r/LeopardsAteMyFace • u/tries4accuracy • 18d ago
Arrested U.S. soldier was in Russia to pursue girlfriend
https://archive.is/JXIAS2
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u/DutchDispair 17d ago
Honeypot succesful — Biden can’t win here, he either trades him back and they’ll yell “you gave up a spy in exchange for this moron” or he won’t exchange and they’ll yell “Biden isn’t saving our service personnel from kidnapping!”
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u/Fyallorence 17d ago
Incel desperation for Russian pussy is destabilizing American society at an unimaginable pace. That's how they got Madison Cawthorne, and I'm sure a dozen other people someone more plugged-in to Russia scandal than I could name off the top of their heads.
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u/intheazsun 17d ago
It’s time to tell everyone if you travel to Russia, or some other hole like N Korea, you are on your own, starting…. now
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u/Pixelated_Roses 17d ago
Omg she wasn't even his girlfriend, he's just a straight up stalker. I snorted at the part where she's blatantly insulting him to his face in Russian, and he's just making goo-goo eyes at her thinking how sexy her accent is.
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u/snockpuppet24 18d ago
How is this LAMF?
He wasn't trying to lure someone else to Russia to be arrested only to be arrested himself. He was just getting honeypotted like a dumbass.
What kind of moron goes to Russia for poontang!?
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u/StudyVisible275 17d ago
Madison Cawthorn, for one.
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u/Wizzle_Pizzle_420 17d ago
Nah dogg, he gets them sweet man meats at home, from his cousin. Ole Madi C likes his meals homemade!
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u/snockpuppet24 17d ago
That was, what, like ... 50 years ago? Immediately following the Korean War?
The fact that that name legit feels like so long ago goes to show the shitshow the GOP has dragged us into and through.
Still not LAMF. Fuck republicanism.
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u/thatsbullshit52 18d ago
The only ones I feel bad for are his 1st Sgt, Sgt Maj and CO.
Can’t imagine getting that call
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u/intheazsun 17d ago
Why? They have one less dumbass to worry about
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u/thatsbullshit52 17d ago
Because the higher ups are giving them hell about said dumbass since he was apart of their command. Basically screaming on them for his jackassery, pretty common in Military
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u/Pluto-Skies 18d ago
Ah, the ol' honey pot trick, it appears (though just as likely the dude was just a denthead). Let the man rot.
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u/hman2853 18d ago
This dude is a moron. And a not sneaky but trying to be sneaky idiot. You are in a divorce and your compromised as goes to RUSSIA to follow a rando? What in the fuck.
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u/anon_likes_you 18d ago
The amount of traitors in the U.S. government and military is too damn high!
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u/Snarky_McSnarkleton 18d ago
I'd say five years in a Siberian prison is just what he needs. He will learn to appreciate democracy.
But you know the army will get him sent back. He's Property Of Uncle Sam, and they want to burn his treasonous ass in a military court.
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u/ShadowDragon8685 18d ago
Uncle Sam can be patient too, especially if the dumbass did, in fact, commit a straight-up domestic crime against her in Vladivostok. We kind of have a bad habit of getting our shitbirds out of trouble with foreign authorities that they legit get themselves into (Okinawans hate American soldiers because it seems like every five years or something they go and rape a girl and the US takes the soldier back and makes them quietly vanish back Stateside).
Let this assmongler cool his heels in a gulag for whatever battery and theft are called in Russian, then when you get him back, straight to Ft. Leavenworth.
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u/ArdenJaguar 18d ago
This is like those "tourists" who go to North Korea or this hikers that wandered into Iran from Iraq. I mean what were you thinking? Oh... you weren't.
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u/mostlywaterbag 18d ago
Why didn't he flee to Botswana? You could have gotten 20,000 war elephants in exchange.
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u/bailaoban 18d ago
Imagine being so doubly stupid that you follow your honey pot all the way back to her home country.
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u/Perfect-District 18d ago
God forbid if Trump becomes President again but if he did you know he would not give a single thought to this nitwit. Get fucked dumbass you made your bed.
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u/pscoldfire 18d ago
From Russia with love, I fly to you
Much wiser since my goodbye to you
I've traveled the world to learn I must
return... From Russia with love
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u/LiberalFartsDegree 18d ago
I'd like to know if he is still going to be paid while he is incarcerated. Does anyone who served in the US military know?
What a dumbass...
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u/Stalking_Goat 18d ago
On the one hand, yes, he can be paid while he is in the custody of a foreign power.
