Violent White Folks Who Were Arrested With Care By Police
Violent White Folks Who Were Taken Into Custody With Loving Care By Police
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UPDATED: 8:00 a.m. ET, Sept. 25, 2023
Originally published: June 18, 2019
It’s tough to reconcile the way the application of certain law enforcement tactics appears to fall along racial lines depending on who the suspect is. In America, when a white man goes on a murderous killing spree, he often lives to tell about it. But when a Black man commits a minor traffic offense, he may lose his life at the hands of the folks paid to protect him.
After being read his Miranda rights, police say Lovell sat for a voluntary interview with detectives. “Lovell advised he did not know why he would have shot his gun and he could not recall any part of the shooting incident,” the affidavit states. “Lovell advised [the other driver] cut him off in traffic and he rear-ended her vehicle. He also recalled rear-ending [the other driver’s] vehicle a second time, but did not admit the collisions were intentional.”Lovett was ultimately arrested and released on a $10,000 bond. Notably, Lovett was not killed by trigger-happy police who have shot Black drivers suspected of lesser violations, like having too many air fresheners hanging from the rearview mirror. The contrast of racial dichotomies in the criminal justice system is one that we’ve seen time and time again depending on the color of a suspect’s skin. For perspective’s sake, convicted murderer and former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin killed George Floyd over nonviolent allegations surrounding a counterfeit $20 bill. Since Chauvin murdered Floyd, 20-year-old Daunte Wright was shot and killed after a traffic stop stemming from too many air fresheners hanging from the rearview mirror and 22-year-old Amir Locke was shot and killed seconds after cops roused him from his sleep during the type of botched no-knock raid that killed Breonna Taylor in her own home.

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1. Daniel Penny

A vigilante subway killer who violently choked an unarmed Black man to death in New York City in May 2023 had the very white privilege of being allowed to surrender to law enforcement at his apparent leisure.
Daniel Penny, the 24-year-old Marine shown on video employing a sprawling and deadly chokehold on Jordan Neely for a reported 15 minutes, finally turned himself in nearly two full weeks after the brazen subway killing.
Photos show Penny walking into the NYPD’s 5th precinct as two police officers stand by. He was noticeably not in handcuffs.
The arrest and charges for second-degree manslaughter came after Penny, who is white, was afforded plenty of time to get his affairs in order, including possibly scrubbing any damning information left behind by his digital footprint on the internet.
Conversely, the district attorney’s office that initially gave Penny a generous benefit of the doubt is the same one that swiftly charged actor Jonathan Majors, who is Black, for allegedly assaulting his white girlfriend even though there appears to be much more evidence — including damning video footage — in Neely’s brutal killing.
2. David Depape
While the hammer attack on Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s husband in October 2022 was completely shocking, the subsequent apprehension of the suspect was far from shocking as it fell right in line with how the police typically handle violent white people – by managing to refrain from using the same lethal force they typically employ with Black folks suspected of much, much less than breaking and entering into the home of the highest ranking member of Congress with intentions to *checks notes* break her kneecaps.
Aside from the hammer that David Depape allegedly used to hit the head of Pelosi’s 82-year-old husband, he was arrested with a roll of tape, some rope, another hammer, pairs of gloves and zip ties — tactical gear that’s been readily associated with the Capitol rioters who also targeted Pelosi on Jan. 6, 2021.
The official complaint from the U.S. Department of Justice accuses Depape of assaulting an immediate family member of a federal official and the attempted kidnapping of a federal official.
Amazingly (sarcasm), it appears that the police didn’t feel the same fear they repeatedly confess to having experienced when faced with an unarmed suspect who just so happens to be Black – despite the plethora of weapons Depape was in possession of after breaking into Pelosi’s home and using the hammer to hit her husband’s head so hard he required “life-threatening” emergency brain surgery in what’s being called an attempted assassination.
3. Austin Thompson
Austin Thompson, 15, went on a shooting spree in Raleigh, North Carolina, on Oct. 13, 2022. He is accused of killing at least five people — including one off-duty police officer and his own 16-year-old brother — and injuring at least two others. It took the police hours to find Thompson.
The suspected mass murderer was reportedly taken to the hospital in critical condition, according to the News & Observer, but the nature of his apparent injuries was not immediately clear.
4. Robert Crimo III
Twenty-one-year-old Robert Crimo III shot and killed seven people and wounded two dozen others at a 2022 Fourth of July parade in Highland Park, Illinois. Crimo, who is also known as Bobby, was able to evade police after the shooting and return home to his mother. He was taken into custody hours later after someone spotted his car in a nearby suburb and called the authorities. Crimo initially ran from the police, but ultimately surrendered.
Not one officer fired a single shot despite the police knowing Crimo was fresh off committing mass murder in cold blood and likely armed.
Still, the police showed a discretion rarely exercised when there is a Black suspect.
5. Payton Gendron

