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PanicanDemoralizer says

This is what I voted for.


Young thugs are learning the Federal Task Force LEOs are not the castrated DC Police in fear of the Mayor.

This is legally correct. Assault is just unwanted bodily contact. Even just touching someone with the tip of your finger is assault.

Battery is literally beating the person.

That's why the charge for punching someone is usually "assault and battery".

You notice they did nothing until the drunk gay guy actually hit them with the sandwich.

He was acting out of the previous theory of license that he could perform any assault and there would be no consequences. That, plus the standard incitation that mental illness is cool. The Dems put all the consequences on the victims, not the perps (who are deputized for demoralization) in standard Kommie style.

Yup, they know the law and were waiting for him to break it.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/sledge-hammer-thursday-august-14

Sunday night around 11 p.m., Sean Charles Dunn — balding, in a pink polo, tan shorts, and fashion-forward New Balances — took possession of either a turkey club or an Italian supreme (investigation ongoing), then approached federal officers near 14th and U NW. After shouting obscenities and calling them “fascists,” Dunn delivered the battle cry “Eat fresh!” and launched his hoagie like a patriot’s musket ball — then bravely ran away. The officer’s deli-meat-proof vest took the hit.

Dunn was captured after a short foot pursuit, which might have gone better if he’d carbo-loaded before the chase. Now he faces multiple counts of felony assault on federal employees and — yes — assault with a deli weapon. ...

Meanwhile, Fox reports paid protester requests have spiked 400% since Trump’s federal takeover of D.C.’s police force, with one crowd-supplying company claiming most attendees at political events in Washington are compensated in some way. Resistance isn’t cheap— especially if you want the combo meal. ...

https://slaynews.com/news/tom-homan-dares-liberal-reporters-downplaying-crime-dc-walk-streets-after-dark/

Border czar Tom Homan is calling out the media for a blatant cover-up of Washington, D.C.’s worsening crime crisis, accusing reporters of pushing cherry-picked statistics to create the illusion that the city is “safe.”

Corporate media outlets have touted a supposed 35% drop in crime for 2024.

However, these figures are based on Metropolitan Police Department data that excludes key violent offenses such as felony assault and aggravated assault.

Critics say the omissions paint a misleading picture, ignoring the lived reality of residents who have endured record levels of violence since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

“I’ve been in law enforcement for 40 years,” Homan told “Rob Schmitt Tonight.”

“I won’t transit D.C. without a gun.

“And any of these reporters that said the crime rate is way down and it’s safer than they say, I dare any of them: walk the streets of D.C. after dark.

“If it’s that safe, go ahead and do it.

“See how that works out for you.”

Patrick says

Yup, they know the law and were waiting for him to break it.

Sean Dunn was a DOJ employee and a trial attorney with a degree from James Madison. Fired now.

https://x.com/deb1boston/status/1956039307786920152

Unsurprisingly, in the international division, which has the most anti-American employees in Government, and that's saying something.

In the past few hours:

BP is arresting illegals outside Gruesome events in LA

A DOJ Lawyer in a pink polo is arrested and fired for assaulting police with a sandwich

Federal Task forces are cleaning up backlogs of bench warrants and suspects the DC Mayor & Police ignored.

Every day is like this now.

Imagine being a Panican during all this!

Patrick says

Assault is just unwanted bodily contact.

You may want to check that. Generally, "assault" is the threat while "battery " is the contact. Pulling a truncheon and waiving it in your face it assault, hitting you with it is battery.

@HeadSet You're right:

Patrick says

Dunn was captured after a short foot pursuit, which might have gone better if he’d carbo-loaded before the chase. Now he faces multiple counts of felony assault on federal employees and — yes — assault with a deli weapon. ...

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/three-way-friday-august-15-2025-c

Turns out Captain Gyro (code name: Sean Charles Dunn) was not a recent Antifa recruit, but was instead a DOJ employee— at least, right up until his career took the same trajectory as his sandwich. DOJ Queen Pam Bondi was not amused. The Washington Post ran Sean’s savory story last night, headlined, “Fired DOJ employee could face prison for throwing sandwich at officer.” ...

