Posted on 12/10/2005 6:28:19 AM PST by TennMountains
Edited on 12/11/2005 12:54:13 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
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Don't know anything about the case, but even stupid cops will announce their presence before forcing entry, if only avoid being shot like this cop.
If cops didn't announce themselves before breaking into my house, I'd come out shooting too, especially if my kids were in the house. Pretty good excuse if it's true.
It could sure happen to many of us. I wouldn't even need to put a magazine in the pistol.
Mississippi Policeman Killed in Late December Drug Raid, Law Enforcement Dissidents Call for Better Way 1/4/02 The war on drugs does not only imprison, wound, and kill drug offenders and innocent bystanders; instead, both sides take casualties in this long-running civil war waged against American citizens by their own government. The latest casualty on the law enforcement side came on the night of December 26, when Prentiss, Mississippi, police officer Ron Jones was shot and killed while serving a drug warrant. Acting as a member of a South Mississippi drug task force, Jones was shot in the abdomen as he attempted to enter the rear of a duplex in Prentiss less than a mile from the town police station. Jones, 29, the son of Prentiss Police Chief Ronald Jones, was wearing a bullet-proof vest, but a bullet from the gun of 21-year-old Cory Maye, who rented the residence, entered Jones' body just below the bottom of the vest. After being shot, Jones staggered through the house to the front of the duplex, where he met other officers. He died in a police car on the war to the hospital. Mayes is being held without bond on first-degree murder charges and faces a death sentence or life in prison if convicted. Mayes had no prior criminal record. No drugs were found at the duplex. Local law enforcement officials have refused to say what the officers were searching for or whether Mayes was a suspect in the raid. Two other residents of the duplex were temporarily detained, but then released without charges, the Associated Press reported. Jones was the 14th law enforcement officer to be killed enforcing the drug laws last year, according to Berneta Spence, director of research for the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Foundation in Washington, DC. "These 14 were responding to drug-related matters, serving drug warrants, or involved in a drug search," she told DRCNet. The foundation memorializes law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty each year with a May 13 vigil and a May 15 commemoration on National Law Officers Memorial Day. According to Spence, 55 officers have been killed enforcing the drug laws since 1995.
Nor remove the 'gun lock', nor the safty, nor even 'go' to get it. A proper lifestyle is such that anyone kicking-in my doors is will be shot.
I'm not sure if I was sound asleep, that I would hear them shouting POLICE!
If he's like me and doesn't hear all that well..and he was sound asleep...I can see how it could happen.
If the facts are as represented, this would be a "good shoot" under any other circumstances. But because a police officer was killed, the man faces death. This is the sort of double standard that I detest.
Looks like the standard CYA for "we fouled up big-time".
If so the the revenue gained is worth it, to those perusing the WOD.
Think of the $Billions paid in wages and pensions to those waging the WOD.
Think it's for the children - think again.
Please provide a link to the Hattiesburg story. Thanks.
Nor would I, probably. Having been jolted out of deep sleep by alarms/loud noises in the past, I can say that the combination of sudden wakefulness, adrenaline, dark and brief disorientation combine to make situations that appear perfectly understandable to us during waking hours into something far less than clear cut.
Having to respond properly and quickly in a deadly force situation under such circumstances is one of my worst nightmares, to be honest. I don't know the details of this case, but I can certainly understand how such a scenario could go very badly awry.
I'm sorry but the original article is now in archives and has to be purchased. You can see enough of it and two others to verify that it appears to be accurately quoted by TheAgitator.
http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?s_site=hattiesburgamerican&p_multi=MHAB|&p_product=MHAB&p_theme=gannett&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&s_dispstring=Cory%20Maye%20AND%20date()&p_field_advanced-0=&p_text_advanced-0=("Cory%20Maye")&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&xcal_useweights=no
Prentiss man gets death for shooting police officer
1/30/2004 12:54:54 AM
Daily Journal
The Associated Press
COLUMBIA - A Jefferson Davis County will pay with his life for the 2001 shooting death of a Prentiss police officer.
Cory Maye, 23, showed no reaction when a Marion County jury of eight women and four men found him guilty of capital murder Friday for the death of Officer Ron Jones.
Jones was one of eight officers conducting a search warrant looking for drugs at two apartments on Mary Street in Prentiss on Dec. 26, 2001. Shortly after Jones entered Maye's bedroom, he was shot in the chest, just below his bullet-resistant vest.
"It's been two years since he was killed and the hurt will never go away," said Jones' father, Ronald Jones, who was the Prentiss police chief at the time of his son's death.
Appeared originally in the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, 1/30/2004 8:00:00 AM, section A , page 7
I know cop haters must love that headline.....never mind that the back door to house was located in that room. And he keeps pistol in "her bedroom"? i.e.""I immediately ran to my daughter's room, got a pistol"
More homework is required to know for sure- but if the facts are as presented in the article, then this is just plain wrong.
Additionally there seems to be a little "cowboy" attitude going on here - With only this 23 year old man and his young daughter in the house there seems to be no reason for a police assault on this house. It didn't call for it from what I have been able to read.
Southern Justice. Father was police chief, I lived in the south and justice is for sale. Cops and Judges are crooked.
Sounds like there is one hell of a lot more to this story if a jury convicted him of anything; particularly since this isn't one of those particularly blue states.
If I were being tried for a Capital Crime and my case was so weak that I had to take the stand; you can bet I'd have a real good story too.
Cory Maye—black, age 21 Sentenced to death in Jefferson Davis County, Mississippi By: A jury Date of crime: 12/26/01 Prosecution’s case/defense response: Police burst into Maye’s apartment yelling, “Police!” during a drug raid. Maye was in his bedroom. When police officer Ron Jones came through the doorway, Maye shot him in the abdomen just below his bulletproof vest. Jones died. The victim was the son of the police chief of the town of Prentiss. The defense attempted to prove that Maye did not know the persons breaking in were police officers, and that he was trying to protect his infant son, who was in the bedroom with him. In mitigation the defense pointed out Maye’s relative youth at the time of the shooting (21) and his lack of a prior criminal record. Prosecutor(s): Claiborne “Buddy” McDonald IV, Doug Miller Defense lawyer(s): Rhonda Cooper Sources: Sun Herald (Biloxi) 12/28/01, 12/30/01; Clarion-Ledger (Jackson) 2/22/02; Telephone call with prosecutor Miller 9/27/04
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