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    crouching tigerMonique Judge
    3/27/17 10:59pm

    “This was a domestic that went wrong,” Smith said.

    That’s an astonishingly poorly thought out phrase. What sort of domestic violence goes right?

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      Monique Judgecrouching tiger
      3/27/17 11:28pm

      As someone else pointed out, it’s the language of abuse, and in this instance, it normalizes that abuse.

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      crouching tigerMonique Judge
      3/27/17 11:36pm

      Yes, I should have read further down the comments first.

      This isn’t a good look for the police chief, and I’m sure that people will be less likely to report domestic violence in Sanford if they know that’s the sort of attitude at the top.

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    Not Enough Day DrinkingMonique Judge
    3/27/17 8:36pm

    as a domestic incident that went wrong.

    I assume that for a domestic incident to go right it means just using fists and feet? No weapons allowed?

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      NeuroplastiqueNot Enough Day Drinking
      3/27/17 8:59pm

      She backs down once again to avoid “provoking” him, or something gross along those lines.

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      Cali4lifeNot Enough Day Drinking
      3/27/17 9:52pm

      The language of abuse is fucking awful.

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    ScrantasticMonique Judge
    3/27/17 10:55pm

    So many mass shooters have domestic violence backgrounds. Considering how dangerous abusers have been proven to be, time and time again, and how dangerous “domestics” are for police officers, you would think that there would be a much more coordinated response and that the shelters and agencies working to prevent domestic violence would not have to scrape and beg for every scrap of funding.

    But then again, a number of LEOs are themselves abusers.

    And then again, patriarchy.

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      Hamlet goes safari for allergy reliefScrantastic
      3/28/17 1:22pm

      I was going to say the same thing. So many mass shooters have incidents of domestic violence in their past. There is little press given to that fact, so more ink can be spilled about “mental illness.” Abusive behavior is not a mental illness!

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    Oh god whyMonique Judge
    3/27/17 9:51pm

    How on earth was he taken alive? Seems like more often then not these enraged spree shooters die by their own hand, or in a hail of cop bullets. I mean it’s especially chickenshit to shoot women and children, but don’t just puss out at the end tough guy

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      Petty BettyOh god why
      3/28/17 11:10am

      Because he was a coward and had no problem pointing it at people who couldn’t protect themselves from him. He probably never pointed it nor picked it up in the cops presence.

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    Ad_absurdum_per_asperaMonique Judge
    3/28/17 3:31pm

    From the Sentinel:

    Cashe pleaded no contest in 2015 to being a felon in possession of a firearm and was placed on 18 months of probation, which was scheduled to end Friday. But he also has a pending violation-of-probation case against him. He also served six months in jail for punching a former live-in girlfriend in Casselberry several times in 2012.

    So... not just a felon in possession of a firearm, but quite possibly a domestic violence perpetrator in possession of a firearm (a Federal violation since 1996, though action seems to take place, or not, at lower levels), and he gets... probation? And more probation?

    And police tipped off that he had a gun could not think of an excuse to detain him or search the premises? I thought that even mere probation (though not as broadly as parole) usually involved fairly far-reaching consent.

    Various parts of the system had to fall down repeatedly for this to happen.   

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