West Allis man not guilty in open carry gun case

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ^ | 2/17/09 | Linda Spice

[Kryptonite]

Anybody got a Wisconsin ping list? This is pretty good news for open carry rights in Wisconsin. Using disorderly conduct charges to arrest folks legally carrying their weapons out in the open has to stop.

[Kryptonite]

Pass this around please.

[Red in Blue PA]

This is a case where lawsuits are merited.

[mgc1122]

Time to start owning police departments, and even neighbors, via civil suits who either don’t know the law, don’t care to know it.

[rednesss]

If there was truly justice in this case, the jack booted thug cops who arrested him would be taken out on the front steps of the courthouse and flogged with a horse whip to within a whisker of their lives. Then fired.

[Lurker]

This is a case where lawsuits are merited.

Indeed. The cops should lose their Sovereign Immunity in this case. They allegedly had a discussion about finding something to charge the guy with.

Then it's time to go after the city for malicious prosecution, and a Federal Civil Rights suit under 18USC241 might be in order as well.

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[Eric in the Ozarks]

File against the city, the police department, each officer involved and their chief.

[SaxxonWoods]

This is good news, and we need to do more. We should support and participate in “open carry days” to remind people that it is a constitutional right to keep and BEAR arms.

[DTogo]

"The reason people are upset about this is it's not about guns. It's about civil liberties. And we obviously have a property issue. There was no warrant issued, no exigent circumstances, no permission to enter the property, yet the police stormed in with guns drawn and put my life at risk," Krause said.

Adaboy, Krause!

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

"There's no requirement to justify why you're able to exercise constitutional rights. I and everyone else are able to go to church, they're able to vote, they're able to speak their mind. Even though the city might not like it, we have that right."

We need more Americans to think that way.

"Why do you need a gun?"
"I don't need a reason, pinhead."

[MahatmaGandu]

We should support and participate in “open carry days”

The best way to observe that is by organizing a rally and get as many people to show up lawfully armed as is possible.

[Obadiah]

I am pleasantly surprised that the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel played this straight up in their reporting. Good for them. However, I’m sure the editorial board will rail against this in a few days.

[WayneS]

VERY nice!

And a nice F--- You Very Much to that State's VERY anti-gun governor, too!

[paul51]

I salute Brad Krause. Wish there were more people like him

[SampleMan]

Violation of civil liberties. He should now sue.

[woollyone]

pillory, rotten fruits and vegetbles, public humiliation for a period of 24 hours, entered into the “inelegible for future public service” database, and then termination with loss of pension would be suitable enough?

[Dead Corpse]

FReeper in the court room. After Action Report.

[Kartographer]

Let’s hope he sues the S#!T out of the cops and the city. Consitutional rights are something these people don’t understand, but the sure understand MONEY!

[the crow]

bump for later. he did a great job in a radio interview with Vicki McKenna.

[Billthedrill]

So when does he get his illegally confiscated property back?