Vigilantes who target child abusers often ‘commit offences themselves’

"Across the Pond" (as the British like to say), there is a very similar problem with vigilantes. According to this brief article, many vigilantes commit crimes during their vigilante actions, and vigilante groups attract domestic abusers and others with a lack of volitionakl control. Much of that behavior can be seen in the people profiled here over the years.  

https://www.theweek.co.uk/104198/why-police-are-worried-about-increase-in-paedophile-hunters

UK police have voiced major concerns about the activities of socalled paedophile hunters who attempt to entrap potential child sex offenders without the help of authorities.

According to the BBC, such vigiliante groups often contain members who set up fake profiles on social media, purportedly belonging to teenagers, and wait for adults to contact them.

The broadcaster says that once contact has been made they will then “confront the suspect, usually filming the operation, before handing their evidence to the police”.

This week Dan Vajzovic, of the National Police Chiefs' Council, warned against this form of activism. He claimed hunters “often divert police resources away from other offenders and often commit offences themselves during their operations”, including “extortion, blackmail and exhibiting violence against those that they are targeting”.

According to ITV News, some police “fear that the groups’ actions could interfere with surveillance operations, while the evidence they gather may not be of a high enough standard to use for prosecution” anyway.

Former police chief Jim Gamble told the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse in early 2018 that “masquerading as a child online should become a criminal offence to deter vigilante stings”.  He also told The Telegraph this summer that such groups “attract people with domestic abuse records and coercive control. They give people the opportunity to reinvent themselves as a good person and create this status, to build a Facebook or a Twitter following.” 

The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) said that while it had “sympathy” for those who target suspected abusers, protecting children was its “ultimate priority”.

“If someone has concerns about child safety the best way they can help is to alert the police,” the society warned.

But Paddy Tipping, the police and crime commissioner for Nottinghamshire, said in April last year that police in his area should try to form “better relationships” with vigilante groups.  A recent freedom of information request filed by the BBC has shown that last year prosecutors used evidence by so-called paedophile hunters in more than 250 cases against suspected abusers.

Would be vigilante tries to play superhero, but unlike Superman, the bullets don't bounce off him

 People have applauded the actions of people claiming to have killed someone they caught in the act of committing a sex offense, and oftentimes, these accusations are not investigations. Of course, we don't know if that's the truth or an excuse to murder someone. We'll never know since there was never a full investigation of the event. 

So now, everyone things they can be a hero by accusing and attacking someone. In this instance, the would be vigilante got killed for his efforts. 

Leave the investigation to the cops or end up on a pine box. Choice is yours, vigi-scum!

https://www.fox13memphis.com/news/local/man-shot-killed-after-confronting-gunman-fondling-his-teenager-daughter-scso-says/PT5X4NYQNNB4TGDPM5ATB5ALUY/

Man shot and killed after accusing gunman’s brother of “fondling” his family member, SCSO says

October 10, 2021 at 3:33 pm CDT

By FOX13Memphis.com News Staff

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — An argument over sexual misconduct left one man dead Saturday night in southwest Shelby County, according to the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office.

SCSO said that Maurice Walker was found shot to death at 5075 Blacksmith Drive around 5:50 p.m. Saturday night.

Throughout the course of their investigation, Shelby County Sheriff’s Deputies laid out an account of what they believed happened, leading to Walker’s death.

The Shelby County Sheriff’s Office said that Walker was driving home when he pulled over and confronted 26-year-old Denorius Butler.

Butler, 26, is charged with second-degree murder and other crimes. (SCSO)

Walker and Butler began arguing over a previous incident, in which Butler’s brother was accused of fondling a family member of Walker’s, the sheriff’s office said, leading Butler and other gunmen to open fire.

Butler and the gunmen fired dozens of rounds, hitting and killing Walker as well as striking several nearby cars and homes, according to the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office.

Walker’s brother dragged him behind a car and returned fire, the sheriff’s office said, as Butler handed off his gun and ran inside.

Butler and Walker’s brother were taken in for questioning and Butler was charged with attempted second-degree murder.

Upon a search of Butler’s house, deputies also reported finding a total of 133.2 grams of marijuana.

There is still nothing lower than an "Anti"

I had a recent discussion with a fellow longtime anti-registry activist, and we were discussing the group that originally inspired this blog. AZUnites was originally created as a parody of a group of wannabe vigilantes called Absolute Zero United, a group abandoned eight years ago. This blog outlasted the original AZU. 

I do not know exactly why they abandoned AZU, nor do I really care. Goodbye and good riddance. However, I believe they quit after realizing insults and threats and lame attempts at sabotaging the anti-registry groups were not working. They gave up and quit.

They used to call themselves the "Antis." They claimed it was short for "Anti-Pedophile" but in reality, they were simply ANTI-SOCIAL. One early article written by a former volunteer wrote a post stating there is nothing lower than an Anti. This triggered the group of these Antis, much to my delight.

Absolute Zero United members may have abandoned their trashy blog and moved onto other things, but there are other "Antis" out there even if they do not use the moniker. 

Absolute Zero and their parent organization, Perverted Justice, are no more. Those who replaced them are no more, either, like Valerie Parkhurst or the Anonymous factions like LulzSec or Death Eaters or whatever Harry Potter trash they blatantly ripped off. Or, existing groups like No Peace For Predators have shifted focus to propagating batshit crazy right winger crackpot conspiracies like QAnon.

There is still one persistent little turd out there, though, who has tried hard to carry on the pathetic legacy of the Antis. It reminds me of a promo WWE wrestler Shawn Michaels made against fellow wrestler Owen Hart back in the 1990s; Shawn Michaels and HHH compared Owen Hart to the last nugget of shit that wont quite flush down the toilet, since he was the last Hart family member left in the WWE at the time. The troll who sometimes calls himself "Lucky" Larry Lynch, or at other times, a parody of my name, a family member's name, or of someone I once knew, this person is the equivalent of that unflappable nugget of excrement. 

An Anti is still an Anti, and there is still no lower life form than a person who could be labeled an Anti. The persistence of the little nugget that refers to himself as "Lucky Larry" is living, unflushable proof that statement holds true today.