TexasRifleman
Moderator Emeritus
because some JBT
was speeding and driving recklessly at a distance of 40 miles....
One thing here I'm not sure any of you checked......
First off, buy or find a map.
Gasconade County MO is the a** middle of nowhere. 40 miles in that part of the country is right next door so it isn't like the trooper was just coming from that distance for lack of anything else to do. There are not likely many LEOs in that area.
Owensville, MO is the "big" city there. Google map the place for yourself and draw a 40 mile circle around town. There's nothing there.
And just don't forget....
The manhunt began after Stallman held up a convenience store, robbed a woman, and shot a Gasconade Sheriff's Deputy.
Some info on the area:
1 Sheriff, 10 Deputies in the entire county, one of them shot and out of the picture, certainly not all available to come help in the manhunt.
15,500 population for the entire county which itself is 547 square miles.
The population is likely not even that high, a good number of the homes there are summer/vacation type places along the river.
So here we have a VERY small town in need of aid, and the State Troopers provide that fill in at times like this, as they do in most states.
To say that the trooper here was out of line somehow by coming to aid this county from 40 miles away is a statement that shows a great deal of ignorance on the area and how things really work.
Here is a photo of the County Sheriff office.
Yep, big city huh. Can't imagine why this huge, massively funded department might ask for help from the State Troopers now and then.....
But I'm sure the dead troop was just bored and felt like driving fast through the armpit of Missouri 'cause he hadn't been able to use his siren in a while. Yeah, that makes more sense.
Put YOURSELF in this. YOU are 40 miles from home and you get a call from your wife. God forbid something terrible has happened. She is in a bank and it is being robbed, she's being held hostage. You are in a hurry to get home and you die in a car wreck. Are the robbers responsible for YOUR death? I bet YOUR wife would think that they were, and I bet you would want a jury to do exactly what this jury did.