Posted on 04/17/2010 4:23:32 AM PDT by lowbridge
A convicted murderer's only regret about shooting his Brooklyn parole officer was that he didn't kill the man, whom he hated for bullying him with endless office visits and inflexible rules that made the shooter late for his job every day.
"I'm just sorry he's not dead," fumed Robert "Poison" Morales, 50, as he was led to his arraignment on charges he seriously wounded Samuel Salters, 49, in a Downtown Brooklyn parole office Thursday.
"He deserved it . . . He's an a- -hole."
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The thing I can't figure out is how this criminal got a gun? I mean guns are illegal for criminals to have, which is why no one else needs them.
Handle every stressful situation like a dog, if you can’t eat it or hump it. Pee on it and walk away.
Well, it sounds to me as if this man is clearly competent and sane to stand trial.
He clearly knew what he was doing and admits he has no real regrets.
But all that aside, I think it would behove the state to look into the allegations made against the parole officer.
To see if he/she was indeed monkeying with the rules and making the guy late for work everyday. That would be fairly easy to verify.
Its not an uncommon complaint at all.
Probation/Parole Officers are fairly well disliked on both sides of the coin, in court and out of court due to their history of shenanigans such as the ones alleged in this case.
I recall one Probation Officer in Georgia during the early 90’s who would issue a flurry of arrest warrants for his more serious probationers and have the cops go pick them up. Just before he was scheduled to take vacations with his family or go out of town on one of those government funded business trips.
He would let them sit in jail for the duration of his trip to ensure that he would not be bothered by them getting into trouble while he was on a beach somewhere sippin drinks.
This went on for about 3 or 4 year until a defense lawyer got wind of it and brought it to the attention of the GBI.
That probation officer is now the one in jail.
"He deserved it . . . He's an a- -hole."
Hard to argue with that logic.
In red states, that’d be a violation of his parole.
I read somewhere on the net that he was an illegal.
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I thought that was a good line too. And if I was monitoring a parolee named “poison” I would not try to make every visit confrontational.
Well I read the whole story. Sounds like the PO was a real jerk and in the wrong line of work.
I concur.
Not to excuse 'Poison's' actions but many a parole officer are Barney Fife wanna be Cops who failed the grade and it's they who have 'issues'. Their goal in life is to make life miserable for those whose life they now have complete control over because they are the ones who are the failure.
If a study was done on parole officers it may find that they were the ones in school who got noogies, their lunch money taken, and had to do the Algebra homework for the 'bully'. In English - They Were Sissies. So now they're getting even with all the 'school bullies'.
Again, I'm not excusing 'Poison's' actions but his trial could prove interesting.
Have to agree. There are just some people that really love having it over some people. I am sure there have been many complaints against this guy and they were ignored.
LOL! I am still chuckling as I post this.
It was stated above that the trial should be interesting. The shooter should go to jail but the PO should lose his job too. I hope those he works with rat him out.
“shooting his Brooklyn parole officer”
Gee, that law about felons owning guns worked well, didn’t it?
Yet another reason to ban parole.
Execute him, then he wont have to worry about his parole officer anymore.
Wow, this story brings up a whole host of mixed feelings.
I wish Poison had a larger set of problem solving skills.
Seems as though most people have forgotten that parole doesn’t mean the criminal has paid their debt to society.
It is by the grace of society that the parolee is afforded his freedom at all.
Either incarcerate him, put him on a chain gang working hard labor or charge him with attempted premeditated murder of a law enforcement officer and execute him.
The issue here is the lack of respect for legitimate authority and the criminal’s judgment of legitimate authority, not the criminal’s wishes.
ROTFLMAO - going to have to make this into a poster for a friend of mine who is a substance abuse counselor.
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