Have you heard of Afroman? He’s the kind of man that brings it to ’em – his words – and America could use more such men.
If you haven’t heard of him, here’s the brief. He’s a rapper – famous mostly before this for the song about getting high – who was the victim of a Hut! Hut! Hutting! on his home, when he was way from home, based on a sketchy warrant alleging kidnapping and other crimes. No evidence of any such crimes was discovered during the raid. Instead, evidence of crimes committed by the Hut! Hut! Hut! crew was filmed by Afroman’s security cameras – including destruction of property and theft of property, such as Afroman’s lemon pound cake.
The “heroes” – as they like to be called – kicked down his door and crashed into his home in search of what wasn’t there, taking some of what was – legally – and also, so they thought, destroying the evidence of their rampage by cutting off his security cameras during the Hut! Hut! Hut!
Afroman proceeded to write some songs about this – along with video of this, featuring the antics of the Hut! Hut! Hutters! – and put these on the Internet.
He considered this a public service as well as his right. After all, the Hut! Hut! Hutters! were in his home. When you enter someone else’s home, the homeowner has every right to video record you – especially if you are in the home without the consent of the owner. This was the gist of Afroman’s defense when the Hut! Hut! Hutters! sued him for defamation – which is hilariously ironic in view of the video evidence speaking for itself. You can see what the Hut! Hut! Hutters! did – including helping themselves to Afroman’s pound cake.
How is it “defamatory” to publish the truth?
The jury agreed that it was not.
This has gotten even more traction than Afroman’s videos, which were already going viral. Probably because – for once – some justice has been served to these who earned it. These Hut! Hut Hutters are corrupt swine of the worst sort. Arrogant clowns with guns and badges who are simultaneously thugs and cowards.
They literally operate with legal impunity, too.
Who else gets to batter down your door and ransack your house without any repercussions? Afroman had to pay to fix the damage they caused himself. Who else gets to “pull over” people essentially whenever they feel like it?
Who else can point a gun at you and order you to get on the ground, now! – just because you argued with them over some pedantic point of law? When you or I attempt to dispute what a Hut! Hut! Hutter! claims to be fact in court, it is dismissed as “hearsay” but whatever the Hut! Hut! Hutter! says is regarded as testimony and taken at face value as factual.
One of Afroman’s videos shows one of the Hut! Hut! Hutters! blowing through a stop sign, his vehicle striking another that had the right of way.
This sort of thing happens regularly – because Hut! Hut! Hutters! are a kind of self-chosen people, who have endowed themselves with the prerogative to run stop signs and drive at triple digit speeds – sometimes across the double yellow and in the opposing lane of traffic – while in “pursuit” of someone who was “speeding.”
Cognitive meet dissonance.
Anyhow, Afroman wasn’t having it. Indeed, he gave it – and then some. The rapper made new songs/videos during the trail that were even more savage because the truth hurts. They were so savage they literally made the Hut! Hut! Hutters! cry. They can dish it out – but taking it is another matter.
One of these Hut! Hut! Hutters! is on obese, angry-looking woman who wears the four gold stars that in the military would demote a full general (as opposed to merely a brigadier or major general). She is in fact merely a sheriff’s deputy – but like many such likes to cosplay the role of general. This business is, arguably, one of the reasons why we’ve drifted away from what was once understood to be civilian peace keeping to might-as-well-be military policing. The two have become almost indistinguishable, visually. Both wear BDUs and carry the kind of weaponry suitable for a frontal assault and – this is the really important thing – have been trained to regard themselves as “warriors” who are combatting an enemy they see as a “threat” that must be neuitralized.
This may be so as regards those actually in the Army or Marines. But an overweight middle-aged woman wearing the four stars of a general is not that. She merely thinks that. As do many other Hut! Hut! Hutters!
It is a difference that matters.
Afroman, meanwhile, has become something analogous to Thomas Paine – the author of Common Sense, which savagely mocked the King of England and Parliament. Like Paine, the authorities hate Afroman because Afroman – through his songs and videos – has done exactly what Paine did with his pamphlet. That being tear great gaping holes in the sanctity of Authority by pointing out its hypocrisy, despicability and thus its illegitimacy.
There is a line – I think it’s old and dates back to the Elizabethan era – about how the devil is a proud spirit who cannot bear to be mocked.
