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Massachusetts Police Call Off Massive Manhunt After Concluding That Officer Shot Up His Own Cruiser

qQOmNNto_400x400The manhunt is over in Massachusetts for the man who shot up the cruiser of a rookie Millis police officer. It appears, according to police, that it was the officer himself. The police have refused to identified the 27-year-old officer but confirmed that the officer was found to be the one who shot up the car and will likely be fired (I would hope so) and face criminal charges.

The hoax led to the closing of the public schools and a massive manhunt. However, investigators eventually took a closer look at the bullets and the bullet holes and focused their attention on the full-time dispatcher and a part-time officer.

The officer claimed that a gunman in a pickup truck shot at the cruiser, caused it to crash and catch fire. The police announced that due to interviews and “as a result of all other evidence, we have determined that the officer’s story was fabricated . . . specifically, that he fired shots into his own cruiser as part of a plan to concoct a story that he was fired upon. The evidence indicates that the shots were not fired by a suspect. And there was no gunman at large in or around the town.’’

The officer has only been with the department for a year and half. The question now is how much of a sentence he will face. He could be charged with a false police report, wanton destruction of public property, criminal hoax, and other charges. That could stack up into some serious time.

What is bizarre is that the ballistics only found bullets from the officer’s own gun. What did he think was going to happen? Clearly the bullets would be tested and run through the Integrated Ballistics Identification System, or IBIS, to see if the weapon was used in other crimes. I simply cannot imagine the rationale. It is not clear if the officer had an accident and was trying to cover it up or whether this was a sad effort at notoriety. Either way, it will now likely cost him both his job and his liberty.

62 thoughts on “Massachusetts Police Call Off Massive Manhunt After Concluding That Officer Shot Up His Own Cruiser”

  1. David M is still upset about Loving V Virginia and blaming the gays… 14th Amendment.
    Why do you hate the Constitution?

    1. Thanks for the link, Max-1. I didn’t know about it.

      I don’t think Davis is more like Wallace. Notably, Wallace actually renounced his stand on segregation after he became a born again Christian. He said he was wrong. He attributed it to his seeking power and glory for himself.

      Notably, Davis has broken no law. She was not charged with violating any law. The laws in Kentucky have not caught up to the Obergefell decision yet. She was put in jail for not obeying a federal judge. Well, the federal judge is abusing his power. He is not upholding the law, but trying to force her to comply with the spirit of the decision in Obergefell. Davis wants to wait for the legal process to define the law first, to wait for the appeals in court. She waits on the legislature to define the law. As of now, the Kentucky Constitution still defines marriage as between one man and one woman. If that changes, it will be in January when they come back into session.

      Abraham Lincoln in his inaugural address warned against knee jerk reactions to Supreme Court decisions that are based upon specific cases with narrowly defined circumstances. Lincoln was dealing with the Dred Scott decision that supported the right of slave owners to own people.

      My hope is that Congress and the States develop a backbone and repeal the Fourteenth Amendment. It has allowed for tyranny in the Supreme Court of the United States. It has been used to justify murder of the unborn, sodomy, and now forcing the States to legitimize sexual immorality. Our nation cannot survive if this continues.

      As far as I am concerned, the Justices responsible and federal Judge David Bunning should be removed for abuse of power. The Court in Windsor acknowledged that the Constitution gave the authority for marriage definition and regulation to the States, then forgot what they acknowledged there when adjudicating Obergefell. They ruled by emotional feelings instead of logic.

  3. I don’t understand how Kim Davis is even an issue. Kentucky doesn’t have to marry anyone. Period. No federal law says that the state has to offer marriages. But since they do, they need to apply the law equally, and marry two people who are gay. It’s simply a matter of equal protection. Davis can have whatever convictions she feels like. But she doesn’t have the right to interpret the law or ignore court decisions. She’s executing the laws, and if she can’t morally agree the step aside. George Wallace couldn’t stand in the doorway, and neither can Davis.

    Back to this case. The problem law enforcement continues to display is the outright contempt for the fellow citizens they serve. Yeah, there aren’t police and civilians. Until we have military police in the streets everyone is a civilian. This is a crime. A few most likely. But the officer is protected like it’s an internal investigation. That’s wrong. Police officers and their blind supporters won’t say that though, and its what leads those of us that aren’t cop haters but certainly skeptical of law enforcement’s motivations to lose faith in their ability to police themselves. And when the next incident, and the next, and the next happen, and the only response is cries of “war on police!” and “cop hater!” to anyone who points this out, it further erodes the trust police should have with the community. I can’t be sure if I’m going to get Officer Friendly, or Sgt Psycho if I ever need to call police. Somehow I’m full of hate, likely a hardcore criminal, and biased for even questioning the preferred comply or die mentality that police exhibit today.

  4. BamBam, thanks for saying it, so I didn’t have to. The hypocrisy is rife.

    Contempt of court has consequences.

    This crazy cop needs therapy, maybe they are protecting the insane? However the double standard is also noted here.

    1. Inga – this reminds of those professors who claim that someone hung a noose on their door and they are the ones who did it.

  6. I am forced to agree with randyjet. He will get fired (police chief has done his job) but some board above them will let him back on the force.

  7. …a stretch, to say the least.”

    See the forest for the trees, Grasshopper.

    1. What Is Seen and What Is Not Seen
    2. If you’re reading it, its’ for you.

    What Is Seen: Goofy cop vying for attention, crazy nanny vying for attention.
    What Is Not Seen: Both redefine reality, what used to be called lying.
    Same with Tax/Penalty, Marriage, Secret, Man/Woman, Guilty/Innocent.