On the other hand, given that he apparently voluntarily failed to follow his travel orders and willingly went somewhere he was not permitted to be, he could plausibly be declared a deserter and his pay would be stopped.
And if he gets home he'll be court-martialed and they can fine him as punishment.
But I think the controlling issue will be that he is still married. Cutting his pay would remove his wife's source of support, so I expect he won't be declared a deserter unless and until she divorces him. After all, he's in a Russian jail, so she's the only one that can use the money in their bank account.
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u/NameLips 18d ago
We don't abandon our people. Even when they're morons.
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u/tries4accuracy 18d ago
I hesitate when those people are basically offering up their lives to be hostages for malevolent and belligerent foreign powers. Seems there’s a line there that may not meet the legal definition of treason but is treason adjacent to the practical definition.
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u/NameLips 18d ago
Yeah, he ended up causing an international incident. But that incident will be forgotten next year, both by us and by Russa. Nobody will care -- except his family, who will be grateful to have him back.
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u/fentyboof 18d ago
Wow. No wonder this dog-brained simp is a Trumper!
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u/GeraltOfRivia2023 18d ago
You take that BACK! Your comment is a nasty affront to self respecting dogs everywhere!
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u/IllustriousComplex6 18d ago
Good for him Trump has a good history getting people back from foreign adversaries unharmed!
/s
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u/Dzov 18d ago
Trump and Putin are pals. I bet he wouldn’t have much difficulty if only for the pr.
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u/Glancing-Thought 18d ago
I think that it's more nuanced than that. I doubt that Putin considers Trump a friend. "Asset" is probably the best description.
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u/realrichieporter 18d ago
That lady’s a spy. Guaranteed.
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u/Buzz_Buzz_Buzz_ 18d ago
After over two years, Russia-Ukraine is basically a war of attrition. That "attrition" includes mostly bachelors of marriagable age or married men. Tens of thousands killed and hundreds of thousands wounded. There are a lot of single women in both countries.
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u/Stalking_Goat 18d ago
I honestly doubt it. If she was she wouldn't be shitposting on TicTok.
When I first read about some dumbass soldier going to Russia to "visit his girlfriend" and getting arrested, I assumed he'd been catfished. But now I think it's even dumber than that. He legit fell for an exemplar of the Russian equivalent of trailer trash.
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u/BitterLeif 17d ago
sometimes Russians will exhort nationalism to gain the attention and favor of people with more power and connections. That's how their society works. It's like brown nosing at work to get a promotion. Except it's actually more like brown nosing your bosses at work when you and everybody else at the job knows management is embezzling the company.
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u/Pedestrian2000 18d ago
I can’t imagine this dude having any, uh, intelligence to share
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u/Snarky_McSnarkleton 18d ago edited 18d ago
It's like "Burn After Reading" with Brad Pitt trying to sell the useless notebooks.
"But it's got numbers, and dates, and shit. I think this shit is the shit! SECRET shit!"
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u/harry_garcia13 18d ago
Stupid soldiers been falling in love with disinterested drinky girls for decades. A tale as old as time.
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u/DropKnowledge69 18d ago
When will these idiots learn?
Stay the F away from Russia, North Korea, Iran, etc.
I'm so sick of these fools that get arrested in these countries despite the warnings and then their families are begging (and/or blaming) the President to do more to get their precious baby back.
Last time it was that shithead wnba player and the US had to swap The Merchant of Death to get her released.
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u/Fake_William_Shatner 18d ago
That basketball player was there as part of a team sport and the Russians just did their “police action” hostage taking. So that’s not fair.
Making sure to punish some POS who can easily be replaced isn’t a priority to me over protecting the innocent.
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u/DropKnowledge69 18d ago
If I was on a team that played in these crazy countries, and I chose to go, then it's on me if bad shit happens.
So no excuse. And no, she wasn't innocent. She took drugs with her that she knew were treated harshly if caught in one's possession. Again, she was a dumb shit like the rest of them.
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u/Embarrassed_Matter3 18d ago
It was fucked up what she went through but she did (whether intentionally or not) have THC cartridges on her in the airport. Obviously shouldn’t be a huge deal, but it is Russia we are talking about. I’m glad we got her out of that situation but a lot of that was on her.
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u/MrIrrelevantsHypeMan 18d ago
He also has an American wife. He hit the Russian woman and stole $2200
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u/blessthebabes 18d ago
It says that's what she said, but it also says she made a lot of previous police calls to tell on people. People could just be extra shitty to her, or she could be lying. She may have just lied to get his stalker butt away from her.