Indeed. And neither can his incarnations in human form.
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“My proof’s on the internet!”
What a hook! ‘Afroman’ is too mundane a moniker for such a skilled lyricist. He should re-style himself the Black Bacharach.
That said, his lackluster lyrics are still a sight better than those of Julia Ward Howe’s blasphemous Battle ‘Hymn’ of the Empire.
Morning, StraitGate!
I generally loathe rap. But I love Afroman!
Other musicians that everyone here may like are Hi-Rez & Jordan Meyer and Five Times August. They all made music videos the past few years mocking the establishment when it came to things like COVID and “The Science” himself, Tony Fauci.
I guess I’m showing my age, but my gosh how far we’ve fallen as a society in 65 years.
No-knock raids are common, everyday occurrences, mostly for victimless “crimes”… hardly peacekeepers;
and rappers post spiteful, filthy videos, an awful use of free speech.
There’s no shame any more, either from cops or plebes.
“Conduct unbecoming!”, I say, of redeemed human beings made in the image of their Creator.
Sadly true, Mr. Bill. This society is unrecognizable compared to what it was 50 years ago. Maybe it’s a case of people getting the government they deserve….and voted for. It’s a strange time to be alive; to be witnessing the destruction of a culture- and it seems uniquely specific to all the former “commonwealth” countries- which leads one to believe that this is not natural and organic, but rather something that has been inflicted on these countires purposely; And that fact is glaring obvious if one just looks at a TV show/movie, or sees what they are teaching in government schools and colleges.
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I’ve never heard of Afroman either, but those videos you posted Eric were nicely done by Afroman. If there’s one thing we need plenty of these days, it’s truth expressed via jokes or music videos like those Afroman made, though certain powers and the corrupt establishment will likely be quite displeased. JP Sears and Jimmy Dore also do a good job of expressing truth via jokes.
I had a friend who would forward me Jimmy Dore clips. The liberal use of the “F” word aside, Dore points out the fraud on both sides of the political aisle, and points out truths that neither side wants to talk about or admit to. It always made me wonder what expletives George Carlin would give, if he were alive to see where this country is today?
He’d say “well, I told ya so! You’re on your own!
Hi Shadow,
Until Eric posted a Jimmy Dore clip a few years ago of a female cop who made a video message imploring drivers to “Get the F— out of the way!”, I’ve never heard of Dore. However, after watching his podcast on the internet, he often told jokes while reporting the latest news, which I found hilarious. His co-host, Kurt Metzger, often says funny stuff as well. They also often drop truth bombs on various subjects that we’d likely NEVER hear in corporate media, the establishment, or the 2 major political parties.
It might be worth considering the hiring process that brought these guys into law enforcement. They were probably given some sort of psychological evaluation during that process, and that evaluation is set up to select for people like these cops.
The departments want people like these guys as police officers, and it’s entirely reasonable to ask why that is.
I said shrink, “I want to kill!
I mean, I wanna—I wanna kill. Kill.
I wan—I wanna see, I wanna see blood and gore and guts and veins in my teeth.
Eat dead burnt bodies.
I mean kill. Kill. Kill! Kill!
And I started jumpin’ up and down yelling, Kill! Kill! and he started jumpin’ up and down with me and we was both jumpin’ up and down yelling, Kill! Kill!
And the sergeant came over, pinned a medal on me, sent me down the hall, and said, “You’re our boy.”
Some things never change.
You can get anything that you want.
While not giving a damn about some bloated “Knee Grow” rap “artist”, what the cops did to him just in busting into his home w/o apparent justification. STEALING and damaging his property while there only magnified the CRIME. But suing Afroman for ridiculing their misconduct via his rap videos, that should be counter-sued heavily for HARASSMENT.
Probably not a lot of rap fans here but another is Brother Ali. His big hit “Uncle Sam Goddamn” was almost 20 years ago, when the DHS and TSA and Gitmo hadn’t been forgotten.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OO18F4aKGzQ
Hi Sayer,
Roger that. And if rap were more like this, I’d like a lot more!
I can’t believe it…. That there is a rapper whom I don’t despise. I actually like this Afroman! More power to him! Proof that even among the worst groups, you can find one that breaks the stereotype, and rather than letting himself be defined by the group ethos, instead maintains his own ethos and rises above the scum to define what that group could be.
