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Stephen Tyrone Johns RIP

Via Michelle Malkin.

Here is more on Holocaust Museum security guard Stephen Tyrone Johns, the gentle giant who was murdered by the racist whackjob yesterday.

Should Grandma Have Been Tased?

This is one where the bleeding heart crowd screams abuse with no real appreciation for the issues. Watch the video below. Guess what? Granny is all fired up just off a busy highway. Watch the cop be sure to keep himself between her and the road out of concern for her safety. At several points, she's just inches away from giving him a simple push that would put him, not her, under a moving car or truck if she chose to. What an evil man, huh? And if that guy gets into a wrestling match with Grandma, her next stop isn't the police station, it's more likely the emergency room - even with the utmost care on his part.

So, why didn't he talk her down? Yeah, right. Go stand off the highway at rush hour some day and try to talk sense into some intemperate nut you can't walk away from as your job doesn't give you the option. Then we'll talk.

Shocked? Well, she was. Heh! And it was the right and safest call.

I imagine there's even more info out there but I did find this.

"In a confrontation," Lewinski explains, "you don't look at age, sex, height, weight-you need to look at behavior, the violence and potential violence you're encountering. A 6-year-old in a complete psychotic temper tantrum can really hurt you. Unlike some mental health workers, cops don't have training in methods of restraint that won't significantly injure the kid or open the officer up to severe injury. If you do a simple arm bar on an elderly woman with fragile bones and she resists in even a minimal way, it's almost a given that you will create a spiral fracture of her upper arm bone."

Yes, it's ugly when someone gets zapped with an electronic device, and in the case of the elderly they may still break bones from falling after being tased. "But in many confrontations the Taser remains the most humane and effective way of establishing control without serious injury to anyone."

Holocaust Museum Shooting

Oh geez. Tragic. You can read more than you'll want to of this sad, vile loon in his own words here.

A gunman armed with a shotgun walked into the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in downtown Washington today and opened fire on a security guard before being shot and seriously wounded by two other guards, authorities said.

From second link - much more there:

Character Shaper No. 1:
Buddy B. was a loose cannon. He was ten and I was seven. I remember his tattered tennis shoes, Keds. His father had cut the toes out of them to accommodate Buddy’s growing feet. Those were depression years. Mason Elementary School had a dirt and sand playground, divided down the middle with a wrought-iron picket fence. Girls on one side, boys of the other. At recess Buddy would go on both sides raising hell, pushing people around, pulling the girls’ pigtails. He was bigger than everyone else. One day he went berserk running around the boys’ playground kicking and stomping on marbles the little kids were playing with. I went up to him and told him to stop it or else. The “else” was that he challenged me to meet him after school at the dueling grounds. He was a head taller than I and much heavier and stronger. All the kids had been alerted. We went down to the narrow, concrete alley, lined by rickety back-yard fences. This is nuts, I thought. Why didn’t he just admit he was wrong. You’re gonna get beat bad, Helen, told me. Everyone was patting Buddy on the back. Go get him Buddy. He was smiling, sure, cocky. He said whatdya want, fists or wrestling. I could feel my stomach tighten. Whatever you say. Wrestle, he said, I wanna strangle you to death. We grappled and rolled around. But he couldn’t hold me down and I couldn’t do anything with him. His face got beet red, he was screaming cuss words at me. Get him Buddy. Then he started punching. I was on my back, he on top. I could see his elbows were scraped and bleeding. He sat on my chest, grabbed my head and beat it into the concrete - again and again. Stop ! Helen screamed, far away, dimly. I went woozy and woke up on a couch at my house. Tears rolled down Buddy’s face. DON’t DIE, Don’t die, he pleaded. My nose was bleeding and my shirt was soaked in blood. I got up. I’m OK said I, weakly. But you were wrong to kick the marbles. I wuz, said Buddy B. Helen took Buddy’s hand and they departed. A pal of mine said, you sure showed him.

MORAL: It’s better to be strong than right — unless you like dying. Crowds hate good guys.

"You can't help but defend yourself."

Reports from Dallas indicate 55 year-old Valton Morgan was drunk and repeatedly tried to gain access to an apartment with two young women and a child inside. He eventually managed to get in. He might have been better off if he had not - he's dead. Don't look for this to get mentioned in coverage of Obama's dishonest gun rhetoric in Mexico.

Despite her roommate being armed, Sharp says the entire incident has left her feeling unsafe. "If she hadn't been here, there's no telling what would've happened. You can't help but defend yourself."

After a few minutes, Sharp and her roommate opened the door to make sure the intruder was gone. "He was coming back up the stairs and bombarded his way in through the door and knocked her [roommate] out of the way. She had no choice but to shoot. He was already in," said Sharp.

The man was shot once in the chest and tried to run, but collapsed outside the apartment.  Morgan was taken to a local hospital, but died from his injuries.

