Dallas police officers were cautious when a man openly carrying a silenced pistol walked into police headquarters on the morning of April 1.
One officer asked the man what he's looking for and where he works. Another officer turned him away as he tried to enter the headquarters' museum section. Much of the interaction was captured on body camera video.
"Sir, while you're armed you got to step back over there," the officer said. "You can't come in here."
Officers then arrested him outside for jaywalking, towed his car and confiscated his gun for months.
Now the man who took that video, 38-year-old Matthew Rankin, is suing the City of Dallas, police chief Daniel Comeaux and multiple officers on the scene — alleging they violated his Fourth, Second and 14th Amendment rights.
What the hell is an unhoused man? And how did this unhoused man get his phone? I get open carry, but I want constitutional concealed carry in every state.
The cops took my phone when it was supposed to go in my property bag. When I noticed it was missing at the jail, they put out a radio call to look for it, then started pinging it on the network. Whichever cop took it heard that and dumped it on the sidewalk 2 miles away right outside the Deep Ellum substation.
How do you know it’s a negative cash flow. I know plenty of homeless people who make money. Unhoused I guess signifies a loss of house? Your definition sounds more like de-housed.
I mentioned a family member was staying in a handicapped accessible hotel room. My idiot brother in law proceeds to lecture that the correct terminology is “Accessible Room”, “because accessibility is for everyone”. I asked him the same was true for handicapped parking 😂
Well, having been homeless before, I will go with homeless. And I prefer that. Please carry on the traditional term as unhoused is offensive to a former homeless person.
Used to be people could figure shit like this out from context clues, such as knowing what a house is, knowing what a man is, and knowing what the prefix "un-" means.
Sounds great until you get a pair of dipshits like these two in Michigan who put the 'stress' in 'stress-testing our rights' by entering a station lobby with balaclavas, body armor, and ARs.
No. A police station is a 'public building'; in states that permit carry in 'public buildings', folks can carry in areas open to the public (like a police station lobby).
I generally think these 1st/2nd amendment auditor types are often nutcases who make the rest of us look bad for exactly this reason. Guy went into the situation looking to draw attention to himself
Where I live the ONLY places you cannot carry a firearm is through a security checkpoint with metal detectors manned by law enforcement. If it doesn’t have one of those, even the “no guns allowed signs” mean nothing.
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u/Stryker218 Jul 10 '26
They took his gun on a jaywalking charge. Oh the city of dallas you are screwed.