After looking at their offensive production, it was determined that they are not a serious threat.
Posted on 04/12/2006 1:02:51 PM PDT by Cagey
ATF agents are always on alert for anything suspicious — including ninjas.
Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearm agents, on campus Tuesday for Project Safe Neighborhoods training, detained a “suspicious individual” near the Georgia Center, University Police Chief Jimmy Williamson said.
Jeremiah Ransom, a sophomore from Macon, was leaving a Wesley Foundation pirate vs. ninja event when he was detained.
After being held in investigative detention, he was found to have violated no criminal laws and was not arrested.
“It was surreal,” Ransom said. “I was jogging from Wesley to Snelling when I heard someone yell ‘freeze.’”
Ransom said he thought a friend was playing a joke before he realized officers had guns drawn and pointed at him.
ATF agents had noticed Ransom’s suspicious behavior and clothing and gave chase, apprehending him, Williamson said.
“Agents noticed someone wearing a bandanna across the face and acting in a somewhat suspicious manner, peeping around the corner,” said ATF special agent in charge Vanessa McLemore.
Ransom was wearing black sweatpants and an athletic T-shirt with one red bandanna covering the bottom half of his face and another covering the top of his head, Williamson said.
“Seeing someone with something across the face, from a federal standpoint — that’s not right,” McLemore said, explaining why agents believed something to be amiss.
Agents noticed Ransom peering around a corner and said when police sirens sounded, he took off running.
After chasing Ransom and identifying themselves, ATF agents detained him, turning him over once University Police arrived, McLemore said.
Ransom said Williamson told him the incident should not have been handled in such a manner and he would file a complaint with the ATF.
“I was in shock, to say the least,” Ransom said.
Those ATF guys couldn't have caught him if he kept running, but then they would have taken him out with a bazooka or something like that. What a bunch of losers those dudes are....I smell a lawsuit coming, holding a cuffed "prisoner" with a knee to the neck...what jerks!
Clearly there is a double standard for their fellow worshippers of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
After looking at their offensive production, it was determined that they are not a serious threat.
Every agent in that picture should go to Federal P.M.I.T.A. Prison for at least a couple of years.
I hope this kid's lawyer puts a real hurt on the F-troop.
Clearly, this guy wasn't much of a ninja or he wouldn't have got his butt kicked by the feds.
Or a BATFE agent.
Then you can even mask your badge number.
BTW, notice any badges on those "ATF agents?" in the photo in post 2? How was the guy supposed to know they weren't a couple of thugs, er criminal thugs, out to do him harm. Oh I forgot, schools are generally gun free zones, so anyone pointing a gun at you at a school must be assumed to be law enforcement or a state or federal agent.
These agents WILL be commended and promoted for this if history is any measure.
Oh no they might get hurt. The federales and Mexican Army types in the pay of the coyotes and drug gangs may shoot back, in fact they usually shoot first.
No but if you keep saying stuff like that, they will make an inspection tour of Uranus.
Salute to F Troop.
As I suspect, the Wesley Foundation is a Christian organization:
http://www.ugawesley.org/
Ouch...
Violent crime in America is down by 60% per capita since the Republicans came into office. People try to claim its because of a demographic shift but because of demographics we should be seeing more, not less crime with the baby boomer's sons becoming young men.
As a result the government police forces are desperate to find new 'crimes' and uses for themselves. New crime - dressing up as a ninja.
I see... I suppose we have to start living our lives by whatever the Great Federal Government deems right or wrong.
If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.
-- George Orwell, 1984
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