CLIP: Captain Gyro takes his stand, or possibly tries to return a sub when he specifically said ‘no mayo’ (0:29).

All joking aside, the tragic irony of this story was that the officer wasn’t even hungry. ...

The sub’s in his hand, his heart begins swelling with repressed rage and anxiety, and suddenly he’s conducting a failed drive-by sandwich return and sprinting contest.

According to the Post, alert bystander Cortez Dargin caught the whole thing on video after spotting Dunn “going crazy” outside a nightclub (cue alcohol-related decision-making).

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/three-way-friday-august-15-2025-c

CLIP: The hobo camps are getting cleaned up by bulldozers like DC’s mother-in-law is coming for a visit (0:36).

Last night, Attorney General Bondi issued a sweeping order that triggered the fascist nightmares of every partisan progressive in the country. First, she put Trump’s DEA Chief Terry Cole in charge of the Metro Police Department. (It was perfectly legal under the DC Home Rule Act, so don’t get bogged down in that side issue.)

Second, Bondi revoked a series of orders that Mayor Muriel Bowser had issued to bar local DC cops from cooperating with immigration enforcement. Third, she directed the MPD —now under Terry Cole’s leadership— to “fully enforce” a dusty local DC ordinance banning unlawful protests or blocking access to streets, parks, or buildings.

Finally, she reminded Muriel Bowser —one suspects not for the first time— that under the Home Rule Act, the DC mayor “shall provide” the services or assistance the President (or the AG, or their designee) deems “necessary and appropriate” to carry out federal functions. If Bowser fails to provide those necessary and appropriate services, she can be removed. That law, which Bowser surely knows well, explains a lot.

Setting aside corporate media and progressive politicians, frankly, the people who actually live in DC —97% registered Democrat— seem pretty happy about it all. First, residents are spontaneously volunteering to help clear the city’s dangerous, disease-spreading hobo camps. For one example (1:25) of many...

Here’s another DC resident, strolling down Pennsylvania Avenue and marveling over how quiet, peaceful, and drug-free it is now:




During the Cold War, anti-communists used to say, “Let the communists run the garbage trucks, and pretty soon the trash won’t get picked up.” The idea was simple — if a political system can’t handle the most basic, visible services, people will learn for themselves not to trust it to do anything else.

In DC right now, Trump and Bondi are running that same Cold War script, except in reverse. They’re taking over the “garbage routes” —literally cleaning the streets, stopping the gangs, clearing the camps, and accelerating city services— and suddenly the trash is getting picked up on time.

Communists always eventually lose power by failing at the basics of governance, because central planning never works. With the DC takeover, Trump is proving to Democrats that Americanism works. Clean streets. Safe parks. The DMV works. Women can go jogging at night again.

All this hysterical outrage directed at Trump’s “authoritarian tendencies” are likely to backfire when people can take their kids to the park again. Yesterday, Scott Adams said, well, if this is authoritarianism, then he’d like another serving (2:11). His main point was that Democrats are turning “authoritarianism” into a positive by associating that word with a bunch of obviously good things.

Trump’s captured the news cycle with another 80/20 issue. Again.

Amazing what happens when 'crime and punishment' is not satanically reversed for demoralization i.e. the criminals are punished rather than the victims.

D.C. files suit against Trump to reinstitute crime.

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/dc-police-commander-suspended-crime-statistics/3959566/

DC police commander suspended, accused of changing crime statistics

Police union says directive to change offense classifications comes from command staff.

A D.C. police commander is under investigation for allegedly making changes to crime statistics in his district.

The Metropolitan Police Department confirmed Michael Pulliam was placed on paid administrative leave in mid-May. That happened just a week after Pulliam filed an equal employment opportunity complaint against an assistant chief and the police union accused the department of deliberately falsifying crime data, according to three law enforcement sources familiar with the complaint.

The union claims police supervisors in the department manipulate crime data to make it appear violent crime has fallen considerably compared to last year. ...

