Carjacker Shot - Analysis by Sgt. Jim Williams
Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2007 6:41 pmRetired Memphis Police Department Detective, Sergeant Jim Williams has 25 years experience as a police officer and is often a call in guest on The Mike Fleming Radio Program. He has a wealth of experience in self defense and supports our gun rights. Sergeant Williams has arrested some of the most dangerous felons in America. Following is his professional analysis of the latest crime to make the news in the Memphis area.
It's obvious the criminals are out of control and most of the media consider us armed citizens more of a threat than the predators here. I would say they should be ashamed, however; I don't believe their amoral arrogance permits them to feel shame. Our thanks to Jim for his knowledgeable perspective on this.
Please be aware of your surroundings!
In Liberty,
Patriot Pat McGarrity
Director - Shelby County, TFA
"Remember the response of the Shelby County Sheriff's Department in their on-scene
investigation of the chase that came into Tennessee: the carjacking victim's son was NOT
arrested by Sheriff's detectives. Typically only if facts develop that cause reason to
disbelieve the facts as initially presented to detectives will a later arrest follow that,
such as finding out that the son lied to the SCSD about his actions or the carjacker's.
DA Gibbons will likely not miss the chance to appear in front of a microphone to announce
that he (a) has decided the shooting is legal, or (b) he will submit it to the Shelby County
Grand Jury for their review, being aware that they will not indict the shooter AND give the
DA the protection from criticism that Pontius Pilate sought from the crowd.
To decide the prosecute the son in Tennessee (with Mississippi using him as a key
prosecution witness to the original carjacking) will make Tennessee look absolutely foolish.
No jury without news media anti-citizen lynch mob members on the jury panel will ever convict him
of shooting the man who stuck a shotgun in his mother's face just minutes before. Furthermore, all
the son has to do is refuse to testify against the carjacker in Mississippi, Tennessee, and Federally
on Fifth Amendment grounds; the result will be that the carjacker will then be placed in the position to
imprison his honest citizen victims. If Gibbons ever has a dream of being reelected, he will stay away
from prosecuting the son and concentrate on prosecuting dangerous armed criminals.
Channel 3 WREG News presented the story with a one-sentence comment that the DA
will review the shooting later. Channel 4 WMCT, on the other hand, wants the death penalty
for good citizens, who deserve all the crime they can possibly get. Joe Birch on Channel 5
gave a SEPARATE report in which he said the son "took the law into his own hands."
In fact, citizens have a right to make a lawful citizen's arrest (more limited than a true
police arrest, but quite enough for this one) as outlined in the Tennessee Code Annotated
Volume 7A, under the following section numbers and certain details outlined below:
(1) TCA # 40-7-109. When the citizen has observed the commission of a misdemeanor
or felony, or on felony probable cause (provided the crime actually occurred);
(2) TCA # 40-7-111. The citizen must notify the offender why he is being arrested,
unless he is caught in the actual commission of the crime or by pursuit therefrom;
(3) TCA # 40-7-113. The citizen must deliver his arrestee to a law enforcement officer
by notifying the local authorities so they can come and take custody of him.
The Tennessee law authorizing Citizen's Arrests was first passed by the Tennessee
General Assembly in 1858, just under 150 years ago, and has been refined ever since.
This legal provision is almost as old as the State of Tennessee, founded in 1796, and
which was the 16th State to join the new United States of America after its founding.
Channel 5 is 149 years behind in its reporting of the right of Tennesseeans to make legal
arrests under the guidelines approved and improved under laws in the Tennessee Code.
Contrary to the anti-honest citizen crowd at 1960 Union Avenue, it is not being a
"vigilante" or "taking the law into your own hands" when you make a citizen's
arrest. The view at Ch-5 coincides with the Liberal view that you should take
your murder, rape, kidnapping, or robbery like a man and understand that the
criminal's mother did not give him a hug and a teddy bear at bedtime every night.
Jim"
It's obvious the criminals are out of control and most of the media consider us armed citizens more of a threat than the predators here. I would say they should be ashamed, however; I don't believe their amoral arrogance permits them to feel shame. Our thanks to Jim for his knowledgeable perspective on this.
Please be aware of your surroundings!
In Liberty,
Patriot Pat McGarrity
Director - Shelby County, TFA
"Remember the response of the Shelby County Sheriff's Department in their on-scene
investigation of the chase that came into Tennessee: the carjacking victim's son was NOT
arrested by Sheriff's detectives. Typically only if facts develop that cause reason to
disbelieve the facts as initially presented to detectives will a later arrest follow that,
such as finding out that the son lied to the SCSD about his actions or the carjacker's.
DA Gibbons will likely not miss the chance to appear in front of a microphone to announce
that he (a) has decided the shooting is legal, or (b) he will submit it to the Shelby County
Grand Jury for their review, being aware that they will not indict the shooter AND give the
DA the protection from criticism that Pontius Pilate sought from the crowd.
To decide the prosecute the son in Tennessee (with Mississippi using him as a key
prosecution witness to the original carjacking) will make Tennessee look absolutely foolish.
No jury without news media anti-citizen lynch mob members on the jury panel will ever convict him
of shooting the man who stuck a shotgun in his mother's face just minutes before. Furthermore, all
the son has to do is refuse to testify against the carjacker in Mississippi, Tennessee, and Federally
on Fifth Amendment grounds; the result will be that the carjacker will then be placed in the position to
imprison his honest citizen victims. If Gibbons ever has a dream of being reelected, he will stay away
from prosecuting the son and concentrate on prosecuting dangerous armed criminals.
Channel 3 WREG News presented the story with a one-sentence comment that the DA
will review the shooting later. Channel 4 WMCT, on the other hand, wants the death penalty
for good citizens, who deserve all the crime they can possibly get. Joe Birch on Channel 5
gave a SEPARATE report in which he said the son "took the law into his own hands."
In fact, citizens have a right to make a lawful citizen's arrest (more limited than a true
police arrest, but quite enough for this one) as outlined in the Tennessee Code Annotated
Volume 7A, under the following section numbers and certain details outlined below:
(1) TCA # 40-7-109. When the citizen has observed the commission of a misdemeanor
or felony, or on felony probable cause (provided the crime actually occurred);
(2) TCA # 40-7-111. The citizen must notify the offender why he is being arrested,
unless he is caught in the actual commission of the crime or by pursuit therefrom;
(3) TCA # 40-7-113. The citizen must deliver his arrestee to a law enforcement officer
by notifying the local authorities so they can come and take custody of him.
The Tennessee law authorizing Citizen's Arrests was first passed by the Tennessee
General Assembly in 1858, just under 150 years ago, and has been refined ever since.
This legal provision is almost as old as the State of Tennessee, founded in 1796, and
which was the 16th State to join the new United States of America after its founding.
Channel 5 is 149 years behind in its reporting of the right of Tennesseeans to make legal
arrests under the guidelines approved and improved under laws in the Tennessee Code.
Contrary to the anti-honest citizen crowd at 1960 Union Avenue, it is not being a
"vigilante" or "taking the law into your own hands" when you make a citizen's
arrest. The view at Ch-5 coincides with the Liberal view that you should take
your murder, rape, kidnapping, or robbery like a man and understand that the
criminal's mother did not give him a hug and a teddy bear at bedtime every night.
Jim"