Other rappers likely have people cheering for “law and order”, but this guy has exposed what scum the enforcers of “law and order”[sic] are.
It’s outrageous that this man has had to suffer what the thugs inflicted upon him, but he is doing everyone a great service by exposing them, and cluing the clueless public in on what those badged thugs really are.
He turned his tragedy into a victory for us all, in a way that heretofore no one else has. This is very encouraging. One of the few truly positive things I have heard of in a LONG time.
To Afroman: Well done, sir! And thank you.
Where on earth (or in the training data) are all of these “law-and-order” rappers supposedly located?
https://youtu.be/qZuxPKUVGiw?si=BUqLISWbvM5p2YNv
Well, no- the thing is, a llot- err, nay, virtually all rappers glorify every sort of debauchery, thug life, and ghetto culture. When normal decent [and politically unaware] people see that, it is natural for them to think things like “Thank goodness for those brave cops [puke] who protect us from these people”. (As if!).
If you’ve ever perused any
racistrealistic forums, or know any realistic people, they just love cops- imagining that they help to neutralize such people while (somehow) protecting them. The KKK LOVES cops….I’m sure people exist who get that kind of a reaction from hearing rap music.
I’m also pretty sure people exist who do not think like that.
Some people might think to themselves “Is that a sales rhythm or a nightclub two-step? Or “What a clever rhyme.” Or “Turn down that noise.” Or “Is this East side or West side?”
I don’t think that’s a normal reaction. Have you been treated for a melanin allergy? Does the sun cause you searing pain? Can you see your own reflection in a mirror? Do you enjoy garlic? The power of Christ compels you!
Yes! I am white, but decent people of all races and cultures who are not insane (Including a black friend of mine) tend to find lyrics that glorify drug culture, violence; gangs; robbery, and womanizing to be things to be scorned and avoided rather than embraced and glorified.
When The Orange Idiot says “Just grab them by the pussy” it paints him as someone who should not be admired or trusted- as well it should; but when some cretin from Compton says similar, he is praised as talented, and his words are blasted from speakers? You think THAT glorifies Christ?
You seem to suffer from (mental)ity (illness) of white shame/black superiority in which different standards are applied differently depending on one’s race.
Still haven’t ruled out vampire.
Not hating something & trying to appreciate it for what it is & what the author is doing with it, does not necessarily imply putting it on a pedestal.
Drugs, sex, rock-and-roll, and (non-government) criminal gangs? Sounds like fun, where do I sign up?
Rap and hip-hop is doing what punk once did, what country and bluegrass sometimes, too. Whether you find the style appealing or not can be separate from the message or simply description of what’s going on around the musician.
The drug thing with rap for example. How are you supposed to talk about the hollowing out of the inner city without talking about it? And why does it exist? Is it organic? Is it possible the government is creating it? The CIA has long been accused of being the primary source for drug smuggling and most of what we did in Afghanistan seemed to be about protecting the poppy fields. The gangsta stuff now is about glorifying it, yo, get that cash and jewels. But back in the 70s and early 80s it seemed more like a description and attempt to warn it.
Same as punk really when you think about it. It was at first giving the finger to the establishment but eventually became mainstream. You know, like how the Naked Raygun evolved into sappy Green Day shit. Even “real” punks got fooled into a political side without realizing that Reagan/Bush seamlessly morphed into Clinton into Bush into Obama. Nothing really changes and all the MTV Rock The Vote for the feels morons solved nothing at all.
It’s almost like the media is controlled and used for very effective propaganda, sort of like a mighty Wurlitzer.
Just admit it: You don’t like NI66ERS. I don’t either. Nor do I care for White Trash and Stoners.
I don’t like niggers- but not all blacks are niggers. Actually, I don’t like or have much in common with the average Caucasian (my own race) these days, either.
Punk was just as much of an assault upon decency and traditional culture as is rap. Actually, rock ‘n roll started it all: The obsession with casual sex; drugs; the normalization of effeminate worthless men with women’s hair; hedonism, etc.
The “rebellion” being pushed is not rebellion against tyranny and government (That would be good), but rather as rebellion against morality, culture and family- as witnessed by such things as the glorification and advocacy of single parenthood; the fact that the vast majority of entertainers are liberal/socialists; That so many were parroting the scamdemic protocols, and such.