Union officials said there is a larger trend of manipulating crime statistics.

“When our members respond to the scene of a felony offense where there is a victim reporting that a felony occurred, inevitably there will be a lieutenant or a captain that will show up on that scene and direct those members to take a report for a lesser offense,” Fraternal Order of Police Chairman Gregg Pemberton said. “So, instead of taking a report for a shooting or a stabbing or a carjacking, they will order that officer to take a report for a theft or an injured person to the hospital or a felony assault, which is not the same type of classification.”

The police department's command staff is focusing on two categories in order to get the numbers to fall, Pemberton said: armed with a dangerous weapon and injured person to the hospital.

“When management officials are directing officers to take reports for felony assault, or if they're going back into police databases and changing offenses to felony assault, felony assault is not a category of crime that's listed on the department's daily crime stats,” Pemberton said. “It's also not something that's a requirement of the FBI's uniform crime reporting program. So, by changing criminal offenses from, for example, ADW bat or ADW gun to felony assault, that would avoid both the MPD and the FBI from reporting that as a part one or a felony offense.”

https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/dc-home-rule-madhouses-and-choices

command staff is also accused of changing the crimes in the databases to things like “felony assault,” which is not a category tracked in databases or reported to FBI. it’s just defined out of sight and out of mind.

when the police are sidelined and compromised and the mayor and city council are either complicit or ignorant, it’s not a radical idea that you need some adults in the room. the basic safety of citizens and their property is the highest purpose of government. it’s the whole point.

in the 1930’s or 1950’s, this sort of robbing, stealing, and murder would have been met with massive, immediate, and severe response.

no one would have said “differential impact” or “poor wittle baby wobber who doesn’t know better,” they would have scooped them up or shot them down and prison or morgue would have been the destination list. ...

13 year old kids in DC brazenly kill and steal then look right at cops and say “you can’t do anything to me, i’m a minor.” and they are often right. it’s a slap on the wrist. this leniency is repaid with a punch in the face.

they will keep doing this until consequences stop them. ...

this interminable game of "punch, no punchbacks" where a totalitarian and authoritarian left gets to hit everyone else while playing the victim is over.

the age of the crybully has ended. ...

people have lost sight of the fact that life can just be simple, sane, and reasonable, that politics need not join us at the breakfast table nor in our dating lives or schools.

i do not remember a single instance of politics in my whole elementary education and certainly not any sort of sex and sexual identity talk. as far as we were aware, teachers did not even have personal lives. for all we knew, they got wheeled into closets and plugged in to recharge or hung upside-down like bats until morning. and that was good.

even high school was absent politics and college mostly so. no one was ramming doctrine down your throat.

you could joke about race and gender. we were friends. and that was good. ...




... Between 2023 and 2025, we conducted 1,452 confidential interviews with
undergraduates at Northwestern University and the University of Michigan. We
were not studying politics - we were studying development. Our question was
clinical, not political: "What happens to identity formation when belief is replaced
by adherence to orthodoxy?"
We asked: Have you ever pretended to hold more progressive views than you truly
endorse to succeed socially or academically? An astounding 88 percent said yes...
Seventy-eight percent of students told us they self-censor on their beliefs
surrounding gender identity; 72 percent on politics; 68 percent on family values.
More than 80 percent said they had submitted classwork that misrepresented their
views in order to align with professors...
To test the gap between expression and belief, we used gender discourse a
contentious topic both highly visible and ideologically loaded. In public, students
echoed expected progressive narratives. In private, however, their views were more
complex...
Perhaps most telling: 77 percent said they disagreed with the idea that gender
identity should override biological sex in such domains as sports, healthcare, or
public data - but would never voice that disagreement aloud...

77% thinks A and yet everyone says “B.”

this is how a minority rules a majority.

and this stretches far beyond the university.

blue states and cities are cancel culture societies where the "inclusive progressives" will gang tackle and silence anyone who disagrees with them.

to even open your mouth in opposition requires being ready for an instant fight.

that's the point. it's how they preserve the illusion that everyone agrees with them: they simply make it so unpleasant to express a differing opinion that large swathes of the population are cowed into silence.

this creates an abilene paradox where the fact that many people disagree cannnot easily be discovered and further causes people to publicly falsify their preferences to avoid attack and "stay in the group."

it's the asch conformity experiment. ...

honest speech is the revolution that overturns their regime.

