He’s finally arrested.
Minneapolis police are now facing heavy criticism for not arresting Sawchak before the shooting even though he had multiple complaints.
Members of the Minneapolis City Council, including Mayor Jacob Frey, pointed blame at the Minneapolis police department for not acting on any of the prior complaints against Sawchak and failing to arrest him immediately after the shooting. https://newsone.com/5658819/white-man-shoots-black-neighbor-minneapolis/
From the article:
Minnesota Senator Omar Fateh also called out MPD, demanding an independent investigation.
What are the chances of that “independent investigation” going nowhere due to “external factors”?
Once again, armed white criminals have more rights than unarmed innocent POC in this country. The police likely support what this man did.
For anyone who thinks this comment is hyperbolic, never forget Nathan Pelham the Jan 6 insurrectionist.
When police came to take him in he drunkenly shot his gun at them from his home. Shooting to kill.
The police drive away and let him “sleep it off”
Imagine if that was a black man. He and his whole family would be shredded by assault rifles.
White domestic terrorists are being coddled by law enforcement.
Arm the left.
It’s a racist institution. It stopped being good for the people decades ago. It needs to go.
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America is such a racist fucking shithole. Literally 3rd world level of prejudice. If not trump it’s gonna be someone else in four years. Idiotic societies end up with totalitarianism.
That’s what you get for pretending the issue is solved instead of actually solving it.
A nation founded on the genocide of the natives, which never accepted its roots on a base level.
Destiny: manifested
Why wait 4 years?
“We had no reason to suspect he would shoot the victim from inside his house.”
Um. OK. Finish that thought?
"We just assumed, after repeated threats to do so, he would shoot him from outside his house, so you can see where our confusion arose. When he shot from inside, we didn’t know that to do. Who would? Is it even illegal to shoot your neighbors, if you do it while inside your house? Truly a question for the ages. We had to consult attorneys about this. They said that while it’s probably perfectly legal, we should probably take him in for questioning just in case.
But, again, given this completely novel new concept of shooting from – and I want to repeat this so everyone sees why this was so confusing for us – inside his house, we worried for the safety of our officers, because we have no training for something this radically different. Fortunately the poor fellow did walk outside, and we of course immediately arrested him. He was outside his house at that point, you see?"
castle doctrine still has some validity in the modern age (IMO especially when it comes to shooting feds) and has hundreds of years of precedent.
That is such a bullshit citation of Castle Doctrine. You are borderline retarded for suggesting the idea even has merit.
With the power of Jesus and american brain rot, everything can yave some merit.
This is such an idiotic comment it literally made my feel embarrassed for you.
Call me crazy, but if you point a gun at a neighbor for any reason other than being attacked, you probably shouldn’t be allowed to have guns.
Brandishing is a crime. The issue here is it isn’t being enforced.
State laws differ and whether brandishing is considered a misdemeanor, a felony, or even a crime at all is going to depend on your state’s laws.
It’s not a crime at all in my state.
Wait for real? I could just point my gun at anyone i want and there is no law that’s being broken?! What state is that? That’s fucking crazy.
Pennsylvania. It’s an open-carry state. There is no law that says anything about brandishing.
That said, if you point a gun at someone, you are responsible for whatever happens next, including bullets flying in your direction.
(I’m not a lawyer so there might actually be a law about brandishing. I’ve just never pointed a gun at anyone so just don’t come here waving your gat around all willy nilly.)
Generally speaking, even if your state doesn’t have brandishing laws, pointing a firearm at someone is still considered assault. Assault is the unlawful attempt or threat to cause harm to another person.
There’s no specific law for brandishing a firearm because it’s charged under assault, deadly conduct, terroristic threat, menacing, and/or disorderly conduct. Often more than one charge.
I assure you, brandishing in the sense it’s used in other state law is very much illegal in Pennsylvania, and is arguably punished more severely than many states that have specific laws on the books – partially because it doesn’t have a specific law, you’re subject to the caprice of the person that brings suit and the judge. If you look up cases of this being tried in Pennsylvania, you’ll find that it’s robustly prosecuted.
This is how you get people to engage in “self help.” i.e. “I’m going to burn this motherfucker’s house down with him inside.”
Just disappear him. You don’t know shit. No evidence of anything
Yeah, my initial reaction was “well if he’s willing to shoot me I might as well shoot back”. But thinking about it, I’m a white cis man, I can’t imagine being in a situation like that and knowing that if I did retaliate I would more than likely be the one persecuted by the police.
I’m glad that, where I live, the racists find it difficult to get guns.
Just tell them he was smoking marijuana. They don’t want to deal with actual violent criminals. Those guys are scary.
Smoking marijuana, has a Harris sign in their yard, and supports the “defund the police” movement. They would be there in under five minutes with guns blazing.
agree.
although this intersection of the population isn’t causing violence :p
According to CBS News, Sawchak was taken into custody early Monday morning. Police said Sawchak had been holed up in his house for several days, but just before 1:30 a.m., he surrendered peacefully
Several days? Was this a siege? In any other case they’d torn down the house.
There must not have been any dogs or innocent bystanders to kill.
Besides, he was white, which is code for “negotiations only.”
He was white.
With Christopher Dorner they burned the house down with him in it. Apparently the Minnesota police could use some training from California police.
Edit: /s
And in Colorado, police blew up somebody’s house because a shoplifter broke in and refused to leave.
With Christopher Dorner they burned the house down with him in it.
TBF that’s less egregious than randomly shooting up cars that didn’t even match the description of Dorner’s car.
Just because the vehicle they shot up was the wrong make, model, year, color, and had two people in it that didn’t match the description in any way, shape, or form doesn’t mean the shooting wasn’t justified. They both had four wheels, did they not? Ok then.
Even that shitbag realized what he had done was wrong before the cops did.
“He should not have been shot, but I will say this: We had no reason to suspect that he would shoot the neighbor from inside the house.”
The man who was being very aggressively territorial wouldn’t shoot someone from inside his house?
No, they assumed he would go outside first.
They were really caught off guard by that and are frankly a little disappointed with the assailant.
Vengeance is what happens when the system doesn’t provide justice.
Minneapolis City Council needs to take charge of this and clean house. Police aren’t going to do it themselves, so the holder of the pursestrings is the one ultimately responsible.
Frey has vetoed any attempt to hold their feet to the fire.
Nah. Too little, too late. Send the DOJ. The City Council should separately be investigated.
The feds are already investigating the police there. They have been on a long time operation, and it is expected that it will conclude in a manner in which a lot of the department will change hands when it is over
Astounded by the mental gymnastics to say that after this person brandished a knife from inside his home saying he’ll kill someone, the police couldn’t imagine he’d shoot someone from the vantage point of his home. Incredible.
WHAT THE FUCK