These people are destructive, as can often be seen by the themes of their performances and their antics.
In fact, before the advent of rap, the Motown crowd were often more respectable than the rock ‘n rollers- I mean, you’d see the black performers nicely attired in suits and putting on a nice show in which entertainment was the goal, as opposed to some cretins jumping around in their underwear on stage and or exposing themselves, while trying to shock and offend their audience, while pushing their own political ideas and openly scorning those who were not onboard with them.
Virtually all “entertainment” today is ultimately controlled by Jews, as a part of their agenda to destroy traditional Goy culture…and they have done a helluva job, aided by the participation of their victims.
The same people (personality-wise) who are artists & musicians & performers & entertainers & comedians today were actors and troubadours and jongleurs & court jesters a thousand years ago.
Who/what is “the problem?” The performers, or the people who buy the tickets to see them? If you want to eat, you have to get paid. If you want to get paid, you need to attract attention. If you want to attract attention, be controversial. If you want to be controversial, you have to break a few rules. Rules are (usually) pretty stupid & arbitrary anyways.
There is actually more to entertainers, especially when it came to the “court jesters” of old.
You see, performing before the “king’s court” required a certain amount of deference and decorum except in the case of the court jesters.
These court jesters were politically valuable as they could get away with criticizing the King, his court, other public officials, and in general gauge the temperament and demeanor of the king’s subjects.
Much political capital was gained by gauging the mood of the subjects of the kingdom. Anyone but court jesters who criticized the political structure was usually punished…
We went from producers and advertisers being very careful not to offend the majority of their audience- the general culture and common values (E.g. Not showing Lucy and Ricky Ricardo sleeping in the same bed; portraying the parents of The Brady Bunch as being widowed as opposed to divorced), to producers openly stating that they wanted to change people’s values- Done gradually. At first, by creating shows whose that had main characters who were similar to the “every man” of the time- Like Archi Bunker- and then using the premise of a typical person with whom the audience could identify with as a backdrop in which fags and trannies and collectivist ideas were introduced.
The producer of that particular show, Norman Lear, openly admitted to such- bragging that his shows, including All In The Family were the first shows to introduce liberal concepts to a huge TV audience.
And it just progressed from there- to the point where TV shows have become nothing but propaganda and stages from which to preach the libtard agenda; and advertsiers show nothing but multi-cultural “diverse” mixed-race families, fags, trannies and Marxists, not caring if they offend the majority- e.g. the Bud Lite thing- or the JC Penny catalog featuring tranny models; Target stores pushing tranny children’s clothing and special bathrooms for those with every type of mental illness that makes them think that they are something other than the gender of which they were born…to Lowe’s being “fag friendly” and Tractor Supply pushing DEI.
It has been well documented: Take a remote Pacific island where people lived in peace and practiced the same values as their ancestors for centuries; introduce TV and Hollyjewood movies, and literally overnight, they start experiencing crime and social ills and the destruction of their traditional culture and adoption of whatever the hell it is we now have here.
When it comes to Norman Lear and his “All In the Family” creation, young people who watch the show almost invariably side with Archie Bunker.
Talk about reverse psychology, Norman Lear has succeeded in promoting just what he opposed…conservatism.
Anarchyst, it didn’t really backfire. Making Archie Bunker the lovable character that traditionalists could identify with was the plan. It was the only way to get us to watch. Once they had that “in”, they could parade before us…and more importantly, our families, their leftist ideologies; queers and trannies, and all of their little issues and agendas and ideas, packaged in such a way as to not make us turn it off. We wanted to see Archie’s reactions…. And at the same time, Archie was portrayed as dumb and ignorant; uneducated and loathsome, so that even if we loved him, our children got the idea that Archie was a villain, and by contrast that Meat-head and his ilk were thye enlightened, educated wise ones.
It worked. I remember as a teen, that show was virtually my only exposure to liberal ideas. IO started believing Archie was “a bigot” and a dummy; and actually started entertaining some of the liberal ideas! [Thankfully, always being repulsed by queers and trannies, I tended to be leery of that liberal agenda…and came to reject it all- but it’s easy to see how others embraced it, especially as they were cheered along in it by others and by the crap they were ,earning in school.
