ACTION ALERT: Protect ALL citizens; remove addresses from sex offender registries
By Sandy . . . A 71-year-old man was murdered on September 18 in Fremont, CA. His killer did not know him. He didn’t kill him during a robbery. He had never seen him before. Nevertheless, he set out to kill David Brimmer specifically, going to his house with a knife, attacking him when he opened the door, and chasing him as he tried to escape across the lawn and into a neighboring garage.
Why?
In 1995, Brimmer was convicted of a sexual crime. He served nine years in prison, was released, and was required to register on California’s sex offender registry. Like almost everyone who has served a sentence for the first conviction of a sexual crime, he has, from all evidence, not reoffended in 30 years.
Using the information readily available online, the murderer selected his victim. The killer said that he sought a registrant who was elderly, presumably because he would be easier to kill. However, Mr. Brimmer fought for his life. The attack lasted for what had to have been five minutes or more.
This would be horrific if it had never happened before. But it has, over and over and over again; in state after state, vigilantes have sought, found, and murdered individuals on sex offender registries. In some cases, killer knew victim prior to the murder and killed him after finding him listed on the state registry.
Horrific doesn’t even begin to be adequate. It has happened in Maine; in Washington
State (two separate incidents, four victims)*; in Nevada; in South Carolina; in Minnesota (with moose horns as the weapon); and, less than a year ago, in Pennsylvania.
It has happened before in California, four separate times, from 2007 to 2011. ** Mr. Brimmer’s murder makes five.
And those are just a few of the many that we know about, all senseless murders of individuals on registries. How many more do we not know about?
It is far past time for it to stop.
People will kill other people. But when they identify and locate their victims by means of a government-required online list, complete with address, it has gone too far.
NARSOL calls on state attorneys general to order the temporary removal of home addresses from their states’ online sex offender registries.
NARSOL further calls on state legislatures to enact legislation as soon as possible that will eliminate the online publication of home addresses of persons listed on their states’ sex offender registries.
We will never stop individuals from killing other individuals.
However, our government must stop providing roadmaps to murderous vigilantes by putting their potential victims on a list that tells the world they are dangerous—even though the vast majority are not—and providing their addresses to make the killers’ task as easy as possible.
Adocates, if you have any connection with legislators in your state, send them this or write something about it yourself.
If you know anyone with connections, tell them.
If you don’t know anyone, phone the legislative offices. Talk to the aides. Tell SOMEBODY! Tell anyone who will listen.
SPEAK OUT; your voice may be the one that makes the difference.
* https://www.cbsnews.com/news/man-claims-child-rapist-murders/
https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/12/the-vigilante-of-clallam-county/281968/
** https://www.record-bee.com/2007/12/11/murder-and-megans-law/
https://kesq.com/news/2010/01/12/second-arrest-made-in-sex-offender-murder/
https://ktla.com/news/man-convicted-of-murdering-sex-offender-neighbor-in-vigilante-killing-2/
Thank you, Sandy, for naming what most media won’t: this was a targeted murder, enabled by state policy.
The registry targeted me too. Locals copied my photo from the Megan’s Law site and posted it at the golf course, bar, and pool. My wife was confronted. We received false police reports. Officers told us to “be patient”—that this was common.
David Brimmer wasn’t killed randomly. He was hunted. His address was published by the state. His age made him a target. His decades-old conviction became a death sentence.
This isn’t isolated. It’s a pattern: Maine, Washington, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, California—five times. The registry isn’t public safety. It’s a roadmap for vigilantes.
We mourn David Brimmer. We demand reform. Remove addresses. Stop the targeting. Stop pretending this is protection. It’s public execution by proxy.
Silence is not neutrality. It’s permission.
Social justice in action! The only reason it continues is because the government is in on it. They can’t kill you in jail they advertise you as bait on the Internet. Anyone that speaks up is a sympathizer as well. I have been at this since I was 19 years old and I am 43 now. Zero violations and I imagine my fate will be the same as this gentleman when I am to old to fight back or just in the perfect position for someone to target me.
Another person murdered because of the intentional State sanctioned identification of the person and the home address where he could be located. The people painted a target on his back for decades after the completion of his original sentence.
And we know there will be zero accountability for the purveyors of the California SOR database.
Meanwhile, public officials are having their home addresses stripped from the internet and database driven infrastructure, primarily because of the Fed Judge Salas case in New Jersey.
Plain evidence of a caste ridden system underpinned by control of our database driven system.
This is how they get elected looking tough on hot button issues. If they change the laws there smoked on the next election, or even recall elections. The media will pile on and the picture will be painted in such a way that public outrage will have people raising cane. They also have groups of lawyers in the back ground ready to jump up lob more appeals and new laws to make life more complicated. It’s a vigilantee justice system. How many judges have ruled the registry unconstitutional. Many!! None of the statistics are up too date. Never mind the address issues nobody wants you living next door and realtors are also making sure you can’t get a home. So your are cornered a forced to fail on top of people trying to pick you off. What legal system it’s a slavery system, Or a cast system as you say.
Imagine being a politician trying to run for next election and you are trying to remove the home addresses for SO’s for their safety. Imagine the ammunition you just handed over to your opponents. You’d never get elected. They’d call you out on every TV ad and radio ad there is. They’d have everyone believing you’re siding with the ruthless monsters who try to rape and kill your children. And you’d be the most hated politician ever. We are on our own.
There is a theory in law. If you put up a sign like don’t run–slippery. You acknowledged that there is a danger.
When the state puts on the registry not to harrass offenders. They acknowledge they have created a danger.
Sometimes other people in the home are harmed also.
Anyone who is harmed or killed (they or their surviving family.) should sue the state. Until they start losing money nothing will change.