You Know What They Say
If it smells like bullshit, looks like bullshit, and tastes like bullshit, well...
Of course, had she stated that she feared for her safety, she could have had a domestic restraining order filed against her cop boyfriend here. That, thanks to our "most effective gun laws in the country", would render him immediately ineligible to possess any type of firearm or ammunition in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts - and we can't go around disarming members of the privileged classes now, can we?
A veteran Boston cop from a proud blue line of police officers, among them a state trooper brother who was murdered on the job, is facing charges he physically abused his live-in girlfriend.
But less than three hours after Sandra Swain, 33, had Detective Albert Charbonnier Jr., 44, arrested in their apartment for assault and battery in the early morning hours July 15, she swore out a shakily scribbled statement on Boston Police Department stationery saying, "I am not in fear for my safety," according to documents at Dorchester District Court.
Of course, had she stated that she feared for her safety, she could have had a domestic restraining order filed against her cop boyfriend here. That, thanks to our "most effective gun laws in the country", would render him immediately ineligible to possess any type of firearm or ammunition in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts - and we can't go around disarming members of the privileged classes now, can we?