Notice too how virtually EVERYONE connected with Lear’s shows- especially AITF and Mause, were all rabid liberals and socialists in real life- even ol’ Arch himself, Carroll O’Connor.
I mean, shoot, it was truly a feat that these bastards could get the average person to watch a TV show openly portraying a transvestite character (“Beverly LaSalle- played by a real tranny , named Don McClean*/Lori Shannon – NOT the Don McClean of “American Pie” song fame]…and then introduce a storyline that would invoke sympathy towards that character, when it was portrayed as being killed in a mugging.
This is how Hollywood operates. Only having achieved their goals of the past, they are much more blatant about many things today….now it’s more “You’ll watch this no matter what, because it’s all that’s on” and they still operate under the M.O. of trying to make you believe that what you see portrayed is “normal” and accepted and believed by everyone. Only the ways they manipulate your emotions are much more subtle today. [Personally, when the tranny Beverley LaSalle character was killed, I was torn between joy…and ecstasy ]
My sentiments as well, Arthur!
I like this guy. Not just because I like what he’s done but because the guy seems to be a good dude. I think we could be friends. I wish there were more like him.
Another thing that is highly notable, and highly respectable about Afroman: He does his fighting peacefully, with words and pointed humor. Ridicule, even — but they made themselves look ridiculous, he just pointed it out. He never once used force or weapons. This is absolutely the best way to win.
At some point, as this thing percolated its way through the news, it resurfaced that Afroman ran for president in 2024. Which I vaguely recall noticing, at the time. Unfortunately I had completely forgotten about it by the time I went to the polls, or I would have made sure to write him in.
I hope he runs again in 2028. If he does, for the love of God please remind me of it by late Oct/early Nov. so I don’t miss the opportunity.
Il Douchey d’Or(ange) could have been something like this, and in some ways he indeed came very close, but he failed at all of the critical moments.
Woulda coulda shoulda voted for Afroman.
He noticed that the emperor was naked and said so, all while swathed in American flags.
That’s a vision I can get behind. And I’m not usually a flag person. It’s not about the flag…it’s about what it represents. And there are absolutely two sides to that. He chose the one I prefer.
Publius
I guess what I’m saying is that when Lee Greenwood does it, or when the U.S. military does it, that exact same flag means something very, very different than when that exact same symbol is tailored into an aggrieved musician/performance artist’s suit.
Context matters.
And yes, this guy is every bit as much of an artist as Picasso.
He was performing, for purposes of making a timely, important, and incisive point, and the power of that is awe-inspiring.
(I really should do drafts)
Correction:
Il Douchey empreur petit et nu d’Or(ange)
(I love this game)
Yes. Truly.
Sadly, Eric, there is one YouTube channel, where the attorney specifically talks about ones “rights”, lack thereof, and what to do when you get pulled over, or when you hear that “knock, knock” at your door. Sad, in that we have to have just such a channel to defend ourselves against the very people enforcing everything but the law. The guy does not hold back in explaining how corrupt the cops are. He also reminds his viewers that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled it was just fine for law enforcement to lie to you. But do that to them, and you get the book thrown at you…..and even more so when you point out the hypocrisy of these LEO’s.
First and foremost, anyone who does not know Afroman and his big hit, Because I Got High, needs to listen. It is a humorous song that DOES NOT glorify drug use. It sounds like it does but listen to the lyrics, it is just a list of failures “because he got high”.
Second and most important, during the trial, Afroman pointed out to the butthurt hutters that there would have never been videos or songs if they had not wrongly raided his home in the first place. Afroman won his case right there.
When asked if he would stop making fun of the hutters, nope, he will continue on.
But I will drop this mic here…. Afroman is a Trump fan. He cant be that great of a guy now that we all know that now right?
You’re not safe from them when they’re off duty either. Took 6 months to finally charge this POS, WA State Patrol she finally resigned as well. I’ve been thru that intersection a number of times, it is level ground well laid out no sight line issues – unless you’re drunk:
https://www.tri-cityherald.com/news/local/crime/article311980516.html
Great post! Nice to start my day with a smile instead of the usual sense of foreboding that maybe Donnie Douchebag will get us nuked.
