Yeah, the irony of their paranoiac recording device being the actual proof that resulted in his arrest is pretty delicious. I’m only slightly embarrassed by my extreme schadenfreude on this one.

From what I’ve read they have a home security system that automatically videotapes AND records audio when the doorbell is pressed. So the DA had video and audio from the whole encounter.

“I would really like to stay at home, to keep my family together, I’m asking, I’m begging, please,” Ziegler said on courtroom video, according to ABC13.

This should have happened but I’ll save my celebration for when this attempted child murderer gets a conviction, not a ticket or slap on the wrist.

I would have preferred he not get bail. He straight up tried to kill a child.

I’ll try not to get too happy about just charges being brought, but it sounds as though the judge who issued the restraining order and the D.A. at least have their heads straight with this one so far. Lock this murderous racist piece of shit away.

If true, all future references to the Vice President should be styled, “Self-described motherfucker Mike Pence.”

The weird thing is that police officer isn’t even the most dangerous job out there. There’s a whole list of jobs with higher death or injury rates.

I was just thinking the same thing. Police always claim that they fear for their lives. But how often are police officers’ lives actually in danger? I’m talking about beat cops like these who are catching neighborhood prowlers and solving petty crimes. How often do they actually get guns pulled on them? Are the…

It just occurred to me. The prosecutors that actually DO charge these guys NEED some expert witnesses on the statistics of police deaths in the line of duty.

“Yeah, we ain’t talking about this” is a card that could stand to be played more often.

Yep. If you can’t perform the basic tasks of being a police officer on an overnight boat without pumping 20 rounds into the darkness with no probable cause, then maybe you shouldn’t be a fucking police officer.

When I read the story, I was horrorstruck but not surprised to discover that the cops assumed he was the perp without assessing the situation at all. And that’s just one of the many things that are wrong with what they did. and even if he was the perp, murdering him over the crime of breaking and entering some cars…

It’s his yard. His castle. If it had been a gun this is exactly the sort of self-defense situation that gun ownership is supposed to provide. The duplicity on the part of white gun owners in disallowing self defense for a black gun owner is astounding.

It’s almost trite to keep reiterating this point, but until America’s police forces repudiate the ideology that these streets are a warzone and that suspects are the enemy combatants things like this will continue to happen. Likewise, it’s absurd to expect that community relations between the police and the most…

That one line “where is his right to fear for his life?”

You’re nicer than I am. The people who say “well he should have just complied” can just shut the entire fuck up. I’m tired of their idiotic excuses as to why these cops just had to murder this man.

I don’t believe they were frightened. I think it’s time we stop validating this bullshit with any retort other than, “That is a lie.” You’re a cop chasing after a ‘suspect’, in the dark. As a human in 2018, you know full well if the question is, ‘what’s that guy’ holding/reaching for’ the answer is very rarely a gun.…

Through millions of years of evolution, we have developed a fight or flight instinct. Instinct being physical actions our body will take to survive a dangerous situation without having to stop and consider or delay, which could mean death.

Preach. This. Word.