Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor's Bodyguards Shoot Would-Be Carjacker Outside Her Home

Posted • July 10, 2024: There are several reasonable angles to this story but let’s start with the story itself: Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor’s bodyguards shoot would-be carjacker outside her home. Two deputy US Marshals shot a would-be carjacker who pulled a gun on him while they were guarding Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s home in Washington, DC, authorities said. The marshals were parked outside Sotomayor’s home in northwest DC on July 5 when Kentrell Flowers, 18, allegedly walked up to one of their cars around 1:15 a.m. and pointed a gun one of the federal agents, the US Marshals Service told The Post. To break in for a moment, North West is considered a relatively safe part of D.C. But you are notably safer the moment you exit the entire district and go to either to Maryland or Virginia. One of the federal agents drew his weapon and fired several shots at the suspect, with the second officer also firing his weapon at Flowers.

Flowers, of Southeast DC, was arrested and treated at a local hospital for non-life-threatening injuries, officials said. We are legitimately shocked that his injuries were not at least life-threatening. These are supposed to be professionals in the Marshals, and typically, they should be aiming to leave the person with life-threatening injuries. That's what law enforcement typically trains a person to do to incapacitate an armed threat. Still, the justice was not in any danger because she wasn’t home at the time and we are glad to hear that. -- Also, here’s a nice little nugget: The teenage suspect was charged with armed carjacking, carrying a pistol without a license, and possession of a large capacity magazine. Wait a minute … are they telling us that despite laws that said that this teenager couldn’t carry a gun without a license, and he couldn’t have a large capacity magazine at all, that somehow this young man still had a gun with a large capacity magazine? That is so weird! How is that possible?

It’s almost as if these gun control laws only serve to disarm people who obey the law or something. It’s also further evidence that D.C.’s out-of-control crime risks creating a serious political problem. The president, Congress and the Supreme Court are expected to work in this city that fundamentally isn’t safe. Congress can and should take control away from local officials and do what is necessary to reduce crime in our capital back to manageable levels. But David Harsanyi makes another valid point: “"In sum, the Framers did not write the Second Amendment in order to protect a private right of armed self defense." -- Sotomayor, with the dissent in McDonald” (…)

• More at: Twitchy - Someone (Allegedly) Tried to Carjack the U.S. Marshals Guarding Justice Sotomayor’s Home
https://twitchy.com/aaronwalker/2024/07/10/justice-sotomayors-security-foils-an-attempted-carjacking-n2398182
New York Post: Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor’s bodyguards shoot would-be carjacker outside her home
https://nypost.com/2024/07/09/us-news/supreme-court-justice-sotomayors-bodyguard-shoots-would-be-carjacker-outside-her-home/