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Misinformation is common and much of it is likely unintentional. Assumptions and rumors are easy to start, especially in today’s instance communication World. All that is needed is a mere suggestion or question for false information to go wild. If a person asks, is blah blah blah true, the person hearing it will probably say to someone else, I heard that they might be looking at blah blah blah. By the third or fourth person, it is no longer a question but a fact. “I heard from a guy that I trust that blah blah blah is true!!”. I am sure that I have told this story before so I won’t go into great detail but I started a rumor at my police department by asking a question. I ask at my shift meeting if anyone heard the rumor that the city was about to name an interim Chief Of Police from the Amarillo PD. Of course no one had heard about it because I made it up about 15 seconds earlier. I concluded with, it is probably another nonsensical rumor based on nothing at all. Forget you even heard it. On the way into the police station the next afternoon, I was met by a lieutenant who asked if I had any details on the Amarillo PD assistant chief who was about to be named as our interim chief. I should have said that he was supposed to be there at 2 PM tomorrow for our evening shift Roll Call meeting and everybody needed to wear Class A uniforms with ties and hats. 🤣🤣🤣

AND….. It is not Capital Murder to be committing a felony during a Murder. It is Capital Murder to intentionally or knowingly kill a person only in certain specific situations, some of which are felonies. Examples are, killing more than one person during the same incident, killing a police officer or firefighter acting in the line of duty, Murder for hire, during a robbery, sexual assault, etc., killing a child under 15 years old and so on. Possessing a stolen credit card is a felony. Just for example, let’s say the suspect in this case, had a stolen credit card in his pocket. He would then be actively committing a felony. That doesn’t upgrade a Murder to a Capital Murder. The DA kind of threw gasoline on the fire and probably caused confusion when he made a statement something like, he was not going to seek the death penalty. There was no death penalty to seek. First, it does not fit the elements of the crime and secondly, they cannot seek the death penalty for someone under 18 years old. Then we start seeing comments like, “Oh, they are going to let him get away with whatever!!

First time for everything…. I hate reading police reports. I spent about 30 years trying to teach cops to speak normal English. One of my pet peeves, and it was at least a couple of times in the I report you linked, is the phrase, “It should be noted”. No kidding? Newsflash: Everything should be noted. I was approving a report one time and called in the officer to completely rewrite it. Almost every sentence started with, it should be noted. It should be noted that I have arrived about five minutes after being dispatched. It should be noted that there were several offices already on scene. It should also be noted that I saw a man who appeared to be unconscious in the front yard, and it should be noted that there were several witnesses nearby…. YOU’RE GIVING ME A HEADACHE!! 😳 Then the policespeak. 🤣 I then detained him in handcuffs (cuffed behind the back) blah blah….. Why not just say, I handcuffed him by in the back? Another favorite is, I saw a red in color Ford Mustang. I guess that’s for the benefit of people who don’t know that red is a color.

It appears that all the bill is waiting for is the governor’s signature.

I am assuming that it was a regular pocket knife and have had that opinion since the first day. Had it been an illegal knife on campus, surely that would have been all over the news and an additional felony charge After saying that, next week it will come out that it was an illegal knife…. 🤣

Take note, the long version was twice as long. 🤣🤣🤣

I will try the medium version. Bodily Injury and Serious Bodily Injury. Both are injuries but in the Penal Code, Serious Bodily Injury is distinct from merely Bodily Injury. Both have their own definitions in the Penal Code. If a person causes Bodily Injury to a person it is a misdemeanor crime. If a person causes Serious Bodily Injury it is a felony. They are different. Force and Deadly Force. Both are force but Deadly Force is distinct from Force. An example is the Penal Code says that to remove someone from trespassing you can use the reasonable FORCE necessary to remove the person. So if you reasonably believe that Deadly Force is necessary, is it lawful? No, the Penal Code has a distinct definition of Deadly Force. The law on ending Trespassing clearly says that you can use the Force necessary. It doesn’t say the Deadly Force necessary. They are different. Why do these examples matter? Knife and Location-restricted knife. There are locations that a knife is not a crime but at certain locations, a Location-restricted knife is a felony. A school, as is being discussed , is no different than a bar. If you go into a bar for a drink or play in a band, it is not a crime to have a pocket knife on you. So if you ask me, can I legally go into a bar with a knife, my answer would be yes. A school is the equivalent so has the same answer. If you ask me, can I legally go onto school grounds with a knife, my answer would be yes. If you ask, can I legally go into a school or a bar with a Location-restricted knife, my answer would be no, that would be a felony. So is a knife in a school a crime? No, which I’d what I said. Had a question or my statement instead have been, is a Location-restricted knife a crime at a school, the answer would be yes, it’s a felony. I was correct, a knife is not a crime on school grounds. Had you responded to me ONLY with the comment of a knife being illegal in 46.03(a), I would say that you are wrong because you cited a law about a Location-restricted knife, not a knife. So were you wrong? No. You salvaged it when you stated it is a felony “if knife blade is over 5.5 inches”. You gave the Penal Code definition of a Location-restricted knife. Great job! 👍🏼 😎

Do you want the short version or the long version?? 😎

Yep, he was looking for trouble and found it. I don’t think that a knife at school is a crime though. It can be a justification for suspension or expulsion.

