You can take all your "grieving" and shove it straight up your own ass.

Why?

Because the people bleating and "grieving" as government officials are all responsible, personally responsible, for felons like this being on the street after being caught committing crimes involving violence and other serious violations of the law and they are then released without bond and without any sort of monitoring.

Further, we keep seeing their "mothers" and others show up whining about "he diddunuttin" when the facts are that in ChiCONGO said person fired 11 rounds at someone without provocation and in MemCONGO the shooter opened fire without provocation as well.  Yes, said targeted person in both cases happened to be a cop but that's irrelevant; if you fire a weapon unprovoked at someone you deserve it if you get turned into a decent rendition of hamburger.  I have zero empathy if that is the result because it should be the result each and every time.

If it was perhaps you'd think about it before you drew that gun, eh?  I mean let's be real -- even an ape can figure that one out and if he can't, well, then his being dead is better than being alive for everyone else.

In the case in Memphis the shooter was recently arrested in a stolen vehicle with a fully-automatic weapon and was charged with possession of said stolen vehicle and said automatic weapon.  So why the hell was he, having been caught red-handed, on the streets?

I remind you that automatic weapons, otherwise known as machine guns, are illegal to possess unless you have a BATFE Form for each of them and in addition using an unregistered device to make a firearm a machine gun can't be registered anyway.  That crime carries a penalty of ten years in the slammer at the federal level all by itself, never mind being a state firearm offense along with the grand theft auto charge -- both STATE felonies.

So this clown was out on the streets (guess his race -- oh you don't have to, just have a look) as he was released without bond and apparently without any actual monitoring either despite being caught in a stolen car and having an extremely-illegal machinegun.  Oh, and it gets better -- the case is reported to have been accepted for federal prosecution (on the machine gun I presume) yet a County Judicial Commissioner (who they conveniently don't name -- gee, I wonder why) let him out on his own recognizance and without any proactive and effective monitoring.

How do we know this?

The vehicle the suspect was in when the shooting took place was also stolen and he also obviously (and very illegally, as he was now charged with a felony) obtained another gun so that Shelby County jackass who issued the ROR release didn't deter anything at all.

In ChiCONGO the person who opened fire was just released on another felony charge as well and thus was a prohibited person as he was under indictment for a felony and therefore could not legally possess a gun.  Once again he was wandering the streets which means he was let out without any enforced conditions on where he went or what he did -- if said "conditions" were allegedly imposed nobody gave a shit when he wasn't adhering to said constraints and they did not immediately throw him in jail for driving around in his vehicle.

We are well beyond the point where either (1) we have to start cheering when public officials (including but not limited to cops) get capped by these thugs who they all let out after being caught violating the law, with no consequence being paid by said thugs for their actions or (2) we have to start taking out the trash ourselves and impose what amounts to a hard separation between the peaceable citizens and the assholes, including in the second group all of the so-called government officials who think that skin color is a reason for you to be able to steal cars, convert firearms to machine guns and not immediately wind up either in jail or with sufficient bond and monitoring pending trial so you can't steal any more cars or shoot at people.

If the Executive branch of the State will not do its job when their inaction is the direct reason a government employee gets shot I am not sorry, I am not mourning, I am not anything of the sort.  I am instead offering a toast of some FINE single-malt Scotch and a loud "hizzah!" because that VERY SAME GOVERNMENT sat on its ass, let a violent asshole out on the streets when they had every ability to keep him in jail or under effective supervision pending trial AND THUS THE DEAD PERSON, WHO IS PART OF THE VERY SAME GOVERNMENT THAT PUT THE PUBLIC AT DEMONSTRATED EXTREME AND REALIZED RISK DESERVED WHAT THEY GOT.

BETTER THAT SAID PERSON BE THE ONE DEAD THAN AN INNOCENT CIVILIAN WHO HAD NO ABILITY TO DO ANYTHING TO PREVENT THIS SINCE CIVILIANS CANNOT CHARGE AND PROSECUTE, AND IN FACT THE PEACEFUL CIVILIANS IN THE AREA RELIED ON ALL THOSE OTHER ASSHOLES IN THE GOVERNMENT TO DO THEIR JOBS WHICH THEY WILLINGLY AND INTENTIONALY REFUSED BECAUSE SAID ACCUSED WAS A "DINDUNUTTIN BOOOOOY."

