The held him in Genesee County Jail, which is in Flint, Michigan, for three months on a Federal Hold. The only problem is that there was no such hold.
According to court documents, George E. Boyd was arrested on state charges in April 2022 and released on a $40,000 bond. But when a bail bondsman tried to post his bond on April 9, 2022, a jail deputy told the bondsman that Boyd had a federal hold and asked if he wanted to proceed, according to court documents. The bondsman retrieved the paperwork and Boyd remained in jail.
Documents add that there was no federal hold ever placed on Boyd. A U.S. Marshal Service representative later confirmed Boyd was not a federal prisoner and the agency had no hold on him.
Qualified Immunity is a legal construct invented by the courts that grants government officials immunity from prosecution or lawsuits for stuff they do on the job, unless the prosecutor or plaintiff shows that the official violated civil or constitutional rights, or went outside the bounds of their responsibilities. So when the SWAT team tears up your house looking for someone not there, you cannot sue.
So was this incompetence or malice? Could be both I guess. I honestly don't know, so I've labeled it as cops behaving both badly (malice) and stupidly (incompetence).
The jailers claimed Qualified Immunity. "You can't sue me; I was only doing my job." The court threw that out. So he can now sue them. Whether he wins is another question.
Hat tip to Steve Lehto. That is a 12 minute video, that I'm not sure I can recommend.
The incident happened at Bulle Rock, a high-end residential community built around a golf course. Havre de Grace police say a number of suspects entered the neighborhood to steal vehicles.
Remind me again, how do gated communities work?
Havre de Grace, Maryland is about a 35 mile drive northeast of Baltimore. It is located on the mouth of the Susquehanna River, where that river pours into the Chesapeake Bay.
They stole a "Dodge Charger-type vehicle." Was it a Charger, or a Challenger, or something else? They were attempting to steal a RAM pickup.
The owner of the pickup truck was still awake at 2 a.m. Saturday when his alarm system sent him a notification. After spotting the suspects on his security cameras, he ran outside to confront them.
They left, but they fired shots at the truck owner, his house, and several vehilces while they were leaving.
"The individuals were clearly prepared to conduct some sort of criminal activity," [Major Joseph Alton of the Havre de Grace Police Department] said. "Clearly bold in regard to they were willing to shoot at somebody over a vehicle theft. Again, not the average guy is willing to take a shot at another person over a vehicle theft."
I would say Major Alton hasn't been paying attention to reality in quite some time. Maybe the crime in Havre de Grace is sedate, but crime in blue cities is out of control, and people will shoot you over next-to-nothing.
So he kept his truck, and didn't get shot. That 2nd part was mostly a matter of luck. Luck is not a strategy, not when the downside is being shot, having someone in your house, or a neighbor's house, shot. Your righteous indignation doesn't make you bulletproof.
You can't make this shit up, because if you did, people would say it was too ridiculous to be true.
It was bad enough he was throwing his weight around over nothing. Then he decided to use a Taser on someone pumping gas. You don't have to guess what happened.
But don't worry, the department in question is investigating itself. Police investigating themselves never shovel the shit under the rug, do they?
It is against policy to do that if the subject is near flammable or explosive items.
A spokesman said, "I'm sure that at worst he is going to get sent in for more training." Since then, Coyle has reported nightmares and says now he gets the shakes whenever he has to stop for gas, remembering being set on fire. There is also, of course, the nerve damage. He does plan to pursue legal action.
Even if he sues, and even if he wins, based on the violation of policy, and the violation of common sense, it won't cost the officer in question anything. It will cost the taxpayers. As the spokesman said, nothing will happen to the cop. Nothing. He should be charged with attempted murder. The video is a bit under 8 minutes long.
Trinidad, Texas, is about a 70 mile drive southeast of Dallas. It had a population of 860 as measured by the 2020 census.
There is plenty of cooruption in big cities, like Chicago, and the police departments in places like that can get caught up in it as well. But small town America is not immune, and the Good-ole Boy Network can often make them think that the rules are whatever they want them to be.
Their troubles started when Jennifer Combs was using F*c*book to collect reports/complaints about the water in Trinidad. Police arrested her and charged her with a felony. That was back in May.
When we first introduced you to Jennifer Combs, the facts already sounded hard to believe. The Texas mom said police arrested her after she used Facebook to collect complaints about discolored water in Trinidad.
Combs spent 23 hours in jail on a felony false alarm or report charge. A Henderson County grand jury later declined to indict her. She has since filed a federal lawsuit alleging political retaliation.
