The local magistrate should be investigated.
Every no knock police raid is a tragedy.
This is a DUPLICATE ARTICLE ...
Prior on located here:
No-knock police raid ends in blazing tragedy
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3256353/posts
Want in my house? 1. Have a warrant, AND 2. Knock nicely. If you have a warrant, I’ll let you in with no trouble whatsoever and will cooperate fully. Knock my door down and come in full assault, well, you’re gonna be facing a barrage of hot lead, period.
“.... a Texas grand jury has refused to indict a homeowner for shooting and killing a police officer who entered his home unannounced in the middle of the night. ....”
Castle doctrine & stand your ground. Plus jury nullification.
Doesn’t matter who it is barging in in the middle of the night, in Texas, you have a right to defend life & property.
I agree, investigate that magistrate!
“Police were acting on a tip from a criminal informant”
“When the dust settled, they found two small marijuana plants less than six inches tall and four guns, all legally owned by Magee, three of which were locked in a safe.”
You mean criminal informants are unreliable? Who knew?.......... A lot of those scumbags would throw their own grandma under the bus to save their own hides. What a tragedy AND a cluster.
All that for a couple of small pot plants....good grief!
What about the kiddos? So if multiple cops open fire inside a trailer home, would this not place the kids lives in danger?
Over a couple of pot plants? Man oh man, what has this country become?
His bond has been lowered from $1 million to $50,000.
For two 6 inch high pot plants?? They are going to get this poor guy no matter what.
No Knock Ping.
Good on Texas.
There is utterly no justification for no knock entry if the object is multiple 6 foot boo plants. Do they really fear that the suspect will flush the plants down the toilet before the police can gain entry by knocking at the door? or surrounding the house and calling for the occupant to come out with his hands up?
I fail to see the tragedy, with the exception that the other 8 armed invaders, the magistrate, and the so called criminal informant haven’t been Indicted under the Felony Murder Rule for this persons death. They should all swing.
To risk lives over marijuana! Sad.
This is an outgrowth of gun liberty, that police are not so gleeful about smashing down someone’s door in the middle of the night based on an anonymous tip or a revenge “SWATting”.
A realistic view of things is that police should never do a smash invasion, unless the person they are after is armed and dangerous, has already committed violent felonies involving weapons, is holding a hostage, or has themselves made threats to the police.
This story is over a year old.
A good story, but a bit dated.
There are situations that justify a no-knock raid, but they are exceptionally rare. Growing pot does not qualify. Non-violent possession of weapons does not count. Certainly an arrest warrant for shooting a cop counts, as does the potential to destroy evidence within a few seconds (6’ tall plants and firearms would not be destroyed in the time it takes to knock and enter legally).
It should take exceptional justification to conduct these raids, and that is not happening. Sadly, the price is paid by homeowners like the resident of this home and by cops like the one who was killed in this unconstitutional search of a private home.