I'm not here to be a critic for the sake of criticizing the police.  I don't believe every one of them is a rapist.  I watch interrogations and  bodycam videos in the hope of forming my own opinions, in a larger way, about what's going on.

I know from experience that the police can choose what to release under a FOIA request.  And thus there is a sort of selective editing at play that may not be obvious to anyone who's never requested records from a police agency.  It can be very hard to get things the cops don't want to show you.

Even so, there's a lot to be learned.  This is another example of America's mental health crisis, and how the police become its front line.

The lady in this video got pulled over for speeding in a school zone.  She was only going to be given a warning and sent on her way.  Her attitude was so hostile and bizarre with the officer that other police arrived.  Even so she wasn't going to be ticketed for her broken mirror.  Then she almost ran one of the police over as she was being allowed to leave with a warning only, while being as rude as possible the whole time.

After almost running one of the police over, she was placed under arrest for assault with a deadly weapon.  Then she sat in the car praying and speaking in tongues, howling like a madwoman.

The driver, Brittany, had one very clear theme:  I'm grown.  You have no authority over me.  Nobody can tell her anything.  I think it's interesting that she's into a religion that does speaking in tongues, where you can shout syllables you don't understand, nobody understands, and it has meaning.  You get to just say gibberish and believe God is behind it.  She referred to "witches and warlocks" and God's vengeance, which was repeatedly threatened on the police. 

That's why Brittney can drive however she wants.  She felt certain nonsense syllables of Jesus inside her that overrode the communications of the people who paved the road she was riding on. 

The police aren't being paid enough for this. Their job was to actually make sure she was sober and her vehicle was up to code.

A woman came home to find her neighbor, Miguel Cortez, had allegedly raped and murdered her daughter, Maria Jose Castillo.  She was then stabbed repeatedly.  Other neighbors were able to subdue him until the police arrived.

Upon searching Cortez' apartment they found seven human heads.  People are outraged that so little effort has been put into searching for missing women.

The criminal justice system in Mexico is even more than I can get into here, much more depressing than the situation in America.  There's already nothing I can do about our missing Native and other women here, and how little our police care about it.

Every once in a while we get to pull a bad apple out of the rotten barrel.  Judge Adrian convicted the little rapist on the facts at the time. 

But then wanted to come back after and say he simply didn't think it was fair to send him to prison.  He did five months in jail.   And he's only a teenager.  So it wouldn't be right to make him serve his sentence after all.

"We have people, adults, having parties for teenagers, and they allow coeds and female people to swim in their underwear in their swimming pool.  They provide liquor to underage people, and you wonder how these things happen.  The Court is totally disgusted with that whole thing."

In other words, the parents who weren't supervising him well enough are to blame, therefore she's out of luck.  Everybody is responsible but the rapist.

Now, that seems to a lot of people like maybe he took campaign contributions from the defendant's wealthy parents, something of that sort.  I'm sure people looked into it.  But whatever the reason, no matter how many times he may have done similar things in the past, this time Judge Adrian wasn't allowed to toss a conviction out arbitrarily.  He was made to step down.

So we got one "boys will be boys" rape apologist off the bench.

But then there's still everybody right up the ladder from Brett Kavanaugh to Joe Biden.

Quick recap:  Joe Biden's excuse for the hair-sniffing is, he doesn't have one.  To my eyes it's obvious fetish behavior.  This is literally why hijab exists.  And he's never given any counter explanation for something he's on video doing to dozens of little girls and even very small infants.  He's never explained that behavior.  Really try that on my godchild and her dad will beat you with your own arm.

Then about a dozen women came forward to say they were bothered anyway, including one who charged him with actual rape.  I found Tara Reade's charge perfectly credible and worthy of an investigation that it never got. 

Joe Biden said, "I have nothing to apologize for." 

He then went on the campaign trail to make consent jokes the whole way.

I won't detail the abuse I took from the K-Hive.  I will note that they don't seem to self-identify so much anymore.  All of my positions remain the same.