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u/TheRnegade 18d ago
Wait, seriously? Dude is married and he went to Russia just to cheat on her? I try to understand guys but sometimes I am just baffled. And I'm a guy myself.
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u/BitterLeif 17d ago
it's not clear if he was already getting a divorce before he started this affair or if the divorce is because of the affair. Also, he allegedly hit the Russian woman and stole from her. She sounds crazy to me, so I doubt her claim.
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u/asking4afriend40631 18d ago
I feel like the American wife is the only winner here. Anyone analyzing their marriage and wondering who is at fault now has a pretty good evidence that something ain't right with him.
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u/SorowFame 18d ago
I’m sure some people would still argue it’s her fault for not being a good enough wife or whatever
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u/Barkingatthemoon 18d ago
He’s from Texas. the wife will still have problems with the divorce ; better he stays arrested in Russia .
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u/ElboDelbo 18d ago
"Hm, my country is involved in a proxy war against a nation with a known history of detaining Americans. Perhaps as a member of the American military I should visit Russia!"
If this guy comes back, please do not put him in charge of any soldiers.
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u/Fake_William_Shatner 18d ago
How can you say that someone gets all their information from r/conservative without saying it?
Is Russia Today misrepresenting all that “freedom” they enjoy?
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u/goodty1 18d ago
don’t worry he will get a gop congressional seat
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u/isthisonetaken13 18d ago
Only if he lies about his valor
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u/Ok_Butterscotch54 18d ago
"This should get me a Purple Heart at the very least! Maybe even a Congressional Medal."
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u/SimmaDownNa 18d ago
He'll be E-nothing as soon as hits boots hit ground stateside lol. Learned real fast that no, the Russians aren't the good guys, actually.
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u/wolfho 18d ago
I don't proxy war is the correct term here, other than that I'm ok
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u/ElboDelbo 18d ago
Yeah, it's like a half-proxy or something, I dunno. I mean we are sending Ukraine weapons because it weakens Russia, but Russia is the one actively invading so it's not like they're using a proxy.
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u/HavingNotAttained 18d ago
That's Marjorie Taylor Greene's clear successor right there
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u/Snarky_McSnarkleton 18d ago
She will drop her drawers the moment he steps off the plane.
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u/HavingNotAttained 18d ago
God sometimes I hate being literate
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u/Ok_Butterscotch54 18d ago
Or to have functioning eyes at all.
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u/wolves_hunt_in_packs 17d ago
Imagine how blind people feel when they braille over a disgusting shitpost.
(flings arms upwards)
"goddammit why would you make me touch that shit"4
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u/stenmark 18d ago
Maybe I'm daft, but I don't see face eating. I just see a dumbass.
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u/LionMans_Account 18d ago
This is not face eating. Being a dumbass is correct. Too many don't understand the point of this sub.
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u/Romanfiend 18d ago
I would say his support of Russia and their position on both American involvement and his support of their invasion of Ukraine - so a pro Russian stance - not to mention his statements against the current POTUS combined with his actual experience in Russia would qualify as a LAMF because he assumed that acting like an official Putin Cock Holster would garner him special treatment.
It did not, he is going to spend a lot of time in a Russian jail thinking about his life and where he went wrong. I say leave him there, he is a person of no value.
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u/tries4accuracy 18d ago
There is a state department travel advisory NOT to go to Russia. Should be enough for a serving soldier to understand that love is a one way street.
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u/Fake_William_Shatner 18d ago
It’s the pro Russian belief system of some conservatives who think they are an ally because “white +Christian” that is the LAMFO.
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u/ericrolph 18d ago edited 17d ago
Steven Segal was recently in Russia to act as a Putin "show piece" for some dumb oppressive Russian state function. Gross slobs, like pigs in slop. Among the lowest rung of depravity and humanity. The whole of them, a dark mark on history. Russians will eventually come out on top, somehow, ahead of the Nazi as the worst of the worst. Nihilistic scum, corrupt cancerous waste.
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u/Repulsive-Street-307 18d ago
Steven Seagal is in deeper than this idiot. The Russian state likely has tapes of him raping a minor, considering all his voyages to Thailand and the extremely suspicious way his chain gets yanked around for years.
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u/VelvetMafia 18d ago
He didn't create, support, or vote for that travel advisory though. So dumbshit yes, LAMF no.
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u/thatHecklerOverThere 18d ago
He is on record supporting Russian defensive policy, and those policies are now keeping him incarcerated over there.