Mockery of these tools is the appropriate means of revenge. This is part of a mechanism that drives such “authorities” right up the wall. In my experience, this is another instance of the “experts” freaking out over the fact that the market has chosen, without coercion, to listen to independent voices rather than to traditional “authorities”. Another instance of this phenomenon relates to the anti-war content creators like Tucker Carlson, Dave Smith, Clint Russell, and to a degree Candace Owens obliterating the traditional talking heads in terms of viewership, and thus influence….especially among young people. This is why toads want to criminalize speech and thought through legislation fiat.
Speaking of Hut! Hut! Hut!, have you seen the videos being posted on YouTube with all those ICE goons walking around the nation’s airports? They’re not doing anything useful, just making their presence known. It’s clear this is an optic for getting us used to not only another layer of police (and military) presence at airports from now on, but also to let us know that the military/police state is accelerating and we’d better be intimated by it.
*intimidated*
Hey! I think know that guy!
He’s undercover brothers dad..? 😀
One can call a “jew” a shyster, shylock, money-grubber, coin clipper or other derogatory term and it will roll off his back like water off a duck, BUT call a jew a “jew” and he will recoil in horror, having been “found out”.
The J-O-O doesn’t take offense to being called a shyster, a shylock, a money-grubber, or coin-clipper, because that’s what he DOES. Moreoever, he’s proud that he can do it and GET AWAY WITH IT, and you CAN’T. It’s when, in his arrogance, that his rather thin disguise as “one of us” isn’t working at all, and insults our intelligence, that’s when the J-O-O gets mad.
Here is a guest article that deserves the light of day:
No One Cares If You Go Home Safe At The End Of Your Shift
Jan 02, 201812:50AM
Category: Politics
Posted by: Michael Z. Williamson
Here at the house, I have a couple of decades plus of military experience. I have tools to dig in or out of natural disasters. I have extinguishers and hoses. I have a field trauma kit and bandages. I have weapons both melee and firearm. I know how to use them. I know how to trench, support and revet. I understand the fire triangle and appropriate approaches. I understand breathing, bleeding and shock. I know how to detain, restrain and control. I have done all of these at least occasionally, professionally. I’ve stood on top of a collapsing levee in a flood. I’ve fought a structure fire from inside so we could get everyone out before the fire department showed up, which only took two minutes, but people can die that fast. I’ve had structures collapse while I was working on them. I’ve been in an aircraft that had a “mechanical” on approach and had to be repaired in-flight before landing. I’ve helped control a brush fire. I’ve hauled disabled vehicles out of ditches in sub-zero weather.
My ex wife has over a decade of service and some of the same training.
We have trained our young adult children.
My wife is a rancher who knows her way around a shotgun, livestock, sutures and tools, hurricanes and floods, and works in investigations professionally.
Our current house guest is another veteran.
This means if anything happens at the house, and last year we had a lightning strike, a tornado and a flood within 10 days’ we’re pretty well prepared.
Now, we’re probably better off than 95% of the households out there. The level of disaster that necessitates backup varies.
If we find it necessary to call 911, it means the party is in progress and it’s bad.
You will probably not be going home safe at the end of your shift.
And you know what? If it gets to that point, I really don’t give a sh!t. I don’t give a sh!t if you get smoked. I don’t give a sh!t if you fall under a tree. I don’t give a sh!t if you get shot at.
Because at that point, I’ve done everything I can with that same circumstance, and run out of resources.
If my concern was “you going home safe,” then I’d just f#cking hunker down and die. Because I wouldn’t want that poor responder to endanger himself.
Except, that’s what I pay taxes for, and that’s what you signed up for. Just like I signed up to walk into a potential nuke war in Germany and hold off the Soviets, and did walk into the Middle East and prepare to take fire while keeping expensive equipment functioning so our shooters could keep shooting.
There’s not a single set of orders I got that said my primary job was to “Come home safe.” They said it was to “support the mission” or “complete the objective.” Coming home safe was the ideal outcome, but entirely secondary to “supporting” or “completing.” Nor, once that started, did I get a choice to quit. Once in, all in.
When that 80 year old lady smells smoke or hears a noise outside her first floor bedroom in the ghetto, she doesn’t care if you go home safe, either. She’s afraid she or the kids next door won’t wake up in the morning.