I did vote for the blue rapist over the red rapist, even after he sent an army after Tara Reade.  All of the tricks in Brett Kavanaugh's playbook, Joe Biden used times ten.  #TimesUp was so dastardly, so conniving.  There is no bottom to anything when it comes to rape culture in America.

So yes, back to this story.  It's nice that one of the apples got picked out of the barrel.  And watch the video, he's like boo hoo  I'm the real victim, bitches be lying LOL

In another episode of America Gone Mad, a random woman apparently abducted a small child simply to take him around town with her.  She has a history with drugs and weapons.

Luckily the 5-year-old was spotted and rescued after about ten hours.  He was returned home in safe condition.  The woman doesn't seem to have assaulted him beyond taking him around town on the bus.  The news footage shows people stooped over from Fentanyl abuse in the area where she was taking him around in a wagon.

Apparently she sees him around sometimes when she comes past his house. It seems as simple as maybe he was standing on his porch or playing on his stairs, and she came by and took his hand and walked off. There's no telling what was in her head.  Thank God somebody saw him before anything terrible happened. 

Bexar County, Texas has egg on its face after escorting a convicted sex offender into the search for a missing woman and her son.  (The woman and child were tragically found dead.)

A man named Xavier Lopez is seen interacting with the Mobile Command Unit personnel while the family mourns nearby.  In the video at 3:11 he appears to have a badge on his belt while unloading his truck.

Lopez is a registered sex offender who pled guilty to Baby Reindeering somebody, assaulting an unconscious man, back in 2021.  He was given probation only for that.  Then he violated his conditions in 2023.  Probation was continued rather than sending him to prison for eight years.

Then he and a guy named Xavier Gonzalez formed a "nonprofit" called Statewide Emergency Response Team.  SERT is a commonly used acronym in public safety.  Counties commonly have SERT teams in an official capacity.   But he and Gonzalez (who I'm not so sure exists) created this "nonprofit" called SERT to provide refreshments for first responders at large scenes.  Basically outsourcing the water and porta-potties that the county needs to provide at a mass casualty incident and pretending they're not making money at it.  They knew to do this.  Makes me wonder how the two of them got this idea.  One of them must be a volunteer firefighter.

Anyway they dropped Lopez from co-owner on the paperwork and refiled it with only Gonzalez and a different company name, and it went through.  And then voila, he was delivering refreshments to the police as seen in this video for a much more lowkey sounding  outfit called Fire Scene Rehab.

Mr. Briggs from Fire Scene Rehab says he let Lopez go for "pushing himself" on four minor volunteers.  And that completes the circle of life, how and why exactly Lopez got involved in this.  Like Joe Kalady's interest in marching bands, I imagine Xavier Lopez probably loves fire stations where a lot of men are asleep.

Lopez denies any misconduct at Fire Scene Rehab.

Apparently while Lopez argues there's nothing in his conditions preventing him from entering a city park or being around children, because his offense didn't involve children, there's a city ordinance banning all sex offenders.  So that's a problem.

What Mr. Lopez doesn't understand is that he really could, and some would say should, be spending eight years in prison right now.  He's not entitled to be at any volunteer fire station or supporting any public safety agency in any way.  Those people maintain higher than average personal standards.

When I volunteered as a firefighter, even while employed as a county paramedic, I had to maintain a perfect driving record and pass a criminal background check, credit check, and drug screening the whole time.  I wasn't allowed to be a sex offender.  Right?  You're a rapist.  You already got your free walk.  Lower your expectations for how society will treat you now.  You don't get to be at the top echelons of respectability.

From Fox LA

"LOS ANGELES COUNTY, Calif. — FOX 11 got an exclusive look inside the vehicle deputies are calling a "rape dungeon on wheels," after they caught a man, who they called a serial rapist, in the act in the San Gabriel Mountains earlier this week.

Inside the van, deputies said was "rigged for rape" was condoms, ropes, bungees, children's toys, multiple cell phones and hard drives and more. In the back, a metal partition, which was locked from the outside, with a worn and stained mattress.

All the evidence has been processed in the case. What FOX 11 saw left in the van was what was left after the investigation.

