{"id":3196,"date":"2015-06-07T19:02:39","date_gmt":"2015-06-07T23:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=3196"},"modified":"2015-06-07T19:02:39","modified_gmt":"2015-06-07T23:02:39","slug":"catching-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/catching-up\/","title":{"rendered":"CATCHING UP"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Mas<\/a>Recently got to see a man I\u2019ve been out of touch with for 17 years.\u00a0 I first met Bryant Kolner in 1998, when he had to shoot a man.\u00a0 He was an off-duty policeman on his way to work when he stopped to do a good deed, and the next thing he knew a guy was trying to club him to death with a baseball bat.\u00a0 Bryant drew his department issue S&W .45 and spun the guy to the ground with three 230 grain Gold Dot bullets.\u00a0 The shooting went before a grand jury. I was contacted by deputy Kolner\u2019s defense attorney, the very capable Fred Rench, and was allowed to address that grand jury by a fair-minded district attorney, Jim Murphy.\u00a0 The outcome was that the grand jury cleared the officer, and indicted his attacker for felonious assault, to which he pled guilty. An account of the shooting and its aftermath later appeared in the Ayoob Files section at American Handgunner <\/em>magazine.<\/p>\n

Time went on.\u00a0 Bryant changed departments.\u00a0 He led his agency in number of arrests.\u00a0 The time came when, running up an icy driveway to the aid of a battered woman, his feet went out from under him and he suffered a severe line-of-duty injury later exacerbated by medical malpractice.\u00a0 In the end, he wound up having to leave the job he loved, based on the physical disability.<\/p>\n

But, you can\u2019t keep a good man down.\u00a0 Today his job is representing the interests of retired safety personnel.\u00a0 Working for the benefit of good people is just part of some folks\u2019 nature.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s good to be able to touch the lives of people like Bryant Kolner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Recently got to see a man I\u2019ve been out of touch with for 17 years.\u00a0 I first met Bryant Kolner in 1998, when he had to shoot a man.\u00a0 He was an off-duty policeman on his way to work when he stopped to do a good deed, and the next thing he knew a guy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3196","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}