The war against police: we’ve learned more about Oscar Rosales…
…and it’s absolutely no surprise. I previously wrote about Rosales here; he is the suspect in the killing of Houston police officer Charles Galloway. The term “cold-blooded murder” seems to fully apply in this case.
Now more facts about Rosales have been revealed, and as I guessed (and as almost anyone would have guessed), he’s not a US citizen. Rosales is apparently a citizen of Guatemala with possible cartel connections. It is unknown when he came to this country or how he came, but a good bet would be across the Mexican border. However, he’s apparently been here a long time – perhaps around twenty years, working as an auto mechanic.
Rosales has been wanted by the police since 1996:
“He was arrested for aggravated assault with a knife back in 1995,” she said. Rosales pled guilty and was given probation, which Ogg said he promptly jumped.
This sounds like a violent crime – perhaps even an attempted murder, although he pled to a lesser charge – and he was given probation. In Texas? Were the prisons that full back then? We can’t blame Soros-funded prosecutors, back in 1996.
“He absconded [in 1996] and literally evaded detection and capture by law enforcement on that open warrant for 25 years,” [DA Ogg] said.
Rosales has gone by multiple identities prosecutors said, and had been wanted on the aggravated assault charge under a different name.
So they weren’t looking for “Rosales,” they were looking for someone with a different name. They certainly knew what he looked like, though. But how hard were they trying to find him? Maybe not all that hard; after all, he was just a probation jumper – at least in the US (he’s wanted for a later murder in El Salvador, apparently). And he had a different name, or several different names – they’re not sure even now what his real name is.
Yet another question I have: he’s an illegal alien, so why on earth would they just give him probation for a crime like that? Especially way back in 1996, long before Obama and Biden? Was there ever an attempt to deport him (not that it would have kept him out of this country permanently, because he would have just kept coming back illegally if he felt like it)? It was Mexican authorities who apprehended him in Mexico, where he (predictably) fled.
I have a feeling there are an awful lot of Oscar Rosaleses out there. Note, also, that he had at least four helpers after the fact, who have now been charged with assisting him afterward.
I’m also curious whether Rosales was ever stopped by the police before, or whether the unfortunate officer Charles Galloway, whom Rosales murdered, was the first to try to do so.
Rosales himself has been heard from now:
Rosales was brought before a Harris County magistrate Wednesday night for a probable cause hearing. Appearing in court in a yellow jumpsuit, Rosales was recorded by OnScene TV speaking out during proceedings and accusing the seven police officers surrounding him of deadly inclinations.
“I know you don’t speak Spanish and I want to say whatever I think,” Rosales was recorded saying. “All the officers and the security guy, they want to, like, try and kill me right here, they can do it. Whatever I don’t care. Everybody in this room has waited for this chance to hurt me.”
So he’s the big victim. Everyone’s against him. Which they no doubt are, for very good reason, but they’re not going to kill him in a courtroom. He’s committed a capital offense, so he might end up losing his life at the hands of the law; they’re seeking the death penalty. When he says at this point he doesn’t care, he may be telling the truth, or part of the truth. On the other hand, he’s a high risk for flight, even in prison. He probably has connections that could help him do just that, and he could get “lost” again.
“The first thought that came to my mind was, is how many other Rosales’ are out there that are wanted?” Andy Kahan, director of Victims Services for Crime Stoppers, said.
He says we saw a similar story play out in 2019 with the murder of Harris County Deputy Sandeep Dhaliwal. The man accused of shooting him during a traffic stop was also a wanted fugitive for violating his parole.
“We got to a get a grip on this issue or you are going to continue to see people, especially in law enforcement, pay the ultimate price, by losing their life,” said Kahan.
Indeed. In fact, I found this video which features an interview with a woman who had been previously involved with Dhaliwal’s killer, and she had some interesting things to say about that:
And what of DA Ogg? She’s got a very interesting history (this is from 2016):
Billionaire financier George Soros is putting a half-million dollars toward an advertising campaign on behalf of the Democratic nominee for Harris County district attorney.
Soros is a longtime backer of liberal causes who’s trying to boost the efforts of challenger Kim Ogg to unseat Republican incumbent Devon Anderson.
