Posted on 08/15/2017 6:18:55 AM PDT by NCDragon
DURHAM, North Carolina (WTVD) -- Durham County Sheriff Mike Andrews said Tuesday his office will seek charges against protestors who pulled down a Confederate statue outside the old courthouse Monday evening.
In a statement, Sheriff Andrews said he was grateful that no one was hurt and that county leaders decided to act with restraint towards the demonstrators.
"Collectively, we decided that restraint and public safety would be our priority. As the Sheriff, I am not blind to the offensive conduct of some demonstrators nor will I ignore their criminal conduct. With the help of video captured at the scene, my investigators are working to identify those responsible for the removal and vandalism of the statue," he said.
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Best synopsis I’ve seen.
Without the other 29 Barney Fifes who would issue the revenue generating traffic tickets?
They will receive one (1) hour of community correction, lecturing local grade school children on the evils of Trump & conservatives, and their fellow deadheads will praise them as martyrs.
In Britain, “shire” is the original term for what is usually known now as a county; the word county having been introduced at the Norman Conquest of England. The two are nearly synonymous.
IF I pulled out of my driveway with a broken tail light on my truck, I wouldn’t get 500’ down the road and I’d be pulled over and ticketed.
These lawless communists can do this to a statue representing our heritage and they do NOTHING???? I ain’t buying it and whoever gave the “stand down” order needs to be fired. This is nothing but BS.
Do your job, Sheriff, or someone else will do it for ya.
I’m wondering if citizens of the jurisdictions where these statues are have any grounds to sue.
I’m sitting here wondering how the BLM would feel if the statues of Martin L. King were to be taken down. Hummmmm.
Yes, this would be the basis of discussion then. Are the county sheriffs simply keeping thirty deputies on the forces throughout most non-urban counties....just to collect on traffic tickets, or to write accident reports? If that’s the case, then the system is fully corrupted.
BLM hates Martin Luther King, because he advocated non-violence.
This sort of thing wouldn’t play well in Idaho, as item 4 should be of interest:
TITLE 18
CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS
CHAPTER 40
HOMICIDE
18-4009. JUSTIFIABLE HOMICIDE BY ANY PERSON. Homicide is also justifiable when committed by any person in either of the following cases:
1. When resisting any attempt to murder any person, or to commit a felony, or to do some great bodily injury upon any person; or,
2. When committed in defense of habitation, property or person, against one who manifestly intends or endeavors, by violence or surprise, to commit a felony, or against one who manifestly intends and endeavors, in a violent, riotous or tumultuous manner, to enter the habitation of another for the purpose of offering violence to any person therein; or,
3. When committed in the lawful defense of such person, or of a wife or husband, parent, child, master, mistress or servant of such person, when there is reasonable ground to apprehend a design to commit a felony or to do some great bodily injury, and imminent danger of such design being accomplished; but such person, or the person in whose behalf the defense was made, if he was the assailant or engaged in mortal combat, must really and in good faith have endeavored to decline any further struggle before the homicide was committed; or,
4. When necessarily committed in attempting, by lawful ways and means, to apprehend any person for any felony committed, or in lawfully suppressing any riot, or in lawfully keeping and preserving the peace.
I agree they should pay for the damage they caused. These statues cost thousands/tens of thousands of dollars. What is destroying property that is valued that much called? If they were stealing it, it would be called grand theft, but what is damage in that amount called? Plus, those statues are over 100 years old. The anarchists can’t repair that.
ISIS destroying statues...AntiFA destroying statues...😳🙏
By their fruits shall ye know them.
It’s coming more to a head - who is it who so hates the ancient history of the Confederacy that they riot and vandalize? Yes, communists - democrats. They are truly coming out and showing their stripes. So rethink your history, everyone. And they ALSO hate America, period. They will come for ALL “white” America when they’re done with the gray rebels - that is the true meaning of “progressive”.
My God, Union Federals, in the heat of battle, had less animus than these commie bastards safely removed 150 years!
That statue stood for 93 years—no problems.
It is only good for the scrap heap now.
A new statue of THREE Confederate soldiers should be erected in its place.
Paid for by the snowflake social justice warriors who ruined the first one.
We all need to re-read the history of the Chinese Cultural Revolution to see the dangers we are facing here. Without an overarching moral code the human race quickly recedes into degradation and lawlessness.
If a group pulled down a MLK statue, Obama would have sent the DOJ and FBI in there to file federal charges and investigate.
her = Shire; Rif = Reef, as in reef the sails = Secure
intresting etymology...I read it’s a combination of ‘scir’ shire, and ‘gerefa’ or a chief official, a ‘reeve’ so to speak, as we see in Chaucer’s Tales...so ‘shire reeve’, or ‘sheriff’...
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