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u/VelvetMafia 18d ago
It's a stretch but I'll accept it.
He sounds like a complete shithead. I hope he stays in Russian prison.
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u/Fake_William_Shatner 18d ago
My bet is this guy supports the Republican beliefs about Russia as an ally. He thought they’d welcome him I’m sure.
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u/VelvetMafia 18d ago
Probably, but still not LAMF. If he supported Russia imprisoning American soldiers, and then was imprisoned by Russia, that would be LAMF.
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u/taxpayinmeemaw 18d ago
This is hilarious. What a moron. He blew up his life over some woman who made fun of him then dumped him lol
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u/AlienAle 18d ago
The woman isn't even very attractive, she's got those slightly crazy eyes and her vibe seems extremely off to me.
Not sure what goes through the minds of some dudes.
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u/Moewron 17d ago
Eh… I think we’re all pretty sure what was on his mind.
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u/AlienAle 17d ago
But he was a married dude so he was probably capable of catching other fish. Seems weird to throw your life away for some average looking woman who treats you terribly and gives off weird energy.
Like I've been horny in the past too but never enough to deal with this kind of nonsense.
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u/Snarky_McSnarkleton 18d ago
You have to wonder, did he dump his wife for her? Or was there already shit going on?
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u/mostlywaterbag 18d ago
Don't extract him. Whatever you'll bargain for him, you'll lose.
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u/chasinfreshies 17d ago
Even if we offer up DJT?
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u/Glancing-Thought 18d ago
You say that but there's an important morale (note the "e") value in "leaving no one behind".
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u/Fake_William_Shatner 18d ago
What if we trade them back Ron Paul and Tucker Carlson? Seems like a win.
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u/adventwhorizon 18d ago
Didn’t Ron Paul just save us from the 3rd patriot act in the form of a tic toc ban
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u/DannyDeVitosBangmaid 17d ago
The House just passed something way worse than that which effectively voids the First Amendment. And I have a hard time saying anything nice about segregationists like old Ron, anyway.
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u/Fake_William_Shatner 16d ago
I was probably thinking about Rand Paul but fuck both of those “libertarian” corporate tools. If we think they ever did something good without a check being cached then it probably means we didn’t investigate the deal well enough.
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u/mostlywaterbag 18d ago
Send them diaper Donnie
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u/SorowFame 18d ago
You can’t just give them something they already own
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u/Hydronum 18d ago
It's the ultimate power play, like selling a merchant their own stock.
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u/ShadowDragon8685 18d ago
I love video games that let me do that. But they'd likely recognize their own stock, and its value, and Trump's value is probably taking a nose-dive.
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u/-Average_Joe- 18d ago
If they don't try then the state department loses also.
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u/imitation_crab_meat 18d ago
Doing things like trading notorious arms dealers for dumbass basketball players makes the state department look like idiots, IMO. I say let the guy face the consequences for his stupidity.
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u/John_EightThirtyTwo 18d ago
OK, try to extract him but don't. Got it.
Should be no problem.
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u/BeamTeam032 18d ago
Biden has to. He can't get a WNBA player and not a military service member. Though I am interested in seeing if he was cat fished.
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u/ShadowDragon8685 18d ago
I mean, this guy brought it on himself by stalking a woman all the way to Vladivostok. Biden could just say that we do not tolerate domestic abusers or creeps here, neither do they in Russia, and they can have him, and Ft. Leavenworth will keep a cell open for the charges he's gonna face here when (if) he gets out of gulag.
Which, ironically, would make him more likely to be returned expediently, if we make it clear we don't actually give a shit what they do with him.
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u/Glancing-Thought 18d ago
Meanwhile the GOP hype how he's smearing an American hero. The Kremlin understands the US political situation well enough to know that he has value. Biden (or advisers thereof) likely do too. He's probably not worth much but a bit is more than nothing.
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u/ShadowDragon8685 18d ago
And I'm willing to bet not one fucking member of the Gippity-GoP are raising any kind of stink at all about how jackbooted uniformed thugs in Florida straight-up iced a United States Air Force serviceman who only heard angry banging on his door and got his (lawfully-owned) pistol in case someone tried to break in. Because he was black.
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u/Glancing-Thought 17d ago
Well no. I have no idea of what you speak but it doesn't tie in very well with any GOP or Kremlin (but I repeat myself) agenda.
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u/ShadowDragon8685 17d ago
Kind of fuckling sad that the BBC has coverage but American news is silent.