If I call, I expect your ass to show up, sober, trained, professional. I expect you to wade in with me or in place of me, and drag a child out of a hole, or out from a burning room, or actually stand up and block bullets from hitting said child, because by the time you get there, I’ll have already done all that. And there will be field dressings, chainsawed trees, buckets and empty brass scattered about.
I don’t want to hear some drunk and confused guy squirming on the ground playing “Simon Says” terrified you so much you had to blow him away. I don’t want to hear that some random guy 35 yards away who you had no actual information on , may have reached toward his waist band. Or that “the tree might fall any moment” or that “the smoke makes it hard to see.”
Near as I can tell, I don’t hear the smokejumpers, or the firefighters, or the disaster rescue people say such things.
But it’s all I ever hear from the cops. If you and your five girlfriends in body armor, with rifles, are that terrified of actually risking your life for the theoretically dangerous job you volunteered for and can quit any time, then please do quit.
You can get a job doing pest control and go home safe every night.
Until a bunch of f#cking pussies with big tattoos, small dicks, body armor and guns blow you away for minding your own business.
Because what you’re telling me with that statement is, your only concern is cashing a check. That’s fine. But if that’s your concern, don’t pretend you’re serving the public. If you wanted to help people at risk of life, you would be a firefighter, running into buildings, dragging people out, getting scorched regularly.
If you’re cool with writing tickets, then there’s jobs where you can do just that.
If you want to tangle with bad guys and blow them away, fair enough. But understand: That means they get to shoot first to prove their intent, just as happens with the military these days. Our ROE these days are usually “only if fired upon and no civilians are at risk.”
If your plan is “shoot first, shoot later, shoot some more, then if anyone is still alive try to ask questions,” and bleat, “But I was afeard fer mah lahf!” you’re absolutely no better than the thugs you claim to oppose. All you are is another combatant in a turf war I don’t care about.
Since I know your primary concern is “being safe,” then I’ll do you the favor of not calling. Cash your welfare check, and try not to shoot me at a “courtesy” sobriety checkpoint for “twitching my eye “in a way that suggested range estimation.
If you’re one of the vanishingly few cops who isn’t like that, then what the hell are you doing about it? If there’s going to be a lawsuit costing the city millions, isn’t it better that it be a labor suit from the union over the clown you fired, than a wrongful death suit over the poor bastard the clown shot? Both are expensive, but one has a dead victim you enabled. So how much do you actually care about that life?
How is the training so bad that it’s not clear who is the scene commander who gives the orders?
How is it that trigger happy bozos who, out of costume, look no different from the gangbangers you claim to oppose, get sent up front to fulfill their wish of hosing someone down because “I was afraid for my life!”?
Why does the rot exist in your department?
If you can’t do anything about it, why are you still in that department?
At some point, collective guilt is a thing.
You’ve probably not been a good cop for a long time.
And I still don’t care if you go home safe. I care that everyone you purport to “serve and protect” goes home safe.
Rock on!
Man arrested for posting “anti-semitic” meme depicting sheriff as a ZOGbot:
https://x.com/realStockes/status/2036206122353189321
“Oakland County Mike Bouchard denounced social media users who spread antisemitic memes about him online, stating that they’re hiding behind free speech rights “as cover to hide their antisemitism.”
https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-891105
Last I looked, it was not a criminal offense anywhere in the United States to express “anti-Semitic” views. This asshole should be fired and sued to the freaking gills.
By the sounds of it the police were never charged with theft in the matter of the “Lemon Pound Cake” which is quite intriguing in that property removed under a search warrant I suspect must be logged and returned if no charges are laid. To do otherwise is from my point of view if not unconstitutional, immoral and illegal as it constitutes theft.
Of course getting a locksmith to open the locks isn’t as fun as kicking in doors and that’s why the enforcers do it. I hope he sues their asses off for theft and vandalism of private property.
I don’t think they _kicked_ it in. That would not normally have burst it all the way off the hinges. They must have used a battering ram. Or maybe sledge hammers.
These days a breaching shotgun is the trendy thing. And the weak point on most residential doors is the latch, so they breach that. Hinges are essentially a hard mount and very difficult to take out.
If they took it off the hinges, there was likely a motorized battering ram involved.
