In almost all of the videos I watch of drunks who turn nothing into a felony, the biggest problem (aside from alcohol) is immaturity.  And that's the issue we have here:  people who are simply brats that need a time out.  America is full of people with inadequate coping skills that become a police problem.  That makes law enforcement an almost impossible job.

I'm posting this video because (a) this young lady is hilarious and (b) the cop handled her masterfully.  This calm, temperate officer is the opposite of Greg Morabito who I just posted about, who couldn't handle the first moments of an interaction calmly.

An officer approaches to find this young woman face-down on the dirt alongside the road.  She begins an ambulance en route.  The girl gets up and is obviously quite drunk.  She says things like, "I just mean I thought I was somewhere else," which is one of her more coherent statements.

She's there with a couple of other people, including a couple of young men who seem perfectly sober and were trying to help her get safely home.   The guy apparently helped her not get hit by a car and stood by waiting for an ambulance while she was face-down on the roadside.  She stands there calling him a liar and asshole the whole time he's talking to the police.

Throughout this interaction the young woman -- who is carrying someone else's ID -- is incredibly rude, both to the person who was trying to help her get home and to the cop, who is also perfectly polite the whole time.

My point in covering this is that this call is the majority of police work in America.  They get called out to this kind of crap constantly.  This is the demeanor they need to have.  They also need to be prepared to use force up to and including lethal if she happens to pull out a weapon.  Right?  We're asking a lot of people.  But most of the time it's almost nothing, like this.  And I wanted to highlight the amazing job this cop did with her.

This is exactly how to handle someone who says this litany of idiotic piss-takes -- you ignore and laugh, just as this officer did.

I'm sure the comments are full of "Karen" comments, too, despite both people being in the same demographic.  Because bigotry isn't about reality checking.  But here are some of the funny things this girl said while being arrested -- which was probably avoidable if she would've cooperated and given her name. 

• Your body cash is on
  
• I'm not arrested.  You're getting arrested and getting fired.  [Cop:  "Okay" LOL]
  
• You're illegally detesting me
  
• ...because you're not smarter than me.  And you're not smarter than my mom.  And you're an idiot.  And you will regret it.  [Cop takes phone call as she drives off.  "What's up?  I'm getting yelled at by a drunk girl" she nonchalantly explains.]
  
• ... and you will be arrested, and I will sue you.  You wanna know why?  Because I have more education than you.  And my mom, most of all, has more education than you.  [Cop continues phone call, ignoring her completely.]
  
• Learn your fucking place in the court of law, how I"m illegally being detested right now, because no one read my my Miranda lights and I'm in the back seat of a cop car.
  
• If I'm being detested my Miranda rights have to be read to me.
  
• ["It's called being detained," the cop explains.]  Girl, you're about to be fucked so far up your asshole that you will not know where you are when you come out of it.  I'm being detested illegally.
  

I would point out that it's legal in all 50 states to detest her. 

TL/DR the cop wins.  You can watch the video if you really want to hear the whole thing.  It's pretty sad/funny.  I'm glad that the internet wasn't around when I was young.  But also, despite getting drunk as a dog every night for years, nothing like this ever happened to me.  I was never banned from anything or even thrown out of anywhere. 

My point is that this is what policing is in America.  You have to go from this situation of a teenager who isn't safe to be out on the streets and getting her into a controlled environment, to a domestic situation where you're stopping family members from killing each other.  Then you bounce to a shoplifting situation.  And every once in a while someone is running down the street shooting people.  I ran calls like this constantly as a paramedic.  

My concern is how we can get this job done in the best way for all parties concerned.

In a video titled "Cop Realizes Career-Ending Moment Was Filmed," we see Utica, Michigan Police Officer Morabito arguing with two men alongside the road.

This channel, EWU (Explore With Us) generally does some pretty high quality crime reporting, though I'm going to report on another one where I feel like they dropped the ball.

But here they did a great job with the subtitles.  They open with Morabito telling a coworker to tell the mayor to get him out of this fucking job, because he's a hothead and a liability.  And that's how the story ends, with Morabito taking early retirement.

Morabito responds to a call about people filming cars on the roadside, which is not illegal to do.  He became angry when they began filming him, which (a) is not illegal and (b) is really stupid because he should also have bodycam on.  Per his quote, Morabito doesn't have the temperament for this job.

Morabito is seen slapping the phone out of the guy's hand as he charges toward him.

Now, this whole thing is just a giant pile of manbabies behaving stupidly.  I'm posting this because nobody looks good in this entire thing.  Morabito is a hot mess and needed to go.

But it's hard to feel like the auditors are helping things, even though they did force Morabito into early retirement.  Is that the best way to clean up our police departments?  Having people go bait the police into arguments, stress testing each individual unit while actual crimes are ongoing?

Unfortunately America is set up to allow each individual citizen to abuse the 911 system however they want.  And so this will go on.  All of this gives me a headache and makes me feel like there's nothing worth fighting for.

If we stepped back into a time machine, we might recall that "Karen" started out as:  "a middle-aged white woman who calls the police on innocuous African-Americans to harass them over nothing more than their race."  That has metastasized into "any loud or rude person, especially if racist."  Karen no longer needs to be white, a woman, or even in America.  We have male Karen, and reports of "Karen" from China and India -- countries where woman are notoriously treated like shit from time immemorial.

Now, if you don't want to be called Karen, it seems like all you should have to do is keep sweet and obey, and people won't talk about you.  I went into "Speak only when spoken to" mode years ago.  But no.  

Because as you can see, nobody loves that Karen meme more than Kevin.  "Who's Kevin?" is the universal reply from every African-American I've ever  mentioned him to.  You know, Kevin, the owner-operator of this plantation from Day 1, the guy who really hates the crap out of Karen, even more than African-Americans.  Or as he's more commonly known, "Male Karen," because Kevin doesn't have to own his shit.  That's part of the agreement, isn't it?  I'm asking those who agree that the Karen meme is fine.

Because I would bet dollars to donuts (a very outdated expression since donuts cost about a dollar each now) that this video was posted by a Kevin for an audience of Kevins.    Now, the lady in that video may be white, but she doesn't seem to be.  It kind of looks like a bunch of white guys monetizing the misconduct of an African-American woman and demonizing my demographic for it.

This is another detour from important crime stories to simply point out why no reasonable conversation can take place about law enforcement in this country in the foreseeable future.  We have too many people monetizing too many side-agendas.  Common decency and critical thinking have disappeared.

And lastly, pretty much everyone in America behaves like "Karen."  No, really.  Kevin and African-Americans call the police on the police and do other stupid, obnoxious things all the time.  Watch Parking Wars.  Men of every color lose their minds, go full "Karen" over every little thing.  They start hurling racist and sexist abuse at everyone.  Race and gender don't predict how anyone will behave.  "Karen" is a classic American.    It's adorable how that all gets pinned on one demographic because "woke."

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.