Misc says

Probably wanna hold Obama in solitary under suicide watch...and make damn sure the cameras are working.

You mean like Epstein? BTW, what happened to him and his files?

They have been Soros Fecal Impacterated and Netflixed, being lofted far beyond their highest level of incompetency to throw spanners into the works. Sabotage by its own name. You will be mugged as a sacrifice on the alter of DEI idiocy.

Maybe it's part of Trump's strategy. He will be affirmed according to already active laws, then will proceed to duplicate the strategies elsewhere.

Patrick says

HeadSet You're right:

Law of Averages strikes again!

Dem cities won’t change. Democrats are too dumb and the ones that are smart refuse to correct the dumb ones save for the outlier voices that the Dems don’t listen to like Bill Maher and Alan Dershowitz.

I spent the last week on Yahoo news comments being called stupid, ignorant, racist, blind, etc. all for having the temerity to say that dropped charges by a law enforcement agency, by a prosecutor, or by a court are not indicative of guilt or innocence. The very loud claim right now is that there is clearly malfeasance by ICE since they drop charges on most of those arrested for obstruction. This is factually false and everyone involved in criminal Justice knows it including defense attorneys, public defenders, and left leaning judges. But those individuals remain silent.

And I get called stupid. I never ever want to hear about how Dems are more educated. I don’t care if they have a degree if it leads to them claiming false things, even when factual information to the contrary is shoved in their face and rammed down their throat. Democrats are stupid and will literally vote themselves to be murdered under the right circumstances.

FuckTheMainstreamMedia says

Democrats are too dumb and the ones that are smart refuse to correct the dumb ones

The ones who are smart are the grifters. The dumb ones are the useful idiots that keep the gravy train going.

HeadSet says

You may want to check that. Generally, "assault" is the threat while "battery " is the contact. Pulling a truncheon and waiving it in your face it assault, hitting you with it is battery.

Correct, at least in Texas. Just showing a weapon is assault. Concealed carry permits are not required here but if you take the class you learn all about that and more.

Ceffer says

They have been Soros Fecal Impacterated and Netflixed, being lofted far beyond their highest level of incompetency to throw spanners into the works. Sabotage by its own name. You will be mugged as a sacrifice on the alter of DEI idiocy.

I believe one "Police Chief" in a major city in the news recently was the former Diversity Officer with no other prior LEO experience. Not even processing evidence into a locker desk job type stuff.

Maybe DC

https://slaynews.com/news/trump-slashes-dc-gun-permit-wait-list-violent-crime-crackdown/

President Donald Trump’s sweeping law-and-order crackdown in Washington, D.C., is delivering a major win for law-abiding residents seeking the right to protect themselves.

The president’s Making D.C. Safe and Beautiful Task Force has slashed the city’s concealed carry and firearm registration wait times from months down to mere days, all without changing local gun laws.

They need someone like America's sheriff Polk County sheriff Grady Judd there in Washington DC.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14997229/anti-trump-account-dc-crime-wave-backfires.html

Anti-Trump internet star's attempt to debunk DC crime spiral ends in disaster

A viral internet account known for posting about Washington DC was ridiculed online after its attempt to prove 'crime isn't that bad' backfired massively.

Washingtonian Problems, an anti-MAGA account that focuses on DC's issues, asked its followers to post positive traits about the ailing city to 'push back' against Trump.

However, the account was quickly inundated with comments from locals that only served to prove that Trump's law enforcement takeover is warranted.

The X account wrote: 'Hey DC, let’s push back against the negative narrative about our city. Share why you love our beautiful home and help show the world the real DC.'

Testimonials came in thick and fast from people who had been the victims of serious crimes - who were happy that the National Guard are being deployed.

