Posted on 04/10/2014 9:11:15 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
I smell a recall election: One-thousand “brothers in blue” came to pay their respects this afternoon to Officer Alexander Thalmann, 22, killed in the line of duty in New Bern, N.C., last week.
Thalmann’s partner, Officer Justin Wester, 23, is recovering from a gunshot wound to his leg from the shootout that left convicted felon, Bryan Stallings, 35, dead.
The incident happened March 28, in the housing projects known as Craven Terrace. The town’s grief was made even more painful by the local administration’s handling of events following the young officer’s death.
For unknown reasons, newly elected, Mayor Dana Outlaw chose to attend Thursday’s funeral of the career criminal.
Adding insult to injury, last night’s planned memorial for local citizens to say “goodbye” to Alexander Thalmann was cancelled by the mayor’s office.
It was alleged that two of the city’s aldermen had invited relatives of the killer to attend the vigil. Rather than rescind the invitation, the city chose to cancel the event.
Officer Thalmann’s death seems to have had a greater impact on the mourning residents of New Bern than the mayor.
Did you notice what’s missing? Did you see it?
What is Mayor Outlaw’s party affiliation?
You guessed it. Democrat.
Bryan Stallings, also known as William Ellison, Bryan Augustus Stallings, X Flute and Flute Stallings, had an extensive criminal history dating back nearly 18 years, according to North Carolina and Osceola County, Fla., records.
Stallings’ criminal career appears to begin in 1996 in Craven County, where he was convicted of felony drug possession, misdemeanor larceny and resisting an officer.
Stallings was a registered sex offender under the name William Ellison, for crimes committed in Osceola in 2000, where he was charged with lewd, lascivious exhibition by person older than 17, lewd act upon a child, public indecent exposure and battery for a June 5, 2000, offense, according to Osceola court records. Stallings was also charged with felony possession of cocaine and resisting an officer without violence on that date.
He served almost six years of a 10-year sentence in prison for the crimes.
On Sept. 10, 2000, he was charged in Osceola County with two counts felony possession with the intent to sell, possession of cocaine, tampering with physical evidence, resisting an officer and possession of drug paraphernalia.
In January 2001 he was charged with four felony counts of smuggling contraband in to a detention facility, and a charge of possession of cannabis. Five months later he was charged with felony battery by a detainee in a detention facility.
On Sept. 11, 2009, Stallings, was found incompetent to stand trial for failing to register as a sex offender and sent to a state hospital in Florida. On Feb. 12, 2010, he was found competent to stand trial and charged with two felony counts of failing to register as a sex offender. Specific details were not immediately available.
Two days after being released, he was charged with false imprisonment, battery of a firefighter, resisting an officer with violence and resisting an officer without violence in February 2008, and he was subsequently sentenced to 10 years imprisonment. He was released Dec. 1, 2012.
Sounds like he was a sweet kid just trying to turn his life around.
I suspect if the cop killer had a different background, there would be cheers for Mayor Outlaw, not jeers.
Damn, even Stevie Wonder blindfolded could see this POS was nothing but trouble.
What?
If he was white?
I think he must of meant that magical, David Dinkins kind of city-healing.
Y’know, the kind that mean absolutely nothing, accomplish absolutely nothing (positive, anyway), and are uttered by incompetent fools who never should have been elected to office in the first place.
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