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Seattle bartender was slashed in the face, judge released the suspect without bail

From Hot Air, by Reporter John Sexton, 18 February 2022, 3:20 PM ET.

Here is the lede plus five:

The incident happened back at the end of December at Joe’s Bar and Grill in Seattle.  Bartender Felicite Ogilvy was given the job of checking people’s vaccination cards which was mandated at the time:

“I asked him, ‘do you have your vaccination card?’ and he said ‘I’ve had the vaccine but I don’t have the card’ and I was like OK but you need to have proof of it,” Ogilvy said…

“He ended up basically saying ‘You’re picking on me,'” Ogilvy said.  “I’m not going to deal with it.’  That’s when he started getting hostile.”

A coworker came over to help defuse the escalating situation – and even a few customers – but the man wouldn’t go and fought back with a long stick.  Witnesses said a sharp piece of metal was attached to the bottom end.

“He swung the stick as hard as he could at my face, so not only did it puncture me, he also slit me,” Ogilvy said.

The wound was so deep Ogilvy needed 31 stitches to close it up.

The InstaPundit comments:

KEEP THIS UP AND YOU’LL GET VIGILANTES AND DEATH SQUADS EVENTUALLY:

I don't think he is wrong about how this might evolve.  I have heard people say that the purpose of the police is to protect the perps from the victims.

The Defund the Police crowd appears not to have thought this out.  At least not long term.  If neighborhoods feel they are being abused by criminals and the criminals have not banded together in some sort of Mafia manner, then the victimes themselves may band together.  A Mafia organization is a solutiion to conflict and banditry, as long as it does not arouse the anger of the normal citizenry.  That anger can be controlled by the Mafia, as long as the Mafia doesn't go too far.  When it goes too far, then Citizens seek alternative solutions.

Succeess in obtaining a steady flow of justice requires courage.  Otherwise the cartels win.  Because a mafia or cartels is not real capitalism, but rather closer to socialism or communism, the average person does not prosper, nor does the area as a whole.

Economic growth, and increasing human prosperity requires freedom and justice.  Perhaps the failure to maintain justice and order is another version of the flawed Piven and Cloward Strategy for ending poverty.

My recommendation is support your local sherrif.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff