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kenwhite.bsky.social • 50 days ago

Friendly fire is always tragic

https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/crime/article298247913.html

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I have so many questions….

1. Who was the good guy with the gun in this instance?
2. Will the GOP now be demanding we defund the police?
3. Should we be offering up “thoughts and prayers?”

thekennedykab.bsky.social•50 days ago

I see what you did there, Ken.

wonderkitten.bsky.social•49 days ago

Every time I scroll past this article I read it as pizza gate gunman finally shot

d-bozo.bsky.social•49 days ago

TBH it would seem to be somewhat correct. His law interactions have not gone well for him since '16.

alanwhite.bsky.social•49 days ago

Live by. Die by.

dajensen.bsky.social•49 days ago

"Friendly"

farmnerd.bsky.social•49 days ago

It's tragic that his village lost their idiot.

dragontat2.bsky.social•49 days ago

I’m fairly certain that they have more to replace him.

digginsdweller.bsky.social•50 days ago

Didn't your mother tell you not to play with guns?

gravelismylife.bsky.social•50 days ago

simplytoast.bsky.social•50 days ago

vickiecarey.bsky.social•50 days ago

With his previous convictions, how does this moron get his hands on any firearms?

jabberwockysr.bsky.social•50 days ago

I’ve seen them available at (rural) garage sales, I’m sure those guys weren’t doing background checks.

jordanfalk.bsky.social•50 days ago

Lol

thekasey.bsky.social•50 days ago

He was a real winner wasn’t he? Some people excel at math or chemistry he excelled at being a weapons crazy idiot. Well, he was someone’s child and I feel sad for her.

darryl-ramm.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy•50 days ago

@kenwhite.bsky.social

Or maybe in this case the police just doing their job, and making up for failure of the the courts. 🤷‍♂️

bottdott.bsky.social•50 days ago

✔️ No functional sights
✔️ Extended mag
✔️ No sling
✔️ Tacticool forward grip
✔️ Quad rail like it's 1997

Friendly fire was the only kind he was ever going to pull off anyway

robinbobcat.bsky.social•50 days ago

What, I ask you, is the point of quad rail when one isn't even using ONE rail? All that picatinny and not a single sight, laser, light, grenade launcher or armadillo tickler to be found.
"Look at me, I have the *potential* for many accessories!"

robinbobcat.bsky.social•50 days ago

Okay, yes, the grip is on there. But you don't need a rail for that, they make kits. Only need it on a rail if you're needing it adjusted easily, which I'm betting he's not letting other people use his gun...

dobeyearlobe.bsky.social•50 days ago

No lie: I initially misread this as “finally” instead of “fatally”.

dabneyl.bsky.social•50 days ago

I did too!

amaff.bsky.social•50 days ago

Well... Almost always.

88corbs.bsky.social•50 days ago

One more MAGA fuck who doesn’t get to enjoy the Trump years

saltymcseabird.bsky.social•49 days ago

PewPew John’s

stuadel.bsky.social•50 days ago

Bummer. See ya... Another 1 bites the dust.... Less then zero sympathy for this moron.

pokevelooke.bsky.social•49 days ago

Almost always. Sometimes it's a blessing.

weswie-114.bsky.social•50 days ago

bummer. or karma??

franklinsouze.bsky.social•50 days ago

I'm so sorry

deblavoy.bsky.social•50 days ago

Seems odd that he was still allowed to have guns.

wanderwomannc.bsky.social•50 days ago

#NorthCarolina

mathiasrust.bsky.social•49 days ago

That's most of the country. If memory serves, at least 30, 35+ states allow felons to get their rights to handgun ownership back even as a felon. It might be as much as 40+, but I studied this like 15 years ago so the details are fuzzy

thomasamiller.bsky.social•50 days ago

💯was think the same frame

unknownartizt.bsky.social•50 days ago

Fuck around and find out at work.

darksidestraxus.bsky.social•50 days ago

Oh don’t worry, the QAnon cult will blame his death on Antifa or Biden and corporate media will still try to get folks to sympathize with these fuckheads.

