The Houston police killing suspect
There has been so much news lately that I haven’t covered everything or even close to everything that’s of interest. One very sad event that caught my attention – but that I haven’t written about until now – was the January 23 assassination of Harris County Pct. 5 Constable’s Office Corporal Charles Galloway. It was an especially cold-blooded killing that occurred during a traffic stop, in which the officer hadn’t even gotten out of his car yet when he was murdered by the man he’d stopped, who then sped off.
My first thought was that there probably was a camera that recorded the whole thing. But initially the police were mum about that. My second thought – because of the Houston location – was that this was more likely than not a Hispanic man, possibly in this country illegally, perhaps involved with the drug trade. I’m just playing the percentages here.
Then yesterday I noticed this article, which answered a few of my questions.
Yes, there was a camera. Yes, the suspect is Hispanic: name (or possibly alias, it’s reported) of Oscar Rosales. He’s older than I thought, 51. A woman who is reportedly his common-law wife and her brother received his car and washed it down, and they were charged with felony tampering with evidence, probably mostly to get information from them. There was nothing about whether Rosales is a citizen, but my guess was no. He’d been working as an auto mechanic, but there was no information on previous arrests. My guess was yes
This was interesting and indicated the police knew quite a bit they weren’t telling:
Chief Finner says authorities learned that Rosales has tried in the past to change his appearance and he may try to do that again.
“Oscar Rosales is the name he is known by now. It is not known under that name where his true citizenship is, what his true criminal history is, but this photograph tells you who we are looking for,” said District Attorney Ogg. You can’t run from your own photo.”
My thought was: you can’t? You rather can, I think – especially if you cross the border into Mexico, which I assumed had occurred.
I checked again today, and was pleased to read that Rosales has been arrested:
The U.S. Marshals Gulf Coast Violent Offenders and Fugitive Task Force, in conjunction with Mexican authorities, arrested Rosales without incident in Ciudad Acuña, which is located on the border with Del Rio, Texas.
Houston police say they are working with law enforcement partners to begin the process of returning Rosales to Harris County. Rosales, 51, is facing a capital murder charge.
I suspect we’ll learn more about Rosales – including whether that’s his real name. And I suspect he will have a significant criminal history both in this country and perhaps in Mexico. I would be curious about his immigration status, as well.
It is just now being reported that two police officers have been shot and hospitalized in Ferguson, home to the famous “gentle giant” so beloved by BLM, while both of the NYPD shot in Harlem last week have died. The so-called “solutions” from leftists to the problem of “gun violence” are laughably stupid and, perhaps needless to say, ineluctably doomed to fail, nor will next week’s meeting of Biden and Adams, who is rapidly approaching the nadir set by Comrade Wilhelm, accomplish anything except to generate brainless commentary in the MSM.
Leftist’s destruction of our justice system and evisceration of the rule of law is bringing closer the day when vigilante justice returns. Those leftists, along with the criminals they have enabled will be the targets of that retribution.
Actions have consequences.
j e:
In addition, the left has created a climate of anti-police hatred that leads to even more shootings of police.
I had breakfast with two Precinct 4 Constables on Monday. I had heard about this, but we didn’t talk about it. Constables have both vehicle and body cameras. DA Kim Ogg will say just about anything. The only positive thing I’ll say about her is she is a Soros DA that hasn’t completely lost her f’ing mind. She’s well aware that the DA’s office in Harris County doesn’t tend to follow party lines, and crime is up under her watch.
BTW, down the street from me this happened: Cracker Barrel shooting suspect killed by HCSO deputies identified
It was big news locally, but only because the suspect was off the streets. Nobody cared otherwise. Don’t believe me, read the comments.
Years ago, a patient of mine was murdered in Mexico. He and his wife (also a patient) had a house in Rosarita Beach, a favorite place for Americans to have second homes then. The killer used the man’s credit cards for years after and she saw multiple videos of him but could get no help from Mexican authorities or US authorities.
Neo: “In addition, the left has created a climate of anti-police hatred that leads to even more shootings of police.”