While she was in jail, a man protested outside of the jail. He was arrested. A judge dismissed those charges, and the city fired the judge. The grand jury and the judges dismissal, were in July (I think).
It was about at this time that the city apparently fired the city attorney.
Both the firing of the judge and the attorney are legally suspect, as well as morally insane. The speculation is that the attorney told the city commission that they couldn't fire the judge, so they fired him as well.
Three Trinidad city officials resigned [in mid July] and the Texas Rangers have launched an investigation after an area resident filed a complaint with the law enforcement agency amid concerns about discolored water coming from the rural Texas town’s pipes.
Today's letter reveals that the Trinidad Police Department is under investigation by the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement; the scope of the investigation remains unclear.
Speculation, mine and others, is that the arrest of Combs, and the arrest of the protestor basically come down to cops saying, "You have disrespected my authority."
In the meantime, a judge has questioned information given to him by Trinidad officers in relation to an arrest warrant, the chief of police has resigned, a few other city officials have resigned, and the Henderson County, District Attorney has cut the PD off at the knees.
On Monday, the Henderson County District Attorney's Office and County Attorney's office informed Trinidad that it will no longer take cases from the Trinidad Police Department.
The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has been investigating the city's water supply. On Monday, TCEQ released their findings.
TCEQ's report found discolored water in Trinidad that "exceeded the standard."
Tests of the water found disinfectant contamination that exceeded federal maximums by more than 300%.
There are more details at all of those articles. Now this all mostly blew up a month ago, around 21 July, the letter from the DA is about a week or 10 days old. As mentioned, Combs was arrested in May. I only tripped across all of this because of insomnia, and a YouTube video.
This video is from Brandon Grable, ad Texas Civil Rights Attorney who runs the YouTube channel Clearly Established. Prosecutor Cuts off Trinidad Police Department. The video is a bit over 13 minutes. It covers all of this, and more.
This incident took place in April of last year, but the investigation has been dragging on, and the police have been not releasing the video because of the ongoing investigation. They finally closed the case, because the video apparently shows the officer being an idiot.
The cop was shot by the brother of the guy he was chasing.
The suspect had run out of frame. Also out of view was the suspect’s brother, Ivan Watson, who was a passenger in a car nearby.
So if you saw an armed man chasing your brother, what would you do? No cop car lights and sirens, no uniform, no badge, no screaming, "I'm a cop." What would you do?
The shreriff said, "We're gonna get this young man." Since then his department has refused to release the video
Oh, yeah, there is video. Video the cops didn't want released to the public.
Lafond [the officer] denied firing his weapon in a written statement obtained from the sheriff’s office by Atlanta News First Investigates. APD investigators determined otherwise.
A dozen .40-caliber shell casings were found close to the spot where Watson told investigators he had fired his Glock Model 26 handgun. A single 9-millimeter shell casing was found on the sidewalk next to Lafond’s car.
“Video evidence shows Sheriff Officer Evans [SIC] Lafond not identifying himself as a police officer to Mr. Watson before firing his weapon,” investigators concluded when closing he case in May of last year.
The video was obtained not through Freedom of Information Act request, but because it was released by a source at the sheriff's department. It is worth repeating; it was not officially released.
So he didn't identify himself, he openned fire, and got shot. Then he identified himself. Then he wrote a report saying he did not discharge his firearm.
Is this cops acting badly, or cops acting stupidly? He didn't ID himself. The Sheriff said he was going to "get this guy" before considering the evidence, and they didn't want the public to see the actual video. The officer in question submitted a statement/report that didn't match the video.
If he had been shot in the head, instead of the leg, would it make a difference? Considering that he was unlucky enough to get hit - the guy fired a dozen times and only hit him once - I think he's lucky he didn't get shot in the head or the heart.
In the end, they decided that the guy who shot the non-identifying cop, was acting in defense of his brother and went away.
If you don't know the "only ones" reference, well, a good search engine, not Google, is your friend.
Newly released dashcam video shows a Pasadena police officer getting shot by a fellow officer in what the police chief described as a "horseplay" incident.
That seems to fall far outside the recognized definition of "horseplay." And the narrative indicates there are TWO morons here who shouldn't be trusted anywhere near firearms, let alone carrying them as part of their jobs.
You don't draw a loaded weapon and point it at someone or something you aren't willing to shoot in the defense of yourself or others - LEAST OF ALL at a fellow officer.
So the idiots were being stupid. Their bosses, who didn't immediately fire them, are not doing the right thing.
I really did try to ignore this story. Stupid people being stupid is not news, but here we are.
Nowak, an 18-year-old white British teenager, was killed last December by Vickrum Digwa, a Sikh man who falsely claimed he had been racially abused before the attack.