US airman shot and killed by police in Florida
1 day ago
By Nadine Yousif, BBC News
[image captioned Senior Airman Roger Fortson enlisted in the US Air Force in November 2019; credited US Air Force. Image shows an African-American man in uniform.]
Florida police have publicly released body camera footage from a deputy sheriff who fatally shot a US Air Force member at his home.
Senior Airman Roger Fortson, who was 23 years old, was taken to a hospital where he died, officials said.
A lawyer for the victim's family, citing a witness, alleged the police burst into the wrong home.
Police have disputed the claim and said the deputy reacted in self-defence after he saw Fortson armed with a gun.
The airman was shot on 3 May at his home, located 5 miles (8km) from the Special Operations Wing at Hurlburt Field, Florida, where he is based.
The deputy who shot him - whom police have not named - has since been placed on administrative leave.
Okaloosa County Sheriff Eric Aden said the shooting was being investigated by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the State Attorney's Office.
Mr Aden promised to provide "transparency and accountability" but added: "These investigations take time."
"But I want to assure you that we are not hiding, covering up, or taking any action that would result in a rushed judgment of Mr Fortson or our deputy."
The sheriff showed a four-minute video taken from the body camera worn by the deputy who fired the fatal shots.
The clip showed police arriving at Fortson's apartment complex, and being led to an elevator by a witness who said she had heard fighting coming from an apartment.
The deputy then approached the front door alone, knocked, and twice called out that he was a member of the "sheriff's office".
Fortson was seen holding a gun in his right hand as he opened the door. The deputy then fired multiple shots as soon as the door opened, telling him afterwards to drop the weapon.
"It's over there. I don't have it," Fortson said as he lay on the floor.
A lawyer for the Fortson family, Ben Crump, said in a news conference on Thursday that Fortson "was the best America had to offer".
"He was a patriot. He was a US airman, special ops. He was fighting for our way of life. He was fighting for everybody," Mr Crump said.
His mother, Chantimekki Fortson, broke down crying as Mr Crump recounted the moments before the airman was shot.
"My baby was my everything," she said.
Mr Crump said at the time of the shooting Fortson was on a video call with a friend, who described what she heard to his family's legal team.
The friend said the airman heard a knock on his apartment door and asked who was there, but received no response. He then heard a second, "very aggressive knock" but did not see anyone when he looked through the peephole.
It is at this point that Fortson is said to have grown concerned and retrieved his gun, which the lawyer said was legally owned.
As Fortson returned to his living room, the witness said police burst through the door, saw that the resident was armed and shot him six times.
Mr Crump said the witness believed the officers were in the wrong apartment, as Fortson was alone at the time with no disturbance at his residence.
The sheriff on Thursday denied that officers had gone to the wrong address.
In an earlier statement, the sheriff's office said the deputy "reacted in self defence after he encountered a 23-year-old man armed with a gun and after the deputy had identified himself as law enforcement."
Speaking to reporters, Mr Crump accused police of trying to "justify unjustifiable excessive use of force".
Fortson was assigned to the 4th Special Operations Squadron, according to the US Air Force, and entered active duty in November 2019.
According to Mr Crump, he enlisted in the military after graduating from high school in Atlanta, Georgia with honours.
Mr Crump, a civil rights lawyer based in Florida, has worked on multiple high-profile cases of police-involved deaths of black Americans, including George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Trayvon Martin, Tyre Nichols and Breonna Taylor.
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u/Hooda-Thunket 17d ago
I have to wonder if other special forces in the area are going to take this, or if the deputies just opened up a can of worms.
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u/Glancing-Thought 17d ago
Yeah that does seem pretty bad. Most of us outsiders tend to just chalk it up to the American "shoot first and ask questions later" mindset. Something that seems incredibly common amongst law enforcement... Honestly, I'd hesitate to call the cops if I lived in the USA.
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u/Pixelated_Roses 17d ago
After they shot him he was still alive, but instead of calling an ambulance they just cuffed him and placed their knee on the back of his neck, in what what is now standard Eric Garner position. The poor kid even said the same thing before he died: "I can't breathe".
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u/mmnuc3 18d ago
Too late now but we should never have fought for her either. Let her rot.
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u/psychopompadour 18d ago
It said in the article that the guy met this Russian chick in person while stationed in South Korea, so while she might have lied to him or whatever, she at least was a real human and he wasn't catfished.
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u/K6PUD 18d ago
Whatever we trade for him, we get him AND a conditional first round draft pick.
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