According to police, Douglas Marks, 29, has a curious method for reinforcing social distancing. After he spotted people without masks, he allegedly fired “four warning shots” at the Crystal Beach Suites Hotel. The criminal charges contained one interesting element. While Marks did not reportedly aim at anyone, he was still charged with assault. This follows an incident in California where a woman maced a couple who was eating with their child at a park without masks.
A woman and her son were in the lobby and encountered Marks. She said that Marks told her “You all need to leave. you all aren’t social distancing.” She was waiting for her boyfriend and ignored him. She was sitting on the couch in the lobby and stated that she heard Marks tell staff “Let me take care of them, I have two people not following directions.” She said that she heard him say again “you all need to leave” and then heard gunshots and ran out of the hotel and saw Marks with a handgun.
Marks is also reported as saying that he thought he was being followed – raising a possible mental capacity issue.
What I thought was notable was the array of charges: two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, firearm use and display while committing a felony and discharge of a firearm in public.
The aggravated assault charges are interesting since he did not appear to point the gun at anyone. The charges are the result of a broad assault definition and the criteria of the use of a gun in the aggravated assault “step up” for charges:
784.011 Assault.—
(1) An “assault” is an intentional, unlawful threat by word or act to do violence to the person of another, coupled with an apparent ability to do so, and doing some act which creates a well-founded fear in such other person that such violence is imminent.(Fla. Stat. § § 784.011, 784.03).
784.021 Aggravated assault.—
(1) An “aggravated assault” is an assault:
(a) With a deadly weapon without intent to kill; or(b) With an intent to commit a felony.
Thus, any firing of a gun will be assault and the use of the gun will make that an aggravated assault.
This follows the shocking video who decided that public health priorities justified macing people without masks:
If you want “common sense gun laws” it can’t be more sensible than this. You terrorize people with a gun, discharge it in a public place, and endanger the safety of the public, you go to jail.
Seems simple. If there are mitigating circumstances, the courts can sort them out.
“This follows an incident in California where a woman maced a couple who was eating with their child at a park without masks.”
Read this and dropped the “with” first time through, and then thought hey it’s prime decline of the trump age so game on, it could happen.
Trumpers: your fat hawg of a president knows he’s going to lose hard, that’s why he threatened to “tie” up the election for years with litigation in his presser yesterday. You can’t be responsible for the biggest drop in GDP in history, boot every aspect of pandemic response, cause daily demonstrations, and cage children, all after being impeached, and survive for another term.
Even if he survives the election by some miracle of foreign help/intervention, but the Senate goes blue, Trump will be impeached again by March. And then removed this time.
See folks, the hateful, unreasoning hatred of Trump by the Democrat cheerleaders on the internet such as Hank? He even has another impeachment scheduled already
Now Natacha’s using sock-puppets two.
Another idiot heard from…
A number of issues here.
First, the mutt’s nuts. He needs to be institutionalized. He is a threat to society. Sending him to jail will only make him worse and if he’s dealt with through the penal system he will be out in a few years. It’s a mental health issue.
Secondly, this mutt should never, ever, have the right to ‘bear arms’. If he petitions to have this right restored some time in the future, it can only be because the gun industry needs money. If he is ever found with an arm again, then off to the pokey or institution for the duration.
The main issue here is the safety of society, or all the individuals that make up society, however one comes to it. It’s not safe around this guy.
So, let’s see who tags the left with this guy.
Meanwhile, his poll numbers continuing to drop, and to mislead parents into believing it is safe to send their children back to full-time, in-person class, the fat one said yesterday that children are practically immune from COVID-19*. This is a lie, of course, but the bigger question is: whose conduct has done the most harm: some crackpot who shoots off a gun (without aiming at anyone or hitting anyone) to try to enforce social distancing, or a lying narcissist who abuses the bully pulpit he cheated to get in order to spread misleading information that will likely cause children and those they come in contact with to get sick? Both instances involve putting others at unreasonable risk for harm. Who’s the worst actor here?
He fulfilled Biden’s prophecy about trying to delay the election, for which he was roundly shut down by both Democrats and Republicans. He also lied about creating a “record number” of new jobs and tried to paint a false rosy picture of the economy: the 2nd quarter GDP experienced a record drop of 32.9%. Now, to just find some way to blame Obama and Biden.
The Republicans are trying to support their fat hero by attempting to make the case that suicides, depression and domestic violence are on the increase. I would argue that these things are just as likely to be due to fear of getting sick, mourning the deaths of loved ones, worry about loved ones getting the virus and the economy collapsing, rather than closing up schools and businesses to prevent unnecessary deaths. The fat one bullied states to open up too soon, and the results speak for themselves: record numbers of new infections and deaths. And, Herman Cain, who eschewed wearing a mask and who attended the Tulsa rally, died yesterday of COVID-19. Res Ipsa Loquitur.
*children under the age of 10 have fewer receptors on their cells where the virus can invade, which is why, overall, they don’t get sick as easily as older people, but they carry the virus and can infect adults and older children. Children over the age of 10 as just as infectious as adults.
Jan 21: “We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China.”
Jan 30: “We think we have it very much under control.”
Feb 02: “We pretty much shut it down, coming from China.”
Feb 14: “We have a very small number of people in the country, right now, with it. It’s like around 12… Some are fully recovered already. So we’re in very good shape.”
Feb 25: “People are getting better, they’re all getting better.”
Feb 26: “And the 15 in a couple of days is gonna be down to close to zero.”
Feb 28: “Coronavirus. This is the new hoax… You’ll be fine.”
