{"id":3566,"date":"2024-07-10T02:46:28","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T02:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/?p=3566"},"modified":"2024-07-10T02:46:28","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T02:46:28","slug":"supreme-court-justices-protective-detail-shoots-aspiring-carjacker-outside-sotomayors-dc-residence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsandpride.com\/?p=3566","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court Justice\u2019s Protective Detail Shoots Aspiring Carjacker Outside Sotomayor\u2019s DC Residence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn0.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/AP18038658283169-scaled.jpg\" data-caption=\"Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor poses for a photo with a student who asked her a question as she walks through the crowd in attendance at Brown University. (AP Photo\/Stephan Savoia)\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn0.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/AP18038658283169-696x464.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn0.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/AP18038658283169-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/AP18038658283169-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/AP18038658283169-700x467.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/AP18038658283169-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/AP18038658283169-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/AP18038658283169-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/AP18038658283169-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/AP18038658283169-1068x712.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/AP18038658283169-scaled.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/AP18038658283169-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/AP18038658283169-560x373.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" alt=\"Sonia Sotomayor\" title=\"Sonia Sotomayor\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor poses for a photo with a student who asked her a question as she walks through the crowd in attendance at Brown University. (AP Photo\/Stephan Savoia)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-next-post-navi\">\n<p>\nNext Post Coming Soon&#8230;\u25b6\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>What happens when an 18-year-old thug brings his old, inferior S&amp;W Sigma 9mm (but it has a laser!) to attempt a carjacking of trained U.S. Marshals guarding Justice Sonia Sotomayor\u2019s residence in Washington, D.C.? Suffice it to say things didn\u2019t go well for Kentrell Flowers. He got himself shot and his gun taken away.<\/p>\n<p>So much for a brand new ride on this night.\u00a0 Maybe he should have gone to summer school instead of taking a carjacking apprenticeship to go along with his pre-med studies at Georgetown.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_547544\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-547544\" style=\"width: 770px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-547544\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn0.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Satomayor-res.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"770\" height=\"513\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn0.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Satomayor-res.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Satomayor-res-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Satomayor-res-700x466.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Satomayor-res-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Satomayor-res-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Satomayor-res-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Satomayor-res-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Satomayor-res-560x373.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\"\/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-547544\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sotomayor\u2019s residence. Image via Google Maps.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Just kidding about Georgetown.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/07\/09\/us-news\/supreme-court-justice-sotomayors-bodyguard-shoots-would-be-carjacker-outside-her-home\/?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=nypost&amp;utm_source=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>NY Post<\/em> has the dirty details<\/a> about the crime that lies just beneath the picturesque parts of Washington D.C.:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>A deputy U.S. Marshal shot a would-be carjacker who pulled a gun on him while he was guarding Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor\u2019s home in Washington, DC, authorities said.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Two deputies were parked outside Sotomayor\u2019s 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 at the bodyguard, the U.S. Marshals Service told The Post.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Mr. Flowers will likely survive his wounds.<\/p>\n<p>For those who don\u2019t have long memories, David Harsanyi notes on X how the same Justice Sotomayor sided with the dissent in the landmark <em>McDonald<\/em> decision that the little people in America \u2013 people like you and me \u2013 have no right to armed self-defense.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u201cIn sum, the Framers did not write the Second Amendment in order to protect a private right of armed self defense.\u201d \u2014 Sotomayor, with the dissent in McDonald <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qSWVRiY444\">https:\/\/t.co\/qSWVRiY444<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 David Harsanyi (@davidharsanyi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/davidharsanyi\/status\/1810730958896910697?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 9, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Easy to make such pronouncements when you get a protective detail watching over you and your family 24\/7, which most of us don\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Post<\/em> also mentions a couple of other high-profile carjacking-related shootings that happened in DC in recent months.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>In November, Secret Service Agents protecting President Biden\u2019s granddaughter Naomi opened fire on a group of carjackers who were trying to break into an unmarked Secret Service vehicle just before midnight in Georgetown.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>In January, former Trump administration official\u00a0Mike Gill was fatally wounded by a carjacker as he sat in his vehicle on K Street at about 5:45 p.m.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Secret Service has a protective detail on Biden\u2019s granddaughter Naomi?\u00a0 Does Hunter\u2019s baby with the stripper gal also enjoy a protective detail?\u00a0 Somehow I doubt it.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-next-post-navi\">\n<p>\nNext Post Coming Soon&#8230;\u25b6\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthaboutguns.com\/supreme-court-justices-protective-detail-shoots-aspiring-carjacker-outside-sotomayors-dc-residence\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor poses for a photo with a student who asked her a question as she walks through the crowd in attendance at Brown University. 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