3.8 thousand “hearts.”
NPR, in an abominable piece of deceitful journalism two years ago about Ferguson, Mo. ten years after a young black thug there got himself shot in self-defense by a police officer, and his buddy’s lies were immediately accepted as truth by a biased, corrupt news media, wrote in part…
Right. “Many” maintain that justice was never served because of lying, divisive, race-huckster, police-vilifying ethics villains like Rep. Tlaib, who deliberately and repeatedly maintain that facts don’t matter. It isn’t an opinion that Mike Brown was murdered. It is a destructive false narrative designed to keep racial distrust and anger perpetually high. She is a member of Congress. For a House member to make a public statement so irresponsible, dishonest, and corrosive to society isn’t just grounds for censure, it demands censure.
Ethics Alarms 
This situation inspires one to wonder what do those perpetuating this incredibly damaging lie receive to doing so. After a bit of thinking, it occurs to me the damage is reward. These people want to deconstruct or outright destroy our society. They are enemies, not political opponents with differing views on how to make America better. They want to end America and become tyrants over us using mob rule.
I am left only with the hope of them suffering horrible fates and having enough tools at my disposal to mete it out myself if personally attacked should their scheme succeed.
Depressing.
Who poses for his graduation picture making such an intimidating face?
“Who poses for his graduation picture making such an intimidating face?”
Someone who didn’t graduate because of his…um…academic rigor…?
PWS
Commonly athletes pose with an intimidating or intense facial expression.
But just for fun, let’s grab a bunch of highschool yearbooks and compare all the pictures to see if we can figure out an answer to your question.
I wasn’t sure exactly what happened until I read Darren Wilson’s testimony. Once I read what he said, I realized that he was probably telling the truth and everyone else, including the other police, were trying to throw him to the wolves.
What did he say? He said that in the struggle, he pulled the trigger didn’t work,it. He kept trying until it fired.
What he was describing was the out-of-battery safety. In a semi-auto, if you push the slide back, it will open the breech and start to extract the round (out-of-battery). The gun isn’t sealed. If the round goes off in this condition, the brass could rupture and the slide could move back so violently that it could come off the gun and hit the shooter. Pistols have safety mechanisms to make sure you can’t fire the gun in such a condition. Wilson’s testimony was that he was in a physical fight with Brown and Brown’s body was pushing on the end of the gun, putting it out-of-battery.
The problem was that the chief firearms instructor from St. Louis was brought in to testify as an expert witness and he said that Wilson’s testimony was false. The gun should have gone ‘click’ when out-of-battery, it doesn’t go into a ‘dead trigger’ state where the trigger just flops around. Wilson was lying because the gun should have gone ‘click’ when out-of-battery, not a dead trigger.
Wilson was then asked if he was mistaken. Wilson didn’t change his story. He insisted the gun didn’t click, it was dead trigger.
Why do I think Wilson was telling the truth? The St. Louis police firearms instructor is correct that Glock pistols go ‘click’ in that situation. However, different firearms manufacturers use different methods to prevent an out-of-battery detonation. Sig Sauer uses a different mechanism, so the trigger is dead when out-of-battery. Wilson had a Sig. The ‘expert’ was unfamiliar with any firearms but Glocks. They were trying to get Wilson to change his story and he didn’t even though they painted him as a liar. It is doubtful that Darren Wilson knew what the gun did out-of-battery until that instance, so his correct description lended some credibility to his account.
If you remember, the two competing stories were that Wilson shot Brown when Brown was standing in the street posing no threat and that Wilson shot Brown during a struggle inside Wilson’s police car. The out-of-battery observation wouldn’t have happened in the first scenario, but is likely in the second. Now there obviously was other evidence, but the out-of-battery testimony was what I saw in the media, as it tried to paint Wilson as a liar.
I’ve got two Glocks, one has a NY+ trigger installed as it is a retired police duty weapon. Both behave slightly differently depending on the slide’s position.
Both will release the striker (and fire if chambered, but I’m not going to test function in this state!) one to two millimeters displacement, but just prior to the point the Browning tilt-locking surfaces of the barrel and slide have fully disengaged, the triggers both pull and return without any “click” from the trigger bar leaving the striker’s sear surface (usually resulting in a “BANG” drowning out any other perceived sound).
The trigger’s return force is coming from the striker spring. This distance is also the furthest the slide will retract from only pressure on the barrel.
They’re different after this point–once the chamber begins to open, the civilian Glock indeed clicks–but this isn’t a striker disengage click, this is the trigger spring fully retracting the trigger with a slight force, because the trigger safety had been holding the trigger forward and was deactivated by the finger on the face of the trigger.
On the police NY+ Glock, instead of a retracting spring pulling the trigger bar up and rearward, it’s a compressed spring only pushing the trigger bar upward. This gives a friction trigger that moves rearward with slight pressure and no click.