Ogg won, and she’s the current prosecutor. But although Ogg ran as a Soros-type reformer, she’s performed in a less radical way than that, and was subsequently challenged from the left in her re-election bid in 2020:
Jones and Cloud believe Ogg has been far too timid in pursuing criminal justice reform. They question her decision to continue seeking the death penalty in some murder cases. They say her much-hyped reforms, including marijuana and mental health diversion programs, aren’t doing enough to stop low-level arrests. And they criticize her for rallying last-minute, and unsuccessful, opposition to a legal settlement that eliminated cash bail for most low-level offenses—a major step toward ending mass incarceration—despite saying she supported bail reform while campaigning in 2016. The county is now facing another lawsuit challenging its practice of jailing felony defendants, many of them charged with nonviolent drug crimes, for weeks or months if they can’t afford bail. With the county currently in negotiations to settle the lawsuit, Ogg has remained publicly noncommittal other than to say she has “concerns about the public safety impact.”
Time was when a Harris County DA would think twice about adopting even the most modest reforms for fear of being tarred by conservatives as soft on crime. But thanks to changing demographics and an anti-Trump backlash, the local Republican party is on the ropes…
“The sands continue to shift in the politics of the Democratic party,” said University of Houston political scientist Brandon Rottinghaus. “A platform that seemed progressive four years ago now seems outdated and not ambitious enough.”
I wonder whether those sands have shifted again. Ogg certainly seems to be coming down hard on Rosales:
“We will do all we can to ensure the defendant never again breathes free air, never again steps foot in society as a free man and never again harms the people of Harris County,” Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg said in a tweet.
[NOTE: In New York, police line the streets in a huge show of solidarity for murdered Officer Jason Rivera, 22 years old:
The widow of slain NYPD officer Jason Rivera ripped Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg in her husband’s eulogy at his funeral Friday morning, as she described the gut-wrenching moment she found out he’d been killed.
“Although you won’t be here anymore, I want you to live through me. This system continues to fail us. We are not safe anymore, not even the members of the service. I know you were tired of these laws, especially the ones from the new DA. I hope he’s watching you speak through me right now,” Dominique Luzuriaga told mourners at St. Patrick’s Cathedral as they gave her a standing ovation.
They were newlyweds.
Rivera and another young officer, Wilbert Mora, 27 years old, were killed. Here are the circumstances:
The cops responded to the domestic disturbance call at 119 W. 135th St. shortly after 5 p.m. Friday. McNeil, 47, ambushed the two cops before he was shot and wounded by a third officer at the scene, police said.
The rookie cop who shot McNeil, Sumit Sulan, was hailed as a hero but is still struggling with the nightmarish experience, his parents said this week…
Mora and Rivera, who were assigned to the 32nd Precinct stationhouse, had responded to the Harlem apartment after a woman reported that her “distorted” son was threatening her. The caller told the dispatcher that no one in the home was armed. The mother did not know her son had a gun, law-enforcement sources have told The Post.
“He is threatening to do things to her,” according to a police log of the 911 call by Shirley Sourzes. “He is in the house now.”
Isn’t that the sort of thing that police “reformers” think should be handled by social workers? Any volunteers for that job?
More:
The two officers questioned the woman and her other son but were ambushed by McNeil when they began walking toward a rear bedroom. He burst through the door and opened fire with an illegally modified Glock handgun.
McNeil has also died of his wounds. Some of his criminal history:
According to police, McNeil had been arrested five times before the deadly encounter and was on probation after being convicted on a felony drug charge in New York City in 2003.
McNeil was arrested four times outside the city on various charges, including assault on an officer and weapon possession.
Sources tell CBS2 McNeil also has a history of posting anti-police and anti-government messages on social media.
There are a lot of McNeils out there, as well.]
Near to where my daughter lives, in suburban northern Virginia, there was recently a violent rape. Police sketches of the two suspects, obviously Hispanic, possibly father and son, have been circulated, but no one has been arrested. I wonder if, as in this case, people know who these guys are and have assisted them in leaving or in hiding their identities.
Officer Rivera’s widow took the first step for NYC to cure the disease called Alvin Bragg.
Domestic violence calls are some of the most dangerous. Unleash the social workers !
Jones and Cloud might want to ponder how the arrest rates would go, if their supporters would behave themselves?
Police are being hunted and assassinated by these animals. Time to play hardball. Kill a cop – it’s an automatic death sentence. With only one appeal.
In those jurisdictions that refuse to support their police, they will soon be begging for someone to restore law and order. In some cases, it may take vigilante justice to get things under control. No civilized nation can ignore the animals that prey on the law abiding and assassinate police. Gun and ammo sales continue to set records.
People are fleeing King County. (Seattle and suburbs.) Snohomish County is experiencing an incredible real estate boom from the out-migration. Average time on the market for houses for sale – 5 days. They migrants better be willing to keep our sheriff in office. (He’s a law and order, no-nonsense type.) Otherwise, the chaos will migrate here too.
I have told my Wife that if she is stopped by Police that she should roll down the window a bit and put her hands out side. I would do the same.
