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A random post by some AC provided a link to a video https://twitter.com/i/status/1553709678089146368
That video was interesting, but doesn't really provide details, so a search led me to Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gb1MVFDy_tw
This incorporates elements of George Floyd, and many other infamous police interactions with citizens. "I can't breathe" "I have a medical condition" "My wife is pregnant" "I'm a federal agent", and maybe best of all, when ordered to get on the ground, "It ain't happening!" SURPRISE!! IT HAPPENED!
News2Share has obtained previously unreleased footage of a July 7, 2020 incident in which ATF Agent James Burk attempted to make contact with a member of the Columbus, Ohio community, who then called 911.
When Columbus PD officers Joseph Fihe and Kevin Winchell arrived, Agent Burk did not comply with their commands, even at gunpoint. The officers tased Agent Burk in the process of subduing him.
Agent Burk - who in 2015 was charged with shoplifting wine from a Kroger grocery story - is now suing the officers for excessive force.
NO REUSE WITHOUT PERMISSION Please contact Ford Fischer at fordfischer@news2share.com or call (573) 575-NEWS to license video. Photos and additional footage may be available upon request.
Additional links:
https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/crime/2020/12/10/atf-agent-accuses-columbus-police-officers-excessive-force/6505667002/
DEERFIELD TWP., Ohio – A federal agent is charged with stealing wine from a Kroger store after employees grew suspicious and alerted authorities.
Police say ATF agent James Burk took expensive wine to the self-checkout lane and charged himself a small percent of the cost.
Burk was charged by the Warren County Sheriff's Office for stealing more than $200 in wine from the Landen Kroger.
According to deputies, they caught Burk going to the self-checkout in August and paying $19 for four bottles of wine that had a total price tag of $222.
The report says Burk bought bottles of Stag's Leap Wine priced at $62.99 and $33.99, but the code he entered charged him only $4.99.
According to the report, Kroger employees had grown suspicious of Burk and began watching him. They said he did the same thing multiple times.
https://redoubtnews.com/2021/02/when-feds-think-they-are-above-the-law/
When Feds Think They Are Above The Law
Throughout the entire encounter, Burk screamed multiple excuses as to why he should not be treated the way the Feds treat regular people every day.
And, none of the above addresses the issue of ATF agents knocking on doors, demanding to see your weapons, without a warrant. Similar instances have been documented around the country, but in most cases the agents are cooperating with local or state cops in uniform, as opposed to showing up in civilian clothes, claiming to be a federal agent.
Agent Burk is an embarrassment to any non-Nazi, non-fascist law enforcement agency.
(Score: 0, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 01 2022, @03:10PM (20 children)
Last journal entry not going quite the way you hoped again?
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 01 2022, @03:15PM (3 children)
This off-topic nonsense will soon be moderated "spam". Enjoy your off-topic mod, this time.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 01 2022, @10:42PM
Modding my comment down as "off-topic"? "Spam"? "Flamebait"? Very well, then. Your choice. Of course, you could take the hint and modify your behavior. Maybe be a bit less of as troll. But if you would rather dig yourself deeper into that hole, well...who am I to object?
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 02 2022, @01:58AM (1 child)
Speaking of spam mods, the next time Runaway posts some of his conspiracy theories about teachers grooming children into the gay lifestyle, I will mod Runaway spam. There is ample precedent that overt bigotry can be modded spam and the admins will allow it to stand. The best example is Ethanol-fueled's rants, many posted anonymously, that say awful and ridiculous things about Jews. Those have routinely been modded spam, and those mods have not been overturned. Runaway's posts about grooming are effectively the same thing: blatant bigotry, posting a ridiculous conspiracy theory for the purpose of stoking hate against a group of people for who they are. Because of the precedent that the admins have established, spam modding bigotry that Runaway posts should be permitted and not reversed. I trust that the admins will do the right thing. Runaway should be held accountable the way anonymous posters are, and the way Ethanol-fueled has been. The next time I see Runaway post a comment alleging that teachers are grooming young children to be gay, I will spam mod it. Ethanol-fueled and anonymous cowards are rightly spam modded for similar behavior. Runaway should not be above the law.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 02 2022, @04:39PM
Lol, point out truth, get modded -1
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 01 2022, @04:03PM (5 children)
Amazing that he didn't blame it all on Grandpa Joe.
