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If You Shoot the Sheriff, You Must Kill Him

Tacitus X Wrote: Oct 07, 2012 9:27 AM

Why should we listen to a "domestic violence advocate"? Shouldn't we be on the side of those OPPOSED to domestic violence? It seems Lopez considers those persecuting her husband as the aggressors here who are doing the harm to her family. I would guess she knows about 100,000 times more about her own situation than all the self-styled "domestic violence advocates" out there.

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If You Shoot the Sheriff, You Must Kill Him

San Francisco City Hall's vast machinery went into overdrive after police questioned Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi about a Dec. 31 argument during which he bruised wife Eliana Lopez's right arm. A neighbor videotaped the bruise and later contacted the police. District Attorney George Gascon filed three misdemeanor charges against Mirkarimi for domestic violence battery of his wife, child endangerment (because the couple's son was present) and dissuading a witness (presumably Lopez). San Francisco truly is the city that knows how -- to overreact.

In March, Mirkarimi pleaded guilty to one misdemeanor charge of false imprisonment -- a plea bargain that...

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