I'm not saying he has a problem, just that, looking at his picture, I can understand why the police asked him to assist in their inquiries

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“During an inventory of Haile’s vehicle 27 canisters of Nitrous Oxide were recovered”

Greenwich Police Charge Driver Found with Cans of Nitrous Oxide on King Street

Who knew whippets* were still a thing?

This week Greenwich Police released the arrest report of a Norwalk man who was charged with Illegal Operation of Motor Vehicle Under the Influence of Alcohol and/or Drugs and Possession of Controlled Substance 1st Offense on Dec 19.

Police said on that date around 11:00am they responded to King Street for the report of Rye Brook, NY officers who were with a stopped motor vehicle that had been seen operating erratically.

Police said that during their investigation the driver, Robert Thornton Haile, 45, of Rowayton section of Norwalk, was displaying signs of drug impairment. Within plain view, officers observed nitrous oxide cans within the vehicle. The accused agreed to submit to field sobriety tests, which he was unable to perform to standard.

During a search incident to arrest, officers found a small vial with a white powdery substance on Mr. Haile’s person. Testing of the substance later resulted in a presumptive positive for cocaine.

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According to the CT Judicial Branch website, Haile also has multiple pending charges in Norwalk.

  • He was charged in Norwalk with Violating Restricted Substances Regs on Nov 25, 2025.

  • He was charged in Norwalk on Dec 29, 2025 with Illegal Operation of Motor Vehicle Under the Influence of Alcohol and/or Drugs and Possession of Controlled Substances, Violating Restricted Substances Regs, and Improper Parking/Highway/Traffic Hazard.

  • Back on August 18, 2025 Mr. Haile was arrested in Norwalk and charged with Illegal Reckless Driving, Operating/Parks Unregistered Motor Vehicle, Operating Motor Vehcile with Handheld Device/Txt, Failure to Drive in Proper Lane and Illegal Operation of Motor Vehicle Under the Influence of Alcohol and/or Drugs and Possession of Controlled Substances.

*Not this kind of whippet —you couldn’t fit 27 of them in a normal passenger car:

UPDATE: Poor bastid has a pretty decent house in Rowayton but not, I suspect, for long.

"Some people did something" (Updated)

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L.A. anti-ICE protesters show Connecticut wannabes how it’s done

That’s how Ilhan Omar summed up what happened on 9/11. Hearst-run Greenwich Time is no better.

CT protesters say they were pepper-sprayed at ICE rally for Minnesota mom Renee Good

HARTFORD — Demonstrators say they were pepper-sprayed Thursday night in a confrontation at the Hartford federal building during a vigil for Renee Good, who was shot and killed by an ICE agent in Minnesota Wednesday.

The rally in front of the immigration courthouse was disrupted around 6:30 p.m. when a protester yelled that ICE agents were in the back of the courthouse. Amid the shouts, others yelled for a medic.

Behind the courthouse, there were several people on the ground with others pouring water in their eyes. A substance in the air appeared to smell like pepper spray.

One of the people who said they were pepper-sprayed said they heard shouts that ICE was taking someone into custody in the back of the courthouse. He and many others ran to the rear of the building where they attempted to block an exiting vehicle before they said they were pepper-sprayed.

As a car attempted to leave the garage at the rear of the courthouse, protesters continued to block the vehicle from reaching the roadway. The protesters leaned on the front of the car until the driver finally reached the road and pulled away.

Finally, and eight paragraphs in, long past the reading depth of typical newspaper readers, Hearst/Greenwich Time supplies this detail:

“A van, which had flashing emergency lights, then followed and was also blocked by the protesters. The van made contact with some of the protesters who were leaning on the front of the vehicle, trying to prevent the driver from leaving. When the van eventually reached the road, a few of the protesters were then seen throwing projectiles, one of which shattered the vehicle's back window. The driver of the van briefly reversed before the vehicle lurched forward and drove away.”

And they were pepper sprayed? Oh, the poor dears.

UPDATE: The independent CT Mirror, which is usually better at objective reporting, failed this time — the hysteria spreads.