gammera2k.bsky.social•50 days ago

Don't you remember how all the cops became woke in 2020 after BLM stole all the police funding for the communist Democrats?

gammera2k.bsky.social•50 days ago

They can't even afford to fuel their second hand APCs anymore.

herrschmidt.bsky.social•50 days ago

Well, Caleb might be a Jewish name, so clearly it wasn't enough for them to nail our savior to the cross and poison our wells, nope, they also have to kill the last line of defense between our children and pizza places.

rowsby.bsky.social•50 days ago

MAGA's only LEARN about FAFO, if they survive their choices...

halfpastdead.bsky.social•50 days ago

The "self-investigate" dude has been stuck in my brain for almost a decade. This will take me some time to process.

Side note: The names of the officers are SO North Carolina.

jkfecke.bsky.social•50 days ago

This is why I follow you, Ken.

mech0t1.bsky.social•50 days ago

Glad to see you posting more here Jeff. Missed you when you left twitter.

tenementdown.bsky.social•50 days ago

Imagine the irony if he had been shot by a pizza delivery driver.

forrestnews.bsky.social•50 days ago

“Does this assault weapon make my p*nis look small? Or is it my beanie?”

kimbere2531.bsky.social•50 days ago

SMH.🤬

patteo.bsky.social•48 days ago

Well cosmic justice I suppose

wormsusa.bsky.social•50 days ago

A child with his toy.

ttuk.bsky.social•49 days ago

The most surprising part is the cops didn't shoot either of the other people in the car...or each other...or a dog.

unpersoned.bsky.social•49 days ago

Anyway . . . .

feralnietzsche.bsky.social•50 days ago

live by the sword...

momofcb.bsky.social•50 days ago

FAFO. Shocker

ypsidoodle.bsky.social•50 days ago

They saw him wearing all that black, and instinct kicked in.

thomasbanacek.bsky.social•50 days ago

Nope. It clearly states he was shit after refusing commands to drop the gun.

Obviously, if “instinct” had kicked in, he would have been shot sitting in the car, and the story would have been “cop said he thought he saw a gun”

robinbobcat.bsky.social•50 days ago

"The suspect was in the closet holding a gun and I saw the gun and it looked at me."

losgatos.bsky.social•50 days ago

Ouch

deepstatepotato.bsky.social•50 days ago

Shit Rittenhouse

umanoid.bsky.social•50 days ago

More karma in action.

angerybroad.bsky.social•49 days ago

professornobody.bsky.social•50 days ago

I'm not gonna shed any tears to be honest.

redstarandgrizz.bsky.social•50 days ago

Not this time.

e-edwardgrey.bsky.social•50 days ago

#ThoughtsAndPrayers

beatbakin.bsky.social•50 days ago

🤣 oh damn😂

dsanger.bsky.social•49 days ago

Who was he radicalized by?

jettlynnlato.bsky.social•49 days ago

Alex Jones maybe. He is who was responsible for elevating and spreading that nonsense.

socialmediahandle2.bsky.social•49 days ago

Stupidity seems to be the culprit most often.

emmreef.bsky.social•50 days ago

Nothing of value was lost

godsfavoritemick.bsky.social•50 days ago

How was buddy not in prison tho

vancemaverick.bsky.social•50 days ago

He “was sentenced to four years in prison in June 2017.”

bensargeant2.bsky.social•50 days ago

The better question is why the fuck he still had a gun

geekyboutiquey.bsky.social•50 days ago

Guns are very easy to get in the US.

bensargeant2.bsky.social•50 days ago

You're preaching to the choir but one would think the burden for a convicted felon would be a margin higher.

geekyboutiquey.bsky.social•50 days ago

There was a woman whose abuser was ordered not to have weapons under a DV law, but the law was never enforced and she was stalked by this guy with gun threats. Also, it is actually hard to enforce anything unless it's reported. More interesting info here: https://washingtonstatestandard.com/2023/07/04/why-many-judges-in-wa-wont-order-abusers-to-turn-in-guns/

pastarte.bsky.social•49 days ago

Not tragic, you point a gun at someone, they might just shoot back!!

