“An Allegheny County assistant district attorney and a uniformed Pittsburgh police officer posed, smiling and toting large guns that were evidence in a case they worked on together, in a Facebook photo with the caption, ‘You should take the plea,'” post-gazette.com reports. The dynamic duo have taken some heat for this unauthorized venture into social media shaming. “Approached by a reporter Friday morning, [AC ADA Julie] Jones briefly smiled, laughed and said . . .

‘We actually…’ She did not complete her thought before saying, ‘I have to go to an appointment,’ and walking away.”

Awww. I hate uncompleted, uh, thoughts. So why don’t you finish Ms. Jones’ sentence for her? The best guess gets a CMC Tactical AR-15/10 trigger.

156 COMMENTS

  1. We actually…Enjoy to exercise the Second Amendment, while vigorously depriving our fellow citizens their rights.

  2. …..don’t care about jury influencing since gun owners are obviously domestic terrorists and this proves it.

  3. …can’t believe the guy called the cops after being shot at during a drug deal! What did he think, that we were just concerned about his well-being and safety and would ignore all the pot? (Chortle)

  4. We actually enjoy shooting guns and didn’t do anything wrong. The caption is meant to be a joke, maybe our big smiles were misleading.

  5. “…. settled the case on the drug dealer last week. He pled to fellony probation. Now that hes a covictrd fellon and self confessed dope slinger he cant have a firearm.”

  6. We actually need to get these back to the ATF so we know they won’t fall back into a criminals hands.

    The cycle continues and our jobs are secure.

  7. We actually…went and shot them first, hence the big smiles.

    Or

    We actually…are hoping to seize them permanently due to criminal forfeiture so I can shoot it any time I like.

  8. We actually… didn’t think it was a big deal. I know it must be shocking that an average person can hold a firearm and nothing happen.

  9. We actually… Pose with firearms that we unjustly confiscate all the time. Not sure why your making a big deal out of it this time!!!!

  10. We actually on our way to go and have these über-scary high power military-style assault weapons melted down and cast into a peace sign. We were then going to hold hands with sing kumbaya over the fact that we could have just possibly saved “just one life” from gun violence…

  11. (We actually…) know they’re totally innocent! But….we don’t care! And…we grabbed their guns! Hahahahahahahahaha…

  12. “We actually” were just holding the weapons so that they didn’t walk off and start killing people

  13. We actually have a First Amendment right to display our personal affections for the Second Amendment (and for each other) on Facebook.

  14. Best guess? “We actually just thought it would be funny… [left unsaid part: …”but nobody has a sense of humor about anything any more”].

  15. We actually …. didn’t do anything illegal. This isn’t the politically charged issue your looking for.

  16. We actually…don’t know what you are talking about. It was a photoshop picture? Yeah, yeah, that’s the ticket!

    It was someone else, somewhere else. We’ve never even held guns before.

    It must have been those pesky Republican gun-lovers using fake photography!

  17. We actually tried being a couple but I’ve got a twelve gauge and he’s a .223 – if you know what I’m saying.

  18. We actually are dorks and use the State’s backing to take down citizens as a way to give meaning to what would otherwise be our feckless existence.

  19. We actually take solemn oaths to uphold the public trust and professional ethics to get these jobs, if you can believe that!

  20. Well, we are the only ones with enough training to hold these. They are almost as dangerous as my “Glock Fortay”

  21. … Bought those guns at auction. Odd that there were no other bidders. I got mine for my opening bid of $10. Now i can go on that duck blind tour with the Duck Dynasty guys.

  22. Violated some rights after finding these lost in a boating accident for the children killers.

  23. We actually get these from a gun buyback program and then plant them on the scene so we can aggravate the charges – it gets us a plea every time!

  24. We actually pulled them out. Can you believe it? He said, “I’ll show you mine if you show me yours!”

  25. We actually… don’t care about your ‘so called’ rights. They are what we say they are. Move along.

  26. …were in the middle of playing out our “Bonnie and Clyde” role playing fantasy…I’m Clyde.

  27. We actually… believe Facebook…
    Lives matter
    Is more secure than that
    Trumps common sense
    Saves lives
    Stands for something
    Circumvents FOIA requests…

  28. We actually… took this from Shannon Watts’ office at the local Mom’s Demand Action branch.

  29. “We actually…”

    “…argued over who got to hold the AR-15, but his paper beat my rock.”

  30. …and in the meantime we’ll be partaking in an open carry march right in front of the courthouse.

  31. We actually… have done WAAYYYY worse. I mean only one of the guns this time accidently went off. Sometimes the best judgement around here isnt used. Who do you think we are the justice system?

  32. “…are the vanguard of an alien starfleet, here to scout your pathetic world before the invasion force arrives, and we laugh at your puny Hu-mon weapons! Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!”

  33. We actually just had sex on a huge pile of hate mail, so uh, you might get the notion that we don’t care at all what you or anyone else thinks about the post. It was funny. Quit being hypersensitive hoplophobes.

  34. We actually… just wanted to be the first ones to receive Farrago’s new Idiot Peace Officer of The Day award.

  35. WE actually…have no freaking idea what these devices are for, but we know YOU have no need for them as we know it all about everything, even when we don’t.

  36. We actually . . . took this picture for our Ashley Madison account, to improve the security of our personal information . . . um, scratch that, I have an appointment.

  37. We actually made up about fifty charges so he will have to take a plea on at least half of them!

  38. We actually… were just doing some research on the guns values to see how many Hi-Point pistols we could buy for the same price. It was 492.

    Or

    We actually… thought these were a lot more useful than the crappy weed that usually comes through the evidence locker

  39. We actually … treat all evidence in criminal cases as playthings made available to us for the purpose of amusement.

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