One Way to Send a Message

That this local "prosecutor" hasn't been run out of town on a rail is amazing: 

• In a jaw-dropping twist straight out of an vigilante action thriller, a no-nonsense dad named Aaron Spencer just bulldozed his way to victory in a three-way primary for sheriff in an Arkansas county—while staring down murder charges against him like a boss.

  [...] Picture this: A sleazy 67-year-old creep named Michael Fosler sneaked around Spencer’s home, lured Mr. Spencer’s young daughter from her bedroom with unknown promises, and bolted away in his dusty pickup truck.

  Meanwhile Mr. Spencer’s dad radar sensed that something was amiss.  He looked into his daughter’s bedroom and saw that she was gone.  Dad heard Fosler’s truck leaving with some urgency.  Spencer wasn’t going to wait for the cops to finish their donuts to respond.  He grabbed his gun and tok off in hot pursuit.

  Minutes later, Spencer caught up to the child molester’s truck like he was Liam Neesom in Taken.

  After Spencer forced the perv’s pickup off the road, words flew. An “altercation” ensued and…boom. Spencer plugged the creep ceasing any respiratory activity and rescuing his little girl from what could’ve been a lifetime of nightmares.

  Heroic? Hell yes. But the local prosecutor decided he can’t just let a heroic dad “get away” with doing the right thing.  He slapped Spencer with a murder charge. Because, you know, the justice system gonna justice.

  Fuming, but far from finished, Spencer flipped the script, saying, in effect, “Screw this broken machine—I’ll fix it myself.”

  He threw his hat in the ring for the sheriff job while awaiting his trial for murder, vowing to torch the failures of the criminal justice circus and rebuild trust in the badge. And…the voters ate it up. He steamrolled the incumbent sheriff and one other candidate in a three-way primary brawl, snagging over 53% of the vote. No run-offs needed. The people spoke, loud and clear.

The actual "murder" trial will be in late April or early May and if he prevails at court - which he should, it's still Arkansas - then he'll probably win the election handily.

Had the child molester survived, he was facing over FORTY charges for the events of that night. Seems Dad did Arkansas a favor.