How did an intoxicated man with concealed weapons gain access to the stage on June 14th during the NO KINGS protest?
Though I haven’t found footage yet of Christopher disrupting the protest, I have gained a better understanding of what happened that day, including how local police handled the situation. Unfortunately all my info comes from community members because the Public Information Officer, Whitney Bennett, refused to respond to my email.
After Christopher got escorted by police off stage he went across the river and scrawled his feelings on the wall by Betty’s Divine. Here’s the shot of what Christopher wrote before it was pained over by a paid worker from the Business Improvement District:
The man from the Business Improvement District, according to one of the two business owners I spoke to for this article, thinks Christopher is a White Supremacist and also had some choice words for law enforcement. It appears that Christopher has made quite a name for himself in this community, and the frustration his antics have inspired was palpable on Saturday.
I was under the impression that law enforcement never made contact with Christopher but, thanks to my conversations with people who work on the Hip Strip, I discovered that was inaccurate. A coffee slinger at Bernice’s Bakery told me she saw LOTS of cops responding to Christopher as she left a movie at the Roxy. The cops were giving everyone eating at the tables outside Gilded quite a show, since Christopher was armed with multiple knives, which were laid out on the sidewalk for the witness to see as she walked by.
With this knowledge I was able to find the charges Christopher is now facing. Here’s the screenshot from the jail roster:
For more context on Christopher, he’s been in Missoula for 4 years, he lives in subsidized housing, and the cops know who he is. How did I find this out? I recorded a six minute conversation with Christopher before the cops showed up in force to arrest him and published my brief interview with him in this post. Here’s the video:
Christopher–already a poor peasant–will now be even poorer with his new charge of criminal mischief and the money our system will attempt to extract from him. Why couldn’t one of our “helping” programs assist Christopher as he clearly is crying for help? Where was the Homeless Outreach Team, or the Crisis Intervention Team, or the Mobile Mental Health Unit? Why do all these programs get money when all we see in this community is the situation with addiction and poverty getting worse and worse?
Yesterday, as I was going to work to wash dishes, I saw dozens of cops standing around. Curious, I stopped and asked a neighbor what was going on. “They’re doing a training,” he said. I then explained my work as a citizen journalist and the corruption I was investigating within local law enforcement, especially the Missoula County Sheriff’s Office. “I don’t feel safer,” the man said about all the cops doing their “training” across the street.
I sent another email to Whitney Bennett and got one of the most worthless responses I’ve ever gotten from a “information” officer. Here’s the worthless email thread:
Did I get specifics? No, I got a reply that Whitney will be out of the office until some time in July. Your taxpayer dollars at work, Missoula!
Speaking of useless information, did you know homeless people deal with the cops more than your average Joe? It’s true, and a recent report confirmed what any thinking person already understands.
Using data from jail booking records, Missoula’s Homeless Management Information System, interviews with service providers and interviews with people who were unhoused, the three present a variety of interesting takeaways.
For one, they found that homelessness in Missoula results in frequent police interactions and engagement in criminalized behaviors, especially for people living unsheltered. (Homeless can mean people have unstable housing or non-permanent housing, but unsheltered means people surviving outdoors.)
Amazing takeaway! What’s next, will our retarded city study where it gets hot during the summer?
A study this summer aims to track high temperatures across the City of Missoula and other nearby towns in search of more data on heat waves and to identify area “hot spots” that officials can mitigate in the future.
Missoula County, the City of Missoula and Climate Smart Missoula are coordinating with a museum and National Weather Service employees to conduct the study with citizen volunteers between mid-July and early August.
If you want to identify where the most idiotic hot air emanates from, these climate-tards should set up a censor inside Council chambers because I know there’s LOTS of heated breath that gets expelled, especially on Mondays when the virtue signalers are CHAMPIONING addicts instead of mocking them like they did on June 14th.
If I wasn’t legally obligated to remain in Missoula I would be seriously considering an exit strategy because, as I detail week after week, this town is only getting dumber.
Thanks for reading!