officer Joseph Peterson.
Posted on 03/14/2014 4:59:34 PM PDT by servo1969
Full title - "Threats to CT Police Escalate Following CT Cop’s Gun Confiscation Comments – Cops Ask Pro-Gun Veteran to Help Cool Things Down"
There have been reports that Navy veteran John Cinque has been receiving threats because of his stance on the issue of Connecticut's gun registration law. Apparently those reports are due to a misreading of a piece by the New Haven Register in which Cinque said, "There have been threats made — that I found out about today." Freedom Outpost reached out to John Cinque, who spoke with us this morning and confirmed that the threats he was speaking about were towards the Branford Police, not towards him.
"The cops are having the threats…. they are scared," he told us.
According to Cinque, Officer Joseph Peterson, who made comments in interaction on Facebook while off duty that he would "give my left nut to bang down your door and come for your gun…" has been placed on 24-hour guard due to threats on his life. This information came directly from Police Chief Kevin Halloran.
Mr. Cinque told us that he had a two and a half hour "sit down" with the Branford Police Department on Tuesday. He said that the Branford PD was supposed to come out with an apology for Peterson's comments and wanted Cinque's endorsement of the apology in an attempt to cool things down.
"The first words out of the police chief's mouth… were 'How can you help us with this?'" Cinque said. "They're getting killed over there. They said they can do nothing but deal with this."
Cinque's endorsement would not be automatic. "There are some things here that need to be addressed before I endorse the apology," he said. "Don't make the apology to me. The apology has to be to the residents of Branford and to the citizens of the State of Connecticut."
"If we are looking to tamp this thing down…none of us need violence here," Cinque continued.
"We're winning this thing; we're winning this thing hard here," Cinque said, referring to the efforts to ignore unconstitutional and unlawful legislation that seeks to have citizens register their semi-automatic rifles and high capacity magazines.
"That's the last thing we need," he added, referring to violence.
"We're going to try to throw water on this thing and get it calmed down ..." Cinque said. "The whole premise of where Joe's coming from has to be addressed, and now it has been ... Now it's time to calm it down ...
"The problem now is, we have a forest fire burning, and we've got to see how we can go about extinguishing it," he said.
John Cinque stressed that threats and violence on both sides is not what will win the day. "None of us wants violence anyway."
Cinque also pointed out that no ex post facto laws or retainers can be instituted, and that doesn't apply to just guns.
For his part, Cinque said there would have to be several things in the apology before he would endorse it. One of those things would be remedial training in the United States Constitution for Officer Joseph Peterson and the other officers of the Branford Police Department. Another would be a stand that the Police Department would not be involved in the enforcement of the gun registration law.
Branford Police as scheduled to contact John Cinque today. At the time of the writing of this article, they have not done so. The purpose of the contact, according to Mr. Cinque, is to get his approval of their apology, which they will seek to have broadcast via television with Mr. Cinque lending his approval to the apology.
While Mr. Cinque has been thrown into a whirlwind of news publicity in the past week, he is confident that cooler heads will prevail and wants to be part of the solution, not part of the problem. That solution is to have constitutionally educated law enforcement officers, who also understand the history of gun registration / confiscation, and a citizenry who elect lawmakers who understand the same.
Mr. Cinque has said that he will update us on any progress of the Branford Police apology. If, and when, it becomes public, we will provide our readers with that information.
This is a lesson in how to deal with this issue in your own town, county and state. The people must be vocal and they must not back down. Threats of violence are not the way to go about things. Citizens are to remain vigilant, and the only proper use of force would be defensively. I applaud the efforts of patriots like John Cinque and others who have drawn a line in the sand, and unlike a certain occupant of the White House, don't blink when the line is crossed.
Well well, Joe.
You're Billy Badass when you're rollin' with your blue posse, aren't you? Not so much when it's just you at home versus 300,000 armed neighbors, huh?
Scratch a bully, find a coward.
Keep cool, speak the truth and stand with the good people of Connecticut.
I wonder if he has to have his wife and kids and other family members under 24 hour guard too? I’ll bet they aren’t real happy about him running his mouth.
Hopefully his wife and kids who are not members of law enforcement have been free from threats.
As a thought experiment here, just imagine if all of the politicians from the governor down to the lowliest town-selectman called upon the various police departments to provide armed protection against the citizens of your state who have been harmed by stupid and idiotic laws like these.
There wouldn’t be anyone left to do the confiscation let alone the normal day-to-day policing activities such as writing traffic tickets. And when revenues start to drop they just might reconsider what they have done.
Does everyone in the state who receives death threats receive 24 hour police protection?
Or just members of the club?
I have no doubt that a lot of it depends on ones political party...
A question-—Without the threats would an ‘apology’ have even been offered? And as such, is the ‘apology’ real or one made under duress to escape resulting consequences? Just asking.....
My question is why aren’t they dragging Officer Peterson’s butt out in front of a camera with an apology?
eff him and his apology.
Sounds like Officer Joseph should be up on departmental charges for making threats and improper use of authority to threaten a citizen. Luckily there were no puppies around for him to take out his ire on.
Easy. Fire that {expletive} that made the comments. Strip him of any severance and pension. He is an enemy of the Constitution and an example should be made of him. That would stop this in its tracks. Show some backbone, show support for your peoples' rights.
officer Joseph Peterson.
If I was the K-9 officer, I’d bite officer Peterson on his butt.
What, the citizen didn’t receive protection after the stupid cop threatened to kick his door down?
Officer peterson should be fired. There is no excuse for his stassi comments and attitude.
IMO the shave head cops are always the biggest a-holes.
I also hope that is the case.
But...but, it must not be forgotten that he and only he is responsible for his [fascist] threats. As such *he* is the root cause of the current situation. If his family is undeservedly suffering here, they should be blaming him for bring this sh1tstorm down.
As I read this piece, it certainly looks to me as if the police department expects John Cirque to bail their respective asses out, without any genuine concessions on their part. Eff 'em.
For his part, Cinque said there would have to be several things in the apology before he would endorse it. One of those things would be remedial training in the United States Constitution for Officer Joseph Peterson and the other officers of the Branford Police Department. Another would be a stand that the Police Department would not be involved in the enforcement of the gun registration law.
They'll be happy to promise to institute BS training, because A) that's what it will be, wink wink, BS training. And B) They are not going to refuse to participate in enforcement of the gun registration law. They are going to wait out John Cirque expecting him to back down because they know he is an honorable man and to them honor is a sign of weakness. I hope he doesn't back down on his demands. This battle needs to come to a head sooner rather than later. Fewer lives will be lost if it does.
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