Posted on 01/10/2011 9:30:01 AM PST by Lloyd227
This is the report that Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik has been dreading since the tragic event on Saturday January 8.
The sheriff has been editorializing and politicizing the event since he took the podium to report on the incident. His blaming of radio personalities and bloggers is a pre-emptive strike because Mr. Dupnik knows this tragedy lays at his feet and his office. Six people died on his watch and he could have prevented it. He needs to step up and start apologizing to the families of the victims instead of spinning this event to serve his own political agenda.
Jared Loughner, pronounced by the Sheriff as Lock-ner, saying it was the Polish pronunciation. Of course he meant Scott or Irish but that isn’t the point. The point is he and his office have had previous contact with the alleged assailant in the past and that is how he knows how to pronounce the name.
Jared Loughner has been making death threats by phone to many people in Pima County including staff of Pima Community College, radio personalities and local bloggers. When Pima County Sheriff’s Office was informed, his deputies assured the victims that he was being well managed by the mental health system. It was also suggested that further pressing of charges would be unnecessary and probably cause more problems than it solved as Jared Loughner has a family member that works for Pima County. Amy Loughner is a Natural Resource specialist for the Pima County Parks and Recreation. My sympathies and my heart goes out to her and the rest of Mr. Loughner’s family. This tragedy must be tearing them up inside wondering if they had done the right things in trying to manage Jared’s obvious mental instability.
Every victim of his threats previously must also be wondering if this tragedy could have been prevented if they had been more aggressive in pursuing charges against Mr. Loughner. Perhaps with a felony conviction he would never have been able to lawfully by the Glock 9mm Model 19 that he used to strike down the lives of six people and decimate 14 more.
This was not an act of politics. This was an act of a mentally disturbed young man hell bent on getting his 15 minutes of infamy. The Pima County Sheriff’s Department was aware of his violent nature and they failed to act appropriately. This tragedy leads right back to Sherriff Dupnik and all the spin in the world is not going to change that fact.
“Sheriff” Dupnik (last name is pronounced ‘incompetent’)
Yeah, buddy!
Rush is on the case! There’s a blogger out there saying the sheriff knew this kid was making death threats to local personalities! Go get ‘em, Rush!
I can see a future where the word “dupnik” is cast as a word of derision.
“This job has gone totally dupnik!”
“What are you, a total dupnik?”
“Well, dupnik me!”
I was in Tucson for 6 months this year (for work)
It seemed OK to me. The people I met did not want McLame...so...
either way- This sherrif may be a well connected liberal but he never had dead bodies attributed to his incompetance before.
Bump
Bookmark.
bump
This Sheriff Dumpnik should be charged for not doing the job he was hired to do.
The blame for this Jared guy falls on him.
Good find! This is a very well written blog that provides good analysis. Thanks for posting the entire content!
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I felt like a real Dupnik after I did that!
“This was not an act of politics. This was an act of a mentally disturbed young man hell bent on getting his 15 minutes of infamy. The Pima County Sheriff’s Department was aware of his violent nature and they failed to act appropriately. This tragedy leads right back to Sherriff Dupnik and all the spin in the world is not going to change that fact.”
Perhaps this may explain why the Sheriff went on the offensive at his first press conference and blammed ‘vitrolic speech’.
RE: “Word is getting out, but only if you search for it. Please pass information along, if you have a Facebook account, use it. We’ve been silent for too long now”
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I love FR but agree that Facebook is faster for commenting and reaches a much larger audience. I flip back and forth between both these days — seems there are not enough hours in the day for anything else anymore ;)
He's gonna need one!
The sheriff confirmed the generalty of previous death threats by the punk to Megyn Kelly in her interview yesterday, saying a lawyer would advise he not discuss those recent threats. ..around the 10 min mark in the You-Tube video.
bookmark.
Thanks for the ping ... but it looks like the same image.
Just tryin’ to help :) .. it’s a great idea!
I have a bookmark labeled Jack weeds.
I heard him this AM on GMA say he’s had no previous contact with this guy...sh*t will hit the fan if/when we find out he’s lying and that he WAS aware of this guys problems.
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