'I've been held up at gunpoint, had my car broken into 3 times, and had my bike stolen. My credit card has been skimmed too many times to count and I can't send my kids to public school here because they're a joke,' wrote Bret Manley, a children's book author based in the D.C. area.

Multiple people wrote that they or people they knew have been robbed or mugged in front of police officers who declined to intervene.

'My car was broken into. One friend had a car stolen from in front of his place, another was carjacked at gun point. I’ve had to assist someone who was shot while I was just trying to drunkenly make my way home from a bar,' another person wrote. 'F*** you. Thank god for the new enforcement.'

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/crooks-and-cooks-thursday-august

One suspects the Times’ editors worry the DOJ is right, and a stinky crime stats scandal will soon emerge from the DC sewer system.

“I don’t think the crime stats in DC are trustworthy,” said Gregg Pemberton, Chairman of the DC Police Union, which represents 3,000 rank-and-file cops. Now the DOJ is investigating the capital’s creative crime accounting. ...

This isn’t the first cooked-books scandal over crime stats.

In the 1990s, New York City was investigated for crime-numbers wrangling in what became known as the “CompStat Scandals” (named for the city’s “innovative” new crime database system). But beyond some minor political embarrassment and internal reassignments, nobody was ever punished or even prosecuted. Well, nobody except for Adrian Schoolcraft, the whistleblower cop, who paid the price. He was forcibly committed to a psychiatric ward after exposing the manipulation. He sued, and the city finally settled for about $600,000— but the whistleblower was punished, not the corrupt supervisors he secretly recorded.

Once again, Trump has maneuvered Democrats into picking the worst possible side of the issue. This time things are going to be different. In New York’s CompStat scandals, the union circled the wagons and punished whistleblowers like Adrian Schoolcraft. Now, in DC, the union itself is the whistleblower. That changes everything.

Wow, they really did put that police officer in a psych ward for exposing police misconduct:

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/30/nyregion/officer-who-disclosed-police-misconduct-settles-suit.html

The federal suit, which included allegations of a quota system at the Police Department, rampant misconduct in the taking of crime reports and a culture of retaliation against whistle-blowers, was filed in 2010 and had been about to go to trial.

In the suit, Officer Schoolcraft claimed his civil rights had been violated during an arrest on Oct. 31, 2009, and that he was kept for six days at a psychiatric ward at Jamaica Hospital Medical Center. The arrest and hospitalization were ordered, he said, by his bosses as retaliation for his disclosures, which were first publicized in The Daily News.

That is Soviet type shit.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/causation-tuesday-august-26-2025

Yesterday, President Trump signed five new executive orders. Three were focused on Democrat kryptonite: crime— both in DC and the rest of the country. The New York Times reported the story under a headline subjected to the editorial shrink-ray: “Trump Signs Orders Aiming to End Cashless Bail.” They weren’t just about cashless bail, but whatever.

To be fair, two of the President’s three crime orders did relate to so-called “cashless bail,” one of the dumbest euphemisms that crime-happy Democrats have ever squirted into the public’s tired eyes. One of Trump’s orders ended the practice in DC, the other ordered agencies to cancel federal grants going to any jurisdiction still using “cashless bail.”

It is politically brilliant. “Cashless bail” is the least defensible and most destructive criminal justice concept since the country’s founding. Trump’s practically daring Democrats to defend cashless bail.

Based on the Times article, they are taking the bait.

In its historic sense, ‘bail’ is a contract between an accused and the state. The practice reaches back to medieval England. In that time period’s version of ‘criminal justice reform,’ sheriffs and courts generously allowed arrested defendants to pledge money or property in exchange for freedom, on the condition that they return to face justice or lose their stake.

The previous alternatives were: wait in prison. Thus, bail became an early compromise between the presumption of innocence and the public’s interest in ensuring dangerous offenders did not vanish into the countryside.

The idea endured for centuries: bail let the accused go free while giving the court a tangible guarantee of return, the necessary “skin in the game” that made the system work. In recent years, though, progressives argued bail was conceptually unfair, since people who can afford bail can “buy liberty,” but people who spent all their money on their last fentanyl hit just languished in jail.

