Right-wing media is fomenting a revolution these days, by broadcasting nonstop that Donald Trump is the victim of political persecution. That, along with the fact that Trump has a criminal lawyer now, John Lauro, who sounds completely sincere when he spews the same rubbish, is allowing the two versions of reality which is the new normal in America, to flourish unabated. If disinformation and lies were crops, we could end world hunger, the way they’re proliferating.
But not everybody is intimidated and one of them is Patrick Labat, Sheriff of Fulton County and he intends to follow the law. If Trump is arrested in that county, there will be a mugshot and a booking into the county jail for him. Raw Story:
“It doesn’t matter your status,” Sheriff Patrick Labat said, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “We have a mugshot ready for you.” […]
Willis has said that investigation is complete and she’s “ready to go,” and has suggested that charges in what would be Trump’s fourth criminal case are imminent.
“Unless someone tells me differently, we are following our normal practices,” Labat said.
That includes being booked into the Fulton County facility, photographed and fingerprinted – just like any other detainee, he said.
Barricades have gone up on streets around the courthouse, and judges were told on Monday to make their hearings virtual. Willis also reported that she’d been receiving threats involving the case.
Labat said there’d been dozens.
“The threats have been many,” he said. “They started via email, via text messages, via personal phone calls … When you make a threat, when you become a keyboard bully, it’s our goal to really come and hold you accountable.”
Sheriff Labat sounds like a guy you don’t want to mess with. Good for him. What we’re about to see is a showdown between real law and order, the rule of law itself, and lawlessness at a high level which we have never before seen.
Good for Georgia. This is the way the law should operate, with no special privileges for anyone. And with the propaganda machine cranked up and all the DC rethugs diverting their fat asses off, while ignoring the mountains of evidence against their own, it’s time to really clean house. No word on possible indictments of political co-conspirators, but can you hear the squeals of Teddy Cruz et al were hauled into court to face charges, as well? But the true believers will continue to beliee their lyin’ eyes instead of facts, and so it goes.
I just remembered something from long ago. I’ve been fingerprinted lots of times. Not because I was in trouble but for jobs, and for the military. Way the hell back, over four decades ago in my small hometown I headed to the courthouse (my town was the County Seat) to get fingerprinted and it was the old way before ink pads became the norm. Kinda thick ink was rolled out onto a blotter, they’d stick a finger in it to get ink on it then roll the finger/thumb onto the fingerprint card. A messy process. I should also note I was in a position while in the Corps where I rolled a LOT of people’s prints and it’s not as easy as one might think to get a useable set. Usually because people “try to help” and instead cause a print(s) to be a little less than crisp. And sometimes because they are uncooperative.
Anyway, this particular time the Deputy was nearing retirement which is why he worked the jail instead of being on patrol anymore and he was truly old-school. After he’d done one hand he remarked how nice it was to have someone who let HIM do all the work and make it easy to get a good set of prints. During all this someone in a cell was shouting out crap, which prompted me to ask what if someone was like that guy and wouldn’t cooperate & therefore made it tough to complete the booking process. The guy smiled and said when he had someone like that he’d just return them to their cell with a smile, along with a big wad of tissues so they could wipe off that ink. But he’d also ask them to take off their shoes when they were done. They always did, even if they didn’t know why he wanted their shoes.
He’d bring them back out ten or fifteen minutes later telling them he’d roll their prints now, but they’d be barefoot or with socks only. Then he gave a wicked smile and said “If they want to f**k around then” (and he stomped his foot – hard) as in telling me he’d stomp on that person’s foot. He said after they calmed down from the pain they ALWAYS became very cooperative. Yeah, it sounds mean but I rather believe in lots of places that old school trick still happens.
Which brings me to why I went into all this. I for one think it would be funny as hell if the new method of taking prints, just pressing onto a glass as the scanner does it’s thing was to “suddenly break down” and they’d have to do it the old fashioned way with ink. And Trump, being the petulant a-hole his is would screw around. THIS Sheriff sounds like someone who would go old-school on Trump as I described just for the fun of it. Wouldn’t that be cool?
For some reason Jack Ruby popped into my head while reading this.
he’ll sit in his jail cell and sign a few dozen for auction and get tired of all the losing…
Labat is used to dealing with hardcore gangbangers, one over-armed middle-aged soldier-who-forgot-to-serve from Meal Team Six isn’t going to scare him.