Jury acquits police chief of attempting to murder an innocent man

In Black River Falls, WI, the message is clear: leave the gunfire to the professionals:

Hoskins misinterpreted John Ellingson's attempt to scare away teenagers pranksters coming to toilet-paper his house by rigging his yard with noisemakers that sounded like gunfire...."[Ellingson] reasonably believed that [Hoskins] was a raging lunatic," Oswald said. "That provoked the attack from Mr. Ellingson."

Y'know, where I grew up, the farmers had shotguns loaded with rocksalt to chase us off of their property. Ain't no Statie gonna fuck with that.