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.
Doubt it. Tucson is pretty liberal.
That is an under statement......
Since the Sheriff brings up Polish, from this point forward he is to be called “Sheriff Dupa”.
Betcha Sheriff Buttnik didn’t like the Rep’s view on Border enforcement!
As someone who organized such events in the past, I can tell you it’s up to the pol and his/her event organizers to arrange for security, private or public law enforcement. I’ve read that Rep. Giffords didn’t want a law enforcement presence. Many members of Congress don’t want to pay for their own security details, but law enforcement in most jurisdictions will provide it for such events if asked.
The purpose of the MSM spin is to put down political dissent. Criticize Obama’s policies and you’re an extension of Lared Lee Loughner, they imply. Nevermind that Loughner was a mental case who was not all that political and had views that veered mostly to the far left.
It’s something about the cache on the computer - I still see the same one too, but somehow in a couple of hours, it updates itself from Photobucket. But it is corrected on Photobucket.
The Gunny may suggest Jackwagon!
Then I’ll just refresh until I get it. Thanks for the ping!
IMO the Sheriff went on the offense to blame talk radio,Sharon Angle, the Tea Party, etc. to deflect from his own record of not protecting Tucson residents from this deranged individual who had threatened many people before America ever heard the name of Sarah Palin!
If Loughner had been charged, identified as a danger and given mental health treatment in a hospital, he might not have been able to buy a gun.
Yes, the Dems & their cohorts in MSM has been waiting for an opportunity to destroy the Tea Party movement and shut down talk radio....they saw this tragedy as an opportunity.
The Pima County Sheriff is incompetent!
How wonderful.
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