Witnesses told police when they saw Morgan he appeared intoxicated.

Sharp said during the incident her roommate's child was terrified. "He ran to the back room and said 'the man's gonna get me'."

Nour Hadid: Give Her The Headscarf Back

Tim Blair has some fun over an item involving a 26 year-old woman accused of beating her 2 year-old niece to death. Her husband is complaining as her mugshot was "an insult to Islam." She was photographed without her headscarf.

It's unfortunate, as I wouldn't be surprised to learn that the woman has been badly beaten herself in the past. But still. Geez.... Given that her cover has now been taken away due to a suicide threat, maybe they should consider just givng it back.

RIIINNNGG! RIIINNNGG! RIIINNGG!

Alaeddin: “Hello?”
Naseem: “Alaeddin? WASSSUUUUP!”
Alaeddin: “WASSSUUUP!”
Naseem: “WASSSUUUP!
(Nine minutes later)
Naseem: “So I see your old lady in the paper today without the headbag.”
Alaeddin: “I know! It is the most terrible outrage.”
Naseem: “These infidels. Have they no common decency?”

Can We Blame Capitalism For This?

Given the Left's attempts to blame everything on the Tea Party Movement as detailed here by Michelle, along with their efforts to blame recent high profile shootings on those who believe in the 2nd Amendment, it seems only fair to blame Capitalism for this. What's utterly incomprehensible is that the father went to police when he wasn't paid. Given the way this guy sees the law, he should run for Congress.

SALINAS, Calif. (AP) - A California man accused of selling his 14-year-old daughter into marriage for $16,000, beer and meat has pleaded no contest to felony child endangerment.
 
Marcelino de Jesus Martinez had pleaded not guilty in February to procuring a child for lewd acts, aiding and abetting statutory rape and child endangerment. If convicted of those charges he faced 10 years in prison.

Monday's plea on the endangerment charge means the 36-year-old man will be sentenced May 7 to up to a year in jail followed by deportation.

Prosecutors say Martinez and the family of Margarito de Jesus Galindo negotiated a marriage and dowry contract. Galindo and the girl allegedly lived together for week.

Martinez went to police to get his daughter back because payment wasn't made.

Update: 13 Dead In Binghamton, NY Shootings

An ABC report claims lone gunman killed himself. Situation appears to be over.

Latest unconfirmed reports claim two Vietnamese men arrested.

According to this it's possible the shooter was Vietnamese:

Hostage negotiators and a Vietnamese Interpreter are on the scene.

Via ABC

As many as 13 people have been shot dead and another 26 wounded in a shooting rampage inside an upstate New York civic association building that caters to immigrants, according to federal and state authorities.

Hmm.

The suspect was described as an Asian male in his 20s, between 5-feet 8-inches and 6 feet tall, wearing a bright green nylon jacket and dark-rimmed glasses.

The American Civic Association helps immigrants and refugees with immigration and personal counseling, resettlement, citizenship, family reunification and translators. It also intervenes with emergencies, including fighting, hunger and homelessness, according to information from the association's website.

The ACA had citizenship classes scheduled for today.

Stephen E. Quick and Samantha Light

Could we please just take them out and shoot them now? More here.

“Horrible” is how authorities describe the actions of two people from Veedersburg, Indiana accused of videotaping themselves having sex with children, including some as young as 2 months old.

According to The Indy Channel, Stephen E. Quick, 31, and Samantha Light, 25, were arrested after a young girl told her mother that the couple had touched her inappropriately and photographed her while she was being baby-sat at their home.

The couple were being held on $100,000 bond in Fountain County Jail. Both faced preliminary charges of child molestation and child exploitation.

Jr High Student Earns Advanced Degree

There won't be much left for this kid to learn by the time he gets to college at this point.

Two Bountiful Junior High School teachers are accused of sexually assaulting the same 13-year-old student, after their separate relationships with him spiraled from personal conversations to the exchange of sexual text messages and phone sex, authorities said.

On Friday, the Davis County Attorney's Office filed first-degree felony charges of rape and sodomy on a child against Linda R. Nef, 46, and Valynne Bowers, 39.

Nef, a Utah studies teacher and cheerleading adviser, and Bowers, who teaches math, each confessed to having sex with the student, said Bountiful Police Lt. Randy Pickett. Until recently, the two teachers did not know about each other's relationship with the same boy, Pickett said.

Chandra Levy Case: An Arrest Near?

Hmm. You might remember this case. It ended Gary Condit's political career. h/t from an email.

WASHINGTON - An arrest may be close in the slaying of the former federal intern whose disappearance ended Gary Condit's congressional career, according to media reports in Washington and California.

NBC affiliate WRC in Washington and KGO, KFSN and KCRA in California said D.C. police are seeking an arrest warrant in Chandra Levy's death.

The warrant would be for an inmate convicted of attacking two female joggers in the same Washington park where Levy's remains were found in 2002.