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by Runaway1956 on Monday August 01 2022, @04:17PM (4 children)
Thank you for mentioning Creepy Joe. Fact is, Joe ordered the ATF to carry out the Nazi "inspections" that Burk was engaged in when he was subdued and arrested.
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/06/23/biden-crack-down-illegal-guns-495751 [politico.com]
The Gestapo is not only beating on citizen's doors, demanding to see recent purchases, they are also shutting down legitimate dealers whose only offense may be typographical errors on a form. (If you misspell a word, that's enough to be shut down, or transpose a character in a serial number, or . . . whatever the ATF can dream up.)
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 01 2022, @04:34PM
Agent Burk is lucky he wasn't a poc.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 01 2022, @04:37PM (2 children)
Does Runaway have any illegal guns? The ATF wants to know.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 02 2022, @09:41AM (1 child)
He has a Remington Model 700 in .270 Winchester, which has a defective trigger mechanism. Given how easily Runaway hisself is triggered, if he gets so het up that he loads some live rounds for the first time in 30 years, we may not hear from him anymore. All any ammosexual really wants: to die with their boots on, standing their ground, in gunfire. If the best you can do is an accidental discharge, well, so be it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 02 2022, @06:30PM
It's a fine piece of equipment. Learned touch-typing on a Remington Electric Typewriter, myself.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by DeathMonkey on Monday August 01 2022, @05:56PM (6 children)
Have you ever noticed how he wants to murder exactly 6 million of us for wrongthink?
Such a specific number..... I wonder if it relates to any......issues......he may have?
(Score: 3, Interesting) by DeathMonkey on Monday August 01 2022, @06:00PM
Haha, can't defend your own damn words, eh Runaway?
(Score: 3, Informative) by DeathMonkey on Monday August 01 2022, @06:51PM (4 children)
I would suggest NOT putting Nazis in the title if you don't want anyone to mention Nazis.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 02 2022, @03:35AM (3 children)
I would suggest NOT putting death in absolutely everything you do here, if you don't want anyone to think you have this unhealthy deathophilia.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday August 02 2022, @05:43PM (2 children)
Runaway wants me dead but I'm the asshole for mentioning it!
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 02 2022, @06:26PM (1 child)
Nah, you were always an asshole.
With time, some people do improve. You're the one who voluntarily put "Death" in your handle and your posts. Maybe you could add Pox.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 02 2022, @06:45PM
And, you know that if somebody actually wanted you dead, you would be quaking in your Kinetic Impact Strap Slip-On Sneakers, not quacking. Learn how to cry wolf!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 01 2022, @08:27PM
Spanked! Again! Almost double spanked! Now let's talk about Chad Wolf, who didn't steal any bottles of wine, but aided and abetted stealing a whole country.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 02 2022, @03:26AM (1 child)
I cried because I was moderated -1, until I met a man who had no point at all.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 02 2022, @09:19PM
Sigh. Throwing good material down a hole.
(Score: 0, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 01 2022, @04:05PM (5 children)
ICFI/SEP/IWA-RFC:
With support of ILWU bureaucracy, Oakland city and port officials sue truckers to stop protests against AB5 law [wsws.org]
Support Will Lehman for UAW president! [wsws.org]
Handcuffed Georgia woman dies in police custody after ‘falling’ out of moving squad car [wsws.org]
2,500 people killed by police in the US since 2015 were attempting to flee [wsws.org]
Over objections of victim’s family, Alabama prisoner executed after US Supreme Court denies stay [wsws.org]
Final two officers involved in George Floyd murder sentenced for civil rights offenses [wsws.org]
Thousands pay their respects at funeral of veteran Sri Lankan Trotskyist Wije Dias [wsws.org]
David North’s tribute to Wije Dias [wsws.org]
(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday August 01 2022, @06:44PM (4 children)
Once again, we see the ridiculous fruit of California's AB5 law [wikipedia.org] which attempted to target Uber drivers (forcing them to be considered employees instead of independent contractors). Instead, it has clobbered a bunch of other people doing a bunch of legit work - here, those independent truck drivers. And due to a proposition that passed in 2020 ridesharing businesses like Uber are exempt. So the law doesn't apply any more to its original intended target.
