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RandySF

(59,206 posts)
Mon Sep 28, 2020, 12:17 PM Sep 2020

Police took 10 guns from Trump associate's Florida home after wife showed them bruises

Fort Lauderdale police confiscated 10 guns Sunday from the home of President Donald Trump’s former reelection campaign manager after his wife told them he was suicidal, hits her, and racked and loaded a handgun during an argument, according to newly released police reports.

Brad Parscale, 44, was involuntarily hospitalized under Florida’s Baker Act by officers and taken to Broward Health Medical Center Sunday after barricading himself in the $2.4 million home he shares in Fort Lauderdale’s Seven Isles with his wife, Candice. In reports released Monday, police documented a tense scene in which Parscale — after possibly firing a shot inside his house — refused to leave and was ultimately tackled by SWAT officers outside the home when he emerged shirtless with a beer in his hand.

“I initiated a double leg take down,” wrote Sgt. Matthew Moceri, one of the responding officers, noting that the 6-foot-8-inch Parscale towered over him and ignored his commands to get down.

Police have not charged Parscale with any crimes.

Officers say they were first called to the Parscale home around 3:36 p.m. Sunday by a neighbor who’d encountered Candice Parscale. When they arrived, police said the two women were in a parked car outside the couple’s home. Officers said Parscale’s wife told them the couple had been arguing and her husband had pulled out a handgun and loaded it.




https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article246062390.html#storylink=cpy

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Police took 10 guns from Trump associate's Florida home after wife showed them bruises (Original Post) RandySF Sep 2020 OP
Good thing for him that he isn't black. dhol82 Sep 2020 #1
Or an autistic child. yardwork Sep 2020 #3
Yup dhol82 Sep 2020 #6
Came here to say just that -- if this had been a Black family there would have been a killing lettucebe Sep 2020 #13
Or have a real mental illness.. I_UndergroundPanther Sep 2020 #18
"Shirtless with a beer in his hand." Aristus Sep 2020 #2
What a disgusting person DonaldsRump Sep 2020 #4
He had a loaded gun, possible shots fired, resisted arrest and had potential mental health issues? 33taw Sep 2020 #5
I'm thinking professional courtesy. dhol82 Sep 2020 #7
Actually, I have no issue with taking him in without harm to him. I just wish that a double 33taw Sep 2020 #8
True. dhol82 Sep 2020 #9
It shows that it's possible to apprehend suspects without shooting them. yardwork Sep 2020 #12
Isn't that curious? gratuitous Sep 2020 #10
Amazing, isn't it? 33taw Sep 2020 #11
Exactly. bamagal62 Sep 2020 #14
I wonder which pushed him over the edge? Ferryboat Sep 2020 #15
Don Winslow says there are two more big Parscale stories coming Arazi Sep 2020 #17
That sounds interesting. dhol82 Sep 2020 #20
Yup, nothing wrong with this family except for the damn democrats. tavernier Sep 2020 #16
Sounds about par for the scale Blue Owl Sep 2020 #19

lettucebe

(2,336 posts)
13. Came here to say just that -- if this had been a Black family there would have been a killing
Mon Sep 28, 2020, 01:00 PM
Sep 2020

Pretty much guaranteed shots would have been fired.

I_UndergroundPanther

(12,480 posts)
18. Or have a real mental illness..
Mon Sep 28, 2020, 02:38 PM
Sep 2020

He's a damn narcissist and his problem is who he is,not a true psych disorder. IMHO Cutting off empathy is a choice.

I'm far too cynical to pretend people like parscale would choose empathy.

DonaldsRump

(7,715 posts)
4. What a disgusting person
Mon Sep 28, 2020, 12:27 PM
Sep 2020

He actually looks to me like a survivalist or a White Nationalist.

And Trump's spokesperson Tim Murtaugh was trying to blame Parscale's wife-beating on the Ds???? Right.

So, if I count correctly, these are Trump's four previous campaign managers from 2016 and 2020:

* Corey Lewandowski
* Paul Manafort
* Kellyanne Conway
* Brad Parscale

What a group.

33taw

(2,447 posts)
5. He had a loaded gun, possible shots fired, resisted arrest and had potential mental health issues?
Mon Sep 28, 2020, 12:27 PM
Sep 2020

Yet he was transported to a hospital after being taken down with a “double leg take down” rather than being beaten or shot in the back?

33taw

(2,447 posts)
8. Actually, I have no issue with taking him in without harm to him. I just wish that a double
Mon Sep 28, 2020, 12:42 PM
Sep 2020

standard did not exist for people of color, disabled, or mentally ill.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
10. Isn't that curious?
Mon Sep 28, 2020, 12:46 PM
Sep 2020

I mean, Parscale's a big guy, 6'8" by all accounts, and yet the police officer didn't feel in mortal fear of his own life, and was able to bring him in pretty much intact. No tasing, no shooting, no choke hold. Guy must have been some kind of super cop to pull that off, doncha think?

Ferryboat

(923 posts)
15. I wonder which pushed him over the edge?
Mon Sep 28, 2020, 02:12 PM
Sep 2020

The drop of income from being sidelined? Or a impending story/scandal about to drop?

Arazi

(6,829 posts)
17. Don Winslow says there are two more big Parscale stories coming
Mon Sep 28, 2020, 02:27 PM
Sep 2020

And that he's in the psych ward to evade authorities atm


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tavernier

(12,400 posts)
16. Yup, nothing wrong with this family except for the damn democrats.
Mon Sep 28, 2020, 02:27 PM
Sep 2020

I wonder which ones bought him the liquor and the guns and told him to slap his wife around? Sounds like something Jimmy Carter might have done?

Stupid lunatic trumpees.

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