I am a former police officer and a private investigator with over fifty years experience specializing in use of force cases. This is not ideology. This is experience. I had planned to wait for the official reports. They will have more video footage and more witness statements. But the essential facts already seem clear. This analysis is based on incomplete information, and it does not need to be perfect to be accurate. Alex Pretti opposed ICE and deportation policy. Fine. He had every right to protest. What he did not have was the right to riot. He attended a protest that devolved into violence. Pretti armed himself with a legally carried 9mm SIG Sauer pistol and spare magazines. Most people who carries semi automatic pistols also carry an extra magazine or two.  There is nothing unusual about that .  Carrying a gun was not the problem. Deciding to physically intervene in an arrest was. ICE agents were lawfully arresting a woman who had become physically aggressive. Prett...

When shootings like those involving Renee Good and Alex Pretti occur, the reaction is immediate and unforgiving. Within seconds, judgment hardens. Two opposing narratives form, each fueled by politics, emotion, and incomplete information. These incidents did not occur in a vacuum. Both individuals placed themselves directly in harm’s way by feloniously obstructing federal ICE agents engaged in official duties. They were not present as passive or peaceful protesters. Each was killed during the commission of a violent felony. The central question is not whether force was used, but whether the force applied was necessary and legally justified under rapidly unfolding circumstances. Multiple videos exist of both encounters. None clearly establish what actually happened. The footage is fragmented, obscured, and inconclusive. As investigations continue, additional video may surface. Only careful, frame-by-frame analysis may eventually clarify the sequence of events. Use-of-force encounters...

Vigilante hero Kyle Rittenhouse is still waiting for the final legal chapter to close in Kenosha, a city whose leaders chose cowardice over duty and chaos over law. When government refuses to protect its citizens, often the vacuum does not stay empty. Order does not politely wait its turn. Someone always steps in. In Kenosha, that someone was a 17 year old kid who showed more spine than the entire political class running the city. Kyle Rittenhouse was cleared of every criminal charge by a jury that actually watched the evidence instead of swallowing slogans. Yet six years later, civil lawsuits still crawl through the courts against him and against government officials who deliberately stood down while their city burned. No urgency. No accountability. Just the slow bureaucratic grind designed to punish by exhaustion. August 2020 was the moment Kenosha exposed itself. Leadership refused to act. Law enforcement was ordered to stand down. Arsonists roamed freely. Property was destroyed...

If the goal is to reduce injuries, then we need to stop pretending that chemical agents and kinetic projectiles are “gentler” options. Tear gas, pepper spray, rubber bullets, and impact munitions put people in emergency rooms. Sometimes they put them in hospitals. Always they create lawsuits, especially in blue states where juries reward bad behavior with lottery-sized verdicts. There is a better tool, and it works. Properly used water cannon trucks drastically reduce injuries. No chemicals. No burns. No broken bones. No permanent damage. Just water. A lot of it. Water cannons are safe, effective, and humane when used correctly. Not to blast people off their feet. Not to injure. Simply to subject disruptive crowds to sustained, miserable conditions. Soaked clothing. Cold exposure. Total discomfort. The fastest cure is simple. Go home. Dry off. Get warm. That is why the political left hates them. They work too well. American law enforcement keeps deploying so-called less-lethal wea...

  The Democrat Party has burned through every shred of credibility it ever had with the American public. Whatever trust once existed is gone, buried, and not coming back. What remains looks like a political ghost ship. No rudder. No compass. Just drifting in circles while the crew argues on deck. Call it the Flying Dutchman of American politics, cursed to wander forever while pretending it knows where it is going. And spare the theatrics. Its real heading is obvious. Straight toward collectivism, dependency, and state control. The sales pitch never changes. Promise riches to people who have none. Promise security to people who feel afraid. Promise fairness to people who do not want to compete. What they actually deliver is dependency, stagnation, and permanent poverty. Everywhere communism or its close cousin socialism has taken root, the result is the same. A tiny elite of party insiders living like royalty, and a massive underclass reduced to economic serfdom. The masses surviv...

It is long past time for the Federal Communications Commission to stop fainting on the couch over dirty words. Let us drop the fake shock. The F bomb is no longer a linguistic outlier. It is everyday speech. Grocery stores. Job sites. Court hallways. Family dinners when the turkey burns. The language police lost this war decades ago, and the surrender papers were signed in permanent marker. Is it polite? No. That is the point. Profanity exists to add force, volume, and emphasis where ordinary words fail. It is verbal punctuation. An exclamation mark with teeth. These words may have sexual origins, but in modern usage they have about as much to do with sex as a screwdriver has to do with architecture. Most of the time they are insults. Sometimes they are comedy. Often they are pure frustration escaping the mouth at high velocity. What they are not is a threat to civilization. This is, inconveniently for the censors, a free speech issue. The late comedian George Carlin understood t...