Posted on 03/10/2010 7:11:54 AM PST by Sasparilla
Police have arrested a Long Island Fire Chief and a firefighter for using firearms to threaten a man walking on the street. The Hempstead Fire Chief, Michael Charles, and fireman Brian Schruck are accused of vigilantism when they pulled up next to a 29 year old man while they were driving their fire department SUV. There had been a gunfight near the Fire Station, and the Firemen were apparently looking for participants in it. Two people had been wounded. It was a possible gang gunfight.
The Firemen told the man not to move. The Chief and an unknown third person got out of the SUV and patted down and questioned the pedestrian. The Chief had his hand on a holstered handgun on his hip. Schruck stayed in the SUV and pointed a shotgun at the pedestrian. The man was not involved in the gunfight. He was released, and the Chief then identified himself. Police deny that the Firemen were acting under police authority. The police called the actions of the Firemen grossly inappropriate.
Schruck was arrested at a Police station where he was being booked for an unrelated assault. He is charged with hitting a man with a pipe when the man made what Schruck deemed to be inappropriate inappropriate remarks to his niece. Both firemen face charges of menacing and possession of dangerous weapons.
In Florida:
An armed robber pointed his gun at Store clerk Samir Al-Madi in Deerfield Beach., Florida at the Snappy Convenience store. The clerk was on the phone when he saw a hooded man come in.
Alexander Brown is accused of drawing his gun and attempting a robbery. But, Al-Madi got his own handgun...
(Excerpt) Read more at armedselfdefense.blogspot.com ...
The Armed Self-Defense blog will generally brighten ANY day!
Thanks oldpuppymax.
I must have thought the comments of the man toward the niece were doubly inappropriate when I wrote this blog
Firefighters carry guns?
I didn’t know that.
I did, not in the FD vehicles tho.. who the hell do these idiots think they are stopping and “patting down” a suspected shooter?
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