Comment: Bound to happen sooner or later.
/johnny
Good for him, reminds me of a Marley song. Oh, wait...
I’ve been waiting for this.
To quote:
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”
Not the first time LEO have been shot serving no-knock warrants.
But a very rare instance of the grand jury not indicting.
This is a symptom that Americans are awakening to the police state abuses being heaped upon them. Thank you Youtube and cell phone cameras.
| Deep mourning ping |
Always the evasion of the passive voice. WHO MADE the "announcement"? What was the "announcement"? Was there any "evidence" whatsoever that the "announcement" was something that somebody in the house could have heard? How many milliseconds from the "announcement" did they "enter" (no doubt by smashing down the door)?
I am surprised the guy didn’t get shot about a hundred times by the backup cops.
Man, was that cop surprised!
And good for the Texas grand jury! If someone bursts into my house in the middle of the night without yelling “Police!”, and I can get to my gun, I’m going to shoot. My biggest fear is some thug (not a cop thug) yelling “Police!” and it causes me to hesitate.
I had never heard of this case until I saw this thread. With the hindsight of having read this article and initial reports of the arrest, my already chronic cynicism has grown just a little more:
- “Texas Rangers ... say they found a sophisticated marijuana grow operation” here http://kwhi.com/henry-magee-no-billied-in-deputys-death/ but “DeGuerin said all investigators found inside the trailer were a few marijuana plants” here http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2013/dec/24/texas_deputy_killed_dawn_noknock
- The Huffington Post helpfully accompanies its original article http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/23/henry-goedrich-magee-_n_4494527.html#slide=1388754 with a slide show entitled “Cop Killers”, mostly already convicted BTW, including the left’s favorite, Mumbo Abu-Jumbo.
- This guy was damn lucky he didn’t get the spray-and-pray treatment from the rest of the SWAT team — eight in all.
This is fantastic news.
The only way to end Police abuse is to remove all obstructions to personal responsibility from Police Officers.
This particular LEO paid with his life for his decisions, and the shooter was NOT held responsible for the violence caused by the LEO’s actions.
So a good day in America. LE cannot be allowed to be the cause of violence and chaos. This Officer, this supervisor who designed the raid paid with his life. If the lesson to LE in general is to do No Knock raids by backing an armored vehicle through the living room wall then we are going backwards. If LE just escalates tactics then no progress has been made.
However the court ruling seems to put limits on what is tolerated from LE. I hope that it is the case, and not just a concurrent escalation of tactics.
Excellent decision by the grand jury. Perhaps someone will think twice about trampling on the Constitution next time.
“not enough evidence that Mr. Magee knew that day that Peace Officers were entering his home”
I guess the dead fat slob peacefully bashed the door down.
What’s amazing about this is that the follow on cops didn’t turn the guy into a slab of swiss cheese. The cop he shot must not have had any friends there that day.
Darn lost my bet. I had jack booted thugs showing up by 5th entry
This may serve to put the fear of God into police departments in rural and more conservative areas, but something needs to be done about the militarization of these bigger city police forces. In these big cities, the police seem to be able to do pretty much whatever they want.
I’m calling it self defense.
The D.A. Gives conflicting information about the circumstances in her interview:
“I believe the evidence also shows that an announcement was made,’ Renken said. ‘However, there is not enough evidence that Mr. Magee knew that day that Peace Officers were entering his home.”
And then......
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Christine Labertew, spokeswoman for the Burleson County Sheriff’s Office, said Monday she did not know if or how deputies announced their entrance into the home.
<** She said they were not wearing body cameras during the incident**>
Sohhhhh, riddle me this:
“If no video was worn by the officers exactly **WHAT** evidence do you have a right, proper and lawful announcement was made???”
I’m thinking Henry Bowman.