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Texas police officer fatally shoots woman in her home after welfare check
Fox News ^ | Oct 12,2019 | By Melissa Leon

Posted on 10/12/2019 9:19:40 PM PDT by NoLibZone

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To: sockmonkey
...IDF, who I consider to be one of the most unapologetic brutal agencies on the Planet.

A shameful and blatantly false comment. Such anti-Semitic crap is completely uncalled for in this thread.

41 posted on 10/13/2019 2:54:07 AM PDT by Blennos
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To: Bullish

I see the cops have moved on from shooting your dog first to just shooting you.


42 posted on 10/13/2019 3:34:47 AM PDT by blackdog
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To: NoLibZone

A black texas women and a WHITE police officer the narrative has been written but the truth is not out yet. It will come out when the riots looting and such are over and the fake news media drags the story at nausium to the grave. And when the truth comes out those who were rabied are tired of it and are disinterested


43 posted on 10/13/2019 3:39:22 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (nic dip.com)
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To: precisionshootist

Who in the hell is training these officers?


What? You’ve never seen A ClockWork Orange? It predicted the future.


44 posted on 10/13/2019 3:48:44 AM PDT by cuban leaf (We're living in Dr. Zhivago but without the love triangle)
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To: NoLibZone
Responding officers searched the perimeter of the house and saw a person standing inside near the window, according to police. "Perceiving a threat, the officer drew his duty weapon and fired one shot, striking the person inside the residence,"

SOP for an Open Door Welfare Check at 2:30 am? If the woman was in the middle of going room to room to clear the house from any intruder, the officer who opened fire, didn't help. I'm pretty sure, after seeing a woman with a gun in the house, he wasn't too keen on knocking on the door next, even though he was supposed to... What would Obama say?

45 posted on 10/13/2019 3:53:06 AM PDT by Dixie Yooper (Ephesians 6:11)
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To: NoLibZone

The perceived threat in this situation was the murderous cop.

Guess the nosy neighbor can rest assured that his neighbor is dead now.


46 posted on 10/13/2019 4:11:06 AM PDT by chris37 (Where's Hunter?)
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To: ronnie raygun

*** the truth is not out yet. ***

I think the truth that an innocent woman was murdered in her home has been well established at this point.


47 posted on 10/13/2019 4:19:15 AM PDT by sockmonkey (I am an America First, not Israel First FReeper.)
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To: NoLibZone

Why does it make a point of telling us the “colors” of the individuals?


48 posted on 10/13/2019 4:53:22 AM PDT by I want the USA back (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
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To: sockmonkey

“But the cop who killed her, he might be. BTW, the gun found in her home was in her bedroom, not in the room where she and her young nephew were playing video games.”

There should then be at least two charges, one for the shooting and one for reckless endangerment of a minor. He very well could have shot that kid.


49 posted on 10/13/2019 5:16:22 AM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: RegulatorCountry

Yep...at this point i guess i should carry AR 10 at ready at all times and preemptively shoot anyone i see through my window


50 posted on 10/13/2019 5:40:37 AM PDT by Manuel OKelley
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To: sockmonkey

I saw the video...what happened here was completely ridiculous


51 posted on 10/13/2019 5:41:36 AM PDT by Manuel OKelley
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To: Steely Tom
Everything depends on the body cam video.

Doesn't look good. Cop sneaks around back (doesn't ring doorbell first), and woman approaches her own bedroom window (where she is playing video games with 8 year old before bed).

Cop yells: "Show me your BANG! hands!".

Woman never had time to process the strange noises outside her window, let alone to comply with a Noob cop (on force since 2018).

She probably died with an xbox controller in her hand. Cops show a still frame of pistol supposedly hers, but what would you do if you were a single mom who heard noises outside her bedroom window? I'd arm myself, first.

52 posted on 10/13/2019 5:42:17 AM PDT by DCBryan1 (Quit calling them liberals, progs, socialists, or democrats. Call them what they are: COMMUNISTS!!!!)
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To: NoLibZone

“””The neighbor who called 911 about the open front door told Fox 4 the police officers didn’t announce who they were or knock on the door before searching the outside of the house.

“When I made that non-emergency call, I didn’t say it was a burglary. I didn’t say it was people fighting. I didn’t say anything to make them have a gun. All they needed to do is ring the doorbell,” James Smith said.””””


If it was such a ‘non-emergency’ then why didn’t the neighbor, James Smith, do the ‘neighborly thing’.

All he had to do by his own words is ring the doorbell.

Instead James Smith calls the police and it did not end well.


53 posted on 10/13/2019 5:42:34 AM PDT by Presbyterian Reporter
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

“You sound like a closet anti-Semite to me.”

Nice smear.


54 posted on 10/13/2019 6:26:22 AM PDT by dljordan
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To: NoLibZone

One of the first rules of firearms is KNOW WHAT YOU’RE SHOOTING AT!!! You go to a house to check on the occupant, then you see “someone” standing in the house and you shoot them??? WTF??? Didn’t it occur to you that maybe the target was the occupant of the HOUSE?


55 posted on 10/13/2019 6:28:51 AM PDT by IronJack
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To: NoLibZone

How about a quick call to her Obama phone?


56 posted on 10/13/2019 6:35:33 AM PDT by super7man (Madam Defarge, knitting, knitting, always knitting)
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To: NoLibZone

Let’s see if there is more to this story, as its difficule to trust anything the media says. Having said that there does appear to be a rise in incompetent trigger happy cops; probably because of lowering the standards nationwide.


57 posted on 10/13/2019 6:38:08 AM PDT by kenmcg (tHE WHOLE)
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To: NoLibZone

If you want to make a bad situation worse then call the police.


58 posted on 10/13/2019 7:01:00 AM PDT by 762X51
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To: NoLibZone

This was not “after” the welfare check. The police had not yet announced their presence, nor had they simply rung the doorbell. They were quietly prowling around the outside of the house.

I can’t see this as anything less than negligent homicide.


59 posted on 10/13/2019 7:03:59 AM PDT by MortMan (Americans are a people increasingly separated by our connectivity.)
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To: rockinqsranch

Maybe he swatted her...but I doubt it. If he did then it should show up on the 9/11 call. Why didn’t he , if he was afraid to approach and ring the doorbell himself, maybe suspecting the place was being or had been burgled but not knowing her number, shout and call to see if his neighbor could answer?


60 posted on 10/13/2019 7:06:23 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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