It's in that "cage" in the back of the van, where deputies said Eduardo Sarabia kept his victims, when he took them to a remote location in the Angeles National Forest to rape them.

And it's where deputies said they rescued a 26-year-old woman after deputies patrolling the area found the van, stopping a rape in progress and taking Sarabia into custody.

Sarabia was arrested Monday, and arraigned Tuesday on two felony counts of sexual assault for forcible rape of two women this week alone.

Deputies said Sarabia lived in the 2015 Ford Transit van, and would offer women rides, saying he was camping in the San Gabriel Mountains before taking them to an area off mile marker 21 on Highway 39, where there's no hope for a cell phone signal."

There are so many disturbing things about this story:

• Eduardo Sarabia's family wanted to turn him in long ago.  But America is so busy telling people which side of the imaginary line they can live on, that his family what afraid to tell authorities about the monster they allegedly knew him to be.
  
• The woman who ultimately tipped them off about Sarabia was being rousted from sleeping rough.  She begged the security guard to leave her alone because she'd just been raped.  So he called 911, which is what got them looking for Sarabia's van.
• The children's clothing and blood-spattered shoes in the van.
• The hard drives and cell phones, the suggestion of what may be recorded there.

Having been in the position of driving around the American West for several years sleeping in my van wherever I could, all of that curdles my blood.  Because the thing is you have to get far enough off the beaten path that the police won't bother you.  And in that case, anybody can kill you.

A teenager texted 911 in rural Ventura County, California that she had been kidnapped.  She was able to be rescued.  The girl had been kidnapped in Mexico and held for two months.

I spent some time traveling around California as a homeless person.  People don't realize how vast that state is, and how remote some parts of it are.  What a terrifying ordeal that was for that girl, being dragged around a foreign country and raped for two months.   It's a small miracle, really, that she got hold of a phone and that texting 911 actually works now.  Thank God.

A few months ago I covered an incident where a man entered a Walmart in Rockford, Illinois.  He was so upset about his racist feelings that he took two different knives off the shelves in two different parts of the store,  and wandered around until he found a black employee to stab to death.  That employee was a teenager, a high school student, someone who never saw his attacker coming.  But the alleged attacker (who I don't believe has been convicted yet) says that he couldn't get the mental healthcare that he needed, so he had no other choice.

Now, as a veteran paramedic, and a white person, and someone who went for many years without the mental healthcare that I needed, I find everything about that completely infuriating.  First of all, no matter how much you may dislike other people, keep your hands to yourself.  You have freedom of speech.  We have to tolerate whatever you want to say. 

But also Walmart, with their casino-like security, had an obligation to protect that young man's life.  They have so much security.  Why was he able to wander through the store gathering weapons for that length of time?  Look how much police presence there always is at Walmart, aside from the myriad security people and eyes in the sky.

As a white person, I have no use for this stabby idiot and would happily trade him for the highly productive high-schooler he allegedly murdered any time.  Lastly, as a paramedic, I can't guess how many people I took to the emergency room with mental health problems that could and should have been dealt with some other way, like a primary care or urgent care physician.  I spent so much time carrying people like him to the drowning emergency room, while people sat in wrecked cars, or having heart attacks, wondering where their ambulance was.  His failure to get himself together and seek help doesn't demand a human sacrifice by the rest of society.  Everything about that is a deep fail, on every level.  Simply infuriating.

But the lady in this video luckily didn't kill anyone -- although she really might have.  That's fortunate, because she has two very small kids.  This could have been a much worse outcome all the way around.  

My point is that Walmart just isn't the place for everyone to come when they have one too many feelings about racism and they need to unload on some random person.  So many people in America are ticking bombs, ready to shoot up a school or run over a Christmas parade.

I'm showing this video because the young lady doesn't seem drunk or high.  It's strictly maturity and mental health with her, potentially fixable issues.   The Rockford stabber is a mature neckbeard and his brain is probably ruined from drugs.  Hopefully he won't come out of prison and it's Clorox in the gene pool.  But she has two small kids and could have more.  So it's crucial to intervene and get her on track now, which may not be possible based on what I can see in this video.  Luckily she has relatives who seem very decent and capable of caring for her children if/when she flames all the way out.