We both have “camera” carry so may be in data base. It would show the Officer that he is safe and then we can be safe.
The other problem is “want to be” Officers.
What a messed up world we live in.
“In Texas? Were the prisons that full back then? We can’t blame Soros-funded prosecutors, back in 1996.” neo
RINO George W. Bush was Texas’ Governor in 1996 and closet leftist Bill Clinton was in his first term as President. Houston is a blue city. Like minded prosecutors to Soros’ picks have long been in office. The meme of ‘alternative’ methods of crime prevention have simply reached their zenith.
Eventually, when enough people have been murdered and lives destroyed, the pendulum will swing back the other way but the responsible individuals are unlikely to be held accountable.
SHIREHOME,
What is “‘camera’ carry?” Thanks.
Anti Trump feelings? I say that is a little like wishful thinking.
@ J J > “the migrants better be willing to keep our sheriff in office. (He’s a law and order, no-nonsense type.) Otherwise, the chaos will migrate here too.”
You may want to put up some billboards; Texas has that covered.
https://i0.wp.com/www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2021/01/Screen-Shot-2021-01-04-at-8.56.48-AM.png?w=984&ssl=1
Devon Anderson/Kim Ogg was a cat fight between two women. Devon was no better than Kim. Devons husband was a corrupt judge in Harris Co til he died of cancer and she was elected on a sympathy vote. The WHOLE of Harris county leadership (county judge, city council, elected judges, DA, police chief and sheriff) are CORRUPT and self serving. John B Holmes was the last tough on crime DA in Harris CO. 1990’s
God Bless & Protect our men & women police officers.
Thank You for serving us again, Neo!!
“What is “‘camera’ carry?”
Well, from a brief DDG search, it’s a way of carrying a camera at the hip, and could be mistaken for a BFG. So be careful around LEOs. If that’s not it, I’d like to know as well.
I passed on a fanny pack variation popular with the paintball crowd*, because it could be mistaken for a holster.
*Not a paintballer myself, but this particular bit of ‘civilian tactical’ gear looked quite useful.
Ummm…yes we CAN blame Soros funded prosecutors from that far back. The fact that the general public and 9/11 neocons are only just now realizing what’s going on in no way negates the long timeline of this globalist fascist operation. They’ve been at this for centuries and communications developments accelerated the plans in the late 20th. Soros is almost 90 and he’s been on this path for at least 40 years. Back in the 90s when people ranted about globalist infiltration and takeover on Internet discussion boards they were laughed at as whacked out fringe elements. But it’s not so funny now
I see no solution to the crime problem in blue cities in the near future. It has taken 20 years to undo what Giuliani accomplished in NYC. Chicago has been corrupt since the 1920s but the black gangs took over about 20 years ago and there is small likelihood of undoing the damage they have caused. Los Angeles and San Francisco are two spots in a one party left run state. The murder of a wealthy woman in an interracial couple might shake a few worriers but nothing will happen.
Harris County is a Blue hellhole in a Red state. Nothing will change unless the underlying structure changes.
Those in charge of law and order should be answerable to the voters in a much more direct way than our large cities now provide.
In Texas there originally were elected constables that provided a direct connection to the voters and their communities. Over time in big cities police forces controlled by the mayor came to dominate and all connection to the people being served vanished. Constables still exist in Texas but mainly as an artifact that the legislature has not gotten rid of. They mostly serve court summons in Texas now.
Rural counties have elected sheriffs and the quality of law enforcement is high.
IMO the solution for most policing problems in big cities could be solved by implementing systems of locally elected persons responsible for law enforcement in fairly small areas. County and city level major case squads would back them up.
Get city hall out of the way and let local people who have to be elected and who know their areas take control.
IMO the solution for most policing problems in big cities could be solved by implementing systems of locally elected persons responsible for law enforcement in fairly small areas. County and city level major case squads would back them up.
Yeah, having tiny sheriff’s departments run by politicians is the acme of law enforcement.
Amy:
There were no Soros-funded prosecutors in 1996.
Soros started making these contributions to the campaigns of US prosecutor candidates some time in the last decade, apparently. See this.
I saw a police union official on Ingraham’s show, I think. He says the police are advocating for Congress to pass a law making it a federal offense to assault a police officer. That way, the police don’t have to rely on Soros DAs to prosecute those cases. Might work., if we can elect a GOP Seanet and House this year.
You can bet there were Soros-like funded prosecutors in 1996. It’s not like Soros is sui generis…. although it may be pretty for some to think so.
