VIDEO TELLS DIFFERENT STORY ABOUT 2008 FATAL SHOOTING BY FEDERAL MARSHAL
The LA Times’ Scott Glover has a well-reported story about an off duty federal marshal who, in the midst of a fight with his wife, shot a man to death in LA’s Fairfax district in 2008. The marshal says it was a clear case of self-defense, but a surveillance camera video of the incident may say otherwise.
IS AMERICAN JUSTICE TWO-TIERED?
The Wall Street Journal looks at the fraud case against LA’s Bruce Karatz, former chief executive of KB Home, that has caused some observers to wonder once again if the US has a “two-tiered criminal justice system, one for the affluent….and a second for ordinary citizens.”
(Nothing against, Mr. Karatz, who seems to have many other genuinely good qualities, but the answer to that question would be a YES. Duh!)
POLICE MAKE ARREST IN SUNDAY SHOOTING DEATH OF RIVERSIDE POLICE OFFICER
Riverside Police Chief Sergio Diaz announced an arrest in connection with the murder of a Riverside police officer, Ryan Bonaminio, Sunday night, that has many grieving.
Diaz, who as you remember, was an LAPD Deputy Chief before going to Riverside earlier this year, said there was still lots more investigation to be done but, “we like this guy.”
The Press-Enterprise has the story.
FORMER MARINES SELLING ASSAULT WEAPONS TO GANGSTERS?
The AP reports:
Federal agents have arrested three former Marines suspected of selling illegal assault weapons to a notorious Los Angeles street gang [Florencia 13], The Associated Press has learned.
The suspected ringleader, Adam Gitschlag, who served in Iraq and was once based at Camp Pendleton, was arrested Nov. 2 at his Orange County home Nov. 2 as part of an operation carried out by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, as well as military investigators and local police.
[SNIP]Investigative documents obtained by AP state that Gitschlag oversaw the sale of two cases containing firearms, including an AK47, two Russian and Romanian variants of the weapon, and two other semiautomatic rifles.
Semper Fi and all that, guys, but we in LA consider this gun-selling to gangsters thingy really not helpful.
By the way, I’m starting to get the feeling this stuff may have gone on occasionally for several decades. Karl Marlantes has a whole story thread about something similar occurring in the Vietnam War in his amazing novel based on his own war experience, Matterhorn (PS: Matterhorn is quite brilliant. As Sebastian Junger wrote when he reviewed it for the NY Times, “it’s not a book so much as a deployment…”.)
A-A-A-AAAND COOLEY’S LEAD HAS AGAIN WIDENED OVER HARRIS
You too may obsessively monitor the seemingly endless vote counting process along with some of the rest of us by checking the Secretary of State’s site here.
Certainly looks like a murder to me. Something stinks.
Getting closer again.