Feb 28: “It’s going to disappear. One day, it’s like a miracle, it will disappear”
Mar 02: “They’re going to have vaccines very soon.” Mar 03: “Not only the vaccines, but the therapies. Therapies is sort of another word for cure.”
Mar 04: “We’re talking about very small numbers in the United States.”
Mar 06: “I don’t need to have the numbers double because of one ship that wasn’t our fault… I like the numbers where they are.”
Mar 06: “Anybody right now, and yesterday, anybody that needs a test gets a test. They’re there. And the tests are beautiful…. the tests are all perfect…”
Mar 07: “It came out of China, and we heard about it. And made a good move: We closed it down. We stopped it.”
Mar 08: “We have a perfectly coordinated and fine tuned plan at the White House.”
Mar 10: “It’s really working out, and a lot of good things are gonna happen. Just stay calm. It will go away.”
Mar 12: “It’s gonna go away.”
Mar 13: “No, I don’t take responsibility at all.”
Mar 16: “I’d rate it a 10. I think we’ve done a great job.”
Mar 17: “This is a pandemic. I felt it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic.”
Trump’s blithering idiocy is becoming so old that it’s not worth chronicling his idiocy any more after Mar. 17.
Will you accept the results of the election when Trump wins again in November? Or will you RESIST! whine, cry foul, obstruct, lie, wreak havoc, riot, and loot? Let me guess.
If Trump wins, flag goes upside down for the duration. I’ll deal with the neighbors.
So iow, you will protest and not accept the results of the election.
I take it your neighbors have common sense and a good set of moral values.
Meanwhile, we get our daily dose of off topic hyperbole…
Natacha’s pretending to be a nurse in this thread.
That’s better than her lawyer performance art.
Nurse Cratchet.
“a possible mental capacity issue”
You think????
He will be handled a great deal harsher then the crew in Seattle and Portland.
Darren:
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Mark
The first question is: Why did the hotel let him take charge?
Just imagine what unpleasantness Natacha would visit on others if she weren’t too heavy to walk in the park.
This must be what they call “living in someone’s head rent-free”. Sad.
And you Trumpsters wonder why people don’t respect you. Just like the fat hero you worship, you cannot engage in any sort of civil discourse without insulting people with whom you disagree because your support for Trump is based on something more than politics–fear. Fear of losing what you perceive to be your white male privilege to persons of color and educated women. Trump panders to that fear, and people like you continue to worship him even though he has set a record for destroying our economy, we have more coronavirus cases than anyplace else in the world, Americans are not welcome to travel anywhere in the EU, Canada or Mexico, and more than 150,000 Americans have died, largely due to his incompetence. This transcends politics and it is sick.
Natacha – China has more CCP Virus deaths than the US, they just don’t report them. They don’t count the people they welded into apartments, etc. We are not even close to their death rate. BTW, why are you “fat shaming”? 2/3s of the SJWs qualify as fat.
“And you Trumpsters wonder why people don’t respect you. Just like the fat hero you worship, you cannot engage in any sort of civil discourse without insulting people…”
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This about says it all for the Left’s “thinking,” “virtue signaling” and complete lack of self awareness. Not to mention the complete death of irony. They are so funny.
See, Mespo, you probably forgot all of the times your hero called women “fat pigs” and other demeaning names. According to Dr. Mary Trump, whenever her uncle was unsuccessful in getting some woman to date him, he would insult her. When Olympic ice skater Katarina Witt turned him down, he complained that she had fat calves. When Madonna turned him down, he complained that she chewed too much gum. That’s why commenting on his looks, and especially the fact that he is overweight, is fair game.
According to Dr. Mary Trump
Let’s see the license the State Board for Psychology issued ‘Dr’ Trump.
The absurd one used to be a big fan “Dr.” Keith Ablow, but eventually — and not surprisingly — he lost his license to practice psychiatry.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/20/nyregion/fox-news-keith-ablow-psychiatrist.html
“Absurd” loves to pontificate…, but isn’t very good at judging a person’s true character. Ablow is just one example.
And, yes, there are differences between psychologists and psychiatrists…, but character is character — no matter what field one chooses. “Absurd” clearly isn’t the best judge…
At least Mary Trump recognizes a character-deficient pig when she sees one.
“Absurd” used to be a fan of this great guy:
“Dr” Keith Ablow
‘What we know about celebrity psychiatrist Keith Ablow and the federal raid of his office’
‘Officials raided Ablow’s Newburyport office for about six hours on Thursday.’
February 19, 2020
https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2020/02/19/keith-ablow-raid#:~:text=Ablow%20lost%20his%20medical%20license,Board%20of%20Registration%20in%20Medicine.&text=Ablow%20first%20obtained%20his%20license,suspended%2C%20according%20to%20the%20Globe.
‘Ablow lost his medical license on May 15, 2019, following a meeting of the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine.
‘“The Board alleges that Dr. Ablow engaged in sexual activity and boundary violations with multiple patients, diverted controlled substances from patients, engaged in disruptive behavior, including displaying and pointing a firearm on multiple occasions in a manner that scared an employee, and procured his license renewal fraudulently,” the board said in a news release at the time.’
Katerina Witt used to be hot. Prolly still is.
In that not really pretty, yet attractive, strong German way.
Great legs, of course she had big strong legs, the skaters usually do. Very nice!
Natacha – so, according to you, Trump turned you down, so you can call him fat.
I’ve got no problem with aggravated assault here. Marks made a “threat” (put on your mask or else) by an “act” (firing a gun) coupled with an ability to carry out the threat (by lowering his aim) and he did an act certainly creating a well-founded fear if imminent harm – isn’t that what a warning shot is? The assault was aggravated because he used a deadly weapon without intent to kill.
I agree with Vince.
The defendant needs a mental exam