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Arizona Sheriff Tries To Deflect Responsibility Of The Shooting From Himself

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UPDATED: Wednesday, January 12, 2011 08:33
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Wednesday, January 12, 2011 5:33 AM

http://sadhillnews.com/2011/01/10/pima-county-sheriff-dupnik-who-could
-have-prevented-the-arizona-shootings-blames-right-wing-again-and-again

"This is the report that Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik has been dreading since the tragic event on Saturday January 8.

The sheriff has been editorializing and politicizing the event since he took the podium to report on the incident. His blaming of radio personalities and bloggers is a pre-emptive strike because Mr. Dupnik knows this tragedy lays at his feet and his office. Six people died on his watch and he could have prevented it. He needs to step up and start apologizing to the families of the victims instead of spinning this event to serve his own political agenda.

Jared Loughner, pronounced by the Sheriff as Lock-ner, saying it was the Polish pronunciation. Of course he meant Scott or Irish but that isn't the point. The point is he and his office have had previous contact with the alleged assailant in the past and that is how he knows how to pronounce the name.

Jared Loughner has been making death threats by phone to many people in Pima County including staff of Pima Community College, radio personalities and local bloggers. When Pima County Sheriff's Office was informed, his deputies assured the victims that he was being well managed by the mental health system. It was also suggested that further pressing of charges would be unnecessary and probably cause more problems than it solved as Jared Loughner has a family member that works for Pima County. Amy Loughner is a Natural Resource specialist for the Pima County Parks and Recreation. My sympathies and my heart goes out to her and the rest of Mr. Loughner's family. This tragedy must be tearing them up inside wondering if they had done the right things in trying to manage Jared's obvious mental instability.

Every victim of his threats previously must also be wondering if this tragedy could have been prevented if they had been more aggressive in pursuing charges against Mr. Loughner. Perhaps with a felony conviction he would never have been able to lawfully by the Glock 9mm Model 19 that he used to strike down the lives of six people and decimate 14 more.

This was not an act of politics. This was an act of a mentally disturbed young man hell bent on getting his 15 minutes of infamy. The Pima County Sheriff's Department was aware of his violent nature and they failed to act appropriately. This tragedy leads right back to Sherriff Dupnik and all the spin in the world is not going to change that fact."

In my opinion, they don't conme any lower than this piece of go se. Not only was he horribly negligent in covering-up for this deranged son of a county employee, he then tries to blame Conservatives for the tragedy. He isn't fit to wear any badge, even one out of a Cheerios box. The state Attorney General has the power to suspend him immediately, and I hope to see that before his ultimate removal from office.

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Wednesday, January 12, 2011 8:33 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...

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His blaming of radio personalities and bloggers is a pre-emptive strike because Mr. Dupnik knows this tragedy lays at his feet and his office.

I call bull

. That's blame-gaming; the authorities can't do anything about anyone they don't know about. If he'd been reported in ANY way, then you could lay it at the sheriff's feet...maybe.

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When Pima County Sheriff's Office was informed, his deputies assured the victims that he was being well managed by the mental health system.

I'd like some facts on this; as far as I know, he had a couple of run-ins which were expunged, and he wasn't under ANY medical or psychiatric supervision. Did the school inform anyone? If so, yes, they were negligent in not following up, but that's the only effort I've heard of to get him help.

Tho' I don't approve of his politicizing the situation, it's no worse than is going on by both sides right now. Better he should have stood up and spoken to the need to bring people so obviously in need of help to light; that's a more constructive topic.

I note there's been no more "it's the left's fault!", "it's the right's fault", although the discussion of violent rhetoric is pointed mostly at the right, which I feel is more accurate. But this particular instance, in my opinion, has nothing to do with politics and should, if anything, be centered around society's need to take responsibility for protecting itself against those who are obviously in need of help.

This article makes it political as much as all the other ravings on both sides; THAT, in my opinion, should not be his purvey, not that he's trying to "duck" anything.

Hippie Operative Nikovich Nikita Nicovna Talibani,
Contracted Agent of Veritas Oilspillus, code name “Nike”,
signing off

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