“I saw a police union official on Ingraham’s show, I think. He says the police are advocating for Congress to pass a law making it a federal offense to assault a police officer. That way, the police don’t have to rely on Soros DAs to prosecute those cases. Might work., if we can elect a GOP Seanet and House this year.”
Just like the finger licking goodness embodied by the newish National Security Law in HK. Assault a copper and you’re obviously a seditious element and therefore come under the ambit of the NSL.
Might work 🙂
Who to believe Neo or Zero?
It ain’t rocket surgery.
Good thing the average Han doesn’t live in Hong Kong:
https://reason.com/2022/01/28/hong-kongs-politicians-and-cops-use-pandemic-justifications-to-do-beijings-bidding/
Zaphod; J.J.:
“Soros-like” would not be the same as “Soros-funded.” But even if we consider the “Soros-like” contributions that you (Zaphod) suggest, they would be a matter of public record, just as Soros’ contributions are (which aren’t directly from him to the campaign, but to various groups he manages to fund). Until Soros began the practice, however, there never was much money contributed by anyone to DA contests in the US. It was a big change – big big change – when he started doing it. And it was noticeable and noticed. It apparently began some time around 2015.
You can imagine some sort of clandestine funding that was never reflected in the campaigns through the usual signs such as increased advertising, if you’d like to imagine that, and if you think it’s “pretty to think so” (one of my favorite lines from a book, by the way).
Also by the way, on a slightly different topic – unlike in Hong Kong, I don’t think that a blanket federal law against killing police would work here unless it was tied into something racial or discriminatory. Otherwise, not under federal jurisdiction and therefore most likely unconstitutional without an amendment. Such a law could only be passed for killing the Capitol Police, which are federal police, for example.
The Z Man has a very insightful piece on everything in current society and Covid https://www.takimag.com/article/the-covid-matrix/
… the intensely online left. This is a closed world that operates by its own internal logic, independent of reality. These are people who interact with other members of the subculture on platforms like Twitter. Their outside sources are blogs and news sites that cater to that subculture. … These people are immersed in a fantasy world of their own creation.
He notes this among Canadians who live in a Covid world https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/josh-freed-florida-feels-like-another-planet-compared-with-quebec
…a writer in Quebec. He went on holiday in Florida and was nearly broken by the conflict between realities. He is a Covidian living in a place that has embraced Covid as their preferred reality. In that reality, people are falling over dead in the streets if they dare remove their mask. In his reality, everyone is frightened and dutifully following the instructions of their leaders to fight this terrible plague.
He finds himself in Florida where no one cares about Covid. Rather than wearing masks and dousing themselves in sanitizer, people are partying and rubbing elbows at busy bars and clubs. His wearing three masks in public is as ridiculous as wearing an ornamental codpiece. His entire post is a long struggle to square the hyperreality of his life in Quebec with the physical reality he experienced in Florida.
You will note that his experience with actual reality did not lead him to question the false reality of his life in Quebec. In fact, you sense that he found a way to use his experience outside the simulation to prove that the simulation is real.
IMO we have the best solution humans have ever implemented, Constitutional Restraint, keep government very limited. Prevent force and fraud and as Jefferson said “leave them otherwise free”. Maybe the Covid experience will bring a return to that ideal.
Dick Illyes,
I’ve been back and forth to Florida a lot during the pandemic and to me it was calming and relieving to be in the lack of restrictions. I had the exact opposite reaction as the Canadian you reference. However, even a few months ago I still saw some shops in Florida adhering to strict, near lockdown, COVID protocols. Which is especially odd because they are literally flanked by businesses not doing those things while experiencing the same results.
I can understand a Canadian having a warped view of strict protocol adherence and its effectiveness, but a Floridian shop owner who has had over a year of evidence that there is no discernible difference in outcomes based on adherence? It’s odd to see.
Some defenders of illegal immigration claim immigrants have lower crime rates than natural-born citizens.
It might even be true. But you wouldn’t want to look under the hood to find out why.
Amazingly—and for your entertainment—True Jen speaks about the “alternate universe” of those concerned by rising crime…as she giggles about off-the-charts crime rates in the US (which of course only a desperate and out-of-touch FOX news network would, heh, report about).
“Psaki Giggles: Soft on Crime? What Does That Mean?”—
https://victorygirlsblog.com/psaki-giggles-soft-on-crime-what-does-that-mean/
Here’s the video clip—if you can stomach it…(so I’ll just add the obligatory nausea warning, IOW have bottle of ginger-ale handy….):
https://twitter.com/i/status/1487952376564756485
Piercing question of the day: How long will it take for the “Biden” giggle to evolve into a cackle?….
The police should always be accompanied by a social worker in dangerous situations.
And that social worker should be the first through the door.