Don't give me any bullshit, Governor Lee, about how this was a "local" or "isolated" failure.  You're lying, that is a SIN so your professed faith is ALSO false and here's proof from the Tennessee STATE Statute books:

A person commits an offense who intentionally or knowingly possesses, manufactures, transports, repairs or sells:

• An explosive or an explosive weapon;

• A device principally designed, made or adapted for delivering or shooting an explosive weapon;

• A machine gun;

• A short-barrel rifle or shotgun;

• Hoax device;
  
  
• Knuckles; or
  
  
• Any other implement for infliction of serious bodily injury or death that has no common lawful purpose.

Nevermind that the stolen vehicle is a state felony as well.  Assuming the vehicle was worth at least $10,000 (but less than $60,000) it was a Class C felony which carries a sentence of not less than three nor more than fifteen years in the state slammer.

So spare me any whining about Memphis.  The State had every right and in fact duty to bring State felony charges and take said person into custody on same if the City of Memphis refused to do so and if the STATE had done so he would have been in jail and unable to commit this crime.  Memphis has become a shithole as a direct result of this crap and I want to know how many cops will remain on the force and be target practice for assholes if the county and State will not put a stop to this shit right here, right now, period.

I'm done with all the whining, crying and praying by cops and other so-called "do-gooders", especially the black poverty pimps and their enablers, when this sort of crap happens.

I no longer care when cops get whacked by these thugs nor will I care if any member of the State or Local Government, or any of their family members, get whacked in each and every instance where the offender was previously caught doing something carrying felony penalties and was released pending trial with no monitoring or enforcement of same or, even worse, if they were released with no charges and trial at all!

In both these cases -- and many more -- that is exactly what happened and these same thugs attack, steal from, maim and murder innocent citizens who have no actual power to indict, prosecute or imprison.  That is a power our society has delegated to the Executive and if they refuse to perform their duties under said laws then it is time for all citizens to cheer when they are the ones who pay for that refusal personally, up to and including paying with their lives.

In fact I propose that Friday night become toast a dead government official night until and unless all this bullshit DEI/Racebaiting bullshit STOPS with 100% finality, every time, and anyone who gets caught stealing cars or with an illegal machine gun gets to sit in jail or under effective 24x7 electronic supervision with a nice, high bail to be forfeited if they try to cheat until their trial occurs and if found guilty they do hard time in prison every single time as well.

I know that some counties in this state actually force accountability and monitoring with ankle monitors, cash bonds and similar for far lesser offenses than stealing cars and possessing illegal machine guns.  Shelby County has no excuse for their outrageous refusal to either lock this jackass up or maintain effective knowledge and control of what he was doing post his original arrest and neither does TBI, the State Executive generally and the State Attorney General.

Felony laws related to violent criminal acts just like anti-trust laws are not suggestions but it appears that in basically every jurisdiction, including "Red, Conservative" states such as mine, the violent felony criminal code is in fact a set of suggestions if and only if the offender is black, brown, or some form of illegal immigrant.  IF you are in one of those "protected classes" you can, by this example, literally steal cars and convert weapons to machine guns and nobody will lock you up pending trial nor require any cash bond for either even when you are caught red-handed in the act.

It is for that reason and that reason ONLY that these cops got shot.

FUCK YOU Governor Lee, and all of those in the State and Memphis city prosecutorial and judicial apparatus. YOU DID THIS.

And DOUBLE FUCK YOU to our Legislature, including specifically Speaker Sexton who of course was bleating all over Twitter on this event, a legislature that continues to fund and rubber stamp Executive agencies, including the State Police, State AG and the entire State prosecutorial apparatus who refuse to do their goddamn jobs when city and other local officials will not.  The power of the purse rests exclusively in the Legislature and thus continued funding of demonstrably corrupt entities who refuse to discharge their duties makes our Legislators all direct enablers of these felons.

I reminder Speaker Sexton that Tennessee has an "ouster" law that bears on this situation as well -- it permits an action to remove an official who has violated or corrupted their oath of office, including by willingly neglecting to perform the duties of said office.  When are we going to see that be filed and executed demanding the AG act against the STATE officers, Prosecutors and other officials who refused to step in and arrest this asshole when Memphis did not, along with the Memphis officials as well Mr. Speaker?

Those of us who care about the law and a peaceable society are tired of the excuses made for letting violent, known felons walk away from offenses without detention, monitoring or any other sort of enforced bail condition who then go on to commit further offenses of the same seriousness or worse than what prompted the original arrest.  This deliberate malfeasance is directly responsible for serious property and personal crime across this and every other state where it occurs and now it has directly resulted in both maiming and death.

Fix it right now or may you all be damned.