He may have survived had officers not handcuffed him while he lay bleeding from stab wounds inflicted with by Digwa’s Sikh ceremonial sword.
So there was a protest outside the police station in question.
The “Justice for Henry Nowak” demonstration began outside Southampton Central Police Station.
Crowds waved Union flags and held signs reading “Henry’s blood is on your hands,” “Save our kids,” and “Prison 4 police on scene.”
Click thru for X posts, video, and the reaction of the powers-that-be.
I’ll bet you know the name George Floyd. He couldn’t breathe.
I’ll bet you don’t know the name Henry Nowak. He couldn’t breathe either.
Henry Nowak was a white, 18-year-old university student in England. His was stabbed. The guy who did the stabbing claimed Nowak was being "racist," so the cops handcuffed him, and when he told them he had been stabbed, the cops said, "I don't think so." He died in handcuffs, while cops accused him of being racist. I think the cops might be projecting their anti-white racism.
Prosecutor Nicholas Lobbenberg KC said Digwa "was carrying an extremely large knife in a sheath openly displayed over his clothing" which he used to stab the first-year Southampton University accountancy and finance student. [Ref. Sky News]
He denies the video evidence.
There are a lot of stories on this incident. Not too many were in the "legitimate media," until the publicity blew up around the trial, because The Narrative must be protected. There are a lot of accusations of two-tiered policing. The cops believed the statement "He was being racist" and didn't believe the statement "I've been stabbed." You figure it out.
A Brit who was stabbed with an 8-inch blade was cuffed by cops and allowed to bleed out and die while the stabber told police that the white guy was being racist.
Click thru for photos, details, and links to even more details.
The backstory: The officer in question, Jason Valenzuela, was involved in a shooting that killed Christian Diaz on Jan. 26, 2026. Diaz had disarmed an intruder at his home near 75th Avenue and Lower Buckeye Road.
He basically showed up, shouted, and opened fire in a handful of seconds.
I have covered cops not knowing how to read a map. I have covered cops lying. This is perhaps the stupidest thing I have seen cops do. Perhaps.
Before the sun came up, Cathy George heard a loud pounding at her door. When she answered with her small, frightened dog in her arms, she found a heavily armed SWAT team of U.S. Marshals and DeKalb County sheriff’s deputies. After officers pulled her into the hallway and surged into her home, it became clear that they were searching for a man named Joshua Smiley.
But Smiley had been in jail for months, and the raid on Cathy’s home was both a terrible mistake and a violation of the U.S. Constitution and Georgia laws.
This doesn't even cover the fact that Cathy George had lived in her apartment for 3 or 4 years, and had never heard of Joshua Smiley.
So how did cops screw up so badly? All they will say is that they "made a mistake."
And as stupid as this is, the record for the most useless SWAT team in America is still held by our friends from Uvalde, Texas. (Don't they look snazzy in their outfits?)
The Secret Service continues to make headlines, though not always for the right reasons. In 2024, the agency’s actions, particularly its failure to protect Donald Trump during the July rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, fueled calls for its dissolution. Moreover, there were serious security breaches involving Biden officials. In 2023, a drunk individual entered the home of then-National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, managing to bypass his Secret Service detail.
And now, an agent on Jill Biden’s detail shot himself in the butt while escorting the former first lady through Philadelphia International Airport on Friday.
This is so problematic and so many levels. His gun fell out of his holster, and he had a negliget discharge re-holstering the gun.
A man is suing the New Roads Police Department after his arrest for allegedly possessing a firearm that the New Roads Police Department claimed was stolen. It was not.
For my initial post on this incident, see this link.
The geniuses that work at the New Roads Police Department apparently don't know how to run the serial number of a stolen gun. They in fact, did NOT run the serial number.
The WAFB I-TEAM first to report that the officer involved ran the patent number and not the serial number, which caused the gun to come back stolen. Livingston was arrested and spent 20 hours in jail.
That is a new level of stupid.
And to add some icing to the cake, the local news organization did some investigating and found a whole bunch of 'fun stuff' going on in the New Roads Police Department. For all of those details I refer you to Liberty Doll and her video UPDATE: Man Jailed for "Stolen" Legal Gun.
Projection is the process of displacing one’s feelings onto a different person, animal, or object. The term is most commonly used to describe defensive projection—attributing one’s own unacceptable urges to another.
I wonder if they do random drug/alcohol testing at the University of New Hampshire. Somehow I doubt it.
