{"id":51538,"date":"2023-08-12T10:10:26","date_gmt":"2023-08-12T14:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=51538"},"modified":"2023-08-12T10:21:18","modified_gmt":"2023-08-12T14:21:18","slug":"ruby-ridge-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=51538","title":{"rendered":"Ruby Ridge Redux?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some of us are old enough to remember what happened in August 1992 at Ruby Ridge, Idaho. An FBI sniper killed Vicki<\/span> Weaver while she was holding her baby daughter<\/span>. If she was holding her daughter, how was she a threat? She was shot because the family refused to surrender to the authorities. The details of the siege and the killing are public information if you are unfamiliar with them. They are easy to find.<\/p>\n

On Friday, The Daily Wire<\/a> reported:<\/p>\n

The 75-year-old Utah<\/a> man who was shot dead by FBI agents<\/a> on Wednesday morning for making online threats against President Joe Biden and other government officials was a pillar of his local church community and posed no real threat to anyone, a former neighbor and friend told The Daily Wire.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tim Rich first heard of the incident through a neighborhood Facebook group, where households posted about hearing gunshots, and later that a SWAT team had raided the home of his friend, Craig Robertson. Rich immediately \u201chad an inkling of what the nature\u201d of the raid was \u2014 he was Facebook friends with Robertson and saw his political posts, which included one last week in which Robertson said he had to \u201cdust off\u201d his sniper rifle in preparation for Biden\u2019s arrival in Utah for a political fundraiser.<\/strong><\/p>\n

That is a threat, and the man should have been arrested. However, I believe excessive force was used.<\/p>\n

The article concludes:<\/p>\n

Robertson was largely immobile \u2014 standing just about five feet six inches and weighing roughly 300 pounds \u2014 the elderly man would hobble around with a cane. He was known to drive to his church, which was only about 200 yards from his home. And law enforcement presumably knew all of these details \u2014 as Robertson had been under surveillance for months, and two agents had already interacted with him before the fatal Wednesday morning raid.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Rich believes that \u201cbusting in\u201d to the home of a man that they knew had a defensive mindset was reckless.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cIt seems like a much lower risk to detain or arrest in the middle of the day as he\u2019s hobbling out of his vehicle or in a parking lot somewhere,\u201d Rich said.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Is this an intimidation tactic? Again, the man should have been arrested, but breaking into his house was using excessive force.<\/p>\n

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