merelygifted:

The confrontation with officers started after an argument between the couple. Candice Parscale says her husband chambered a round into a pistol during a heated exchange between the two[…] It’s unclear what they were arguing about, but she says she fled the house in fear and ran to a neighbor’s residence, from which she called the cops.

This nation still has a problem when it comes to acknowledging domestic abuse — well all kinds of abuse, frankly — and the red flags were right there in the initial reporting. This wasn’t a cry for help by Brad, but by his wife from someone else’s house after they got in a fight. How does Parscale handle spousal conflict?

Officer Timothy Skaggs was the first to arrive at the neighbor’s house, records show. He witnessed bruising on Candice Parscale’s arm and face. She told him that the injuries had come from Brad Parscale, though she said she’d gotten them earlier that week.

AND FACE. So Brad Parscale beat his wife and behaved in such a manner that she feared for HER life and fled where she then called the police. [Still,] she spoke in his defense, saying that he was ‘stressed’ (!).

Oh, but it gets better — Parscale found himself surrounded by police. A situation which ends up deadly for many Americans. Well, certain Americans anyway. He was taken out of his home and then decided to exercise his resistance as a ‘Murican:

He didn’t comply, so an officer used a “double-leg takedown” to lower him to the ground while other officers handcuffed him.

I would have been shot in the back for less.

But hey, how did Brad manage to skip jail entirely and be involuntarily committed for mental health evaluation? Oh, right. He’s got friends. …