Georgia Restores Gun Rights To Ex-Cop Who Tried To Sexually Assault A Woman With His Gun

[SecularMotion]

A Georgia appeals courts decision upholding the sexual assault conviction of a former cop named Dennis Krauss is difficult to read. According to the record in Krauss’ trial, the former officer was dispatched to the home of a woman who called 911 alleging that her husband had hit her. Rather than arresting the husband, however, Krauss asked the victim to ride with him in his police car. Once she was in his car, “Krauss told the victim that he could take her to jail if he wanted to” or, if she did not want to be arrested, she could have sex with him instead. Krauss’ words, according to the court opinion, were “[w]e can go to the motel or you can go to jail.”

At the motel, Krauss drew his service weapon and told the woman that he wanted to anally penetrate her with the gun. When she refused, and began to cry, “Krauss then pushed her back, pulled off her pants, and had sex with her.” And then he drove her home to the same husband that led her to call the police in the first place.

Krauss was convicted of sexual assault against a person in custody, and this one instance of sexual assault is far from the only allegation against him. According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, “[h]is record was filled with allegations of misconduct: that he beat a prisoner so severely the man’s brain bled; that he threatened to fabricate charges against a suspect so he could sleep with the man’s wife; that he pressured at least 10 women for sex to avoid arrest.” The former cop, for his part, is unrepentant. When asked about his sexual assault conviction, he claims that “[t]here wasn’t any crime,” and that “I was dealt a bad hand.”

And yet, in July of 2013, the Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles restored Krauss’ right to carry a firearm. According to a Journal-Constitution tally, he is one of 358 violent felons who regained these rights over a six year period. That includes 32 violent felons who killed someone, and 44 who committed sex crimes. One man regained his right to own a gun in 2012 after serving a 10 year sentence for child molestation and aggravated child molestation. Some offenders regained their gun rights after being convicted of crimes such as armed robbery, burglary or aggravated assault.

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/08/25/3475106/georgia-restores-gun-rights-to-ex-cop-who-tried-to-sexually-assault-a-woman-with-his-gun/

[Orrex]

1. The important thing is that his gun is okay.

Won't someone think of the guns?!?

[Fred Sanders]

3. It is like an episode of Lassie, the lonely gun tearfully reunited with its owner. Touching.

[KurtNYC]

5. "What is it Lassie? ...Timmy's gun fell down a well!?"

[BainsBane]

14. On they do

They worry about them being "rehomed." I shit you not.

[Fred Sanders]

2. Insanity given equal airtime with sanity is the root of the problem.

[Rose Siding]

4. Madness

Spirit crushing madness.

[dickthegrouch]

6. Call it what it is: Stupidity, not madness

Judges and other law enforcement who break as many laws as the crooks they're supposed to be regulating are not our friends. What administrative avenues exist for the censure and firing of the entire Georgia State Board of Pardons and Paroles?

[FiveGoodMen]

15. I'd call it evil.

I'd sooner fight a war against these pieces of devil-shit than anyone else in the world.

[enough]

7. One more reason never to go to, or even pass through, Georgia.

I say that with sorrow, having lived there and loved it.

[LeftyMom]

8. How the everloving fuck is that guy even out of prison?

[sarisataka]

9. Bigger issue

He is out of prision

[freshwest]

10. Neither stupidity or madness. It's a deliberate process to destroy civil society or destabilization.

The philosophy of the entities who allowed and nurtured this state of affairs don't believe in civil society regulated by government. If one looks at what they do, it all leads to tribalism and destruction of faith in the institutions created by citizens to govern and protect people from such abuses.

People see the failures and either fight back, retreat, or leave the sphere infested by such. But those who support this are well-funded; their hearts are in the hands of those who oppose human rights.

There is no danger for them to see civil society devolve as they have made associations such as those in league with the Kochs and will profit as things disintegrate.

This man and those like him who were given a pass to contiue their gross criminal acts, and don't fit into a keyboard diagnosis of their mental state be it sexist, racist, etc.

They behaved like wild animals and were given a treat afteward, setting an example through their total disregard for the rights of victims. It leads people to surrender and/or join the various perpetrators, religious, economic or social to survive.

[mythology]

11. He was dealt a bad hand?

As opposed to his victims?

What a fucking asshat.

[Ikonoklast]

12. Where are the apologists?

Better hope no one in their family runs across this guy.

[BainsBane]

13. And they wonder why people use the term ammosexual.