“Any police department (or university faculty, or military unit, etc.) is only as good as the worst psycho they tolerate.” ~ H/T RedStateRocker
Russell need to move far, far away right now!
Posted on 09/21/2021 5:07:49 AM PDT by marktwain
On April 23, 2021, at about 2:15 p.m., Russell and Myra King, a married couple, were driving to their home in Haslet, Texas.
Haslet is a small community on the North edge of Tarrant County, part of the Fort Worth-Dallas metroplex. It had been cloudy with showers all day, but the sun peeked from behind the clouds in the afternoon of the 23rd.
According to reports on nbcdfw.com, which includes video, Russell noticed two pickup trucks moving past him much faster than the traffic flow. One of the trucks exited the highway, the other pulled in front of him and brake-checked him (requiring the vehicle behind them to forcefully apply the brakes to avoid a collision). The pickup truck is said to have followed them into a Walmart parking lot, with the driver giving them the finger, then pursuing them in traffic and making several dangerous maneuvers in the pursuit.
When the Kings arrived home, they backed into their garage and called 911. A few minutes later they were shocked to see the pickup in front of their house. Russell said he believed he saw the driver retrieve a gun from the vehicle.
What happened next is not in dispute. Here is the report on 28 April, from nbcdfw.com:
A state trooper who was shot in the shoulder near Haslet on Friday afternoon has been released from the hospital and the sole suspect is in custody, officials say.
The incident happened before 3 p.m. in the 500 block of Salida Road. Officials said they arrested one person at the scene.
The trooper was hospitalized at John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth on Friday. His injuries were described as serious but not life-threatening, a MedStar spokesman said.
(Excerpt) Read more at ammoland.com ...
Is this worth a ping?
Should never have even been arrested.
Not enough information in this article to agree or disagree with this grand jury, but I’m darn glad to live in Texas where protecting yourself and your home is allowed by the law. Would like to know more of the details but the grand jury testimony is not public information.
I would love to know the back story here.
Gotta love Texas.
Go to the “audit the audit” YouTube channel. Amazing events regarding police encounters, and ridiculously good and thorough analysis.
On the surface, it looks like a ‘roided up LEO with no I.D. put the homeowner in fear of his life and got shot for it.
I watch those videos. He has a pretty solid understanding of what is right and wrong with police activity.
Why wasn’t the Trooper Charged with Multiple Felonies like:
Terrorism
Attempted Home Invasion
Attempted Kidnapping
Reckless Driving
Reckless Endangerment
Using a Firearm during the Commission of a Violent Felony
...
If I call 911 I expect someone in uniform to respond. I don’t expect my harasser, who shouldn’t know my address, to come.
Bkmk
They certainly show that anyone wanting a badge and gun should be looked at with at least some suspicion and evaluated very thoroughly. They also show the us VS. them attitudes that develop in the cop shops. Their “safety” concerns trump the public rights.
“Go to the “audit the audit” YouTube channel.”
I’ve gotten hung up watching those videos several times. I find them very depressing due to the idiocy of the police. Even when they’re wrong, and proven to be wrong, their egos just won’t let them walk away. It’s funny, though, how they have to have the last word just about every time.
And to be frank, some of the auditors are a$$holes. They simply won’t “let it go”. Sometimes both sides are guilty of escalating. Don’t get me wrong, it’s usually when they are in the right and don’t want to let the cop get away with just dropping it. I suppose that is what auditing is about.
I also see some horrendous “DWB” pullovers that are simply not acceptable. If I were a cop and saw a black man in one of those situations and thought about doing a Terry stop or similar, I’d ask myself, if he was white would I be considering it? If the answer is no, I should back off.
It sounds like he was not arrested. He was cuffed and questioned but released. It sounds like the investigating officers knew the trooper screwed up.
I watch those audit the audit vids all the time. 😆
“Any police department (or university faculty, or military unit, etc.) is only as good as the worst psycho they tolerate.” ~ H/T RedStateRocker
Russell need to move far, far away right now!
Did Officer 'Roid Rage pass his required psych eval before he was hired anyway?
Dr. Clarissa Cole on After Hours AM April 17, 2019
(Start at 1:18:31)
Dr. Cole: He had an epiphany; he was going to become a cop!