This young lady's baby's shoe fell in a parking lot and she didn't notice right away.  A stranger kicked it out of the road, he says so it wouldn't get hit by a car.  They both agree that she ran up to him and demanded he pick it up and give it to her.  He declined.  The two of them, plus a witness, say she shoved him and then tripped him to the ground.  He got up and kept walking away with an older lady, presumably his mother -- who never said anything. 

Body cam shows that the police -- who were dealing with a shoplifter about 130 feet away -- came to investigate the shouting. 

• The police dropped what they were doing when they heard this woman yelling from way over yonder, is the only way she got onto their radar.  Just pointing that out LOL
  

The man who allegedly got shoved and tripped to the ground didn't call the cops on her.  The baby's mother was still screaming at him.  He was walking away when the police approached and asked for his ID.  He immediately gave his license to the officer and thanked her for being calm and not aggressive.

Another woman in a van is there, and the guy who got shoved down and walked away silently begs her to speak to the police.  He thanks her when she does.  She agrees with everything he said about it.   He kicked the shoe away so it wouldn't get run over before somebody could find it.  He hadn't seen the mother.  And he didn't want to touch it.

In this whole video there is only one person who ever raises their voice.  She can be heard shouting on the phone the whole time the police are getting calm, rational statements from the other people.

Her statement to the police begins at 10:07.  The most interesting thing about this video is that everyone is perfectly calm except the lady who started it, and she's completely off the rails.  She seems to need maybe inpatient therapy.   I would consider at least a mood stabilizer for her. 

But as much time as I spend criticizing the police on this blog, their job is apparently to be mental health workers who are prepared to shoot you if necessary while investigating your shoplifting activities.  I'm just saying.  Watch the segments that I time stamp, it's pretty amazing the job they do sometimes.

The cop keeps saying, "Okay," and in that process he gets her to admit to "I believe my fingernail went in his arm.  I did not reach at him.  I did not try to grab him."  LOL  "And yes, the situation did elevate.  And I do apologize -- not to him, because he was very disrespectful at the mouth.  Had it been another race, I'm pretty sure he would've picked up [the shoe].  That's how the situation elevated a little quickly.  I would never put my hands on nobody."  Which makes sense because her nail went into his arm.

Then the cop does a quick recap of her statement and asks her, "Was there any other contact or anything else happened?

"I tripped him.  Yes I did."  D'OH!

She goes on explaining and apologizing -- not to the guy she tripped.  But justifying why she had to trip him, he was so rude for not picking up the shoe.

"The situation escalated," says the woman who created a situation and then escalated it.  "I came here to waste time," she further elaborates.  "I hear you.  I get it," replies the heavily armed social worker.

"She drop kicked him!" the Walmart loss-prevention officer gasps upon reviewing the video. 

At 18:51 the super-chill guy says he doesn't want to press charges.  He just wants her to understand that she can't do this anymore.  He hasn't heard her blaming him, calling him a racist, saying how rude he was, apologizing to everyone but him.   He probably can't imagine how little chance there is of her getting that message.  But he's the perfect guy for her to have shoved in the first place, the guy who didn't break her jaw.

His mother convinces him that he should press charges, and I agree.  The woman is completely out of control.  She won't learn even with charges.

At 22:30 look at her face when she realizes she's being arrested.  That thought has never entered her mind, that there could be consequences to tripping a random person in a parking lot.

I could almost feel sorry for her as panic sets in.  She remembers that she only went to Walmart to kill time while her other child was at a birthday party at the skating rink.  This was all a big nothing in which her mood got completely out of control and now she's going to jail. 

But she goes straight into victim mode about being a single mother.  Her super-nice cousin comes to pick up her kids.  And she cycles through a full range of bad behavior that I don't think can be helped, including DARVO:  Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender.  And that suggests she knows she was wrong in the first place.  That's why it was good that he pressed charges.

• That's so racist, I didn't even put my hands on him.
  
• Where are the cameras?  Can I use this?
  
• Can I reverse this on him please?
  
