Benitez Family Seeks Instant Access to High Society

Meridian police responded to a 911 call placed by a member of the Benitez family in the evening on May 13th. The father and separated-husband, Ricardo Benitez was in need of medical help and not in his right mind according to the family. Nevertheless, the police showed up and Ricardo had a bread knife. He lunged at the police officers, showing physical, deadly aggression. The police drew their weapons and three bullets ripped through the chest of Ricardo Benitez, killing him at the scene.

The family called the police because he was a danger to himself and others. He lunged at police officers with a potentially deadly weapon, and they shoot him. Now, the family has taken legal action and is filling a lawsuit against the City of Meridian, the Meridian police department, the former and president police chiefs and the State of Idaho. The lawsuit is in the amount of $5 million dollars.

When I heard this on the news last evening, I was completely furious. While I'm sure the family misses their husband and father, this is a shameless attempt to bleed the local and state governments so the family can drive a Cadillac or buy a new house in a $500,000+ subdivision.

Shame on the family. Shame on the snaky lawyer representing these greedy leeches. People need to take some friggin' responsibility for their actions and quit blaming everything on everyone else. If you pee into the wind, you're going to get wet. If you pull a weapon on a cop, there's a good chance you're going to get shot. It's not rocket science and there really aren't any exceptions to the rule. Police have a hard enough time dealing with situations just like this without having to worry that if they pull the trigger to preserve their own lives or the lives of their colleagues that they could end up losing their jobs, costing the city or state millions, or ending up in jail themselves. If the local, state, and federal governments don't stand behind the actions of their officers, that's exactly what will happen. They will simply stop doing their jobs because no one has their backs; they will not protect us because no one will protect them from the fallout.

If you pull a weapon on a cop, you're going to get shot. If you're walking along through the forest and a bear attacks you, you shoot the bear. But what the Benitez family is doing in this case is saying "You shouldn't have shot that bear. He didn't know what he was doing. It's not his fault that he attacked you, even though we thought he was scary enough that we needed to call you."

What would've happened if the police hadn't used their weapons and this psycho killed one of them? Where would the outrage be then? And better yet, how would the Idaho un-Statesman spin the story to make the police department out to be the bad guy? Would the government give the dead cop's family $5 million in damages? Fat chance.

If it were up to me, the friggin' Benitez family wouldn't see one red cent. And further, I'd see to it that the family and the lawyer paid for every cost in fighting this stupid, greedy lawsuit. While I'm at it, why not through the friggin' liberal Idaho Statesman in there too. I'm assuming left-wing spin writing pays pretty well, so let them shoulder some of the load.

Or better yet, make the family, the lawyer and the Statesman pay every one of the police officers for psychological damages from having to use deadly force. You can be sure that the communist ACLU would make a trip to the great state of Idaho to see to it that that one got spun into some sort of racial issue or something.

Cheers, God bless, and thanks for reading my rant!