One interesting defense is to reverse the door, so that brute force comes up against the door sill on both sides and top, though this increases the possibility of simple lock jimmying.
Here in cold country we often have small enclosed porches which make the whole process more difficult and dangerous, as well as setting up the possibility of a very effective trap.
Or just pop the pins out of the hinges (or cut them) & physically remove the door from the frame.
Hi David. I went with kicked in because that’s what the article said and I hadn’t taken the time to do an in depth analysis of the incident. No matter how they did it the door and frame are toast with potential damage to framing and the sheet rock a distinct possibility. The last door I put in I used 3″ screws and a custom built reinforcement plate securing the door to framing on the lock side.
I’m a grouchy, gloomy old guy, and this came about as close to putting a smile on my face as anything ever could.
Here’s a novel concept. How about the cops just quit doing people that way?
How hard can it be to just get the address right?
How hard is it to check and verify the evidence-free story some crackhead informant just made up to save their own skin, before going charging off with AR-15s and shotguns and knocking down doors?
Ditto that, David!
Afroman has brightened my day. I am not into rap – at all. But I am into this guy’s rap!
And I am not into weed — at all. Just the same though —Afroman for president 2028! Ha-ha!
“No knock” warrants are never justified. Knock and wait is constitutional.
If a warrant is issued for a felon, one can easily wait for him to leave his residence, place of work or “hangout” and then “grab him”. Of course, there is no fun in grabbing someone off the street as SWAT types get their thrills from “dynamic entry”, destroying everything in the process…blaming their destructive tactics on adrenaline, not the anabolic steroids that they all ingest.
These tactics are straight out of israel, USA police departments given “free” trips to israel to “see how it’s done”.
We are all Palestinians now.
SWAT teams as presently constituted are comprised of steroid-addled, low-IQ morons whose only pleasure is destroying property and harassing suspects and innocents. “Hitting the wrong house” is a common occurrence as most SWAT types are stupid and have trouble with reading comprehension as well. Steroids make cops stupid as well as overly aggressive…
If I had my way, SWAT teams would be abolished.
It is long overdue to abolish immunity for ALL public officials, not just cops. Replace it with a bond system. the basic cost of the bond would be borne by the municipality or government agency. Any surcharges would be paid by the individual. Failure to procure a bond would result in unemployment…no bond=no job.
I had my first big time suppression of evidence win back in 1981 on a “no knock” motion in a drug case. Pierce County, WA. Then of course the “No Knock” law was changed by legislature in Olympia. Glad I left the state shortly thereafter. Haven’t been back since. I hear it’s changed a lot, especially from some of the posters on this site.
Yes, if you’re going to have police, (“law enforcement” is an un-American totalitarian tyrant concept), they should be armed with simple defensive weapons. If they have a gun, a six shot 38 revolver or 32 auto is plenty, as it is mostly a symbolic badge of office.
Any actual situation SWAT supposedly is needed for is to be filled by citizen volunteers (militiamen) with their own weaponry.
Never heard of him. Will look up the lyrics as I have zero tolerance for rap music. And, as a man that’s mostly bald, I’d like to say that is a damn fine head of hair.
It’s not really hard-core rap — has some melodic and gospel influences. ‘Rapper’ here refers to his breakthrough hit 25 years ago.
Afroman reminds me of a character named NJWeedman, whose name I first came across as a third-party candidate on the ballot, running for governor in NJ. He ran for office multiple times and had high name recognition in the state.
Every time the Trenton cops busted him for selling cannabis, NJWeedman (his actual, adopted legal name) would go public about his harassment and invite crowds of his supporters into the courtroom.
Eventually, hounding NJWeedman became more trouble than it was worth to the ‘authorities.’ As the War on Drugs began to fade, a judge dismissed charges against him and suggested that the prosecutor not bring such charges anymore.
Last I heard, about a decade ago, NJWeedman had set up shop in Trenton and was selling not only cannabis but psilocybin mushrooms under the counter — and openly promoting his business in the press, with glowing testimonials from satisfied customers.
Just goes to show that with a brash, aggressive public relations strategy (much like Prince Elon, who ‘moves fast and breaks things’), one can defy the authorities and do as one pleases. Hands off muh lemon pound cake, porkers!
*blows a lazy blue smoke ring*