bersaguy

I cannot and will never agree with your opinion on this if what you just posted here is how you really feel about Law Enforcement Officers! To group them all as bad is totally wrong at so many levels and tosay they are told to be this way by the politicians is even out of the realm of reality........JMHO

If you did it admit it. Arguing is only going to escalate what would be just warning into a full blow arrest..........JMHO

I will not say that things like this don't happen because they do. Everyday in some town someplace things like this happen and I do hope she does file a civil suit and I hope she wins and along with winning the suit I do hope she gets the public apology which I don't she will get. Those don't come as easy as money does in these cases. I agree that if you search the internet your going to find a lot of simlar cases. Some people pass it off as human error. I won't do that. I will call it a rookie move or an over zealous officer just looking to prove something and a person with that type of personality does not need to be a police officer. They are the officers that do give the good officers a bad reputation.

When the officer folllowed me into my driveway and turned his lights on I kind of knew he was wanting me to stop...LOL. I gave him room to get nto my driveway with his car before stopping. His first statement to me was "How are yo doing today sir?" My reply was "fine sir and yours? He asked me for my lcense, Registration and proof of insurance which I provided and he ask me why I was not wearing my seat belt and I said, I am and I opened my door so he could see my lap belt was clicked. He asked me why I had altered the seat belt and I handed him a letter I keep in the Jeep from my doctor explaining why it is altered and he read it and said to make sure I keep it in the Jeep. Then he told me why he pulled me over. My tags had expired in June and I never got a notice. I said "well they never sent me my notice and he said "yea, sometimes they miss some". He wrote me the ticket and he also told me what steps to take to get the ticket dismissed.I signed it and he thanked me and I thanked him and we told each other to have a nice rest of the day. I went and got tags the next day and then went directly to the court clerks office with proof of tags and they said I did not have to report for court and they stamped my ticket as dismissed. I signed it and he thanked me and I thanked him and we told each other to have a nice rest of the day.

I don't have any reason to believe your statement. I have several black friends that live here in Gallatin and they all get along fine with the police. We also have several black officers and I never hear of them being anything but professional when dealing with the public. I do realize that you live in or near Memphis and the atmosphere and enviroment is probably different, I don't know. I can only speak of my experiences with the officers here and in surroundng towns.

I have had the opportunity on a couple occassions in past couple month to talk with police officers from both Gallatin PD 2 weeks ago when I got pulled over for expired tags on my Jeep. The officer was very friendly and polite. Ask me for all my paperwork, license and Insurance and registration and then told me why he pulled me over. He went back to his car and wrote out the ticket. He told me what I needed to do to get the ticket dismissed. I signed the ticket. Handed it back to him. He thanked me and I thanked him. He knew I had a carry permit but it was never mentioned. I was getting ready to go fishing a month ago and was at a launch ramp when a Sheriffs car came in to parking lot and made a round and the officer stopped and ask me what Iwas going fishing for and I said Bass. I had my gun in open carry in clear site but we talked fishing and what baits I was going to use and about that time my partner arrived and the officer wished us luck on catching some fish and drove off. I don't understand how people say they can't get along with police officers. What I experienced with those two officers is pretty much what I have experienced my whole life while having a police encounter.

I knew you would like them if you like fish. The good thing about them is they are plentiful and when you find them schooled up you can catch a bunch of them quick. Sometimes you will find them mixed in with the bigger stripe and be able to catch some of them and have a mixed bag of fish to eat. From now through about mid November you should be able to find schools of them pretty easy in the creeks on points in shallow water as the water temps drop. Next time try rooster tails in White or Chartruese in the medium size.

I use to work for a small business and couldn't count the times I got called to the business at night because the night person set the Alarm for the business when leaving but failed to lock the front door and someone tripped the alarm and because I was the closest employee I got called by the boss and asked if I would please go lock the door and reset the alarm as the police would not leave until the business was secured. They had entered and did a search and cleared it before I got there. They left when I left.

I'm not making any excuses for her actions. The Grand Jury will charge her accordingly for sure based on the evidence which is going to be hard to explain most of it but there is no doubt she will be charged with something and it won't be good regardless of what it is ...........JMHO

I agree with you on the dumb part for standing lit up in hall light silhouette. My move would have been to back out of the door way and call for back up. She did have a cell phone because she called 911 to get the victum help. They were up high enough that if the guy was a burglar he was not going anywhere so wait for back up..........JMHO

I am beginning to see a pattern of the same story coming together. The officer came home after a long shift at work. Not paying attention she parked on the 4th floor garage when she normally parks on the 3rd floor. That was her first error. With apartments all looking the same nothing would have jumped right out to her thinking that she was not on the correct floor after a long hard shift. When she reached what she thought was her apartment and attempted to insert the prong key device into the door before going it it pushed the door open. This is where things begin to go bad. Instead of backing away from the apartment and calling for back up with would be or should be manditory she entered a dark apartment alone and removed her gun from it's holster when she saw a silhouette moving around in the dark. (Officers statement) She gave verbal commands that she was a police officer and got no reply. Saw movement and fire 2 rounds striking the man with 1 of them. Turning on the light she realized she was not in her apartment and called for 911 emergency and said shots fired. Now there are a couple things to consider from this so far. The man was in a dark apartment with an unlocked door? How many people enter their dark apartment don't turn on a light first thing and don't close and lock the door behind them this day in time? I don't know if that will ever be explained. Why when the officer Identified herself as a police officer did the man not immediately respond back with anything to the officer? She said that she gave several verbal commands and got no response. Why did he not answer back?? A reply back would have saved his life. That is another question that will probably never be answered. The hall lights where on so there is little doubt he could not see her silhouette and identify that she was infact an officer in uniform. That is another question that will probably never get an answer. There are many questions that will never be answered and because of a few bad decisions on both people involved a man lost his life. The officer for not being more alert to her surroundings was the first mistake and from then on the bad decisions from both just snowballed.I think the grand jury will come up with the right decision in the end................JMHO

I used Rooster Tails with my boys because they would have went through night crawlers like water through a strainer. When we would get in a big school they would catch a fish on every cast and they got tired of catching before the fish quit biting.

