Brickbat: Keeping It Off the Streets

Fresno, California, police sergeant Donnie Dinnell has been charged with robbery, illegal possession of meth, and DUI after police say he stole drugs from a suspect, used them and then crashed his patrol car into a tree in the department's parking lot. Police Chief Paco Balderrama said officers who rushed to the crash at first thought Dinnell had a heart attack. After realizing that his last call involved drugs, they thought he'd had an accidental exposure to fentanyl. Blood testing at the hospital found he had meth and fentanyl in his system, and there was too much of it for an accidental exposure. The suspect in the last case Dinnell had handled told police Dinnell said she could go free if she gave him her drugs, so she did.

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[Fist of Etiquette]

The suspect in the last case Dinnell had handled told police Dinnell said she could go free if she gave him her drugs, so she did.

His true crime was stealing those fees and fines from the department.

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[Malvolio]

Wait, he could have just arrested her and “forgot” to put the meth in evidence, but instead he made a deal?

How high was he?

[Duke of URL]

"I anticipate that Sgt. Dinnell will be hopefully turning himself in and that he will be booked into the Fresno County Jail," said Fresno County District Attorney Lisa Sondergaard Smittcamp. "He'll be treated like any other criminal suspect."

Hoping criminals turn themselves in is how they treat every other suspect?

[Social Justice is neither]

Only criminals with unions or political connections.

[Agammamon]

In California? Yes.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

In Seattle, yes.

[cgr2727]

And the woman who he coerced the drugs from? I’ll bet they charged her with felony possession with intent to distribute, battery of a police officer, and attempted murder.

[Unicorn Abattoir]

Gascon is DA, so at least she won't face jail time for it.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Dinnell was probably conducting research, and putting his life on the line. So brave.

[Don't look at me!]

Defentanyl the police!

[TangoDelta]

Qualified immunity. How could he have ever guessed that what he was doing was illegal?

[Utkonos]

That’s what he gets for making crank calls!

[Rubbish!]

Lisa Sondergaard Smittcamp
Police Chief Paco Balderrama
Who's the mayor? John Jacob Jingleheimer-Schmidt?

Paco Balderrama would be a great pseudonym for the Reason comment page, the assumed name for a Mexican soccer star, or an adult movie with diverse Latino characters.

[Brandybuck]

It's Fresno. If you haven't noticed, it's in a place that used to be a part of Mexico. Paco is an ordinary Mexican name. Coming from the Fresno area, the names Sondergaard and Smittcamp are perfectly in line. Maybe too White for you, but still ordinary.

You are complaining that Fresno is both too White and too Brown. But that perfectly captures the nature of Fresno. It's not the monochrome place you demand it be.

[Joe Brandon]

he is not complaining about anything, you humorless twit

[Granite]

Gotta live in shit town.

[Cal Cetín]

"police say"

The key phrase. Doesn't make the guy innocent - he may well be guilty as ____ - but we're going on the official narrative. Official narratives can be true or...in some case...false.

[Quicktown Brix]

With a name like Donnie Dinnell, you've got to party all the time. He had no choice.