GUN RIGHTS COME BEFORE LEFTIST “FEELINGS”: University apologizes for cops citing a student for carrying an empty holster

Thankfully, the University of South Alabama didn’t take long to figure out that free speech rights trump the feelings of those social justice warriors on the Left who like to call the cops on gun rights advocates doing nothing wrong.

They like to “SWAT” gun people in the hopes that the police will in the least inconvenience an otherwise law-abiding citizen.  Of course, if the situation goes sideways and people are killed – like the instance at the Walmart store in Ohio in 2014 – that’s okay with them as well.  From Bob Owens at Bearing Arms:

Gutless Prosecuter Refuses to Charge Man Who “SWATted” Two People To Death

…Ritchie had to know he was exaggerating when he claimed that Crawford was loading the rifle, as the magazine on the BB gun was fixed, and molded into the frame.

Ritchie had to know he was exaggerating—I’d go so far as to opine that he was intentionally lying—when he claimed Crawford pointed the BB gun at people. It simply did not happen in the store’s security camera footage, which was synched to Ritchie’s 911 call.

Officers thought they were responding to a real threat instead of a guy holding a product that the store sold who was benignly talking on the phone thanks to Ritchie’s deceptive call. As a result, Beavercreek police officer Sean Williams shot Crawford to death while Crawford was on the phone. Security camera footage suggests that Crawford never even knew anyone was there until Williams’ slammed two bullets through his body. A woman named Angela Williams was in the store and panicked when she heard the officer’s gunfire and attempted to flee the store with her children.

Williams had a heart attack and died, another death we can attribute to Ritchie’s deceptive call.

Vile, rabid gun control groups like the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence actively advocate the practice of SWATting gun owners. By refusing to prosecute Ritchie, Special Prosecutor Mark Piepmeier is effectively “green-lighting” SWATting in Ohio.

Nobody was hurt in the incident about a week ago at the University of S. Alabama, but the student in question was cited

(Campus Reform) – The University of South Alabama offered an official apology Thursday to a student who was given a citation for “threatening the safety of campus” with an empty holster.

“On April 13, 2016, the University of South Alabama Police Department received an anonymous report that a person in the Student Center may have been carrying an ‘unconcealed gun,’” the university statement begins, adding that “USAPD officers arrived at the location and, following an on-site interview with a student wearing an empty gun holster, issued a campus judicial citation to the student.”

I guess the lawyers must have communicated with them about the number of zeros on the settlement check if this silliness continued on the part of school administration.

At least they did the right thing, regardless of their reasons.

DJ Parten, the student who received the citation, was also contacted the the chief of campus police, who invited him to come to the station for a personal apology from the officers involved in the incident.

“I really appreciated the chief’s apology,” Parten told Campus Reform, saying, “I hope that this opens a discussion on how we can better improve relations between the police and the student body.”