In June, 18-year-old Payton Gendron drove four hours to a supermarket in a Black community in Buffalo, New York, where he opened fire with an assault rifle and killed at least 10 people, and injured at least three others. He was safely taken into custody following the carnage. Of those 10 people slain, Gendron is alleged to have killed at least four elderly Black women who were being remembered as pillars in the community. A 30-year-veteran of the Buffalo Police Department who was working as a security guard at Tops Friendly Market on Jefferson Avenue was also killed. Eleven of the 13 total victims were reportedly Black.
While the motivation behind his attack was later revealed to be of a racist, anti-Black nature, responding police officers managed to talk Gendron into surrendering without having to fire a single shot at the suspected white supremacist. It was not immediately clear if cops knew a former police officer had been killed.
Again, police did not resort to any lethal force for someone believed to be a mass murderer — quite the contrast from the routine deadly police response when Black people are suspected of doing far less than initiating a racist massacre.
It has been reported that Gendron was holding a gun to his own neck while apparently threatening to kill himself by suicide when officers successfully negotiated (read: de-escalated) his surrender. He pleaded not guilty hours after the shooting.
6. Bryan Riley
Bryan Riley, high on methamphetamines, killed four people he didn’t know on Sept. 2, 2021, including a baby, a mother and a grandmother before shooting at police and later separately attacking a different officer in Florida. And yet, in spite of those truths, police never felt a threat to their lives enough to do anything more than take Riley safely into custody without resorting to lethal force.
Riley’s survival following his police encounter is the polar opposite of results typically seen if the suspect is Black regardless of the severity of any alleged crime. The 33-year-old former Marine sharpshooter also shot an 11-year-old girl who was left fighting for her life in critical condition.
7. Miami airport violence
A man at Miami International Airport on Aug. 27, 2021, was recorded on video throwing a violent temper tantrum complete with threatening to fistfight people and spewing the N-word.
The unidentified man is identified in a tweet as an “anti-masker” and is shown in the video skulking around an airline’s check-in area, getting in the face of airport employees and ultimately grabbing a security post and threatening to hit someone with it before he violently flung it across the floor. In doing so, he managed to call someone the N-word before kicking “wet floor” signs like an NFL punter.
The video promptly went viral for all the wrong reasons.
Local 10 News in South Florida reported that a witness claimed the suspect “entered the women’s restroom near gate D23 and got into a physical altercation with his girlfriend. The viewer said the man was then denied boarding on the flight due to his aggressive and possibly intoxicated behavior.”
The man was later identified the man as a military veteran who the police were kind enough “to a treatment center for evaluation” instead of greeting his violence with their own — something that typically happens when Black people are suspected of doing far less.
8. Floyd Ray Roseberry
Floyd Ray Roseberry, of North Carolina, parked his pickup truck in front of the Library of Congress and threatened to blow up two city blocks in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 20. Roseberry had propane tanks in his vehicle and he posted a live video on Facebook demanding to speak with President Joe Biden or else he would set off bombs he said he had placed in the truck.
Capitol Police took the threat seriously enough to evacuate local homes during the hours-long standoff before authorities were able to apprehend Roseberry without resorting to using lethal force against a suspect who threatened violence during an hours-long standoff that put the public at risk.
9. Jeffrey Nicholas
Jeffrey Nicholas faces capital murder charges for killing two deputies from the Concho County Sheriff’s Office in Texas. They engaged in a shootout with Nicholas after the 28-year-old fled as the deputies responded to a complaint about a dog, according to local news outlet KTXS.
Nicholas reportedly resisted arrest by fleeing in his car and “barricading” himself in his home in the town of Eden before the deadly shootout broke out. Eden’s mayor ultimately convinced Nicholas to surrender after about 30 minutes.
10. Robert Aaron Long, suspect in Asian massage parlor killing spree in GA
A suspected white supremacist named Robert Aaron Long was arrested for allegedly going on a deadly shooting spree at multiple Asian massage parlors in the metro Atlanta area, leaving at least eight people dead. Six of them were Asian women. There was no motive for the shooting immediately announced, but the killings came as reports of anti-Asian violence were sweeping across the country.
Despite being a suspected mass murderer who led police on a car chase before his arrest, Long still managed to be “taken into custody without incident.”
11. Duke Webb, bowling alley gunman in Rockford, Illinois
Duke Webb killed three people and injured three others in a shooting at a bowling alley on Dec. 26 in Rockford, Illinois. Webb, an active-duty member of the U.S. Army who is 37-year-old, was not subjected to lethal force and was instead able to be taken safely into custody.
Subsequent reports about Webb were expressed in sympathetic terms and absent of any of the kind of demonization in death we see directed toward Black and brown suspects accused of doing far less before law enforcement killed them.
The Army described him as honorable and lamented the shooting that it said was “completely out of character” for Webb.
12. Car Drives Into Group Of Protesters In New York

