Armed robbery in Mooresville over the weekend 4 guys shot and robbed their pot dealer while he was selling out of an air bnb.
Just saying pot can lead to violence as well.
Yes, because prohibition makes it lucrative on the black market. Just like alcohol lead to violence and the rise of the Mafia.
The no-knock warrant claimed that Fricke had sold marijuana to a confidential informant on February 1. One sale for $20, one for $40.
Killed over $60 worth of pieces of a plant....sad, very sad. Bet the "dealer" had no clue if it was cops or thugs during the split second decision to protect himself.
And some fools around here don’t think they’ll kill you over guns. The same tired excuses that are trudged out for the drug war will be the same tired excuses trudged out to justify the “war on guns.”
What is just blowing my mind is this was over some marijuana. At least from what I've read there was no history of violence, other major illegal activities, or even a large ammount of marijuana.
$60 worth of weed is pretty much a half ounce of DIRTY mexi weed or 2 to 3 GRAMS of some quality buds with a silly name like "here comes autism" or "where did I park my car".
Either way based off of what I've read the crime wasn't anywhere near the justification of getting suited up like they're about to take down an IED manufacturer. But, anything to make the officers feel like bad asses and they're doing some good I guess. Knock and talks have been conducted very successfully.
But I guess officers want an excuse to kit up in their plate carrier, cool guy helmet equipped with NODs, AR and go kick a door, employ a flashbang and scream at people.
Nothing blows my mind about policy enforcers anymore. Gone are the days of the Peace Officer, the guy you run to for help, or ask for directions in an unfamiliar town. Power over others, insulated from the consequences of abusing that power, leads to self-righteous corruption.
These are the people who lock up a history professor for an 18th century flintlock pistol cuz muh law sayz, or a single mother of 3 driving through a craptastic State with her completely legally owned pistol, flashbangs kids in their beds then blames the kid, or shoots the kid in the head and blames the grandmother, or gets caught on camera shooting a guy in the back and planting evidence on the body, or on their own body cameras planting drugs at a location to justify a search, or forgetting to turn off a pedestrians cell phone camera and recording themselves conspiring to charge him with something to teach him a lesson, or pulling over women on the side of 77 and raping them, or making challenge coins for a cop with his 4th justified homicide, or extrajudicially taking more money and property from the People they claim to serve than burglars did over the same time period.
It’s an institutional and systematic abuse of authority and power, wrapped in the idea that they’re doing it to protect you from you, that they’re the lone good guys standing against a specter of evil no one else can see, and that any action they take to do it is righteous and moral.
But to argue that maybe something is wrong, that the litany of cases in which abuse of authority or outright disregard for the well-being of the Public at large makes you anti-Cop, makes you a troll, or “everybody knows what you were going to say.”
It’s a pathetic cop out, and not the position any Freedom loving people would willingly place themselves.
In any other instance, without the costume and tin shield, the headline would read:
Milwaukee Homeowner kills intruder in early morning home invasion