He was aiming a scoped air rifle out of his hotel window, alarming other guests who had no way of knowing whether it was a real gun. You have to really work hard to get that aggressive of a response from law enforcement when you're white. Aiming what appears to be a rifle out of a window in view of passersby is one way to do it. Hopefully they at least mailed the Darwin Award to his family.


"...the successful annihilation of organized crime's subculture in America would rock the 'legitimate' world's foundation, which would ultimately force fundamental social changes and redistributions of wealth and power in this country. Meyer Lansky's dream was to bond the two worlds together so that one could not survive without the other." - Dan E. Moldea