Police shot long time critic of the state Jefferey Weinhaus at least twice on Tuesday. Weinhaus, a member of Central Missouri Copblock, has been bashing the state for years in his own independent newsletter, on his website Bulletinman, and on youtube.
The local St. Louis paper liked to ridicule him for his contempt of state. But Weinhaus had a loyal following of fans and advertisers and made a living with his words. He seems a divisive figure and didn’t pull punches. He likely made some powerful enemies. According to the last post on his website, his computers were taken from him and the Missouri Highway Patrol was calling his advertisers and telling them to pull their ads.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch says that two troopers with the Missouri Highway Patrol’s drug and crime division officers arranged to meet Weinhaus at a gas station. They apparently planned to serve an arrest warrant for two counts of possession of a controlled substance and one count of tampering with a judicial officer. Another report stresses that Weinhaus came to the meeting with a gun.
Copblock points out that the two highway patrolmen were also armed, and many people who aren’t pussies regularly carry a means of defense such as a firearm regularly. A friend of his also hints that Weinhaus may have been unaware of the warrant, he gave this statement to Copblock; “He named highway patrol cops by name. we have been exposing them all. we have been physically trying to wake the masses and start this party before they do. they start it, its game over from the start. he was armed, that is true. he was very fucking scared, and wasn’t leaving home without one. he was going to meet the troopers. there was no warrant, yet the news says there is, so meh. they called him there to meet and shoot him, and they did.”
Cops on the scene gave the TV news the standard “there was a confrontation, shots were fired” answer. The paper got the cops to say more, according to the STL Post-Dispatch “Sgt. Al Nothum said Weinhaus reached for his handgun, and the officers, in fear for their lives, fired at him, striking him at least twice. It was not known if Weinhaus fired a shot.”
1. Why did Weinhaus agree to meet with these scumbags?
2. If Weinhaus really pulled his heat first how did he not get a shot off? If he did wouldn’t the cops be blabbing about that?
3. Did the cops position themselves to avoid security camera’s? If there is surveillance video from that gas station it could help clear a few things up.
The state will conduct it’s own official investigation which will obviously favor the state. I’ve experienced how these investigations play out. The shooters will drag this out to keep the press off balance and get their story straight. Then they’ll call a press conference a few hours before the TV News deadline to release their findings. Reporters will only have a chance to skim the report for any inconsistencies and just report the basics parroted to them by a PIO or the prosecutor.
Weinhaus is still alive although hospitalized in critical condition. I pray he lives for obvious reasons of humanity but also because it seems like the only way we’ll ever know the truth about what happened.
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Taking a close look at what the St. Louis Post-Dispatch is feeding the masses today makes me thing about how a one-sided portrayal of my own activity would look if, heaven forbid, I should ever meet a similar fate.
For example, where Sheriff Boyer poisons the well.
It’s easy for a gang of local officials to depict just about any pro-gun rights, anti-state contributor to youtube, FB, or blogspot as a dangerous wingnut to a virtually unquestioning media.
Missouri has a well known culture of corruption with it’s police.
Kansas City, Columbia, and St Louis being the worst of the worst.
Not surprising that they shot up some jewish guy that was giving them
problems. I suppose if JPFO was shameless enough, they could use this
sort of thing to their advantage.
Would be the ideal “hate crime” if someone wanted to try and drag the
FBI in to investigate, but I think they’re spent after trying to clean
up the mess with the Seattle PD. SPD put Missouri cops to shame after
numerous racial incidents, tweaked up cops shooting hobos, and union
bosses insulting the mayor and voter base.
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Another interesting thought from a comment on this youtube video.
“Legendary Asshole” gives his theory; “Cops were there to meet him. they pulled their guns out when they saw his holster. they told him to approach, he did, with his hands up, they told him to stop, he did. they told him to put the gun on the ground, it was holstered so he had to remove it, They deliberately lead him into a ‘threatening pose’ to justify the shooting”. Also seems plausible. And scary.
Notice in the video he posted Sunday regarding the raid on his office,
Weihaus said,
It’s disturbing that public information officer, Sgt Al Nothum, has told Pete Eyre that MHP won’t release the names of the officers. He says that’s standard procedure when there’s an ongoing investigation. That’s hard to believe when the investigation could go on for months. What valid justification do they have to withhold the names of the shooters in this case?
Indeed, the shooting could have been justified, but then why withhold information and evidence from the public? They’re not even telling the media the basics that other law enforcement agencies routinely give over to the press in the aftermath of a shooting, such as if there were witnesses or if both officers shot Weinhaus. How far away from him were they? What was the nature of the meeting? Are the media even asking these questions?
Sgt Nothum’s number is 636-300-2800, but I don’t think he’s picking up.
You’re right that the video does show a man going through traumatic times. I did hyperlink the video at the end of the first video. I can’t say what actually happened and it is in the realm of possibility that he pulled a gun on the cops. It doesn’t feel that way to me but that doesn’t really mean anything. The whole thing just seems fishy on the cops part. Stealing his computers and arranging a meeting at a gas station? Why not the courthouse? or the cop shop? There are a lot of unanswered questions.
I hope Weinhaus lives to tell his side of the story, but if his youtube reports are any indicators, it does appear he was not at his best. That doesn’t mean that he didn’t have some real dirt on some public officials, but there are a few things in his latest video to indicate that he was not altogether connected to reality. He had many of he personal items confiscated last month, was losing his home, and his third wife had just filed for divorce. He was in a desperate situation. He might have been suicidal so I wouldn’t be surprised if he did draw down on the officers. I wouldn’t bet the farm either way and I don’t trust the police to be honest in the investigation. Unless there’s video evidence or some truly credible witnesses, I doubt we’re going find out what happened.
Here’s what Jeffrey Weinhaus posted on Saturday
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAdQEOie5W0
I’m making an audio recording of the video now, because it probably WILL get taken off of YouTube. And yeah, he does seem pretty wrung out in the video and does say some wild things.
Though he does talk about having plans for the 17th (occupying the courthouse), so it doesn’t sound like he’d already planned to check out.
MWD