{"id":1785958,"date":"2022-12-24T15:03:54","date_gmt":"2022-12-24T20:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1785958"},"modified":"2022-12-24T15:03:58","modified_gmt":"2022-12-24T20:03:58","slug":"2022-men-of-the-year-crime-wave-heroes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/2022-men-of-the-year-crime-wave-heroes\/","title":{"rendered":"2022 Men of the Year: Crime Wave Heroes"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2F2022-men-of-the-year-crime-wave-heroes%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1785958&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Collage-Maker-21-Dec-2022-03.42-PM.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Fatherhood\u2014like American natural gas, computer chips, and baby formula\u2014is in short supply today. Just <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/hunter-biden-love-child-christmas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ask Hunter Biden\u2019s daughter<\/a> Navy Joan Roberts.<\/p>\n<p>But amid the worst crime wave America has seen since the 1990s, the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> saw fathers risk everything to protect hearth and home.<\/p>\n<p>Stripped to the waist and enjoying the fine summer weather, a Detroit dad was out for a June stroll to get some smokes with his seven-month-old when a gunman <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7chicago.com\/dad-holding-baby-fights-off-gunman-detroit-michigan-news\/11987845\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cornered them<\/a> at a gas station. Unfortunately for the thug, it happened to be Father\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n<p>Our hero pivoted to shield his infant, knocked the gunman\u2019s piece away like it was a toy, and chased off the assassin\u2014a lit cigarette still dangling from his lip.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A father holding his 7-month-old baby fended off a man with a gun inside a gasoline station in Detroit on Sunday. Police now have a person of interest in custody. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/72X0zKDDpo\">pic.twitter.com\/72X0zKDDpo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CBS News (@CBSNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CBSNews\/status\/1539620526938853378?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 22, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He wasn\u2019t the only dad who\u2019d been around the block.<\/p>\n<p>When burglars kicked in the front door of his California home in the middle of the night, 93-year-old Joe Howard Teague didn\u2019t bat an eye.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I approached them to put them under citizen\u2019s arrest,&#8221; Teague <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10972991\/93-year-old-man-shoots-burglar-enraged-slow-police-response-string-break-ins.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> reporters of the attempted home raid last summer. &#8220;They wouldn&#8217;t adhere to that and then one of them came at me with a fishing pole.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So the retired plumber raised the stakes with a tool of his own.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I kept telling them, I have a shotgun with three shells in it, but I actually only had one. And they kept throwing stuff at me,&#8221; Teague said. &#8220;It was just like somebody comes to a gunfight with a pocketknife, you know.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We do know, Joe. And considering liberals in La-La Land have all but neutered law enforcement, it\u2019s not surprising you didn\u2019t count on a prompt 911 response.<\/p>\n<p>Like 2020<em>\u00a0Free Beacon<\/em> Man of the Year <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/men-of-the-year\/2020-man-of-the-year-kyle-rittenhouse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kyle Rittenhouse<\/a>, you refused to be just another victim. You exercised your God-given right to self-defense on one of those looters. You <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DW33yg06-w0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shot his ass<\/a>. And the others fled.<\/p>\n<p>For choosing to shoulder the full scope of American self-government on behalf of the next generation\u2014and well into one\u2019s ninth decade\u2014Detroit dad and Joe Howard Teague aren\u2019t just crime wave heroes. They\u2019re <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> Men of the Year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fatherhood\u2014like American natural gas, computer chips, and baby formula\u2014is in short supply today. 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