To put this post in context, first read the definition below. Absorb it, know it, understand it, love it. Now read the article that follows. The comments in bold are mine.
vigilante (vĭj'ə-lăn'tē) n.
One who takes or advocates the taking of law enforcement into one's own hands.
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JACKSONVILLE, FL -- When a young professional had her purse snatched Thursday afternoon, a half dozen strangers picked up the chase. (Meaning, they took the law into their own hands, put themselves needlessly in danger, to perform a function solely tasked to local law enforcement.)
Attorney and Judicial Candidate Virginia Norton had just left a seminar at the Duval County Courthouse, walking to her car two blocks north on the 200-block of East Adams Street. (Obviously this event would have received no press had the victim been you or me.)
"Out of nowhere a person appears and grabs my arm and starts pulling my purse!" said Norton. (Terrifying under any circumstance.)
It was broad daylight in the middle of downtown and Virginia Norton tried to fight back. (Um, fight back?!?! Noble, sure. Wise, hardly. In this day and age, assume criminals are armed, and not afraid to shoot.)
"He outpowered me being a larger person than myself," she said. That's when she began screaming, and this victim soon realized she wasn't alone. (No, she wasn't alone. There were loads of average citizens around, but apparently no police. This happened right in front of the courthouse, across from the police station, and there's no mention of the police responding?)
Dan Evans was farther down the block. (Vigilante and frontiersman #1)
"I was just getting in my truck and I heard a lady scream. 'Turned around and seen a guy snatching her purse. I busted out like lightning trying to catch him. (But) He was a young man and he beat me!" (This guy’s grammar issues are the least of his worries. Chasing a purse snatcher is the bigger one. Welcome to the wild lawless west.)
"Actually about five people chased him down," said Norton, including one woman in her minivan going after the bandit. (Great, now we’ve got the whole town, including soccer moms – and still no police -- going after . . . “the bandit!?!?!” – Did the First Coast News really use the word “bandit?” This really is the wild west.)
"Just... I was looking out for her. I guess I don't know what I was thinking. I just did what I had to do," said Evans. (Right. Didn’t know what he was thinking. That’s the motto of the southern vigilante – “Act first, get shot by “the bandit” later.)
Police are still looking for the bad guy, and the purse was eventually recovered several blocks away, minus Norton's cash, City I.D. and Driver's License. (Yay, the police are finally in on the chase. Well, okay, apparently the chase is over. The pitchfork and torches citizens of Duval County failed us once again and let the “bad guy” [what the hell is up with these lame descriptions] get away.)
Her left arm was already beginning to swell and bruise, but she is mostly grateful for the pack of Good Samaritans like Dan Evans who literally ran to her aid. (Well, Virginia, no, they’re not Good Samaritans, they’re vigilantes. As a judicial candidate, I hope that your praise for these people is not an endorsement and approval of their improper and foolish actions.)
"But all the wonderful people who came to help me and wherever they are tonight --God Bless you and thank you!" (Yes, god bless the vigilante heroes. This encouragement, by a judicial candidate no less, has just set society generally and Jacksonville specifically back hundreds of years.)
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if the town spent the proper money so we didn't have such a low "per capita" police dept. in comparison to other cities of equal size, maybe we wouldn't need vigilante justice. Until that time, Go Vigilantes, at least someone is out there to help. Personally I'd like to organize a true vigilante group in Jacksonville to go after all these low life sex offenders living on literally every other block. Law enforcement as we know it can't possibly monitor all these creeps. We could. Let's do it, and Soon!
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