Wisconsin man accused of robbing gun shop and sending 161-page manifesto to Trump has been found after 10-day search https://t.co/ieUVbzXs5v
— The New York Times (@nytimes) April 14, 2017
All too normal, in these United States of the NRA:
More than 150 local, state and federal law enforcement officials had been searching for Jakubowski, whom authorities suspected of stealing at least 16 high-end firearms April 4 from a gun shop in Janesville, a town not far from Wisconsin’s southern border. Police said he had written a 161-page antigovernment and anti-religion manifesto, which he apparently mailed to President Trump at the White House…
The Rock County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement that local authorities in Vernon County received a call late Thursday about a man matching Jakubowski’s description who was camping and refused to leave the area.
About 6 a.m. Friday, officers approached Jakubowski, who was found under a tarp on the property with four handguns, one long gun, boxes of ammunition, a samurai sword, containers of flammable liquid, a protective helmet and vest, and a copy of his manifesto, authorities said. He was taken into custody without incident, authorities said, and is being taken to Rock County to face charges…
Moore, the Janesville police chief, said last week that Jakubowski has had run-ins with local authorities, including one incident in which he tried to disarm an officer.
But, he said, police had not seen his “antigovernment or terrorist-type” behavior.
“That is a new element for all of us,” Moore said. “Most of his activities have been anger-driven either toward the officers or toward other individuals, but not the antigovernment rhetoric, and that is a new piece to this investigation.”…
No (official) word on the other high-end firearms. Since this originated in the Speaker’s home town, am I a bad person that my first thought was “Somebody check Paul Ryan’s gun safe?”
EBT
You should bold the part about being under a tarp too. Very Finicumesq save for not being shot after taunting feds.
Duane
Too many guns.
NotMax
Pace Daria: Sick Sad World.
Meanwhile oin the other side of the globe –
Two things about this:
1) Nary so much as a murmur from the administration here
2) Asking Russia to investigate? Go on, pull the other one.
Another thing Dolt 45 will announce is “complicated.”
Villago Delenda Est
They did not WANT to see it. He’s a white guy. He’s OK. Now, if he was a “Black Lives Matter” activist, who didn’t rob a gun store, they’d probably have shot him in the back.
Mike G
@NotMax:
Everything is “simple”…when you’re an arrogant dumbshit braggart who doesn’t bother to learn anything about the situation.
Republicanism = magical thinking and willful ignorance.
Giving lazy moral cowards an excuse not to think.
NotMax
@Mike G
Would call them manichaean but they’d think that referred to some kind of pasta.
amk
Talk about overreaction by the cops.
Achrachno
@Villago Delenda Est: Yeah. This guy had “four handguns, one long gun, boxes of ammunition, a samurai sword” in his possession — and yet people get shot because an officer thought maybe they had a gun, even when they didn’t. Hard not to think there’s another factor in play.
Debbie(aussie)
An interesting article about the court case an the death penalty. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/apr/16/arkansas-mass-executions-easter-monday-must-be-stopped?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other“>.
TenguPhule
@Villago Delenda Est:
And claimed it was suicide.
This white terrorist privilege has got to stop. Because otherwise it is going to end very badly and probably very messily.
TenguPhule
I would understand being afraid of someone like this.
And yet he’s not shot dead.
But being black = scary. Yes, you’re a fucking racist shit bastard when you shot the black guy because you were “afraid”.
jl
@NotMax:
” Construction of the border wall could do little to deter foreigners from entering the country, according to a recent study in the American Journal of Sociology, making border crossings more inconvenient and risky, thus encouraging some migrants to stay in the U.S. longer. ”
The confusion of immigration policy by executive order since the half forgotten Dub proposal for immigration reform hit miserable GOPer Congress brick wall, and increasing deportation activity may have already done that. At least that is the anecdata I have from family farm connections in Central Valley. Undocumenteds staying longer and making less frequent visits back home.
The Trumpsters will scoff of course, but most here already know that Obama stepped up deportations and border security. Inflows haven’t recovered since Great Recession. The Great Drumpf Wall is a stupid solution to the wrong problem. Completely asinine. But at least less likely to start WWIII than other Drumpf policies, I guess that is all that can be said for it.
Edit: I hear that the Drumpfsters are short handed at admin and PR, the Easter Egg Roll being one example. I’ll help them with a slogan for The Wall:
The Wall! Less Likely to Start WWIII than Other Dumb Trump Ideas!
OzarkHillbilly
Meanwhile, on the “terrorism” front in STL:
Geeno
@jl: What happened to the Easter Egg Roll? I haven’t heard anything about it.
Ten Bears
For someone your media turned into some kind of super terrorist warrenting a nationwide manhunt and ten minute updates ohmyfrackinggodtheskyisfalling, wasn’t that much of a badass afterall. Hiding under a tarp in the rain two hours drive from his mamas’ house, two hours from the scene of the crime. Surrendered without a fight. Typical white dog.
Ian
@Geeno:
They arn’t doing it, or are doing it on the fly with no prep. You havn’t heard about it because of all the truly fucked up things dominate the news more. But some ‘journalists’ think this is important to report on, so we hear about snippets of the Ill douches admin.
El Caganer
Anti-government? Anti-religion? Hey, I like this guy already.
Theodore Wirth
Who is going go foot the bill for this epic police action? You know who. Perhaps it should be siezed from the pool of NRA membership dues.