Just some more roadkill in the California adventure.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 01 2022, @08:27PM (3 children)
Stay mad bruh ;^)
(Score: -1, Troll) by khallow on Monday August 01 2022, @09:17PM (2 children)
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Monday August 01 2022, @09:54PM (1 child)
Sure, it'll happen right after we achieve cold fusion.
There's about 3 states in this union that are not SUBSIDIZED by CA and I'm guessing you ain't in any of them!
(Score: 0, Troll) by khallow on Tuesday August 02 2022, @01:16AM
Indeed. They're subsidizing at least half a million former Californians a year. As to your concept of subsidy, keep in mind that a lot of federal spending goes to California firms no matter the state it's spent in. Of course, they won't stay California firms... but for now, that subsidy isn't a subsidy of states.
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 01 2022, @04:51PM (8 children)
This is not a serious journal? Who would bother posting such a non-story about an agent that needs to be fired. Shoplifting wine and scaring aomeone? Local cops in every town regularly do worse, but conservatives don't care about that because they like cops busting heads, when those heads are brown, black, poor ir liberal. What white privilege on display for posting this journal and whining about criticiams. Top marks for cowardly sniveling runaway.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 01 2022, @05:41PM (1 child)
Privileges are fun. I can do whatever I want, because I'm privileged. You say so, so it must be so.
Now, tell me, which is better. Should I be deprived of my privileges, or would you rather exercise the same privileges that I do? If you choose the former, you are the fascist. If you choose the latter, you will condemn Sleepy Joe and his ATF agents banging on people's doors, demanding to look at their "arsenals".
Now, why don't you run out and join the growing number of demographics who are arming up in preparation for the boogaloo?
https://mynews4.com/news/local/new-gun-ownership-and-mental-health [mynews4.com]
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 01 2022, @06:52PM
I prefer people to have freedoms, but types like runaway sure keep supporting the fascists actively curtailing our righta. Sadly rightwingers are incapable of critical thinking and simply memorize the talking points from Fox. Every day is a new reality, didja know the GOP is a Russian cheer squad now? I am serious, no really they are!
(Score: 2, Informative) by DeathMonkey on Monday August 01 2022, @05:58PM (5 children)
If there's one thing I DEFINITSELY want to do here it's click on fucking Youtube and Twitter links!
Good lord man, use your words.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 01 2022, @06:15PM (3 children)
Runaway mod abuse! Runaway is the new ari!
(Score: 2, Touché) by DeathMonkey on Monday August 01 2022, @06:22PM (1 child)
Gotta love getting modded down for complaining about Youtube and Twitter on THIS fucking website!
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Monday August 01 2022, @06:27PM
Runaway, maybe you could just use your words to tell me what's on topic here 'cause all I'm seeing is a bunch of randomness strung together.
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Friday August 05 2022, @05:44PM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 05 2022, @03:52PM
Stupid cunt, don't click the links.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 01 2022, @05:57PM
Could be a UKuck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j82C_p1T1Ds [youtube.com]
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 01 2022, @08:24PM
In other news, there is this:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/08/01/reffitt-sentence-jan6/ [washingtonpost.com]
If that was Runaway, by the time he got out, he'd be slightly younger than Joe Biden.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 01 2022, @08:29PM (1 child)
Yes please, much better than the fascist fatass. I like my POTUS skinnier than Homer Simpson.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 05 2022, @05:45PM
Of course you would prefer Charles Montgomery Burns. Excellent!
