How would you respond to a person breaking into your home at 4 o'clock in the morning on a Saturday?
Mesquite Police responded to a report of a shooting around 4:15 a.m. Saturday in the 2600 block of Brushwood Lane. Upon arrival, officers found a man outside the home with a gunshot wound and rendered first aid.
According to investigators, residents inside the house woke up to the sound of loud banging. When one resident went to investigate, they saw an individual breaking into the home and fired a weapon, striking the suspect.
The guy who got shot, was arrested by the cops, and taken to a local hospital by EMTs.
Mesquite, Texas, is about a 5 or 10 mile drive east of downtown Dallas.
Very little information, has been released about this incident, but I have a few of basic questions. The first being why on earth would anyone break into a home in Texas? This guy got shot. He could have been killed. What was he expecting to happen in Texas when he was banging on a door or window at 4 in the morning? What did he expect to get away with?
For all of this I want to believe that drugs must have been involved, but the truth is that people are just that stupid.
Self-defense is a human right, and this didn't happen in Massachusetts. Good Guys 1, Bad Guys 0.
According to Pat in the video below, an internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicle fire would take about 30 minutes, and a few hundred gallons of water. Six ICE cars on fire at once would take about an hour, and more water. This incident lasted as long as a structure fire would be expected to last.
The smoke has cleared after a fire in West Fort Worth burned for more than 17 hours, destroying several electric vehicles and highlighting the unique challenges and potential health risks firefighters face when responding to electric vehicle fires.
According to the Fort Worth Fire Department, eight electric vehicles caught fire, creating a complex and hazardous scene unlike anything some local responders had previously encountered.
One of the things that Pat at Stached Training said, is that the battery packs on 6 (or 8) Cadillac Escalades is about as much power as would be found in an industrial battery electric storage system, of the kind used by solar and wind farms.
Federal prosecutors have charged the Austin man an ICE agent shot earlier this month with a single count of resisting and assaulting a federal officer, according to court documents.
I'm sure that the Left will be protesting something about this.
He knew he was going to be detained, so he fled.
Garces Perez disregarded the officers’ commands to exit the vehicle and he fled the scene. As he pulled away from the scene, his driver’s side mirror hit one of the officers in the torso, according to the criminal complaint.
Have you seen this guy lately? James Talarico is a Democrat, a previously obscure state legislator who is running for a U.S. Senate seat in Texas against the current state attorney general, Ken Paxton. Or rather, I should say, Talarico was running for the Senate until Sept. 26, which was the last time he was seen at a campaign event. He showed up in New York City for a fundraiser with Robert De Niro on Sept. 28, and made a virtual appearance on a teleconference Sept. 30, but no one in Texas has seen him in public for nearly two weeks, and wild rumors are now circulating as to the reason for Talarico’s mysterious disappearance.
The official explanation from the Talarico campaign is that the candidate came down with the flu, but nobody believes that because (a) everything the Talarico campaign says is a lie and ...
A man was “aggressive and out of control.” He was causing a disturbance, and police were called. He fled that scene and entered a home, apparently at random, and cornered the homeowner.
After the man entered the home and cornered the homeowner, police said the homeowner used a firearm to protect himself and his family. The man was pronounced dead at the scene.
At the site of the initial disturbance, the release states that a female juvenile was found with knife wounds and was taken to a hospital. Her condition was not immediately available.
Is that enough to qualify as a crime spree? Whatever it was, it was ended by an armed homeowner defending himself.
Lytle, Texas is about 20 mile drive southwest of San Antonio.
He kicked in the front door, in the middle of the afternoon.
An HPD officer at the scene told KHOU 11 that the man appeared to be a stranger to the homeowner. According to the officer, the homeowner, described as an elderly man, repeatedly told the alleged intruder to stop and leave the home.
The homeowner was able to retrieve a 38-caliber handgun, and he shot the intruder.
There are a lot of bad decisions a person can make on a Wednesday afternoon, but breaking the front door of an elderly man's house in Texas has got to be sitting somewhere near the very top of that list.
Austin police responded to a report of a burglary at a home in the 200 block of Virtus Bend just before 4 a.m.
When officers arrived, they found 24-year-old Dmario Antonie Jones with gunshot wounds. EMS attempted life-saving measures, but Jones was pronounced dead at the scene at 4:10 a.m.
How would you respond to an uninvited guest at 4 o'clock in the morning?
A preliminary investigation determined that Jones entered the home and went into the bedroom. Jones was then shot by the homeowner while burglarizing the home.
The investigation is just beginning, and while I am not a lawyer, it is my understanding that every homicide in Texas gets referred to a grand jury.
Police believe the encounter stemmed from a home invasion attempt near Lamar and St. Charles Street, where the homeowner exchanged gunfire with two suspects.
