this headline should be “police kill innocent child in reckless firebombing”
The innocent boy’s name is Brett Rosenau. He was 15 years old, not 14 like some news outlets have reported. Here is a link to donate to his funeral expenses. His father, whom Brett is named after, was shot by police on December 31st, 2006. He was 24 years old and his son was months away from being born.
His mother Amanda Lopez has lost both her partner and son at the hands of police.
They knew a child was in the house. They found him & their suspect together, followed them home, watched them both enter the house, and used robots & drones to determine who was inside.
Brett & his father were Black.
This is a wild read from start to finish but this description of one of the inhabitants made me literally laugh out loud:
There’s Richard Angell, an anti-circumcision activist known as “Dick Angel.”
I mean, that’s just objectively funny.
So some of the best quotes so far from this;
One of the original masterminds of the plan, a certain Larry Pendarvis, had written of his intention to create a space honoring the freedom to “traffic organs, the right to hold duels, and the God-given, underappreciated right to organize so-called bum fights.” He had also bemoaned the persecution of the “victimless crime” that is “consensual cannibalism.”
Bro
There’s Adam Franz, a self-described anti-capitalist (Interjection; by this he means ‘doesn’t want to pay taxes) who set up a tent city to serve as “a planned community of survivalists,” even though no one who joined it had any real bushcraft skills.
BRo
They slashed the town’s already tiny yearly budget of $1 million by 30 percent, obliged the town to fight legal test case after test case, and staged absurd, standoffish encounters with the sheriff to rack up YouTube hits. Grafton was a poor town to begin with, but with tax revenue dropping even as its population expanded, things got steadily worse. Potholes multiplied, domestic disputes proliferated, violent crime spiked, and town workers started going without heat.
BRO
And these are all from BEFORE the actual bears showed up.
“Free Towners were finding that the situations that had been so easy to problem-solve in the abstract medium of message boards were difficult to resolve in person.”
OH YOU DON’T SAY