At least one person was knocked down by a vehicle and several were pepper-sprayed after two vehicles drove out of a federal building’s parking garage and into a crowd during a vigil for Renee Good in Hartford on Thursday evening.

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The vigil in Hartford was taking place on the west side of the Abraham Ribicoff Court House on Main Street after 6 p.m. when the disruption occurred at the back of the court house, along South Prospect Street.

It is unclear who provoked the confrontation [unclear to who? — ED] but witnesses saw two vehicles, a gray sedan and a white van, emerge from the garage. A number of people got in front of the gray sedan, under the impression that a detainee was being taken away, witnesses said. The sedan pushed through the group. One woman was knocked over by the vehicle.

“I had to, like, pick her up to prevent her from getting run over,” Arjun Patel told the CT Mirror. 

One witness said they were pepper-sprayed by a masked person who had been behind the vehicle.

A white van with New Hampshire license plates then drove out of the garage. A protester threw an object at the van, which broke the left-rear window. The van stopped, shifted into reverse and accelerated, scattering some protesters, then drove north on Prospect Street.

At least half a dozen people were pepper-sprayed during the confrontation.

But, credit where due, at least they provide a picture so that readers can determine for themselves whether the pepper-sprayees got what they deserved:

Death watch (Updated)

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The NY Post offers perspective:

Renee Nicole Good was Minneapolis ‘ICE Watch’ ‘warrior’ who trained to resist feds before shooting

MINNEAPOLIS — Renee Nicole Good, the mom who was killed by a federal agent after veering her car toward him, was an anti-ICE “warrior” and was part of a group of activists who worked to “document and resist” the federal immigration crackdown in Minnesota, The Post can reveal.

Good, who moved to the city last year, linked up with the anti-ICE activists through her 6-year-old son’s woke charter school, which boasts that it puts “social justice first” and prioritizes “involving kids in political and social activism,” multiple local sources said.

“She was a warrior. She died doing what was right,” a mother named Leesa, whose child attends the same school, told The Post at a growing vigil where Good was killed Wednesday.

Just as many others did in the lefty enclave, Good sent her son to Southside Family Charter School, a K-5 academy opened in 1972 that from its inception has been “unabashedly dedicated to social justice education,” according to co-founder Susie Oppenheim.

It was through her involvement in the school community that Good became involved in “ICE Watch” — a loose coalition of activists dedicated to disrupting ICE raids in the sanctuary city.

“From my understanding, she was involved in social justice … we are a tight-knit community and a lot of parents are [activists],” former Southside gym teacher Rashad Rich, who resigned from the school last month, told The Post.

He said current event topics like the killing of George Floyd were regular parts of the curriculum, and that last month students took a field trip where they learned about “aboriginal issues” — a reference to the indigenous people of far-away Australia.

Coalitions similar to ICE Watch have cropped up all over the country — with activists using phone apps, whistles and car horns to warn neighborhoods when ICE shows up. 

ICE Watch and adjacent groups can also turn confrontational — with numerous instances of activists ramming agents with their cars in the past.

“[Renee Good] was trained against these ICE agents — what to do, what not to do, it’s a very thorough training,” Leesa said.

“To listen to commands, to know your rights, to whistle when you see an ICE agent,” she added.

The group started out as a very loose confederation of anti-ICE activists, but has recently aligned itself with more radical organizations including Twin Cities Ungovernables.

ICE Watch recently shared an Instagram post of the group’s that encouraged agitators to bring items that would help them barricade the streets around where the shooting took place, even urging people to bring things to burn, such as dried-up Christmas trees.

This call for aggressive and even violent resistance comes as ICE agents have faced an unprecedented spike in car attacks, surging by some 3,200% over the last year, shocking data released by the Department of Homeland Security revealed to The Post.

Federal officials said violent “radical rhetoric from sanctuary politicians” is to blame for vehicular attacks against ICE agents skyrocketing between Jan. 21, 2025, and Jan. 7, 2026 — 66 attacks were recorded during that period compared to just two the year before.

In October, US Border Patrol agents shot an armed woman in Chicago who attempted to run over agents with her car after a group of activists “boxed in” agents with 10 cars.

