Posted on 01/18/2015 4:44:49 PM PST by Teotwawki
The gun enthusiast who nearly killed his small town's police chief last week is a free man since cops couldn't find enough evidence to charge him and keep him behind bars. Sentinel, Oklahoma Police Chief Louis Ross was shot four times that morning while raiding a house in connection to a bomb threat at a school, and only survived thanks to a bullet-proof vest he borrowed at the last minute. [snip}
Horton and his wife were arrested in the aftermath, and he later told investigators that he didn't know police were breaking into his home, which Chief Ross finds skeptical. [snip]
'He thought he was protecting his home and his wife. He didn't know what was going on until the door was busted down. And you have a right to protect your family and that's what he was doing.' Despite finding seven firearms and a explosive device in Horton's home, police say they didn't have enough evidence to charge him and he was released from jail later that day.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
It sure looks that way.
If you have a canister of comet sitting next to a bag of plant food that’s an explosive in police speak. :-)
Somebody "Swatted" him. They should be found and prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
Chief Ross and two Washita County Sheriff's deputies didn't know about the call's origins when they went to Horton's home to investigate the threat around 6am.
Investigative work is so tedious!
'Don't know what he heard or didn't hear, screaming from five officers of the law announcing our presence, requesting to see hands,' Ross told KWTV.
That's pretty much the case with all these dynamic entries isn't it? How could anyone know what all the screaming and door shattering is about unless they just wait to see if it's cops or criminals?
...he criticized the White House sent officials to Michael Brown's funeral (who he called a thug) and none to Paris after the Charlie Hebdo massacre, according to Gawker. ... And the racially-charged posts didn't end there. According to Raw Story, he also reposted an image of a blood-spattered truck which read: 'JUST DROVE THROUGH FERGUSON. DIDN'T SEE ANY PROBLEMS.
Wait, wut? I thought you were going to show us his 'racially charged' posts!?! Michael Brown was a thug, 0bama is a dickhead and re-posting a joke pic is a joke.
Or pvc glue and pipe., or bleach or any number of things.
It would be more effective with blood stains, simulated or otherwise.
My thought, too. Everything quoted in #9 has been said by all of us. He sounds like a good guy.
Yes most likely.
Furthermore, he was very forthcoming, stating, "I shot the Sheriff... but I did not shoot the deputy."
“Despite finding seven firearms.....in his home....”
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What the hell is so unusual about someone having seven firearms in their home, especially in a conservative state like Oklahoma? The British just wet themselves over the thought of someone owning a firearm.
Glad the cop is o.k. Homeowner too. Usually in these cases the homeowner ends up dead. And the cops get to go home to their families.
Maybe I missed something? Cops had a warrant? No? And that seems to be just fine with a lot of members here.
These damn paramilitary no knock raids got to go.
Somebody, other that homeowners that is, is gonna get killed. And I’ll shed a tear for them just like I shed a tear for the victims of Police home invasions that I didn’t know.
IF YOU WANT ME FOR ANYTHING THEN CALL. OR KNOCK. PREFERABLY CALL. OR STOP BY MY WORK. I’M THERE FROM 8AM-7PM. IT’S NOT THAT DAMN DIFFICULT!!!!! Dumbasses........
Bingo!
Throat/Face/Groin...
Here... Joe Biden demonstrates what happens next:
When I click on the Daily Mail article it says
Racist Gun enthusiast who shot police chief four times during raid walks free because cops 'didn't have enough evidence to charge him' in the browser's title bar.
No where in the article is it titled that way.
Boom! Headshot!
They had a bogus threat over the phone to justify SWATing his residence so they could take his guns. My guess he’s a known 2nd Amendment advocate with politically incorrect views and comes across as a little off. The local powers that be decided the this guy shouldn’t be allowed any weapons and manufactured a bogus threat to take his weapons away. They were going on a fishing expedition to see what they could find without a warrant since they were responding to an “emergency situation”. Remember your rights end when a government official decides that you don’t deserve them. After all it’s for the children!
His word vs. the police chief and they could not charge him?
If it's that simple, then why would they charge him?
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