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I worked one night but was in the other side of the city. We had a murder over a bologna sandwich. 🥪 Another time I was the first responding officer where a guy shot his brother in the center of the chest after arguing over who was going to get to wear a particular shirt that night. They were maybe 19 and 21 years old. One of them gave the other a shirt that he did not wear anymore. A couple of weeks later they were going out on different dates or different parties or something to that effect. The first brother decided that he wanted the shirt back for his special evening and the other said no, you gave it to me and I’m gonna wear it. After an argument, the first one pulled out the gun and shot his brother in the center of the chest. I thought he was going to die as his eyes were rolled back and he was gasping for air. I’m sure you’ve seen enough of those. Nope, it was a .22 and at the angle the guy was shot, the bullet hit the sternum and slid around under the fat layer around to his side. At St. Mary Hospital they ended up giving him a local and cut the bullet out. Treated and released. I guess where he was shot, he panicked and assumed it was the end, but all that over who was going to look cool that evening…..

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Oh yeah, my great grandparents on my mother’s side and great great great grandparents on my father’s were legal immigrants to this country and granted citizenship through naturalization. So I was born in the United States to American citizens, therefore under the jurisdiction of the country.

Because of the Constitution. The term birthright citizenship is not in the Constitution. The Fourteenth Amendment says born in the United States AND subject to its jurisdiction. In the Supreme Court case of Elk v. Wilkins they ruled that even though Elk was born in US territory, the fact that he was born on a reservation, he was under the jurisdiction of his tribe. He was therefore not a US citizen just because he was born here. The subject to the jurisdiction is the problem. In US v. Wong Kim Ark the Supreme Court ruled on a person here lawfully. Wong was born on US soil to parents who were Chinese however they had been granted permanent citizenship. Since the US had granted his parents permanent status in this country, they were now under the jurisdiction of the US. As the Fourteenth Amendment states, a person is a citizen at birth if born in the US AND subject to its jurisdiction. As ruled in Elk, being born here did not even make a Native American a US citizen. It was settled enough that the US Congress under their authority in Article I of the Constitution, passed a law giving all Native Americans born in the US citizenship. So it literally took an act of Congress for them to be citizens. Why? Because the Supreme Court had already ruled that they were not citizens merely by being born on US soil. In my first post I said there was about a 98% of birthright citizenship being confirmed by the Supreme Court but more out of tradition. They are going to throw their collective hands up and say, “oh well, regardless of the intent of the Fourteenth Amendment, we don’t want to change tradition”.

The Constitution.

I think the there is obviously a case for no birthright citizenship, especially considering the Supreme Court case of Elk v. Wilkins. Even though John Elk was born in US territory on an Indian reservation, in a 7-2 ruling the Supreme Court said that Elk was not a US citizen. This was because he was born on the reservation and due to treaties, was subject to tribal law, not that of the US. It took an act of Congress in 1924 under their authority in Article I of the Constitution to regulate immigration and citizenship, to declare that any Native American was a citizen at birth even though they were subject to tribal law. So after WWI and only 100 years ago, Indians born on a reservation were not Americans at birth. I think however the Supreme Court is about 98% likely to rule in favor of birthright citizenship, more from tradition than fact, much like in Obergefell where on a 5-4 vote they supported same sex marriages.

This was always a helpful video on trying to avoid gators. … [Hidden Content]

The three Mid-County cities (divided only by city limits signs) have a combined population of 48,600 (2022 stats). Beaumont the same year had 112,000. So Beaumont is 2.3 times the population of Mid-County. In five years from 2019-2023 (years final FBI data available) Mid-County had a total of 7 homicides. That multiplied by 2.3 (to compare sizes equally) Beaumont should have had 16 homicides in the same five years. Beaumont didn’t have 16 homicides total. In fact they never had a single year as low as 16. They actually had 94 homicides or just at about a rate of 600% higher. I guess a population of about 50k isn’t up to a big city status yet but about 100k is.

He probably has a comment or two on Facebook…..

It can happen anywhere….. (preemptive comment)

70 is next up for me.

Misinformation is common and much of it is likely unintentional. Assumptions and rumors are easy to start, especially in today’s instance communication World. All that is needed is a mere suggestion or question for false information to go wild. If a person asks, is blah blah blah true, the person hearing it will probably say to someone else, I heard that they might be looking at blah blah blah. By the third or fourth person, it is no longer a question but a fact. “I heard from a guy that I trust that blah blah blah is true!!”. I am sure that I have told this story before so I won’t go into great detail but I started a rumor at my police department by asking a question. I ask at my shift meeting if anyone heard the rumor that the city was about to name an interim Chief Of Police from the Amarillo PD. Of course no one had heard about it because I made it up about 15 seconds earlier. I concluded with, it is probably another nonsensical rumor based on nothing at all. Forget you even heard it. On the way into the police station the next afternoon, I was met by a lieutenant who asked if I had any details on the Amarillo PD assistant chief who was about to be named as our interim chief. I should have said that he was supposed to be there at 2 PM tomorrow for our evening shift Roll Call meeting and everybody needed to wear Class A uniforms with ties and hats. 🤣🤣🤣

AND….. It is not Capital Murder to be committing a felony during a Murder. It is Capital Murder to intentionally or knowingly kill a person only in certain specific situations, some of which are felonies. Examples are, killing more than one person during the same incident, killing a police officer or firefighter acting in the line of duty, Murder for hire, during a robbery, sexual assault, etc., killing a child under 15 years old and so on. Possessing a stolen credit card is a felony. Just for example, let’s say the suspect in this case, had a stolen credit card in his pocket. He would then be actively committing a felony. That doesn’t upgrade a Murder to a Capital Murder. The DA kind of threw gasoline on the fire and probably caused confusion when he made a statement something like, he was not going to seek the death penalty. There was no death penalty to seek. First, it does not fit the elements of the crime and secondly, they cannot seek the death penalty for someone under 18 years old. Then we start seeing comments like, “Oh, they are going to let him get away with whatever!!