• Does this make me a criminal in terms of a job?
  

And then she sits down and starts crying, while the police officer social worker talks her through an anxiety attack and they wait for her cousin to come and pick up her kids, so they won't see mommy getting handcuffed.  Really everyone is being super nice but her.  She continues apologizing to the police over and over, and presumably still not to the man she intentionally tripped.  She's looking for a way to charge him with something.

From the channel creator of the linked video:

"Update Sentencing: Nolle Prosequi (charges dismissed) Defendant participated in treatment; she has no prior or subsequent arrests. The victim agrees with the dismissal Unsecured judicial release bond(no cost)"

I agree that this woman doesn't need to be in jail.  What concerns me is the past tense for "participated in treatment." Because she has serious issues that can't be helped in one or two sessions.  And she's raising kids.

This is another older case from Georgia, with a better than average outcome because the survivor had good tech skills and her wits about her.

In this instance, the survivor knew something was up when the deputy brought her out to the woods late at night in his personal vehicle and handed her a beer after arresting her for DUI.  That was intended as "leverage" to induce her to show her boobs and give him a blowjob, both of which she declined. 

Ashlie Roberts did have the presence of mind to record the encounter.  And she knew to bring the recording to the media instead of local law enforcement.  That's probably why Miller ended up being charged with bribery and fired.  Because they did find the beer can she discarded, which had been purchased on Miller's debit card.

The Atlanta Journal Constitution:

"A former Monroe County deputy who told a woman he'd reduce her DUI charges in exchange for sexual favors has been banned from the county, Macon news station WGXA reported.

Deputy William “Bill” Miller was arrested in August 2018 after a woman he arrested came forward with a recording of him offering to have her charges reduced in exchange for sex.

He was recently convicted of a felony bribery charge and violating his oath of office and sentenced to eight years of probation, the news station reported. He’s also banned from entering Monroe, Lamar and Butts counties during that time.

Miller was arrested last year after the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office was tipped off about an off-duty conversation the then-38-year-old had with a woman he arrested a month earlier. She refused his propositions, authorities said.

He was placed on administrative leave while the department called in the GBI and FBI to investigate.

Miller was terminated and arrested once the internal investigation was closed, deputies said. He was hired by the sheriff’s office in April 2018, but worked in law enforcement for about four years, the GBI said previously."

Again, another older story that I can't report timely because it didn't make national headlines.  I have to rely on local news from other parts of the country.

WXGA:

"FT. VALLEY, Ga -- The Georgia Bureau of Investigation arrests and charges former Fort Valley State University officer in sexual assault investigation.

In a release from the GBI, 52-year-old Wilbur Bryant was arrested and charged with simply battery (misdemeandor), bribery (felony), and 2 counts of violation of oath of office (felony).
In Magistrate court this morning his bond was set at $10,000.
Bryant is a former Lieutenant with FVSU Police Department."

Thank God all of these young people know how to record somebody while they're on the phone with them.  A young woman's mother explains how her experience with Bryant came to pass, how her daughter had the presence of mind and technological know-how to stop him.

As explained in the video, significant complaints against Bryant go back a decade.  Yet his performance reviews rant and rave about him like they've never heard a word.  I'm old enough to remember the word "co-ed,"  short for "co-educational."  Because back then women didn't belong in colleges and they resented allowing us in there at all.  Not like now, right Harrison Buttker?

Bryant was ultimately allowed to resign rather than being fired.

It makes you wonder how the rape kit ever got backlogged.

Then there's this situation:

From 11Alive:

"A Peach County grand jury has indicted seven people accused in a sex scandal at Fort Valley State University

Among the indicted was Alecia Johnson, a former executive assistant to the Fort Valley State president. She was accused of arranging acts between at least one woman and six men. She's also accused of prostitution herself."

So apparently at this same school where Officer Creeper was allegedly stalking the student athletes, the people in the main office were allegedly coordinating escort services with one of the sororities.  Other than that, fantastic school. 

It kind of makes sense how Wilbur Bryant got those rave performance reviews despite the many significant sexual abuse claims in his file.