🤣🤣🤣 How far will people go to try and justify crimes? Obviously you know this but….. Rittenhouse twice tried to run away and only shot when corned or attacked with deadly weapons. When did the suspect in this case run away and was cornered?

Wait, touching someone doesn’t qualify for deadly force in self defense?? Do tell…. 🤣 Necessary force has been stretched a bit, usually for glaring reason.

Yes it would be a felony in Texas if the blade was over 5.5” and on school grounds. Texas did away with restrictions on the length of a legal knife as long as it isn’t in a restricted location such as a bar, school grounds, etc., or basically anywhere that you could not lawfully carry a handgun. So a person can walk down the street with a Roman broadsword on his side and it is legal. Going to a bar or on school grounds with a 5.75” blade and it’s a felony. That is a no on the Capital Murder. It is not merely committing another felony that makes it Capital Murder but certain felonies. Examples are during a robbery, sexual assault, kidnapping, murder for hire, etc..

Yeah, drilling can absolutely start up and get the product to market in 8 weeks!! Even a person modicum of knowledge would know that you can’t prepare to drill for offshore, where there fields were opened, much less have an exploration being done and getting the product to market. Even on land, if it was said today to start exploring and drilling, that by next week we will have millions of barrels a day flowing? At least come up with something that makes sense.

WAIT, in two months things have not turned around??

It could hold up. It is hard to beat an incumbent though. In I think the 2010 Texas gubernatorial election, a lot of people wanted RINO (claimed) Rick Perry out. A very popular US Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson from Texas announced that she was running for governor in the Republican primary. One poll showed her up 56% to around 30% for Perry. Hutchison had high profile endorsements like GHW Bush, Nolan Ryan, Roger Staubach, former Secretary of State James Baker and so on. A year later in the primary she lost to Perry by I think 21 points. This guaranteed new governor got blown out of the water. Who knows, Paxton might actually crush Cornyn. Counting your chickens before they hatch is not always a good indicator of outcome.

He supports stricter gun laws which is usually claimed as a RINO move.

A third term is so far fetched, but constitutionally possible (depending on a future Supreme Court decision), that it seems ridiculous other than to drive people crazy… as you stated.

That is exactly what many people were claiming with Biden. Someone behind the curtain was playing puppet master.

Certainly we have no clue. Going by social media, including local and national, there seems to be about an 80%-90% of the people saying there has to be something up with this. Their outright statements are that they were all involved in something crooked, etc. Obviously, anything is a possibility since we have no clue. There is a very good possibility that these deputies did not even know each other. A couple were retired. I have a hard time remembering, but I believe that I have known six police officers who have killed themselves. Two were coworkers. This is not a huge area compared to the greater Houston area. Some causation of the fairly short time frame possibly had to do with the mentality that if a couple of others did it, it must be somehow acceptable. There was a case, maybe 15 or 20 years ago where several teenagers in a community had committed suicide. I don’t think there was any connection. When some teens are struggling and not knowing what to do and a couple of others in the same community take their own lives, I believe that it somehow gives them justification in their own mind as a reasonable solution. Like, well Mary and Robert did it so….. Policing is a profession which already has a fairly high statistic of suicides. To see so many personally (no telling how many I have seen) and seeing death every week and then topping it off with other officers from the same agency, I think it might make the decision easier. Maybe someone with mental health, professional experience can chime in. But who knows if they were related. My suspicion is that they were not.

Not really.

Let me help you. In removing DEI from the government, the administration has removed obstacles such as set asides such as requiring a certain number of contractors or minimum of anything. So they can’t hold contracts for certain people or companies That has been taken to mean in this political opinion piece, that we can now return to segregated lunch counters. When the article brought up that the Civil Rights Act was still in place and discrimination is against the law, the response was….. “The Civil Rights Act of 1964 still bars discrimination, and segregated facilities, in the United States. But civil rights groups have feared that Mr. Trump’s war on D.E.I. programs has signaled the federal government’s willingness to retreat from enforcing it”. So… we fear that something may happen. Nothing has happened and nothing has been proposed. But by golly, we know that he has something up his sleeve!!! It is more meaningless dribble. It is an, “in our opinion” piece. More hard core journalism. 🤣

Why would voucher money go to a public school? I thought each school got a certain amount for each student. So if a kid left HF and went to HJ, his standard fee from the state would follow him. Correct?

🤣🤣🤣 Accuse? Where do you come up with your rationale? Feel free to show any comment where anyone on this forum defends a child being molested.

Westbrook at Nederland Nederland 9-0

It’s $31B that wasn’t in taxes. Apparently 1/3 of the money from gambling known as the lottery goes to schools and 2/3 goes to the players. That 1/3 set aside pays about a week worth of education statewide. Is that a ripoff? Let’s go out on a limb and say 100% went to schools. Of course, then the question comes up, who would play the game if they were never any winner? But let’s set that aside for now and just say that every dollar someone spends on the lottery goes back to the schools. So instead a funding one week worth of schooling in each school year, the lottery at 100% returned to the state, would pay for only three weeks. Is that a problem with the program or the way it was sold or the fact that that’s just how many people are playing? At 1/3 is a pretty good profit for a voluntary program but even doubling it to 2/3 would only pay for two weeks of schooling. 🤔