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.
Yes, you read that right. This guy’s not your average candidate for sheriff. He’s the real-life hero whose toxic masculinity turned a predator into prey.
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.
Voters didn’t just see a candidate; they saw a dad who drew a bright red line in the sand against child sex monsters. In a world gone soft on creeps, Spencer’s delivered a gut-check reminder: sometimes, protecting your own means getting your hands dirty, and the locals have given him a standing ovation at the ballot box. Even as he awaits his murder trial.
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“Through my own fight for justice, I have seen firsthand the failures in law enforcement and in our circuit court,” Spencer said in his announcement video posted to Facebook. “And I refuse to stand by while others face these same failures.”
Spencer’s campaign website states that he “fully disputes the charges against him,” and is running to “restore trust in law enforcement” and ensure that “no family in Lonoke County ever faces the same failures his family did.
According to court documents, Spencer found a “hoodie on a stuffed animal” in his daughter’s bed. Spencer found Fosler’s truck with his daughter inside and forced the truck off the highway, where the two entered “an altercation.” Spencer later called 911 “to report that he had shot Fosler.”
Arkansas state court records show that Fosler faced 43 felony counts of sexual offenses against Spencer’s daughter including internet stalking of a child, fourth-degree sexual assault and sexual indecency with a child.
Spencer’s trial will happen in late April or early May. If he’s found guilty, he won’t be eligible to run in the general election in November. God bless Aaron Spencer and his daughter.
Those who prey upon our children in such a manner should be dealt with definitively like this dad did.
The more aberrant degenerate depraved behavior that is allowed to exist in a society, the more the violent and degenerate and depraved are emboldened.
Hear me loud and clear: I abhor all sex predators and want them to receive harsh punishment for violating their victims in one of the most heinous ways possible.
Like it or not, use of force laws are pretty clear: our justice system says that an unarmed man who is 67 years old is NOT an imminent threat of death or grievous bodily harm to a young or middle-aged man. That being the state of our justice system, the father was not legally justified to use deadly force against the 67 year-old pervert scumbag (the father was obligated to limit himself to only using his hands and feet), hence the homicide prosecution.
In terms of legal theory, the father is going to prison for a long time. In the real world, I doubt that any jury will ever convict a father of murder for rescuing his daughter from a sexual predator who lured/kidnapped his daughter. If I were the father, I would go all the way to a jury trial and count on jury nullification to issue a “not guilty” verdict or at least end in a hung jury.
uncommon sense:
The rest of us had and have no knowledge of whether the bad guy was armed or not, or what kind of weapon he may have been armed with. A bit harder to decide about this action without knowing that. (A bit harder, but not impossible–a person’s life was at stake).
Mark,
The very fact that the prosecutor is going after the father all but guarantees that the old man was unarmed. Otherwise, it would be an absolutely crystal clear, open-and-shut case of legally justified self-defense and the prosecutor would not have charged the father.
Kidnapping a minor IS the definition of “grievous bodily harm” and it’s legal use deadly force to defend a third party. This, based on what I’ve read, is a pretty clear case of legal defense of a third party.
Michael Becker,
I hear what you are saying and there is a lot of merit to your point.
Nevertheless, assuming that the old man had no weapons (which is all but guaranteed or else the father’s actions would have been open-and-shut legally justified self-defense and the prosecutor would never have charged the father), the prosecutor can argue that father should have been easily able to rescue his daughter with his bare hands and feet–and thus simply executed the old man out of anger.
Look at it this way. At some point when an adult is feeble enough (due to advanced age or disability), they no longer represent a significant threat to a child once a fit adult male arrives to rescue the child. So, while I would never find the father guilty if I was on the jury, I can see how/why a scumbag Far Left Prosecutor can think that he/she has a cute way to punish the father for carrying a firearm and using it. Saying it another way, the Prosecutor almost certainly knows that he/she will never get a conviction–and doesn’t even care since the process is the punishment.
Just because the old perv may or may not have been armed means nothing.
Anti gun prosecutors bring charges and win convictions all the time. Even when they clearly should not.
Tate Adamiak ring a bell?
Prosecutors lie, suppress evidence, twist the facts, use expert witnesses to give false testimony all the time because they almost never face any consequences.
Is they do its usually the taxpayers that foot the bill.
Mercy. Predators/child molesters don’t deserve mercy. They deserve prosecution to the fullest extent of the law and or embalming. I speak from experience when my only daughter was molested by her uncle.
Not sure why there isnt simply a standing bounty on molesters like an invasive species.
We really put up with way too much bulllshit from people for no reason at all and all that does is hurt the rest of society.
Generally speaking, I don’t believe in vigilante justice, but in this case, it was well warranted. Dad caught the scum bag in the act and this in itself constitutes defense of others so the perv got what he asked for.
No jury will ever convict this man and rightly so.
Where is the gofundme page! We need to support people doing the right thing!
When the authorities refuse or are unable to perform their duties, vigilante justice becomes a reality.
End. Of. Story.
So my dad, a criminal defense lawyer, had a special defense for murder that is applicable here. He called it “the son of a bitch deserved to die” defense. And in certain cases it can be quite effective.