Last month, a federal judge dropped the charges against the woman, Marimar Martinez, who survived the shooting.

UPDATE: “A poor little lamb who lost her way”

Deranged woman doesn't have the balls to stand by her statement of “principle”

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The fact is, she didn’t defend her actions, she ran away from them:

A Nebraska state senator caught on video removing portraits of America’s Founders from a hallway in the state Capitol is defending her actions.

Democratic State Sen. Machaela Cavanaugh was shown on Capitol security footage taking down portraits from an exhibit celebrating the 250th anniversary of America’s founding. The exhibit was provided by conservative nonprofit PragerU and included images of signers of the Declaration of Independence and prominent women in American history, according to Gov. Jim Pillen, who criticized the lawmaker’s actions.

"Celebrating America during our 250th year should be a moment of unity and patriotism, not divisiveness and destructive partisanship," Pillen wrote in a post on X. "I am disappointed in this shameful and selfish bad example."

Cavanaugh told KETV7 Omaha that she removed the portraits because she believed they violated the rules and regulations of the State Capitol and did not believe they had been approved. She cited Rule 4.07, which limits displays to the first-floor rotunda for a one-week period in most cases and prohibits leafleting within the state Capitol or on its grounds.

Forgive me, Father, for I know not what I did

"I don’t even know what the pictures were. I wasn’t really paying attention as I was taking them down. I just took them down," Cavanaugh said, denying her actions were political.

If you want to take a stand, do so and stand by it; don’t sneak around, and when caught, deny what you’ve done or what you meant. Here’s the lady from a few years ago, showing her ability to do just that — and also exposing her mental frailty, but that’s another matter.

(The fun begins one-minute in and continues for a full two-minutes more)

Dixiecrats move west

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(Former) Protester On ICE

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She FAFO’D

I’m sorry the poor, misguided lady lost her life — she left behind a now-orphaned six-year-old boy and two older children — but the narrative being gushed out by Democrats and communists (if there’s still a difference between the two groups these days), is ridiculous.

A blood-covered woman who identified herself as the wife of Renee Nicole Good hysterically blamed herself for her partner’s killing at the hands of ICE agents, gut-wrenching footage shows.

The woman was filmed distraught and sobbing just steps from Good’s wrecked car in Minneapolis Wednesday morning, as a neighbor who heard the commotion asked her what happened.

“I made her come down here, it’s my fault,” the woman said through sobs. “They just shot my wife.”

Conclusion: this claim by her wife is complete bullshit:

*What is the “Rapid Response Network? Let’s ask Google’s AI:


AI Overview

"Rapid responder" protesters are volunteers who are part of

community-based "rapid response networks" designed to mobilize quickly in response to specific events, most notably U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activities. Their goal is to monitor, document, and provide support to those affected by immigration enforcement actions. 

Key Activities

Rapid response teams generally engage in non-violent activities focused on legal and moral support. Their primary functions include: 

  • Operating Hotlines: Many networks run 24-hour hotlines for community members to report potential ICE activity or request immediate assistance.

  • Legal Observation and Documentation: Trained volunteers are deployed to the scene of enforcement actions to document the events, film interactions (often on the premise that ICE may use unconstitutional tactics), and ensure that individuals' rights are upheld. This documentation can be crucial for potential legal cases.

  • Providing Legal and Moral Support: They connect affected individuals and their families with immigration attorneys and provide emotional support.

  • Community Mobilization and Awareness: They work to raise awareness about immigrant rights and mobilize local support against immigration raids.

  • Deterrence: Their visible presence at a potential site of an operation can act as a deterrent to enforcement agents. 

Network Structure

These groups are often grassroots efforts, sometimes affiliated with larger organizations like the ACLU or Planned Parenthood, which also use the term "rapid response" for their own mobilization of activists. The networks are designed to be localized so that observers can reach an incident quickly after a report is made. 

Context of Protests

The "rapid responder" movement gained prominence in response to increased immigration enforcement activities, particularly during the Trump administration's crackdowns and planned large-scale raids. Protesters argue that federal agents often use excessive force, refuse to identify themselves, and act without due process, which necessitates community oversight.