patrickkeefe.bsky.social•50 days ago

Losing some of the smartest, least white trash among us. Tragic.

ccballou.bsky.social•50 days ago

Wondering if this was suicide by cop. After all, he would never live down the shame he must have felt over being so totally duped by QAnon.

geekyboutiquey.bsky.social•50 days ago

Can I have a hot take? I work w/ homeless people and it was insanely sad when they started latching onto conspiracy theories. As much as I hate the whole Pizzagate dude, knowing one individual who was obsessed with DARPA (when all his worries were actually just modern tech problems) made me sad.

thomasbanacek.bsky.social•50 days ago

But now he so t be able to find the REAL pizza parlor with the basement!

altiam.bsky.social•50 days ago

Understanding is key to preventing such tragedies.

clgood.bsky.social•50 days ago

Actually impressed if those officers did first issue a command to drop the gun. They should have opened fire immediately upon being muzzle swept.

gubbbo.bsky.social•50 days ago

Even for people I hate, there's no reason to believe anything police say without unaltered body cam evidence

thomasbanacek.bsky.social•50 days ago

Didn’t you see his pictures? There’s something about him that wasn’t immediately threatening to police.

clgood.bsky.social•50 days ago

How much experience have you had in law enforcement?

jabberwockysr.bsky.social•50 days ago

Doesn’t take much “being alive” experience to remember stories about white guys shooting at police and ending up being taken alive and unharmed.

dantheclamman.blog•50 days ago

Searching for that sex ring in the sky

osomatic.bsky.social•50 days ago

Oh, god DAMN... but that made me laugh

bwpaddler.bsky.social•50 days ago

Ken!

mrfurly43974976.bsky.social•50 days ago

Seriously, QAnon messed these guys up.

catladyresistance.bsky.social•50 days ago

BUH BYE

h-lehmann.bsky.social•50 days ago

Not a really bright boy, now was he.

dcgomez1.bsky.social•49 days ago

https://youtu.be/OgtQj8O92eI?feature=shared

thatac.bsky.social•50 days ago

I was just shocked they gave out the names of the involved officers... never see that unless they have really good footage to back it up.

supaterryrules.bsky.social•50 days ago

It’s a sad end for all these dum dums.

kmcorby.bsky.social•50 days ago

Live by the gun, die by it.

loyald-14613.bsky.social•50 days ago

Live by the gun, die by the gun.

QAnon will deny it?

azurefreedomsky.bsky.social•50 days ago

Why would you point a gun at a Cop of all people? Did the lead from the bullets fry his brain and make him dumber?

jabberwockysr.bsky.social•50 days ago

First question: Were the cops telling the truth about him pointing a gun at them? No quotes from the other people in the car, no “as shown in the bodycam video” comment in the article; this is still at the “here’s the version of events from the people who killed in ‘self-defense’” stage.

brian-the-fuzzy.bsky.social•50 days ago

....so, nothing of value was lost.

linuxrebel.org•50 days ago

rechan.bsky.social•50 days ago

Oooooh.

heptaglemious.bsky.social•50 days ago

Nobody could have predicted this.

dandidihollywood.bsky.social•50 days ago

He who lives by Domino's falls like Dominoes.

krudtuglen.bsky.social•50 days ago

With that kind of friends, you don't need enemies

pramsey342.bsky.social•50 days ago

Well not always

thechemist.bsky.social•50 days ago

You talking about this, aren’t you?

https://bsky.app/profile/nytimes.com/post/3lfelkpuavs2j

lovemypupper.bsky.social•50 days ago

I searched his name on Facebook and found his mom’s post about how he changed. Was a volunteer in Haiti

jabberwockysr.bsky.social•50 days ago

While also (according to police, which is obviously one of the lowest forms of proof) illegally possessing a firearm and on the run from a warrant for parole violations?

didabrown.bsky.social•50 days ago

I bet he was a big "Back the Blue" type too, right up until the point one of them pulled him over with open warrants.

gabrielmalor.bsky.social•50 days ago

KEN

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