"Smithers, oh, hang the hounds... release our strategic oil reserves, immediately!"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 01 2022, @10:47PM (12 children)
Last week's mindblowing headline for me, didn't even cause a ripple among the left. Meaning: here. Simply, it was, Freedomfest, and John Cleese Blasts Wokeness As The "Death Of Creativity" at z-e-r-o-h-e-d-g-e (don't tell anybody what that spells). On another place, it was "John Cleese tells F*x N*ws D*g*t*l no comedian should be 'canceled' for a joke," with unfortunately an auto-start video.
I mean, this web site (which shall be nameless) complains about humor, is glad to see AC posts gone because of humor, which they don't get, and found a waste of time. Think about that, a crowd looking critically first and last. Watched Holy Grail again after those articles... what a different world. I altered the direction of a chapter after pondering the whole mess.
Bring out your dead!
Thud!
Bring out your dead!
Big Thud!
Bring out... hey, I'm offended about something!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 01 2022, @11:12PM (1 child)
Cancel this AC. For a Clown Phish, he's not that funny.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 02 2022, @03:22AM
(Sometimes we do things for ourselves.)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 02 2022, @04:30PM (4 children)
Poor old folks like Cleese, counter culture for their time so they think they're "outlandish" humor is the type people are no longer liking. Wr9ng! People enjoy jokes just fine, but punching down and general bigotry are now culturally taboo. Yay evolution of society! Poor old people just see "normal" topics now "canceled" and they refuse to change. EVERYONE ELSE MUST BE WRONG! They forget that not every human is an innocent joker going for light hearted laughs.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 02 2022, @06:05PM (3 children)
Help! Help! I'm being offended! Come and see the inequity inherent in the world!
Yeah, that's the point, but you see it from the other side. The dark side. In the postwar era, Victorian stuffiness and puritanical taboos were discarded, people were free. Now, it's re-doubling-down on the Dark Ages. One could hope it's cyclical, with another Renaissance on some distant horizon. Until then, it's all intellectual Dark Ages, every day, a future that looks like running around nekked, flailing acronym flags and clown ornamentation, with sensory-deprivation masks for every orifice... burning our heritage, our history and knowledge along the way.
Nobody noticed the Dark Ages, until the light went out.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 03 2022, @04:27PM (1 child)
Hey chicken little, there are real problems to worry about if you care.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 03 2022, @05:09PM
College loans, polar bears or misgendering?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 03 2022, @11:34PM
> In the postwar era, Victorian stuffiness and puritanical taboos were discarded...
The more I think about it, this new age began much earlier. There were dirty books and French postcards in the 1800s. But there were always taboos... public morals and values. George Carlin expressed it in his "The Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television" monologue. In fact, you can trace the leftward slide to The Great Depression era, when George Soros was a young pup. And in time, it all slid so far that we went from "The Love That Dare Not Say Its Name," to "The Love That Won't Shut Up." And the slide to censorship has taken a planned turn, to become a weapon of the left.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 02 2022, @06:17PM (2 children)
Fine, I get it! Now, here are the links:
John Cleese Blasts Wokeness As The "Death Of Creativity" [zerohedge.com]
John Cleese says wokeness has a 'disastrous' impact on comedy [foxnews.com]
If you don't like The Dark Ages, try The New Age Of Orwellianism [zerohedge.com]
Ni!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 03 2022, @11:31PM (1 child)
At least you are consistent.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 03 2022, @11:37PM
I'm so glad you missed my near-simultaneous update post.
"Mongo only pawn in game of life..."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 04 2022, @05:40PM
And then one fine day
After the civilized world is free of all bad knowledge
You will be sitting under a tree
Enjoying your controlled environment
An apple will fall from the tree
And it strike you
And you will have apples banned from your civilized world
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 06 2022, @05:37PM
- Sweet Karma: Rabid ‘Social Justice ‘ Movement Implodes, Self-Cannibalizes [thedailybell.com]
So, this Polack, a Dago and a Negro walk into a bar... one day soon, maybe you will be able to hear the punchline over all the screaming.