward the end of the Anoka Comm Center tape, the one that was important enough for the incident commander to drop everything to take.\u00a0 I wonder what’s been happening with the investigation of Officer Friendly, and why, a month after this incident, there’s been no arrest made in this case and no report on why.\u00a0 I wonder why the local papers and tv stations haven’t been all over this, and I wonder what there is in the State Patrol stuff that we haven’t seen, and in the investigators’ notes that we’ll never see.<\/p>\n

But why all the stonewalling?<\/p>\n

No, I don’t wonder why that happened.\u00a0 Not anymore, I don’t.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Go and read the whole thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been writing about the Martin Treptow case for about a month now. The case – in which a citizen with a carry permit shot a police officer who was alleged to have been undercover at the time – has been a strange one to watch.\u00a0 Treptow was never charged with any crime; his permit […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[216],"class_list":["post-1026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-victim-disarmament","tag-treptow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27405,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026\/revisions\/27405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}