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Sonia Sotomayor saved from danger: Supreme Court Justice's bodyguard shoots gun-wielding suspect who tried to steal his car outside her DC home
Daily Mail ^ | 9 July 2024 | JOSH BOSWELL and PETER SEMLER

Posted on 07/09/2024 7:35:10 AM PDT by artichokegrower

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To: artichokegrower
I agree with Justice Sotomayor that shooting criminals in self defense is an excellent idea!

Hooray for Justice Sotomayor!

41 posted on 07/09/2024 8:10:36 AM PDT by grundle
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To: xp38
Well she has a lot of body to guard so to speak.

Snicker.

42 posted on 07/09/2024 8:11:07 AM PDT by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump)
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To: Da Coyote

“Did he not double-tap? “

He fired four times through the window. His buddy got out of another car and also fired.


43 posted on 07/09/2024 8:20:01 AM PDT by TexasGator
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To: artichokegrower

His car was in danger...not Sotomayor.


44 posted on 07/09/2024 8:21:14 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Never Trust A Man Whose Uncle Was Eaten By Cannibals)
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To: The Sons of Liberty

Gotta get the headline out there to make it seem some MAGA hat wearing white supremacist with a noose garage door puller was trying to assassinate the wise latina moron.


45 posted on 07/09/2024 8:22:10 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: artichokegrower

Do we know the location?

In what part of DC did this occur?


46 posted on 07/09/2024 8:32:53 AM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: ridesthemiles
IF this “Bodyguard isn’t qualified to drop ANY perp with one shot-—then he needs to be replaced”.

Did you read the complaint attached to the article? The van with the accused perpetrator pulled up alongside the "government vehicle" and the perp jumped out and pointed the gun at the complainant through the car window. The way it reads, assuming it was a car and not a SUV, would be shooting *up* and through glass at an angle where he may not have been able to see the head of the perp. That's a bad angle on a very close-range shot. Catching him in the mouth with a round or a round and glass is a likely outcome.

I'm not sure what scenarios you train for, but unholstering your weapon in a car and immediately firing through glass and making contact (though not killing the perp) is a good outcome that doesn't offer much indication of how qualified the bodyguard is at using his weapon.

47 posted on 07/09/2024 8:35:46 AM PDT by mjustice (Apparently common sense isn't so common.)
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To: mac_truck
Do we know the location?

In what part of DC did this occur?


11th Street, NW. It's in the complaint attached to the article.
48 posted on 07/09/2024 8:37:13 AM PDT by mjustice (Apparently common sense isn't so common.)
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To: artichokegrower

Anyone else does that in DC to a carjacker, they’ll be thrown into the DC jail and then the key and the cell will be thrown away.


49 posted on 07/09/2024 8:42:55 AM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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To: artichokegrower

Did Sonia telling her bodyguard to go on a shooting spree after her dissent in the Trump immunity case?


50 posted on 07/09/2024 9:05:09 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: artichokegrower

So basically the US Marshall employed Texas rules instead of DC rules. If this is allowed to stand, everyone arrested over shooting to protect property can cite this case and raise selective prosecution concerns.


51 posted on 07/09/2024 9:30:09 AM PDT by Salvavida
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To: Salvavida

I don’t see it as protecting his property at that distance. There’s no guarantee that if he gave up the car that he wouldn’t be shot anyway. In the complaint the complainant stated that he was wearing a US Marshal polo at the time of the incident. While I agree that everyone should be able to defend themselves from being carjacked, when a clearly-armed suspect points their weapon at you, it’s no longer about the property they want to take.


52 posted on 07/09/2024 9:33:29 AM PDT by mjustice (Apparently common sense isn't so common.)
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To: artichokegrower

Darwinism at work.


53 posted on 07/09/2024 9:41:24 AM PDT by Midwesterner53
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To: Leaning Right

I remember that. She totally blindsided him with that - all he was there for was to plug a book. That’s it.

Shameless doesn’t begin to describe it.


54 posted on 07/09/2024 9:45:35 AM PDT by Thorium90
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To: gibsonguy
This suggests an idea for an action comedy movie like the Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard. I can see it now The Guard for the Car used by the Wide Latina Judge's Bodyguards.
55 posted on 07/09/2024 9:45:48 AM PDT by Rockingham
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To: The Sons of Liberty

Very misleading headline. Doesn’t seem like the carjacker knew anything about Sotomayor, he was just after the car.


56 posted on 07/09/2024 9:53:54 AM PDT by ConjunctionJunction (Vim vi repellere licet)
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To: mjustice
...when a clearly-armed suspect points their weapon at you, it’s no longer about the property they want to take

The car becomes a weapon once the carjacker gets it, so it's never about property they want to take.

https://nypost.com/2022/03/23/linda-frickey-73-killed-after-losing-arm-during-carjacking/

57 posted on 07/09/2024 9:56:16 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: artichokegrower

Is it an EV ?


58 posted on 07/09/2024 10:08:11 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: artichokegrower

And yet Antifa was allowed to run wild at ‘conservative’ Justices’ homes when they were ‘protesting’.


59 posted on 07/09/2024 10:12:38 AM PDT by imabadboy99
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To: Rockingham

Great idea


60 posted on 07/09/2024 10:18:49 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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