Kathleen Casillo enjoyed the privilege of being arrested and charged with reckless endangerment for speeding her car through a group of Black Lives Matter protesters and hospitalizing six people. However, despite the severity of her actions that, considering the circumstances, carry heavy political and racial implications, the 52-year-old white woman was still able to be released on her own recognizance without having to pay any bail.
13. Brad Parscale, demoted former Trump campaign manager

According to the Miami Herald, Parscale’s wife told police her husband had recently become violent and even showed them bruises on her body. A Fort Lauderdale police detective wrote in his incident report, “noticed several large sized contusions on both of her arms, her cheek and forehead.” The report also stated that she told the detective “Brad Parscale hits her.”
That allegation coupled with the 10 guns police confiscated from the home would probably result in some kind of violence if the suspect was Black. But Parscale, who stands at an intimidating 6’8, wasn’t even charged with a crime, let alone arrested.
14. Brett Hankison

Brett Hankison, the only person held responsible for Breonna Taylor‘s killing because some of the shots he fired hit a neighboring apartment, was able to surrender to his former colleague for the accusation of wanton endangerment even though he blindly shot his service weapon at least 10 times when he and his partners botched a suspiciously obtained no-knock warrant in Louisville.
15. Thomas Kinworthy accused of killing Black cop, shooting another
Thomas Kinworthy was arrested Aug. 30, one day after he allegedly shot two police officers in St. Louis, killing one. Both officers are Black. According to local news outlet KMOV, police had identified Kinworthy as the suspect before arresting him and knew that he had a lengthy violent criminal record, including offenses for a shooting during a road rage incident. Still, law enforcement managed to capture him alive without firing a single shot, the latter of which seems to be protocol for police when searching for Black suspects accused of murdering civilians, let alone a police officer.
16. Dalton Potter allegedly shot a cop and another man
Dalton Potter was not only wanted for larceny and theft of more than $2,500 in Texas but he also allegedly shot a cop during a traffic stop in Georgia and then shot another man days later. Still, somehow, police were able to arrest him without firing off a single shot or employing a deadly restraint while attempting to detain him. Local news outlet WDEF reported that “No one was injured in the arrest.”
Police apparently arrested him without incident when “authorities stumbled upon the fugitive and took him into custody,” the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.
“Officers basically just walked up on him,” Whitfield County Sheriff Scott Chitwood. “They were coming out to refresh their batteries and literally just jumped him right there on the spot.”
It was literally the polar opposite type of response we’ve seen when there is a Black suspect, as evidenced by Jacob Blake, who was shot in the back at least seven times last month in Wisconsin while the unarmed Black man was trying to get into his own car.
17. White suspect physically attacking officer
This unidentified white man assaulted a police officer in public and was still somehow able to avoid being Tasered, let alone shot to death by the cop. At one point the cop gestures like he’s going to use his Taser, but he ultimately decides against it. The cop never once used his actual gun.
Now, think about what would have happened had the suspect in this video been Black.
18. Kyle Rittenhouse, Kenosha Jacob Blake shooter

This photo shows 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse the night that he shot at least three people and killed two of them during a protest against the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Prior to Rittenhouse’s shooting spree, video footage showed local law enforcement seemingly consulting with the teenager, who is too young to legally own the AR-15 assault rifle he was brandishing while speaking with cops.
That could be why it took more than 12 hours to peacefully arrest the suspect who should have been considered armed and dangerous.
19. White supremacist who beat a woman on video
20. West Hollywood shooter
An unidentified white man suspected of being an active shooter who allegedly injured a police officer was still able to walk out of the West Hollywood, California, home that he had barricaded himself in during an intense standoff with cops. Reports said the man was armed. However, even if he wasn’t, it is still noteworthy he was not killed, which is the typical response to similar situations involving Black suspects.
21. Gregory and Travis McMichaels