Both trigger designs return to a fully operating state if the slide is allowed to return to battery, regardless of what was done to the trigger while out of battery.
“The problem was that the chief firearms instructor from St. Louis was brought in to testify as an expert witness and he said that Wilson’s testimony was false. The gun should have gone ‘click’ when out-of-battery, it doesn’t go into a ‘dead trigger’ state where the trigger just flops around.”
I’d walk up to that chief firearms instructor, look him straight in the eye, and tell him that I know, and he knows that he’s an INTENTIONAL liar! I have multiple Glocks and none of them go “click” when out of battery, NONE and neither do any of my other pistols. The only thing that person is “expert” in is lying!
I’ve been a firearm shooter, instructor, training NCO, range officer, both in the military and the civilian world for well over 40 years. This is always part of basic firearms function training for semi-auto pistols, always.
All pistols that have a reciprocating slide and locking barrel, regardless of whether it’s a 1911 styled pistol or a striker fired pistol, as the slide/barrel is pushed out of battery from the front (the barrel and the slide move rearward together) it causes the trigger to go dead, as in it can be pulled/squeezed (yes it moves) but it does nothing, that’s why it’s been called a dead trigger for over a hundred years, this isn’t something new that that “expert” hasn’t caught up on yet.
Depending on the firearm you might feel some of the internal parts rubbing against each other as you squeeze the trigger, Glock’s are like that, but there is definitely not anything that could be remotely considered a “click”, not in any way shape of form; I just verified this with mine. This dead trigger is intentionally built into the pistol design, it’s actually one of the safeties in a semi-auto pistol and it cannot be disabled. There are ways of counteracting this out of battery safety in emergency life threatening situations where someone is pushing their body against the front of the pistol, but it only works if the pistol has a manual safety that physically prevents the slide from moving, this counteraction can only be performed by operators that are full trained in the technique.
There are only a few pistols on the market that do not have this safety built into the design and that’s because they are typically not locking barrels, they are designed as blow back action for low powered cartridges. In these pistols the barrels are fixed in some way and do not allowed any movement rearward. Also, revolvers do not have this kind of safety, their barrel is fixed.
That chief firearms instructor intentionally lied in court in an obvious effort to try and make it look like the police officer lied. It’s not spin or a matter of personal opinion; that morally bankrupt “expert” openly lied in court, and he knew he was lying under oath.
There is also the fact that Michael Brown was shot in the hand, and that shot left residue in the officer’s car, confirming Wilson’s claim that there was a struggle in the car. That evidence is very different than “gunned down in the street.”
So the “expert” offered an opinion, as if it were fact, about the behavior of a pistol under the described conditions when he based that on a pistol he was familiar with, even though the pistol in question was another kind of pistol, both in manufacturer as well as function. Nice.
Not having watched the trial, did the lawyer ask for the weapon in question during the trial? I would presume it would be entered into evidence.
It would have been lovely to hand the “expert” the actual firearm and ask him to demonstrate in front of the jury how it would work.
I have a LEO trade-in Sig P226. The only “click” the trigger makes when the slide is pushed back is the almost inaudible sound of the back of the trigger hitting the frame.
My reply to Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s post on X is as follows…
I’m sure that Rep. Tlaib has access to and knows absolutely all the facts in this case; therefore, I can only conclude that Rep. Tlaib is a morally bankrupt liar trying to gin up hate.
Why do people keep voting for morally bankrupt anti-American people like Rep. Tlaib?
Tlaib and her radical cohorts don’t give a flying fig about Michael Brown. This is just another campaign ploy to gin up passion for the upcoming elections. So many people don’t remember the facts but do remember ‘hands up.’ They are lying sacks of dung, but it’s an effective strategy.
This is true. The useful idiots and the criminal martyrs are right out of a totalitarian playbook. All totalitarian regimes turn thugs into righteous martyrs.
I just finished Richard Wright’s Native Son about an African-American in WWII-era America who accidentally kills a white woman and, fearing for his life, covers it up. His continued poor choices make the situation far worse. His Communist Party-provided lawyer, trying to save his life, argues that the sytemic racism that made this man what he was informed his choices.
We are far past the time when Bigger Thomas would have been in danger for being in the company of a white woman but the narrative of systemic racism continues. Bigger Thomas’ poor choices condemned him; Michael Brown’s poor choices condemned him, too.
I am proud to say that my American Century Theater revived Orson Welles’ stage version of “Native Son,” one or the rare times it has been presented since his Mercury Theater production. The WaPo refused to review it, but Danny Glover came to a performance and was vocal in the post show discussion.
I just met Danny Glover this past weekend at Fan Expo Chicago! He was doing a duo photo with Mel Gibson. We don’t expect much but we do ask the talent to do jazz hands for the photo if they would like. Danny tried. Mel stood there like a cardboard standee. We’re not mad. We’ve giggled for days about how an 80-year old man with Alzheimer’s Disease outdid his younger, healthier, more famous co-star.