Posted on 12/15/2007 6:46:46 AM PST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity
Interesting “blame the victim” angle in the article, though...
What? Since when?
I missed that, elaborate.
Better start gettind used to it. Our society allows these scum out to attack innocent people.
"We're looking for a possible link [between the homeowner and robbers]," he said. ">Very rarely is it a random hit."
The homeowner on Friday evening declined an interview request through a relative, who said the man's attorney advised him not to speak to the media about the incident.
The inference was that the invaders and the homeowner knew each other, possibly through some sort of criminal activity.
Don’t forget the limp judges, and POS juries.
Despite the homeowners assertions that he didn’t know any of the perps, he is still being investigated for links to the perps because the police Sgt. has a prejudice that there must be some connection...
Possible slam, rather covert.
Good work. Sorry about the Great Dane. Thank God the man’s family is okay.
Too bad the other perps made it out alive.
Man guilty of felony assault in 1994 and on the streets with a gun 2 1/2 years later.
Is any home robbery “random”? The perps knew what they were doing. It was no accident, no consequence of Brownian Motion.
Why does it matter so much how the perps chose their victims? Note that the article does not seem to fret over whether this was a hate crime. It doesn’t ask where these thugs came from, or whether they were even US citizens.
The article does reveal that our great justice system did nothing to prevent this crime, even though the good (i.e., dead) thug had already committed serious crimes.
Our “justice system” does not sufficiently protect citizens, even in their homes. We coddle the criminals, let them off early from soft, short sentences, and have effectively or actually prevented capital punishment. It becomes more and more the responsibility of the individual to protect himself and his/her family.
A large dog is a help, but in this case the criminals shot the family pet. No neighbors heard that? That another thing the police should be checking out.
I agree it was covert, but I read it the same way that Bellicosity did even before the comments. It seemed to me that the police were hinting that the armed home invasion was really a drug dealer trying to get money out of a junkie, or something similar. We shall see.
Too bad the female accomplice didn’t get taken out of the gene pool.
What a horrible story, and on the 7th anniversary of the vile Wichita rapes/mass murders. I am so glad the man was able to fight back. Otherwise he, his wife, and the baby probably would have ended up dead and this would have been another sickening outrage. I wonder if the victims were white. If so then we can be sure this would never be reported outside the local area. Though at least we on FR are able to keep informed by seeing news from around the nation.
Of course the Cheshire CT home invasion rape/killings was a huge national story. It was OK with the media in that case since the perpetrators and victims all were white.
When seconds count, the police are only minutes away...
"Hello, my name is Jesse James Montoya. You shot me; I'm prepared to die."
You mean the other way around. Dealers have money stashed around the house, junkies don't
Even if it wasa a dealer robbing a junkie, the same laws apply, so why is the history important? Does a junkie not have a right to defend himself? I think the PD needs to take a chill pill and move on to start documenting the history of another crime.
Yes, the cop wants to try to put across the notion that the homeowner was perhaps some kind of criminal himself. Of course, he’s doing so with no clue that he is slandering the man without cause. If I were the victime, I’d sue the crap out of his department for that.
The larger issue, though, is that the government doesn’t want us to know that they are doing such a crappy job of providing any kind of protection and/or security for the citizens that things like this can happen to anyone at any time. I would also think the fact of the Great Dane being there would preclude the perps having any knowledge of the situation inside the house. If they knew the guy had a dog of that size, would they have busted in to start with?
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