After a 911 call, Austin PD received several calls about a shirtless man waving a black rifle while walking around the intersection where a crash took place: “Austin police shot a man who was waiving a rifle on a highway Friday, the Austin Police Department said. The man is in stable, but serious condition.” https://abcnews.go.com/US/austin-police-shoot-man-reportedly-waving-rifle-highway/story?id=81940506…
Category: Crime
Too Much for Twitter
This simple tweet was too much for the twits at Twitter to take: Full link. Of course I stand by the comment, because it’s right. And of course I will end up deleting the tweet because I’ll be banished otherwise. So be it. It’s their platform and if censorship is their thing, it’s nothing to…
Unhappy Thanksgiving in Texas
Thanksgiving is the wrong day on which to mark the murder of a Texas State Trooper, gunned down in his vehicle after stopping Darbrett Black, a repeat criminal offender. The public safety department said the trooper made a traffic stop about 3:45 p.m. on Interstate-45 in Freestone County. The trooper went up to the car,…
Choosing Sides
Today was a bad day to be a police officer – 2 New York City cops were murdered execution-style by career criminal Ismaaiyl Brinsley. Brinsley, who had shot his girlfriend hours before, committed suicide in a subway tunnel after the murders. From the article: Mayor de Blasio and Police Comissioner Bill Bratton addressed the media…
Gunman Dead at U. of Texas
A psycho gunman was loose on a college campus this A.M. and is believed to have committed suicide. A second armed perpetrator is alleged and the search is underway for this person. I’ve asked this question before, but what ever happened to the era of quiet desperation when the terminally insane simply shot themselves? What’s…
Peter Cantu Executed
Houston and the world at large are a better place following Tuesday’s execution of Peter Cantu, the 3rd gangbanger to be euthanized for the horrific north Houston gang rape and murder of Jennifer Ertman and Elizabeth Pena in 1993. Cantu was found to have exhorted the other ‘bangers to kill the girls after the sexual…
There’s Only 1 Way to End the Mexican Drug War
Almost 20,000 Mexican citizens have died in that country since President Felipe Calderon’s government declared war on the drug lords that even now seem to rule many parts of that country. Worse, that’s not likely to change says Ismael Zambada, a top member of Joaquin Guzman, Mexico’s most notorious drug lord: "Millions of people are…
This is Why the Death Penalty is a Good Idea
The Houston Chronicle’s Anita Hassan writes: A 4-year-old girl was shot to death in the parking lot of a north Houston apartment complex in an apparent carjacking Sunday afternoon, police said. Police are still investigating the killing at 1351 Greens Parkway. A suspect armed with a semiautomatic weapon approached the father, demanding the car keys,…
Things We Dare Not Do (and What That Says About Society)
Despite being married, 23-year-old Alyssa Branton was stalked for months by a much older man who recently shot her dead outside her office building after she refused his advances. Despite providing more than 70 pages of documentation detailing Roger Troy’s bizarre and unwanted behavior, Branton was denied the restraining order that might have saved her…
Justice System Fails, Cop Killer and Child Rapist Run Free
East of Houston, Baytown residents are looking over their shoulders tonight as a repeat rapist and child molester runs free, possibly in their town. Meanwhile, most of a continent away, Seattle residents are likewise afraid after 4 police officers were gunned down by Maurice Clemmons in a coffee shop in that city. Not a good…