Yep. The left is succeeding in making being a policeman an undesirable job. A few days ago, a veteran Tacoma policeman was interviewed by the local news. His comment was very troubling. He said that when he started on the force twenty years ago, there would be 100 candidates show up for one opening. Today it’s just the opposite. They have 100 openings and one candidate. Unless the mayors and governors of blue cities/states wake up, the “Thin Blue Line” is going to be gone……with public safety being a thing of the past.
What to do?
1. Mayors and governors need to publicly, in no uncertain terms, stand behind the police. Always!
2. It must become commonly accepted that if a person resists arrest, regardless of their race or ethnicity, they could be injured or killed. And the fault will always lie with them. Resisting arrest is always illegal and an invitation for violence against the perp. Why do we expect police to let perps go who resist? Will the criminal be any easier to arrest the next time? ow many more crimes will they comit while not in custody? Why do we give police the authority to make arrests and then not back them up? We know the answers. The left claims they don’t.
IMO, there’s only one reason why the left is fomenting a breakdown of law and order. They want to create a national police force that they can control. When anarchy and crime is widespread, people will beg for any kind of force that will bring back some peace and quiet. A major national crackdown by a Stasi type force would be welcomed. They left is always thinking about how it was done in Venezuela or Russia or Cuba. They don’t care how many people get hurt on the way to their paradise.
Here is the profile of Corporal Galloway posted on the Officer Down Memorial Page: https://www.odmp.org/officer/25892-corporal-charles-galloway
Here are the most recent posts of fallen officers: https://www.odmp.org/?sort=created
One per day from 1/22 through 1/25.
The first statistic at the bottom of the page: 25 deaths in the line of duty so far this year– and January isn’t over yet.
Heartbreaking. And the consequences are completely predictable. What amazes me these days is that anybody is still willing to serve as LEO. God bless them all.
And no, I’m not blind to the abuses that can and do occur. But they are very rare, the PD’s in question work hard to prevent and correct them, and the nature of the work is super-stressful (imagine a job where all you ever did was deal with people at their very worst? Angry and desperate strangers with all kinds of surprises up their sleeves?). Bottom line, I’d rather work on those rare problem cases with an intact PD than try to reconstruct civil order from scratch after the PD has quit.
J.J.,
The Left is ignoring that the great majority of the local and state police forces and US military are more conservative than liberal. The reality of their jobs enforces that mind set upon them.
If he was found that quickly in Mexico it’s because he was already well-known there. They probably knew him as soon as they saw the picture or sent the known ID’s of his relatives.
In a lot of cases here in Texas, we have felons – hardened criminal felons with violent crimes in their past and plenty of willingness to do it again – that drift back and forth across the border. they pick up work for a while, go home flush with cash, live very well. Rinse (in the Rio Grande) and repeat.
The Daily Mail has a report about a “shoplifter”, ie Criminal, that has hit the same Target 22 times in 3 months. Each time a Judge (term used advisedly) has let him go without bail because he is homeless.
Bernard Goetz is waiting in the wings.
SHIREHOME–
Another NYC Rite-Aid bites the dust due to shoplifting–
https://legalinsurrection.com/2022/01/video-nyc-rite-aid-closing-its-doors-due-to-out-of-control-shoplifting-and-theft/
Before the rise of the bourgeoisie in the eighteenth century, or perhaps, late seventeenth, “Law and order” were the privilege of the gentry, who had, after all, military rank, as well as wealth. The destruction of the bourgeoisie, first advocated by Rousseau but then by his followers and successors, includes destruction of legal protections. Law turns conflicts into business, “negotiation”. This is a very bourgeois concept. The alternative is Lynch law, or mob law enforcement, in which the strong, individually or with some group of followers or companions, will be the only protection anyone’s person or property will have.
The large apartment complexes a mile of so from me are pretty pricey, now, but if the Biden regime succeeds in destroying the economy, which appears to be their intent, apartments, especially with a higher number of vacancies, quickly become slums. If the neighbors on my very multicolor street of single-family homes start taking potshots at robbers, the remnants of law enforcement will arrest those heroic neighbors, as so recently happened in Wisconsin, They will be hauled into court, on generally class-crime charges.
Our failure to understand the broader patterns of history will make us putty in the tyrants’ hands.