Jaleel Stallings, his mug shot after arrest. He said he was smiling because he was alive.
Posted on 09/11/2021 9:29:06 AM PDT by marktwain
On Saturday night, 30 May 2020, at about 11 pm, an unmarked white police van with the lights off is looking for groups of people who are violating curfew. The van is prowling in the area of Minneapolis where there had been extensive rioting and protests. A curfew is in effect. It was put in place the previous day. It has been five days after George Floyd had died in police custody.
The unmarked police van carries Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) SWAT team members. Several have 40mm launchers loaded with rubber bullets used to disperse rioters.
They have been given orders to fire rubber bullets at people who are violating the curfew. The van is followed by police cars, but all the lights have been turned off. The SWAT officers are not told to identify themselves before they fire. The orders are precisely the opposite.
The Sergeant in charge of the van tells his team (from the body cam transcripts) “The first f***ers we see, we’re just hammering ’em with ’40s.”
Jaleel Stallings had been participating in the protests. He is a truck driver from St. Paul and a veteran. He has no criminal record. He has a Minnesota carry permit.
He stated, based on official pronouncements claiming white supremacists from out of town are seeking to harm blacks and people of color, he armed himself for self-protection. Those pronouncements were not substantiated and did not come from the police.
From courthousenews.com, Department of Safety Commissioner John Harrington, then-Mayor Jacob Frey:
He said some of the 40 arrests made in the Twin Cities Friday night were of people linked to white supremacist groups and organized crime.
(Excerpt) Read more at ammoland.com ...
On the surface, I can’t say I blame him.
Jaleel Stallings, his mug shot after arrest. He said he was smiling because he was alive.
So, Kyle Rittenhouse will be freed then too, right? He absolutely fired in self defense, only his attackers were known to be trying to murder him.
Cops pretending to be SpecOps...again.
Same as those ATF in Waco.
Based it seems on the zpparent ‘legality of firing a gun in city limits’ (if Jaleel isn’t going to face charges, then neither should Kyle for discharging a weapon or defending himself)
The key point: "Stallings trial was held in late July 2021. After a five-day trial, the jury acquitted him of all charges, by reason of self-defense."
Apparently, Kangaroos were not allowed in the Jury Box, and Stallings was given an Informed Jury.
The Constitution works.
I wish someone mentioned his Army rank. If he was E5, E6 or above, he would not only know what to remember from incidents, but also *how to testify* about it. This makes a world of difference.
Someone with a good memory of important information, who knows how to testify, will typically run circles around most people in court. Even police who do not have their act together will lose big time.
I wonder how those cops are able to keep their jobs.
Body cameras confirm what the good cops do and help in their defense while hanging scumbags like these cops.
good verdict
Why do peace officers possess destructive devices? Did they have their machine guns in the van? Why do the police have machine guns? Machine guns are weapons of war. Who are the police at war with? Did they have their military NVG in the van? Did they have their flash bang grenades and short barrel shotguns?
“Cops pretending to be SpecOps...again.”
High-speed, low-drag, special operators. We got em’ by the train load here in Colorado.
Egg-zackly
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