First time for everything…. I hate reading police reports. I spent about 30 years trying to teach cops to speak normal English. One of my pet peeves, and it was at least a couple of times in the I report you linked, is the phrase, “It should be noted”. No kidding? Newsflash: Everything should be noted. I was approving a report one time and called in the officer to completely rewrite it. Almost every sentence started with, it should be noted. It should be noted that I have arrived about five minutes after being dispatched. It should be noted that there were several offices already on scene. It should also be noted that I saw a man who appeared to be unconscious in the front yard, and it should be noted that there were several witnesses nearby…. YOU’RE GIVING ME A HEADACHE!! 😳 Then the policespeak. 🤣 I then detained him in handcuffs (cuffed behind the back) blah blah….. Why not just say, I handcuffed him by in the back? Another favorite is, I saw a red in color Ford Mustang. I guess that’s for the benefit of people who don’t know that red is a color.

It appears that all the bill is waiting for is the governor’s signature.

I am assuming that it was a regular pocket knife and have had that opinion since the first day. Had it been an illegal knife on campus, surely that would have been all over the news and an additional felony charge After saying that, next week it will come out that it was an illegal knife…. 🤣

Take note, the long version was twice as long. 🤣🤣🤣

I will try the medium version. Bodily Injury and Serious Bodily Injury. Both are injuries but in the Penal Code, Serious Bodily Injury is distinct from merely Bodily Injury. Both have their own definitions in the Penal Code. If a person causes Bodily Injury to a person it is a misdemeanor crime. If a person causes Serious Bodily Injury it is a felony. They are different. Force and Deadly Force. Both are force but Deadly Force is distinct from Force. An example is the Penal Code says that to remove someone from trespassing you can use the reasonable FORCE necessary to remove the person. So if you reasonably believe that Deadly Force is necessary, is it lawful? No, the Penal Code has a distinct definition of Deadly Force. The law on ending Trespassing clearly says that you can use the Force necessary. It doesn’t say the Deadly Force necessary. They are different. Why do these examples matter? Knife and Location-restricted knife. There are locations that a knife is not a crime but at certain locations, a Location-restricted knife is a felony. A school, as is being discussed , is no different than a bar. If you go into a bar for a drink or play in a band, it is not a crime to have a pocket knife on you. So if you ask me, can I legally go into a bar with a knife, my answer would be yes. A school is the equivalent so has the same answer. If you ask me, can I legally go onto school grounds with a knife, my answer would be yes. If you ask, can I legally go into a school or a bar with a Location-restricted knife, my answer would be no, that would be a felony. So is a knife in a school a crime? No, which I’d what I said. Had a question or my statement instead have been, is a Location-restricted knife a crime at a school, the answer would be yes, it’s a felony. I was correct, a knife is not a crime on school grounds. Had you responded to me ONLY with the comment of a knife being illegal in 46.03(a), I would say that you are wrong because you cited a law about a Location-restricted knife, not a knife. So were you wrong? No. You salvaged it when you stated it is a felony “if knife blade is over 5.5 inches”. You gave the Penal Code definition of a Location-restricted knife. Great job! 👍🏼 😎

Do you want the short version or the long version?? 😎

Yep, he was looking for trouble and found it. I don’t think that a knife at school is a crime though. It can be a justification for suspension or expulsion.

🤣🤣🤣 How far will people go to try and justify crimes? Obviously you know this but….. Rittenhouse twice tried to run away and only shot when corned or attacked with deadly weapons. When did the suspect in this case run away and was cornered?

Wait, touching someone doesn’t qualify for deadly force in self defense?? Do tell…. 🤣 Necessary force has been stretched a bit, usually for glaring reason.

Yes it would be a felony in Texas if the blade was over 5.5” and on school grounds. Texas did away with restrictions on the length of a legal knife as long as it isn’t in a restricted location such as a bar, school grounds, etc., or basically anywhere that you could not lawfully carry a handgun. So a person can walk down the street with a Roman broadsword on his side and it is legal. Going to a bar or on school grounds with a 5.75” blade and it’s a felony. That is a no on the Capital Murder. It is not merely committing another felony that makes it Capital Murder but certain felonies. Examples are during a robbery, sexual assault, kidnapping, murder for hire, etc..

Yeah, drilling can absolutely start up and get the product to market in 8 weeks!! Even a person modicum of knowledge would know that you can’t prepare to drill for offshore, where there fields were opened, much less have an exploration being done and getting the product to market. Even on land, if it was said today to start exploring and drilling, that by next week we will have millions of barrels a day flowing? At least come up with something that makes sense.

WAIT, in two months things have not turned around??