One would-be bad guy was shot, fled to a home, where police caught up to him, and he was pronounced dead at that house. The other would-be bad guy ran like a rabbit.
The homeowner was also shot, and he was taken to a local hospital. Being armed in your own defense is not a guarantee of safety. It is a strategy for dealing with a violent encounter.
Why did I begin this post by talking about the red van that officers stopped near the Prairieland shooting? Because when these Antifa terrorists were sentenced to decades in federal prison — including 100 years for Benjamin Song — their defenders insisted that they were merely “protesters” exercising their First Amendment rights.
Except of course that violence directed at government agencies is not a first amendment guarantee.
It would have taken at least 45 minutes of driving to get to the scene of their “protest,” and that van was packed with weapons, yet the Antifa comrades didn’t have the faintest clue that Song was planning to shoot up the place? God knows what might have happened had it not been for Lt. Gross’s excellent marksmanship, firing a shot that disabled Song’s rifle.
I have said many times that if you need a court order of protection, often called a restraining order, then you also need a plan for your personal safety. Here is a quote from the video below:
Somewhere in a courthouse in Tarant County, there's a file. And in that file, there's an order. And on that order, there is a judge's signature. And that signature did exactly as much work as the toner it was printed with. Because an order is a request in a serious font.
There is at least one, and maybe two, rulings from SCOTUS that states clearly the police have no duty to protect you. No, not even if you have an order of protection.
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.
Police say a male homeowner had returned home when he saw another man on his property. A verbal fight reportedly broke out between the two, which escalated to them exchanging gunfire.
The homeowner was shot, and taken to a local hospital. The intruder did not survive.
And this is apparently a domestic violence incident.
According to police, the man who was killed had an active protective order against someone who lived in the home.
Or was the order of protection against him?
Either way, this is very early in the investigation, as this happened Saturday afternoon.
Americans should be able to trust that Law enforcement agencies will uphold the Constitution.
Three cops are featured in the post. They threatened to ticket and/or arrest preachers for preaching at an event on public property. The threats are clearly against the 1st Amendment.
[Fort Worth PD] then announced that they will provide “refresher training” to their officers on First Amendment protections.
As soon as they did that, they blocked Libs Of TikTok on social media.
According to the Houston Police Department, officers responded to a shooting call at an apartment complex in the 11000 block of Harwin Drive at about 10 a.m. Investigators said that the resident reportedly shot a person who was breaking into the home.
A second person was detained.
No other information was released, but it is enough.
Antifa extremists and their supporters are urging one another to assassinate the Texas federal judges who handed lengthy prison sentences to their convicted terrorist comrades
The peaceful Left strikes again.
The threats followed last week’s first batch of sentencing where eight convicts received prison terms ranging from 30 years to 100 years after becoming the first defendants convicted in a federal Antifa terrorism case in U.S. history.
People also need to understand the sentence, "It's over!"
Her ex-boyfriend came to her home uninvited, forced his way inside, and began assaulting her.
The woman deployed pepper spray against her attacker first. When that did not stop him, she drew her firearm and fired, striking him three times. He was transported to the hospital with critical injuries. No charges have been reported against the woman.
So I would love for someone from the gun-hating part of the Left (it is not all of the Left) to explain what she should have done to defend herself. What should she do when she is being assaulted? What should she do when the non-lethal option fails? It only takes one to initiate a violent encounter, and if they choose you, they will not give you much warning.
With luck, between the gunshot wounds, and some prison time, this guy will learn a valuable lesson. I am not optimistic about that.
Self-defense is a human right, and this took place in Texas.
Nothing about Karmelo Anthony’s behavior makes sense, in a rational or objective way, and until we have some further information, we can only speculate about his motive. Similarly inexplicable is why the killer decided to go to trial, rather than trying to get a plea bargain. His self-defense claim was implausible, and even the defense witnesses couldn’t justify such a claim.
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Since Anthony was under 18 at the time of the murder, he is not eligible for the death penalty.
The sentence will be between 5 and 99 years, with the option of parole.
Or how would you respond to two, uninvited guests (don't call them home invaders) at 3 o'clock in the morning?
Police say the facts collected currently point to the teens committing theft and the resident confronted them. The teens' injuries are non-life threatening. Detectives continue to investigate.
Longview, Texas, is a 128 mile drive east of Dallas, or a 63 mile drive west of Shreveport, Louisiana.
The only mainstream media mention I could find on Saturday afternoon was from Fox. No one else seems to care about the welfare of children. Or they are just committed to NOT giving the Trump administration (and Homeland Security) credit for anything.
A massive child exploitation task force operation in north Texas in March and April this year resulted in 276 arrests and the rescue of 89 children, the FBI announced May 29.
The FBI’s Dallas division joined forces with the Dallas Police Department and other local authorities for Operation Soteria Shield in an effort focused on rescuing children from online sexual exploitation.