Eric Olsen: Ha ha ha what??? Uh, so, wait a minute, he was told by a former employer, if you ever, you better never get a job where you have influence over others, an authority position, or I’ll do whatever it takes to stop you. So wouldn’t becoming a cop kinda give him the ultimate authority over people?
Dr. Cole: Well, you know, lucky for all these other people, he kept moving from county to county so they weren’t really, uh, yeah, it is the ultimate authority he was just moving around so people wouldn’t know what he was doing, and I think getting out of the teaching profession they didn’t know what he was going to do.
He eventually applied to the Broward County Police Unit; he was rejected, though, because he failed the psychological test.
Eric Olsen: Oh that’s it he’s out of the career. No career for him He’s obviously unstable…
Dr. Cole: One, you know what? One would think so, and I actually used to perform these psych tests, and oh, do I have stories! You would think that it would even, it’s supposed to, let me tell you how it’s supposed to work, it’s supposed to prevent you from getting a job as a police officer or a prison guard.
Eric Olsen: Sure.
Dr. Cole: Does that always occur?
Eric Olsen: I would hope that it does.
Dr. Cole: No, no, no, I would say 50% of the time.
Eric Olsen: What?
Dr. Cole: It’s supposed to be a be a requirement, a REQUIREMENT, if you don’t pass, if you are not psychologically fit, you are not supposed to become a police officer or a prison guard. Does that actually preclude you from becoming a police officer even as long ago as what, 2005? No, I was doing them in 2005. Half of the people I rejected still became a cop.
Eric Olsen: How does that happen? How do they get around this?
Dr. Cole: Oh God there so many ways
Eric Olsen: Is it a buddy, a dad?
Dr. Cole: My son, he’s the son of my buddy, his dad is a cop, he has to be a cop, he’s going to work in this county and we’re really understaffed, we need people, we know he failed, but it’s OK. The amount of excuses I heard to employ people.
And that’s the thing, just so the general public is aware, it’s difficult to fail, it’s difficult to fail one of these psychological…
Eric Olsen: What would cause one…
Dr. Cole: It’s not like the bar is so darned high that no one could pass, it’s nothing LIKE that, this test is just to find out is this person basically psychologically stable, are they non-sadistic, do they not have criminal or punishing tendencies or narcissistic tendencies themselves. Basically you’re trying to weed out anybody that has a like God complex; I’m judge, jury, and executioner. You want to get those people out of there. You’re trying to get people out of there that are just psychiatrically so unstable that they can’t control their emotions so, maybe some sort of bipolar thing going on or somebody that absolutely clearly has a personality disorder, like narcissistic personality disorder, antisocial personality disorder, borderline personality disorder. They are not
Eric Olsen: Checks and balances. Checks and balances to protect the general public from somebody that would not do well in that position.
Dr. Cole: And I was very, yeah, I was extremely, forgiving on these psychological tests even when somebody would sort of hit sort of some of those marks on the tests we would give, I would ask in interviews I would ask a ton of questions just to be very, very sure that this person was indeed failing the psychological exam, and I did not fail that many people, but the people I failed, please believe me that it was for extremely good reasons, extremely good reasons, and half of them became cops anyway.
Eric Olsen: So when they‘d leave would they go to a different state and do it?
Dr. Cole: Hah no, they would get hired by different a county, like a couple minutes over usually. Somebody knew them and “Now let’s pick them up.” “No, no, no, he has really strong sadistic tendencies and fantasies of rape and murder, you really shouldn’t hire him” and they would. And that’s exactly, I hope it’s different that was like I said, this was in 2005, it scared the heck out of me and I said I would never have a career doing that I don’t want to know that those people are becoming officers.
Eric Olsen: Tell me it’s in the minority, though, that this happens.
Dr. Cole: It’s in the minority that people fail, the majority of people passed. But those that do fail, like I said it’s for very good reason, but half of them. Half of them got picked up. So no, it’s not a minority a full 50% got hired.
Eric Olsen: That is truly a scary number out there that 50% of...
Dr. Cole: It’s a small sample, a small sample that was in a place that was economically depressed and needed officers…
(End at 1:23:29)
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