Enter Steven Lee, the 50-year-old Chief of Police at the University of New Hampshire. He recently testified that college students absolutely shouldn’t be trusted with guns on campus. Reason? “They’re too drunk,” he said. The gun control advocate, using his professional position as Chief of Police — advocating that New Hampshire protect the kids by keeping them disarmed. Assume they’re constantly intoxicated and irresponsible.
Fast-forward to present day: Chief Lee — badge, gun, and all — was pulled over in Portsmouth at almost 1 a.m. (Pro-tip for the chief: nothing good happens after midnight.)
Chief Steven Lee was (allegedly) hammered enough to earn himself a pair of shiny bracelets and a DUI charge.
Relatives of Christian Diaz say a Phoenix Police officer fatally shot the father Monday evening while he was subduing an armed intruder who had broken into his home and wounded his son.
But don't worry. Other cops are investigating the cops.
Gonzalez said Diaz and another man eventually tackled the gunman and disarmed him just before police arrived. According to the family, Diaz was still holding the intruder down when an officer opened fire.
"Be sure of your target" is apparently not something they teach in Phoenix.
Because of the doctrine of "qualified immunity," which should really be known as unqualified immunity, nothing will happen to this cop. He might have a few sleepless nights, but eventually the other cops will tell him he did nothing wrong enough that he will believe it.
A man who rushed in to help disarm one of the terrorists who fired at a crowd celebrating Hanukkah in Australia’s famous Bondi Beach was mistakenly shot by police and tackled by bystanders, according to a new report.
I'm not usually one for conspiracy theories, but the first thing the Australian government did in the wake of this attack was to declare they are going to implement more gun control. Because actually addressing the real issue would be politically incorrect. It is like they want a crisis so they can exploit it.
The Bondi police station is less than 1000 meters from the site of the shooting. Yet it took them 20 minutes to respond. There were uniformed police at the event. But they did nothing.
The Bondi/Australian police are going to displace the Uvalde, Texas as the most useless police department on the planet.
So of course they are going to insist that you rely on them for your personal safety, even though they have demonstrated they cannot provide it.
There is video that captures 10 minutes of the attack, and it is not the entire attack.
So, I started looking. Here is the closest police station:
That looks like a couple of blocks to me. 500 metres — more or less — as the crow flies. A distance that my 58-year-old, moderately crippled arse can cover in about four minutes while carrying a 9mm pistol.
So is this cowardice, or something darker? Is this a crisis that they won't let go to waste?
Four armed officers on-scene while two bastards armed with weapons that don’t reload quickly played Whack-A-Mole … and a citizen had to be the one to rush them.
Australia doesn't like the idea of self-defense, but then they need to ensure that they have your defense covered. They don't.
If the government is going to take the right of self-protection away from the citizens, then it is incumbent on that government to actually, you know, provide protection. If the government can’t provide that protection, then get out of the citizen’s way.
They won't. Australia, like Europe, cannot let people protect themselves. It would undermine their entire world view.
Obvious signs of narrative control were in full swing less than an hour after the incident happened with UK Labour MP Lola Makavoy. absurdly insisting that the real takeaway should be that diversity is our greatest strength.
An artificial intelligence system (AI) apparently mistook a high school student’s bag of Doritos for a firearm and called local police to tell them the pupil was armed.
And because if an AI tells you something, it must be true. These people are more idiotic than I gave them credit for.
Taki Allen was sitting with friends on Monday night outside Kenwood high school in Baltimore and eating a snack when police officers with guns approached him.
“At first, I didn’t know where they were going until they started walking toward me with guns, talking about, ‘Get on the ground,’ and I was like, ‘What?’” Allen told the WBAL-TV 11 News television station.
This is going to turn out to be a nightmare for all of us, especially if the cops are going to display this level of "I was just following (the AI's) orders!" intelligence.
The Orange County Sheriff's Office has released body camera video of a deputy shooting a homeowner as he was about to open his front door and now the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) is investigating.
There was a 911 call about a home invasion. Four guys tried to enter a home, but were stopped by an armed homeowner. So far, so good.
When deputies got to the scene, the victim went to unlock the door and one of the deputies accidentally discharged his firearm, striking the man, according to the sheriff's office.
He was taken to a hospital with injuries described as not life-threatening and was released the same day.
At least they didn't kill anyone.
Unless we want to blame this on the Sig P320 debacle, there are a few things the deputy did wrong. Why was he pointing a gun at someone, when he clearly didn't know if that person was a threat? (He wasn't.) Why was his finger on the trigger without an identified target? On this alone I would call it negligent. At the very least he needs a lot more training.
None of this surprises me.
Orange County, Florida is the county that includes Orlando.
