CCWing Reporter Won’t be Charged

About time. And what about those “Only Ones” who arrested him falsely? Something tells me they’re going to get away with it. Oh well, nothing new there, move along…

Thanks to Say Uncle.

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No charges for TV reporter who was arrested carrying loaded gun near Florida high school

MIAMI - Prosecutors have dropped the case against a TV reporter who was arrested carrying a loaded gun near a high school while working on a story on school violence, authorities said Tuesday.

Jeffrey Weinsier of WPLG, an ABC network affiliate, was arrested last month after police said he carried a weapon onto the grounds of Miami Central High School and refused to cross the street when asked by an officer.

A cameraman caught the encounter on videotape, which the state attorney’s office used in deciding not to pursue the charges, Assistant State Attorney Maggie Gerson wrote in a memo released Tuesday.

Weinsier had been charged with armed trespass on school property, possession of a weapon, violation of carrying a concealed weapon and resisting arrest without violence. But he was not on school grounds when police approached him and ordered him to leave, Gerson said.

“Since the defendant was not trespassing, anything that was found on the defendant after he was arrested will be suppressed as a matter of law,” Gerson wrote.

Weinsier’s actions did not appear disruptive and students had been dismissed from classes when he was arrested, Gerson said.

The reporter began carrying a gun after he received death threats stemming from a series he did about unsanitary conditions at restaurants, according to the station. Weinsier has a concealed weapons permit, police had said.

“From day one, I knew that I had been on the public sidewalk outside the school,” Weinsier said Tuesday. “I knew the law clearly. This is false arrest.”

The reporter said he has filed a formal complaint with the Miami-Dade Schools Police Department and is considering legal action.

WPLG is owned by The Washington Post Co.

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Is Open Carry Legal in New Hampshire?

A lawfully Open Carrying citizen in NH gets stopped by the police. Let’s watch…

A right that isn’t exercised is soon lost.

Thanks to The Rifleman’s Journal for the link.

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Come again?

Does he seriously think we’re stupid?

“CHICAGO, Illinois (AP) — A police officer pleaded not guilty Wednesday to beating a female bartender, and to threatening to arrest bar employees in a failed attempt to suppress a video of the attack that has been viewed around the world.

In a brief hearing, Anthony Abbate’s attorney entered not guilty pleas to all 15 felony counts of aggravated battery, official misconduct, intimidation, conspiracy and communicating with a witness.

“He’s pleading not guilty because he is not guilty,” Peter Hickey said after the hearing. “And we expect at the end, the conclusion of the trial, that that’s what the outcome will be.”

For those of you with short attention spans, here’s the video of him not misbehaving.

…and these are the very same people the Brady Bunch would have us believe are the only ones who should have guns?

Yeah right…tell me another one Sarah!

-Yuri

Also found on The War on Guns.

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Lara Croft gets Busted!

…from the “Only in England” file.

[found at The War on Guns]

Armed police raid home after mistaking Lara Croft dummy for gunman
James Tozer
Last updated at 18:57pm on 15th May 2007

When police spotted a gun-wielding suspect lurking in the shadows of a suburban front room, their response was swift.

Armed officers burst into the house, shouted at the owner to lie on the floor, and ordered him to surrender his weapon.

But efficiency turned to embarrassment when the “gunman” turned out to be a life-sized model of the video game character Lara Croft, complete with trademark outsized pistols.

Computer shop owner David Williams, 42, had taken the dummy home to put it up for sale on the auction site eBay.

As the source of the confusion dawned on all concerned, it might have been the moment for an apology from the police.

Instead, however, Mr Williams was taken to the cells and held for more than 13 hours before being released.

He is now on bail for a suspected firearms offence, and Lara Croft remains impounded as evidence.

David Williams was arrested for having Lara Croft model in window “It would have been laughable if it hadn’t been so terrifying,” he said yesterday. “One of the police held a gun and yelled, ‘Where’s the weapon, where’s the weapon?’

“I didn’t have a clue what was going on, I assumed they’d got the wrong house. I couldn’t believe it when I realised they’d mistaken a Lara Croft dummy for someone with a gun.”

Father-of-two Mr Williams had phoned police after receiving nuisance phone calls, and officers arrived at his house in Dukinfield, near Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester, shortly before midnight.

He says he did not hear them arrive, but unknown to him one officer had seen the dummy’s silhouette through the front window and called for armed back-up.

Soon afterwards, the street was cordoned off and a team of armed officers burst in through Mr Williams’s back door.

A spokesman for Greater Manchester Police said officers peered inside after Mr Williams failed to answer his front door.

“They believed they saw a silhouette of a person pointing what appeared to be a firearm inside the house,” she said.

They followed “correct procedure” by withdrawing to await armed officers, she added.

“Officers then went into the house and found a mannequin holding a toy weapon.”

Mr Williams, who says he is speaking to lawyers about a possible claim for wrongful arrest, will hear whether he faces further action when he answers bail next month.

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