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/
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.
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.
MPD told the HCAO they do not intend to execute the warrant ‘for reasons of officer safety,'” the Minneapolis City Council said in a letter.
This… this boggles. This is almost Uvalde-level cowardice. What’s the point of gifting military armored vehicles, gear, weapons, and training to police departments if they won’t use them to <checks article> execute an arrest warrant for attempted murder?
The command structure responsible needs to be regifted to other agencies that are bad at Google searches.
yes, they need all their tactical gear, cars, salaries and guns taken away if they refuse to do their jobs. Issue them some etch a sketches and chromebooks.
Oh, didn’t you know? The police are under NO requirement to protect at the individual level.
The Supreme Court of the United States explained that it is a “fundamental principle of American law that a government and its agents are under no general duty to provide public services, such as police protection, to any individual citizen.”
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.
I always thought it’s just the other countries. Then Germany got the AFD and I was very surprised. Shouldn’t have been in hindsight. Keep your eyes open for the problems happening at home too.
I am not saying that the US has advanced way further already regarding the fascist problem.
“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.
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.
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.
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.
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
