{"id":26448,"date":"2012-02-24T13:00:50","date_gmt":"2012-02-24T19:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=26448"},"modified":"2013-01-21T14:22:55","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T20:22:55","slug":"open-letter-to-chief-barney-fife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=26448","title":{"rendered":"Open Letter To Chief Barney Fife"},"content":{"rendered":"

To: \u00a0Chief Barney Fife<\/del>, Dwight Schrute<\/del>, Frank Burns<\/del>, David Kolb, Champlin Police Department
\nFrom: Mitch Berg, Mere Peasant.
\nRe: \u00a0Do They Only GIve You One Bullet?<\/p>\n

Chief Kolb – one of the Metro area DFL’s pet cops – had to say in testifying before the Senate’s bipartisan vote in favor of Tony Cornish’s “Stand Your Ground” bill<\/a> yesterday:<\/p>\n

“This bill provides a loophole for a defense of what I would call cold-blooded murder,” said Champlin Police Chief David Kolb of the Minnesota Chiefs of Police Association.<\/p>\n

Kolb recounted being 10 years old and sneaking onto a neighbor’s south Minneapolis property to steal apples from a tree.<\/p>\n

Based on the proposal, “now the property owner can use force, and even deadly force, against that 10-year-old apple thief,” Kolb said. “You can see the disconnect here with reality.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Indeed, Chief Kolb, we can. \u00a0The disconnect with reality is like a rhetorical taser to the groin..<\/p>\n

Would that 10 year old Davie Kolb have been a “Reasonable Threat of Death or Substantial Bodily Harm” to that property owner – where “Reasonable” means “a jury would buy it?” \u00a0If someone in Champlin shot a ten year old kid who was stealing apples, would the prosecution today hinge on the failure to retreat? \u00a0Or perhaps the fact that\u00a0the property owner was under no lethal threat whatsoever, and that lethal force was utterly unjustified<\/em>? \u00a0How, precisely, would that change with the passage of Cornish’s law?<\/p>\n

Would that 10 year old Kolb lad’s actions have justified, to that reasonable cop, prosecutor and juror, the use of lethal force, notwithstanding the exact location of the incident?<\/p>\n

If so, then why are you alive, not to mention a cop, today?<\/p>\n

If not, then I think the citizens of Champlin might wanna do a quick review of their chief of police’s investigative skills, knowledge of the law, and – given his apparent willingness to misrepresent the law when the metro DFL asks him to – his priorities..<\/p>\n

That is all.<\/p>\n

MBerg<\/p>\n

(Via regular commenterTerry<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To: \u00a0Chief Barney Fife, Dwight Schrute, Frank Burns, David Kolb, Champlin Police Department From: Mitch Berg, Mere Peasant. Re: \u00a0Do They Only GIve You One Bullet? Chief Kolb – one of the Metro area DFL’s pet cops – had to say in testifying before the Senate’s bipartisan vote in favor of Tony Cornish’s “Stand Your […]<\/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":[249],"class_list":["post-26448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-victim-disarmament","tag-open-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26448","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=26448"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26450,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26448\/revisions\/26450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}