It’s how it read to me.
His point was not identifying the murderer in the news story, not in minimizing the crime. That was the general topic of the discussion.
So why didn’t the police get a warrant to search his property after his girlfriend warned Nashville police he was building bomb a year?
From the article:
According to the police report and Throckmorton, the woman was experiencing a mental health crisis at the time. Officers called their mobile crisis division, and after talking with the woman, she agreed to be transported by ambulance for a psychological evaluation, Aaron said…
“They saw no evidence of a crime and had no authority to enter his home or fenced property,” Aaron said of officers’ unsuccessful attempt to make contact with Warner or look inside the RV…
[T]he FBI reported back that they checked their holdings and found no records on Warner at all…
“At no time was there any evidence of a crime detected and no additional action was taken,” he said. “No additional information about Warner came to the department’s or the FBI’s attention after August 2019.”
Aaron reported that the ATF also had no information on Warner.
So:
- The woman was determined to be experiencing a mental crisis;
- There was no probable cause to enter the property;
- There was no probable cause discovered after the FBI investigated.
Without probable cause, and the complaint being made by a woman ‘experiencing a mental health crisis’, there was nothing they could do.
Soft Targets. I own that book. They would always call terrorists “right proper Charlies” and made them points of derision rather than admiration. Interesting concept.
I never read the novel version - just the shorter version (which was called “Very Proper Charlies”)
The FBI only did a records check. Presumably the mental health crisis only lasted a short period of time–she is still not in a mental hospital is she? So you ask her after the crisis is over. So if you have a witness who says she say someone making bombs that sounds like probable cause to me to get a warrant and check the RV out.
I think what may live longer in people’s memory than his actual name is that he kind of looked like Townes Van Zandt.
You know what’s puzzling me is that the first pictures I saw that were, I thought, supposed to be of him, he was shown as short haired, bearded, and wearing a Trump hat.
The recent ones show long hair, no beard, and I would swear his mouth is different. Another case of the media using the wrong picture?
I’m going out on a limb and betting that if his name had been Omar Medina instead of Anthony Warner there would have been body cavity searches the very same day.
Looks like AFP fact checked this, the guy in the Trump hat is not the bomber.
Yep, that’s the dude I saw first, and I wondered.
Now I’m wondering who AFP is. There’s nothing on their website to tell me about them.
ETA: Ah, there is, but for some reason on my screen it’s black on black and I can’t see it unless I happen to pass my cursor over the dots, which only show if the cursor is hovering over a dot. Weird!
Agence France-Presse, apparently. I knew they were a wire news service, but didn’t know what the initials stood for. I also wasn’t aware they were the oldest of those:
Until he was convicted, the BBC described the New Zealand mosque shooter exactly that way, and when they showed up, there was a big fuzzy oval with an orange blob in it. I thought that was apropos.
This psychiatrist has been doing videos on public figures who may or may not have mental health issues, and did one on this bomber. He has quite a dry sense of humor.
TL : DW - The bomber apparently subscribed to a lot of recent conspiracy theories.
Her attorney backed her up, but even that didn’t make a difference.
From this report:
Throckmorton, who served as the woman’s attorney, told officers Warner “frequently talks about the military and bomb making,” the document said.
Warner “knows what he is doing and is capable of making a bomb,” the attorney said to the officers, according to the report.
In an interview Tuesday night, Throckmorton told The Tennessean he urged police at the time to look into the woman’s claim. He said she feared for her safety, believing Warner may harm her.
“It is what it is”:
If his name had been Wahid Al-Amin instead of Anthony Warner, they woulda gone in with dogs and battering rams the very same day.
You’re right. My bad.
I’ll amend it to, “Some asshole shot two kids in Houston this morning. They were Kevin and Amanda Smith and were slain on their way to school. Their parents, Wallace and Elizabeth are grieving.”
I’d like to know how many threat reports the police get of this nature. There is an opportunity cost to tracking them all down and if they get thousands then I’m not sure we want the police going after every single one.
I think you’re correct that we don’t know how many “he said he’s going to make a bomb” reports the Nashville police received. Are the authorities still going with: “If you see something, say something” BTW?