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Showing posts with label Citizens. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Citizens. Show all posts

Saturday, January 28, 2023

On March 14, 1984, Gary Plauché waited at a wall phone for the man who molested and kidnapped his son. The suspect was found in California with his son, and the boy had been returned a few days before. And the suspect was being escorted to Baton Rouge by police pending trial. On live TV, as the man was walking through the airport, they passed a bank of pay phones. Mr. Plauché turned, aimed, fired (killed the suspect almost instantly, he got off easy), and immediately surrounded to the police. 

The assistant district attorney who taught my police academy class criminal law had a phrase: "Some people just need killing!" He qualified. Sometimes justice is served outside of the justice system. So did this sack of shit. 

Well, looks like someone has also handled a matter where the justice system failed. 

Teen Who Got Lenient Sentence For Plowing Car Into Mother And Baby Is Fatally Shot After Release

Palmdale, CA – A California teen who was sentenced to just a few months in a juvenile probation camp for mowing down a mother with a stolen car as she was walking with her eight-month-old son in a stroller in 2021 was found shot to death last week.

Sources close to the investigation said that 17-year-old Kristopher Baca had gone to a fast-food restaurant on Jan. 18 in an attempt to “get with a girl,” according to FOX News.

He was walking home alone in the 83600-block of 11th Street East when a vehicle pulled up alongside him, according to the source.

An argument ensued and someone inside the car ultimately opened fire on Baca before speeding away, FOX News reported.

Los Angeles County deputies found him dead at the scene.

You can only speculate if given time he would have gotten his life together or not. But I think it's safe to say he wasn't headed to being the valedictorian of his high school, followed by Harvard and Yale medical school. Why am I so sure:

Baca was already on probation for poisoning a high school girl’s drink when the then-15-year-old slammed into a woman and her child on a one-way backstreet in Venice on Aug. 6, 2021, FOX News reported.

He was behind the wheel of a stolen car at the time.

Security footage showed the young mother trying to push herself and her child up against a wall as the speeding car came barreling towards them.

She turned her body towards the car at the last minute in a futile apparent attempt to protect her son, but the force of the impact threw her into the air and violently toppled the stroller.

The woman immediately scrambled to her feet and rushed to her baby as Baca sped off down the road, the video showed.

Several witnesses chased after the fleeing teen, who was ultimately stopped when the driver of a large pickup truck slammed into him head-on.

Thankfully some real public servants stopped the waste of sperm and took him into custody for the cops. A man driving a truck hit the stolen car to stop him. Hopefully the civilians severely detained him for the police. 

Seeing this is Los Angeles, he of course was given a slap on the wrist by the DA's office, and sentenced to juvenile probation camp. Not exactly club fed, but close. 

I do feel sorry for his mother, see has to bury her son, a nightmare I would not wish on my worse enemy. That being said...mom, he didn't concern himself with his life or anyone else's. Perhaps if he did, you would not being dealing with this now. But I don't think many other people should weep for his passing. 

Sunday, May 10, 2015

Good news from the streets...

With the hood rats tearing up their cities, threatening cops and even celebrating when officers go down in the line of duty, it's good to hear some show of support for the cop on the beat.
Armed Citizen Stops Suspect’s Furious Assault on a Cop

On Wednesday, an armed citizen drew his gun and intervened to save an Oklahoma City police officer who gotten separated from his fellow officer during a foot chase and was allegedly being savagely beaten by a burglary suspect...

...According to News 9, Rookie Officer Adam Eller and field training officer Sgt. Michael Lambert” responded to a burglary call, then became separated while chasing suspect Jermaine Williams on foot.

Eller was able to corner Williams in a driveway, only to have Williams allegedly fight instead of comply with arrest orders. During the fight Williams “was able to take Eller’s police baton and then proceeded to strike him over the head somewhere between six and 12 times.”

As the fight continued an armed citizen approached the two with his gun drawn. He told the suspect he was going to shoot if he did not stop hitting the officer. Williams complied.

Williams was taken into custody and booked into jail. Officer Eller was rushed “to OU Medical Center with serious injuries, but was released on Wednesday and is expected to make a full recovery.”

The name of the citizen who intervened to save the officer has not been released.
Officer Williams, all of our wishes for a quick and full recovery, Oklahoma City needs you on the streets. And to the citizen who helped that cop, thank you even more. With YouTube showing people video taping cops in fights rather than helping, it's good to know we can count one someone like you.

Monday, December 3, 2012

CALLING ALL CARS! GENERAL BROADCAST 121203-001

How to handle this? I had just finished a detail (for all others, extra employment as security for a small store) and picked up a few things at the near by Wal-Mart. Well I had to go to a few placed before heading home and it’s better to be out of uniform because it can be a pain in the ass. I was standing by the open truck of the Hyundai, I’ve just taken my belt off, was taking off the shirt when I hear this annoying voice from behind “Officer!...Officer!...can you drive me around the parking lot so I can find my car?” Damned she sound like Mrs Kravitz from Bewitched.

How to handle this after being up on less than 6 hours sleep and just working 6 hours on my feet?

“No ma’am I cannot...I have to be somewhere is fifteen minutes.” Only a partial lie, but I did need to get going.

Now, serious question. Why is it a citizen is expecting an obviously off duty officer to simply be her concierge service? And I’m sorry but even if I was on duty my job is to not be your taxi. It’s to handle criminal acts, disturbances, etc. Forgive me if driving you around is not part of that.

Any ideas on this.