This suspected white supremacist father-son duo was arrested and charged with the murder of Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man who was jogging when he was killed after he was racially profiled. The arrests of Gregory and Travis McMichaels came more than two months after they killed him, a cold-blooded act that was recorded on a video that leaked on social media.
22. Anthony J. Trifiletti, shot an unarmed Black man

Anthony J. Trifiletti reportedly told the Saint Paul Police Department that he saw Douglas Lewis “reaching toward his waistband as he advanced,” the supposed reason for shooting the unarmed Black drive four times at close range in an apparent fit of road rage. To make matters worse, Trifiletti tried to imply that Lewis identified himself as a gang member. However, two witnesses said they never heard Lewis say that he was “GD,” a reference to the Gangster Disciples street gang.
Trifiletti, armed and dangerous, was peacefully taken into custody and charged with second-degree murder.
23. Matthew Bernard, Killed Three People
Matthew Bernard, 19, shot and killed two women and a child in Pittsylvania County, Virginia. He also choked a church caretaker, ran after a police officer and was just maced before he was finally arrested.
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25. Mark Boisey
Mark Boisey, 31, of New Cumberland County, Pennsylvania strangled and pistol-whipped a woman, and fired nearly 50 shots at police. Nonetheless, he was still peacefully arrested and seen in handcuffs with a confident smile on his face. Watch the clip above.
26. Lorne Brown

Lorne Brown, 39, of the Margate-Coconut Creek Fire Rescue Department in Florida shot unarmed Simeon Brown, 22, after the 22-year-old drove onto a Cooper City street where a Super Bowl block party was being held. He faces charges of attempted first-degree murder, shooting into a vehicle and aggravated assault with a firearm. He was ordered to remain behind bars, without bond, and has been suspended with pay.
27. Patrick Crusius, El Paso Mall Mass Shooting Suspect
Crusius was suspected of killing at least 15 people during a public shooting in and near the Cielo Vista Mall in El Paso, Texas. Eye-witnesses identified him as the shooter to various news outlets. Still, despite his reported carnage and good chances of being armed and dangerous, responding law enforcement managed to arrest the alleged killer without using the same lethal force police many times employ on unarmed Black people.
28. Aaron Dean

Former Fort Worth Police Officer Aaron Dean shot through Atatiana Jefferson‘s window and killed her on Oct. 12, 2019 while she was playing video games with her nephew. He resigned, reportedly was not cooperating with police and finally arrested late in the day on Oct. 14, 2019.
29. Amber Guyger
It took three days Amber Guyger, who gunned down 26-year-old Botham Jean in his own home on Sept. 6, 2018, to be arrested and charged. She was released on bond in less than an hour.
30. James Holmes
On July 20, Holmes killed 12 and injured 49 others at a movie theater in Colorado. He was seriously armed and dangerous but, according to USA Today, he was calmly arrested. Aurora police officer Jason Oviatt reportedly found “him outside, standing with his hands on top of his car. Oviatt said Holmes was ‘completely compliant’ when told to surrender.” Oviatt said, “He was just standing there not doing anything, not urgent about anything.” Yet, police seized a semiautomatic handgun with a laser sight, a semiautomatic shotgun and an AR-15 military assault rifle equipped with a 100-round magazine drum from the scene.
31. Michael Mattioli
The officer with the Milwaukee Police Department who was accused — but not immediately charged — of assaulting a 25-year-old man who was beaten unconscious, was peacefully arrested at his home, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
32. Dylann Roof

In June of 2015, nine churchgoers were gunned down at the African Methodist Episcopal Church in downtown Charleston, South Carolina. The killer, Dylann Roof, was treated so kindly by police that they reportedly bought him Burger King. (Photo by Grace Beahm-Pool/Getty Images)
33. Matthew Sloan Punched And Spit On Police…
34. Assaulted Police And Even Chased Them…
35. Shot At Police At Trump Tower…
36. Shot At Police At Walmart — And Was Let Go…
37. Man Holds Black Man At Gunpoint And He Is Calmly Arrested…
38. Grady Wayne Wilkes
Grady Wayne Wilkes in Alabama shot and killed a police officer and wounded two others. He was calmly arrested… imagine if he was Black.
Violent White Folks Who Were Taken Into Custody With Loving Care By Police was originally published on newsone.com

