excalibur
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It was his very actions that caused the situation.
And his very actions lead to his own demise.
And his very actions lead to his own demise.
1. Pretti was waving for cars to drive thru the BP operation while BP Officers were in the street.
2. The woman in the white jacket who was pushed did not have her back to the officer. As she approached the snow she turned around to face the officer, and it was at that point he shoved her to get her out of the street.
3. Pretti putting himself between the BP Agent and the woman, no matter how much it might be instinctual, is a crime.
4. "Pretti did not start it" ā Pretti had a clear path to the sidewalk which is where he was headed, and he reversed and went back to engage the BP Officer. THAT is where Pretti āstarted it.ā
5. What you really want to argue but you canāt bring yourself to say it is āHe didnāt resist that much.ā āHis motives for interfering with the Officerās efforts were well intentioned.ā Thatās not the law. The ādegreeā of resistant nor the goodness in the heart of the lawbreaker donāt turn crimes into non-crimes.
6. BP didnāt pursue āthemā and shove āthem.ā One of the three turned around and faced the BP Officer, stopping in her tracks. The BP Officer shoved her. Pretti could have kept going ā Pretti did not. That was PRETTIāS CHOICE.
7. The āAgentsā didnāt remove the gun. One Agent removed the gun and immediately turned away and left. It is UNKNOWN if any other the others were aware. This came after one or more Agents yelled āGUNā ā communicating to all they were engaged with an ARMED individual who was resisting their efforts to subdue him. When an agent yells "GUN" he doesn't yell "One Sig P320 9 mm, silver with white grips, in a holster in he small of his back". "GUN" simply means armed with a handugn.
8. It is not āspeculationā what gun he had ā it was a Sig P320 AXG COMBAT, and the P320 DOES have a problem with unintended discharges.
9. Law enforcement agents were not obligated to assume he had only one gun. They knew nothing about him. What they knew was 1) he was resisting, and 2) he had a firearm. That means he was āarmedā. Taking one gun does not, by itself, mean he was thereafter āunarmed.ā If you donāt understand that, then you donāt understand the law.
2. The woman in the white jacket who was pushed did not have her back to the officer. As she approached the snow she turned around to face the officer, and it was at that point he shoved her to get her out of the street.
3. Pretti putting himself between the BP Agent and the woman, no matter how much it might be instinctual, is a crime.
4. "Pretti did not start it" ā Pretti had a clear path to the sidewalk which is where he was headed, and he reversed and went back to engage the BP Officer. THAT is where Pretti āstarted it.ā
5. What you really want to argue but you canāt bring yourself to say it is āHe didnāt resist that much.ā āHis motives for interfering with the Officerās efforts were well intentioned.ā Thatās not the law. The ādegreeā of resistant nor the goodness in the heart of the lawbreaker donāt turn crimes into non-crimes.
6. BP didnāt pursue āthemā and shove āthem.ā One of the three turned around and faced the BP Officer, stopping in her tracks. The BP Officer shoved her. Pretti could have kept going ā Pretti did not. That was PRETTIāS CHOICE.
7. The āAgentsā didnāt remove the gun. One Agent removed the gun and immediately turned away and left. It is UNKNOWN if any other the others were aware. This came after one or more Agents yelled āGUNā ā communicating to all they were engaged with an ARMED individual who was resisting their efforts to subdue him. When an agent yells "GUN" he doesn't yell "One Sig P320 9 mm, silver with white grips, in a holster in he small of his back". "GUN" simply means armed with a handugn.
8. It is not āspeculationā what gun he had ā it was a Sig P320 AXG COMBAT, and the P320 DOES have a problem with unintended discharges.
9. Law enforcement agents were not obligated to assume he had only one gun. They knew nothing about him. What they knew was 1) he was resisting, and 2) he had a firearm. That means he was āarmedā. Taking one gun does not, by itself, mean he was thereafter āunarmed.ā If you donāt understand that, then you donāt understand the law.