Posted on 02/13/2015 8:16:46 AM PST by RBW in PA
READING, Pa. — Pennsylvania State Police say a trooper fatally shot a man while serving an arrest warrant at a Reading row home. Police say the man resisted arrest before the trooper opened fire about 4 a.m. Friday. A neighbor tells the Reading Eagle he saw police in SWAT gear and heard shouting, a loud explosion and five or six gunshots. The trooper is a member of the state police's Special Emergency Response Team. The unit had been called in to assist Berks County detectives in serving the warrant. Police say the warrant was for the man who was shot. They didn't release his name. Reading is about 60 miles northwest of Philadelphia.
The rather blatant omission of what the offending warrant was for has me suspicious, at the least.
It is either duplicity by LE, or it is gross negligence by whoever reported this. It is my understanding that warrants that have been executed should be open and a matter of record. BUT, there could be exigent circumstances. I look forward to finding out what the dire emergency was that necessitated the taking of this person’s life at 4AM.
Unless it's a deteriorating hostage situation, there is no need to barge into anybody's home in the middle of the night. That's just asking for trouble.
It occurred to me, that it would not be that hard for me to rig a trap door right in front of the front door of my house, such that if the front door gets smashed in the trap door opens.
Where such a hypothetical trap door would lead to, is the room in the basement where the oil tank used to be for the oil boiler. It occurs to me it wouldn’t be that technically difficult to put a few dozen 3 foot high sharpened metal spikes in that room.
The beauty of hidden static defenses is that they are effective while keeping the inhabitants out of the line of fire.
But I’m sure this guy was a very dangerous criminal - why, he might have been overdue on his student loans! We don’t want our police to take a risk with such a dangerous person, do we?
unpaid parking tickets, probably. You send a SWAT to serve a warrant and it is like sending soldiers to control a riot. They are trained to shoot people as their normal response.A SWAT gets all armored up and has his machine gun and his pistols on and he is keyed up to kill, so he does.
If it were truly exigent circumstances, there would be no warrant, no need for a warrant. Having SWAT teams deliver warrants is just plain arrogant.
“Having SWAT teams deliver warrants is just plain arrogant.”
They are called in so they can have target practice on live targets!
SEAL Team 6 fantasies.
Agree. I was giving LE the benefit of the doubt. The reason they did it is because they can. They should deliver immediate un-concocted reasons for this and prepare to answer multiple questions, IMO. Goons
Train, train, train. Juice up, roid up and hype up. Train HARD, live HARD, kill HARDER. Vick was a dirtbag needed schooling.
I hope this don’t come back on me. I automatically assumed what I sayed was sarcastical....
Richard Frank Carlin, 35
I vote we wait to hear what the warrant was for...Berks County has a special unit for serving warrants, and they (the officers) are also sworn in as US Marshals. So this could be a federal warrant, or a state one. I’m hoping there is a good reason for the early wake-up call.
Source please?
SWAT teams have finally replaced the police officer. And innocent people die as a result.
Why did you shoot him: Um, he was reaching for a gun.
Did you see the gun: Um, er, ahh, No we saw no gun
Did you find a gun: Well, um, after an extensive search, LOOK A SQUIRREL!
What was the warrant for? What was so important that SWAT was needed at 4:am
that could not wait until a proper hour? We can be assured that they searched the
house inside and out, trashing it for ANYTHING to cover their butts. I'm certain
they'll come out after finding a cache of steak knives in the kitchen drawer.
It also seems reasonable that finding a gun would've been reported immediately.
Wfmc.com it’s right at the top of the lead stories
Okay, I’ll wait. Sworn US Marshalls or not, the account said SWAT. I don’t really care whether the warrant was state of federal, but with nothing immediately forthcoming, it is very suspicious. I’ll wait, regardless.
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