Yesterday Missoula’s Sheriff, Police Chief, and Fire Chief stood before the City Club audience and told them, the way a parent would tell a toddler, “Shhhhhh, everything is going to be ok. BIG BAD ICE won’t hurt you, children, not in Missoula.”
Before the ICE questions started, Sheriff Petersen described his department by saying “WE ARE ELITE IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST”. Really, Jeremiah? Is that why one of your deputies told a family member of a brutal homicide that no charges will be brought because the key witness is deaf and the jury won’t like that?
While that might seem outlandish, this scenario is what Jule Banville reported on two years ago regarding the lack of criminal charges in the beating death of 88 year old, Delphine Farmer, which was the only murder case the Sheriff’s Office had that year (2022).
Delphine’s death happened after Debbie, who’s looked after her sister for years, briefly left the house. She did that every Sunday to play bingo at a church, says Bridges.
A hand-written note is among items taken from the house as evidence, according to a search warrant. Bridges, who says she’s talked repeatedly to investigators, says it was in Diane’s handwriting and found in her basement bedroom, and that it was about Monty; the lead investigator did not confirm or deny its contents. Bridges says her aunt Diane has also consistently acted out what happened to Delphine, blaming Monty. “She does not have the capacity to lie,” says Bridges.
In a call with Missoula County Detective Kelan Larson, Bridges says he told her he hasn’t brought charges because it’d be too difficult for a jury to understand and believe Diane. He has not responded to a request to confirm this.
To further erode the claim of being ELITE, Sheriff Petersen didn’t think it was worth his time to chat with KPAX about the City Club event. Why not, Jeremiah? Are you some kind of pussy scared of the BIG BAD MEDIA?
Although Sheriff Jeremiah Petersen declined an on-camera interview or to provide a statement, he told City Club Missoula that the sheriff’s office is seeing an increase in calls. He expects to release more information on his department later this week.
Both the Sheriff and Police Chief seemed quite eager to assure Missoula’s City Club audience that ICE isn’t on their radar, and that no city cops or Sheriff deputies are even authorized to participate in the enforcement of immigration laws, which apparently Democrats think should no longer apply. Because Trump.
Well, what about Mineral County, where our Missoula Sheriff sometimes sends over the dumbasses who can’t pass cop tests without cheating?
For those who don’t know how quickly outgoing Mineral County Sheriff, Mike Toth, threw Missoula’s Sheriff under the bus a few years ago when the writ of mandamus ploy blew up in their stupid faces, here’s the relevant part of my reporting at the time:
Sheriff Toth’s strategy on the stand was to overtly and, by insinuation, blame anyone else for what he’s ultimately responsible for. This strategy was on full display as Toth did damage control regarding the hiring of Deputy David Kunzelman.
For Missoula County voters, the first scapegoat should really be of interest, since Sheriff ELECT (Toth’s words), Jeremiah Petersen, was the one who allegedly referred Kunzelman to Toth as a “great guy” who should be hired as a Mineral County Sheriff Deputy, despite a little incident of stealing a law enforcement exam. As Captain of the Missoula County Detention Facility, Petersen’s referral carried a lot of weight with Toth.
Toth then threw shade at now Judge Marks, who at the time worked at the Missoula County Attorney’s Office, for “OK’ing” Kunzelman’s opportunity for rehire at the Sheriff’s Office in Missoula, implying this gave Toth some kind of additional cover for having to take accountability for his Sheriff Deputies in Mineral County.
Why am I mentioning Mineral County in relation to Missoula’s terror over ICE enforcements? Because there’s an unconfirmed claim that an elderly man was snatched by ICE a few days ago, then returned. This claim comes from Sam Redfern, who was allegedly raided by the FBI around the same time. Hmmm.
Now for the stupid questions from the dumb audience members this narrative-control event caters to.
The first question I recorded so you don’t have to wade through an hour of tedious bullshit is a question about bad GUYS rolling through town with an emphasis on “guys”, since the person asking the question believes women “seldom” commit those types of crimes. Also, she’s a member of Exchange Club, and they will be giving out figurative handjobs for law enforcement on Wednesday, so hopefully someone tells retired Detective, Guy Baker.
The second question I recorded is the first about ICE, and Chief Colyer gets the show started by cracking a joke. Smart. Then he and Jeremiah make their respective cases that they don’t DO nuthin and they don’t KNOW nuthin ’bout no ICE.
The third question I recorded is a follow up to the first ICE question, and it’s funny to see Jeremiah and Mike communicate with their eyes about how they should address the subtext of this man’s stupid question, which I will try to reproduce as accurately as possible.
“Should ICE come to Missoula,” he asks, “are you in a position where you would be supporting it, to the efforts posed by them, or how would you help protect us in a situation where, if things escalated, we as a citizenry would find ourselves perhaps at risk?”
In a room that is predominantly white and vastly privileged, this might be my favorite question, and I actually commend Chief Colyer for how he uses kid-gloves to handle these twats who want to be protected from the inevitable blowback that comes from using aggressive tactics against Federal agents.
If you don’t want things in MISSOULA to escalate, dude, then maybe remind your LOCAL elected officials that they were elected to help govern THIS town, not Minneapolis.
The fourth and final question I recorded features a woman that assumes if she says MILITARY INTELLIGENCE TOOLS enough times, Chief Colyer will know what the hell she’s talking about. No, lady, the term MILITARY INTELLIGENCE TOOLS is vague and unhelpful when saying the same thing your peers said before you, which is essentially this: how do you intend to keep telling us the essential fairytales we need to hear and believe in order to sleep at night?
If the privileged idiots who comprise the City Club audience want to think outside the Missoula bubble, here’s a map of the Rocky Mountain High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas they can look at and think about, since it represents geographical spots where their local tax dollars mingle with Federal money to catch those BAD GUYS trafficking drugs and humans.
At some point the narrative-controllers will pivot away from the strategic theatrics around “immigration” to focus on other facets of society’s decline, brought about by a layer of untouchable, transnational elite who definitely prefer that you focus on the salacious nature of who they fuck instead of pulling back the lens to see where the money goes.
Although, if we’re talking sharing torture videos, like that Sultan with an odd Missoula connection is alleged to have done, then it might be something more than just libido we’re talking about here.
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