Missing from the discussion is anything about fairness to victims. After all, victims are also promised their day in court. But “cashless bail” makes that promise optional, depending on whether the perpetrator feels like showing up that day.

Many Democrat-run jurisdictions either deleted bail altogether or for broad categories of crimes, without providing any equally binding substitute. Criminal defendants often walk free, despite repeated arrests, without posting any collateral. So there is no real penalty for skipping court besides a future warrant to appear in court.

In short, progressives stripped away the incentive structure that since medieval times had ensured appearances, claiming that compliance could reliably flow from goodwill alone.

What was once a functional trade —freedom for security— has been hollowed out, leaving a system that virtually guarantees absenteeism. The term “cashless bail” falsely implies some new-fangled kind of non-cash bail, like Venmo or bitcoin, but that’s wrong. Progressives replaced bail with nothing. Their new policy is really just “no bail.” ...Polling consistently shows Americans are uneasy with the notion of repeat offenders walking free without any stakes in the game. Nowadays, everyone has stories about criminals being arrested in the morning and back on the street by afternoon. Even people generally sympathetic to criminal-justice reform instinctively recoil from that, which is why they play all the word games.

So when the Times dutifully wrote that “studies do not support Trump’s claims that cashless bail leads to more crime” —studies!— they walked right into the trap. Instead of shifting the debate to fairness or systemic inequality, they’re forced to defend a weak phrase — “cashless bail” — that already sounds unserious and soft.

It’s an argument framed entirely on Trump’s terms: crime, safety, victims, repeat arrests.

That’s the brilliance: Trump is daring Democrats to argue for cashless bail, knowing the public hears that as for criminals, and against victims. And the Times, by editorial shrink-raying and hair-splitting over crime statistics, just amplified the invitation.

https://slaynews.com/news/dc-enjoys-12th-consecutive-murder-free-day-trump-crime-crackdown/

Pirro credited Trump’s decision to deploy federal agencies and seize temporary control of the Metropolitan Police Department with reshaping public safety in the nation’s capital.

“D.C. was one of the most violent cities in the world, but for President Trump coming in and bringing in our federal partners … we’ve got a unified force of people and law enforcement who were going into the crime-ridden areas and making a difference,” Pirro said.

She pointed to the homicide-free streak as proof:

“So far this year, we’ve had 101 homicides.

“But for the last 12 days, nothing.

https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1960409340352860523

WOW. Iris Tao, a White House Correspondent, THANKS President Trump for cracking down on D.C. crime after revealing she'd been robbed and pistol-whipped outside her apartment.

"Mr. President, thank you so much for what you're doing right now... Thank you for now making D.C. safer for us, our families, and my baby on the way."

https://x.com/WarClandestine/status/1960395286309634318

Things are about to get real.

Trump says they are going to seek the death penalty for anyone who commits murder in DC.

He says this is a “strong preventative”.

If this was the standard nationwide, murder rates would plummet.

DC will be the blueprint.

How about giving all violent black criminals the choice to be deported to Liberia, with no re-entry of the US possible?

Would save a ton of money, and is reasonably humane.

Liberia would accept them for, say, $10K per prisoner.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/burning-man-ethos-friday-august-29

Yesterday, the Hill ran an astonishing story headlined, “Newsom deploys new crime-fighting teams across California amid Trump crackdown.” But! Just ten minutes ago, they were swearing crime rates were down, and complaining that crime-fighting surges were authoritarian excess and more policing just resulted in more crime. Not today, though. What’s changed?

The Hill’s story concluded with this painfully obvious point: “This move by Newsom, who is expected to make a presidential bid in 2028, could be an attempt to improve the public image of Democrats towards fighting violent crime.”

Could it be? You think? ...

The contradiction is so blatant that it’s comical: one week, prosecuting shoplifting is racist oppression; the next, it’s “responding to the community.” The crime statistics didn’t change. The political statistics changed. Trump successfully seized the crime issue, and Democrats can’t afford to leave him holding it alone.