Saturday morning feel good stories
In Sacramento, California, a thief attempted to rob an armored truck guard. The masked criminal approached the guard as he was walking to his truck and a gun fight ensued. The guard was struck once by gun fire and the thief took several hits. They are both in the hospital and critically injured.
In Greenville, North Carolina, Officer Matt Holton was taking Bobby Lankford, Jr. to jail for robbery of a convenience store. Lankford complained that his handcuffs were too tight, so Holton tried to adjust them. Lankford got free and assaulted the officer. He tried to get the officer’s gun threatening to kill him. An of-duty firefighter and another passerby saw the scuffle and stopped to aid the officer which ended Lankford’s assault. Now he’s looking at felony assault charges to accompany his charge sheet for armed robbery. The officer has recovered from his injuries. So much for being a nice guy.
Category: Feel Good Stories
“Cuffs too tight? Awwwwww.. . Too bad. You’ll get them loosened once you’re booked and in the holding cell. And not until then. And when will we get there? Faster when you stop flapping your yap and distracting me.”
Nowadays I truly believe that there are plenty of situations where you have to tell yourself “FUCK being Mr. Nice Guy”.
Don’t ever be nice to the bad guys. It does not pay.
The masked bandit showed up on my front steps last night. That’s right. The Lone Robber showed up, looking for stuff that I never leave out. Fortunately, the duty HHP in chief was on patrol, got into the window and said some nasty words. I rolled out of my trundle bed and went to see what the fuss was all about, and there he was, bold as brass, trying to star down my cat: Rocky Raccoon, Jr., the Masked Bandit, the Lone Robber, looking for a chance to steal birdfood, which is kept in a storage bin. I think he mistook my bag of garden soil for birdfood. And man, I let ol’ Rocky have it, right between his masked eyes, a stream of invective that would do credit to a Bosun’s Mate.. He scurried down my front steps into the street, and he’d better keep going.
You didn’t say what caliber of cast iron skillet you used.
It seems in the second story that the prisoner was being transported to jail by only one officer.
I don’t want to second-guess the situation without all of the facts but I see two glaring errors if, in fact, the story is accurate.
1. Never, ever be a “good guy” by adjusting the handcuffs on a prisoner, especially if you’re alone with the felonious hump….
2. What kind of police department allows prisoners to be transported anywhere by one officer? You’re just begging for trouble and in this story, they got it!
It happens all the time in my bucolic little burg. We have about 50 sworn officers in my town, so figure only about 7-8 are on duty at any given time to cover an incorporated area of almost 50 square miles.
One enterprising young gent was taking the ride to jail when he busted out the rear window of the police car, jumped out, and ran out the sally port before the cop could get the door closed.
They eventually caught him again, but yeah–embarrassing.
Had something similar happen in my neck of the woods. Guy was cuffed in front and managed to get away from the officer.
They found him later. He decided the best way to get the cuff off was to put them on the railroad tracks; one arm on one side, one on the other.
Good thing for him that the wheels of the train cauterized where his arm was amputated.
Did it most of the time at my department. 3d shift put out 16 cars, for a city of 200,000. One of those cars was a 2 man, er, person unit.
Just the way things were.
I agree, once the cuffs go on, they only get removed or adjusted at jail.
I didn’t mean to sound “pompous” by my comment, of course now, I see the light for smaller police departments! I was in a department the size of a small army (about 2800 personnel at the time) and having a policy for prisoner transport which included two cops was a very strict policy and yes, we had the people to do it.
Back to the story above….in my view, the cop made a serious error in judgment loosening the cuffs and could have paid with his life. Thankfully the fireman and other civilian were there to help.
Speaking from experience, I have to tell you MOST depts only use one officer to transport prisoners!!
Question for LEO types:
If a person that is being arrested requests that they be cuffed in front instead of back because of a chronic shoulder problem, is the request reasonable and should the officer comply sans any obvious medical evidence?
Nope. The knuckleheads shouldn’t be out assin’ around. I got dispatched to a friends house one time. Got there; wife & her brother in front yard. Easy to see marks on her face & neck.
Short story, my “friend” thought he would get preferential treatment. He tried to headbutt me when I disagreed (he would be wearing cuffs). It didn’t go to well for him. By the time I finished bouncing his head & body off everything but the ceiling, he’d of put the cuffs on himself – behind his back.
NO!
Scumbag: “Hey, officer, these cuffs are too tight. Can you be a good guy and loosen them for me?”
Officer: “They’re too tight? Not to worry, they’ll be more comfortable after you’ve worn them for a few years. And, oh, BTW, fuck you.”
Easy way to adjust for him, take out 12 gauge, blow off both hands, problem solved!