    “The ancient Chinese sage [Confucius] put great store on the use of the right name. Called the Rectification of Names, his doctrine asserted that “social disorder can stem from the failure to call things by their proper names, and his solution to this was the rectification of names.” Names, said Confucius, had to convey the truth.

    “If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things. … Therefore a superior man considers it necessary that the names he uses may be spoken appropriately, and also that what he speaks may be carried out appropriately. What the superior man requires is just that in his words there may be nothing incorrect.””

    Second, ask yourself: Why are you reading this story?
    Why is Prof. Turley posting it?
    Answer: If you’re reading it, its’ for you.
    The story is needed to beget outrage from you, to focus on that rather than this.

  8. How does an article, about a disturbed officer, who shot up his own cruiser, become relevant to what is transpiring in Kentucky? I understand that discussions tend to wander, but the comments appear to be so off track in less than 14 comments. I know that people are itching to voice their opinions about a completely different topic, which is unfolding in Ky, but the insertion of Constitutional issues into a thread about rogue, disturbed cops is a stretch, to say the least.

  9. In Houston years ago we had a similar situation in which two squad cars were parked in front of the police union headquarters on the graveyard shift and all the cops were drinking a fair amount of beer. One decided that it would be a great idea to shoot up the office, and blame it on the “queers”. So that is what all four did since they were all probably fairly drunk by that time. The HPD investigation found out about the circumstances, and Chief Brown fired all four. The cops appealed to the civil service commission in Austin, and they found that the cops should not be fired, except fot the probationary cop who stayed fired. The DA refused to bring any charges against the crooked cops, so they skated on that front as well. So we found out that cops ARE above the law and cannot be fired from their jobs or prosecuted in situations where an ordinary citizen would have been fired from a regular job and do some serious jail time.

    It is time to figure out a way to make cops more accountable for their criminal actions and to lessen the civil service protections for crooked cops.

  11. I probably have a different perspective than some. Let’s be honest, Kim Davis is not the ideal candidate to be a martyr on this issue. But, the very heavy handed Federal Judge in Kentucky just made her a martyr. For me, she’s not my hero. She’s some Democrat[agita for Dems!] politician making a name for herself. I would have liked the person, making a truly heartfelt stand on this issue, be a small business owner.

  14. David,
    Fools who once loved the US Constitution cannot believe that we Progressives have successfully rendered it extinct.

    The New Improved US Constitution (with 20% More Fiber!) is modeled after Humpty Dumpty, of course, for words mean whatever we choose them to mean — neither more nor less.

    Tax or Penalty?
    Marriage or not marriage?
    Secret or not?
    Man or woman?
    Guilty until proven innocent (on campus)
    Guilty because you are conservative (IRS)
    The list goes on.

    Redefining words to the point of meaninglessness is the tactic, in order to make the ideas they once represented unthinkable. Some people, like the Kentucky peon in jail, have to be made unpersons in order to ‘encourage the others.’

    People like you are the target, of course.
    We plan to replace your type with Improved Citizen Serfs from Mexico and Somalia who don’t have any idea what the Oldthink Constitution said and are comfortable being Subjects.

    So the Good Professor posts on Anything Else But.
    He’s no dummy.

    My only quibble is teaching the Oldthink Constitution.
    Seems like a waste of time and a bit, well, dangerous.
    People might get ideas, like that words actually mean something..

  15. What Kim whatshername in KY ought to do is file a federal habeas petition and assert that she is being jailed and is in loss of liberty and free speech and right to petition her government for redress of grievances for exercising free speech and religions rights and statements. Then she should also put a claim in the habeas petition against God for allowing all this to happen. If she was a member of my congregation this would not have happened. We in the Eighth Day Dog Adventists believe that God put Dog on Earth on the Eighth Day to watch over and give guidance to humans. Then God got out of the picture. So if you want something done on this Earth look to guidance from a dog. It does not have to be a seeing eye dog. Kim should assert in her habeas petition that her dog told her not to recognize bent marriages.

  16. David, I have read many liberal commenters elsewhere rejoicing in the incarceration. You and I know that would also occur here. Not many reports contain the fact Kim Davis is a Democrat.

    1. What bothers me are the Constitutional issues, which should be right down Professor Turley’s interests. The Constitution nowhere gives the federal government authority to define and regulate marriage. We need a Constitutional amendment for that. Yet now we have SCOTUS tweaking out of the Fourteenth Amendment authority for them to force all the States and the people to redefine marriage according to their wisdom. This is tyranny and a true Constitutional crisis. It was a federal judge who put her in jail. The State needs to get a backbone and stand up against the federal government on this issue. If the State doesn’t do it, the people will. According to the Declaration of Independence, it is our duty to stand up against tyrants.

  17. Nick, what I am scratching my head about is why Professor Turley seems to ignore the story about Kim Davis being put in jail because of the SCOTUS decision in Obergefell. Many people in this forum claimed such things would never happen.

  18. Is it surprising that a police officer does not know how to accept responsibility for his actions? I’m sure he watched many television shows where an LEO alters circumstances of an incident and gets away with it.

  20. My first thought is, why does this officer get to have his identity protected? If this were an actual shooting, would the accused be afforded that courtesy?

    A police officer lied about being shot at. Caused a SWAT reaction that could have led to someone innocent getting killed. Cost thousands of dollars. What possible justification can the police have to decline to name the person responsible? No, fair trials and open investigations are not a justification in this case.

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