It Just Takes Time

If the garbage disposal under your kitchen sink was puking water all over the floor you would probably call a plumber to get the situation rectified. If the plumber told you it would probably be six months or more before anything could be done you would also probably be upset and call another plumber.

In the case of government, you can get as upset as you wish and nothing will speed up the process.

 

On July 15, 2017 an Australian national, Justine Ruszczyk Damond, made a 911 call to the Minneapolis, MN police department to report what she felt might have been a sexual assault in the alley behind her home in an upper-middle class neighborhood in southwest Minneapolis. A few minutes later she lay dead in the alley, shot to death by one of the two cops that responded to the call. As in all incidents involving police gun fire, investigation of the case was turned over to the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, the BCA.

Immediately after the fatal shooting, a BCA agent filed an electronic request for a warrant to search the home of the deceased, which was granted electronically, also immediately. Apparently requests for search warrants are granted with a new technology that replaces the former "rubber stamp".

The warrant:
 

 

Interestingly enough, the media has given no indication that the homes of either of the two officers involved in the shooting have been the subject of a search warrant and, if so, what may have been found. Nor has there been any information forwarded regarding any tests that should have made for drugs or alcohol on the victim or the two policemen.

Now Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman, son of a former Minnesota governor and without doubt an aspirant for higher office himself, says that it will be at least until the end of the year and perhaps later before he decides if any charges will be made in the case.

It's not the first time that Freeman has been involved in an incident where police activity has seemed  to cross the line into crime itself.

Be that as it may, it seems absurd that the gathering of facts about this incident and others like it and coming to a conclusion about further action should require such an extended period of time.

On Aug 2, 2017 an explosion apparently caused by a natural gas leak destroyed a large part of Minnehaha Academy in Minneapolis, causing the death of two school employees and the injury of nine others. The preliminary report from the investigating agency, the National Transportation Safety Board, could easily have been assembled by anyone with a newspaper. According to news sources, "A final report may not be released for several months and could take more than a year." One must wonder what new information or interpretation would be discovered in the eleventh month.

The feds have a long history of proceeding at a glacial pace in similar matters.

A cynic might conclude that the time element involved in these affairs could be an effort to allow the outrage to dissipate before a judgement is delivered.