Their good to eat Greg. Yellow bellies are a smaller version of stripe. When you catch 1 or 2 you can probably catch a hundred or more as they are schooling fish and fun to catch. Back when my boys were little I would take them out in the boat, tie each of them on a rooster tail and find a school of them yellow bellies and they would catch fish till they were tired of catchng fish and we would aways bring home a mess for a fish fry.

As best I can tell it was an off duty Dallas Police officer involved in a bad shoot and that is why Texas Rangers were called in to take over the investigation.

The only issue I can find with this case so far is the news media and the mans family. I understand he was a black gentleman that was shot and killled and in my humble opinion a man lost his life and it was not a black and white issue. It was a mans life issue. It was a very very poor decision issue that should have never happened. Now with that said. For years we as a people have been trying to get past the issue of race yet it seems that many people just cannot manage to do that. Especially the news medias and in many cases black families. The man that lost his life was black. Would it have been different had he been white and shot by a black officer. I wonder if the news media headlines would have read Black Officer shoots White Man and kills him by accident. I also wonder if the mans family would have been claiming it was a racial shoot because he was white? I have not seen a shooting of a white man by a black police officer yet with those kind of headlines. Are we ever going to get passed the race card and just consider that we are all human beings and all lives matter?....................JMHO

I'm going to wait till the entire story is out before making a conclusion but as someone else has already said it looks fishy. I don't think anything fishy is going on now that Texas Rangers have been brought in the investigate the shooting. I only have 1 issue with what I have read so far. Why can't the news media write a headline that reads Police Officer shoots man in his apartment thinking it was her apartment. Why do they have to make sure a race card is played every time. He was a man that got shot while in his own apartment by a police officer that made a mistake thinking it was her apartment. She should not get any special treatment for her mistake. If the guy would have been white would it have made any difference??? Would a white mans family not be hurting right now also. It is a terrible shame it happened at all and the race card is totally in-material. A man lost his life period................JMHO

I've had them get on a feeder from time to time but they don't far well if I see them. They go the way of the Red Wasp and a fly swatter if they don't get gone before I make the swing with the swatter.

They leak tested my mothers tank a couple times. They have a way of pumping out what ever is in the tank and reading the amount. Then they do a vaccum test by sucking out all in the tank and putting a vaccum gauge on the tank and watching it for 30 minutes. If it holds a full vaccum they refill the tank with what they took out and then top it off on the keep fill order. Of course that is all gone since house burned and brother sold the land to new owners.

I will admit back when I was a kid I use to shoot my BB gun at night but I used a flashlight/spotlight type light to light up my targets. We had a big Mulberry tree in our front yard about 40 feet from the front porch and it was perfect tree for putting wooden checkers in the crevices of the limbs and old Chess pieces out on the limbs of. Did it in the wintertime after the leaves were down. I got to be a pretty good shot after doing it a while. My father was a big help the first year as most kids knew you could put a few drops of oil down in the barrel and the BB's would fly faster and straighter so put some 3-1 oil down the barrel but it didn't work well. Took it back in the house and it got warmed up and the first several shots would be fine and then it would slow down and fall short again. Problem was it was about 25 degrees out and the oil was getting thick when it go cold. Dad to the rescue. He came out to see how I was and I told him of the problem. He went in the house and came back out with a can of Liquid Wrench with one of those straw nozzle and he sprayed a little down the barrel and problem solved.

Sorry about the house and glad they are going to get it all repaired for you. I hope the airgun shooter has learned by their mistake.

I am not sure were you get that birds won't feed on feeders if they are faded. All of my feeders are at least 15 years old and tops of all of them are faded and it has not slowed the birds down yet. Yea I know bright red is how most are made but I have seen feeders made from the old Coke Bottle colored glass and have birds fighting over them. BT's wife has window feeders that stick to the out side of her windows with suction cups and I have sat at her kitchen table and watched 2 feed on one small feeder at the same time on her kitchen window right next to her table. I was going to buy new feeders at TSC this year but I missed the sale and they sold out. This winter I will redo my old ones I guess. I know a couple folks that have taken them apart and sanded the bases and reapinted them red wih that plastic paint and painted the flowers yellow again and let everything dry and them put them back together and the birds came and spent all summer on them. 1 warning!!!! Don't paint the inside of the feeders!!! Could harm the birds.

Yea, I still have about 20-25 birds and I filled all the feeders on 26th and put the back out and laready had to fill all of them once and will need to fill them again by Monday. Most of what I have appear to be younger birds but none the less with their fussing and fighting abilities. I have only see 2 Red Thoat Males but does not mean there are not more. Oh yea, still got the crazy woodpecker and he shares with the Hummingbirds and they don't pick on him. Depending on weather we could have them later this year if it stays warm. I had them last year till the end of October and a few travelers through first couple weeks of November.

Don't forget , you need a bucket of water to throw on the witch so she will melt along with the slippers................

IMPO Peterson is a coward and was only thinking of himself. He should have went and encountered the shooter and if possible shot and killed him while not waiting on back up that he knew was in route.

Didn't the Feds go on a buying frenzy several years back on 357 Mag rounds so they must have or need guns to use them in if they don't already have them.