Officer kills 74-year-old man after family called cops to check on him at his home

Daily Mail Online ^ | February 8, 2015 | Anneta Konstantinides

[bike800]

You would be surprised...I work in a college city and we get a couple of calls a week from parents out of the area wanting us to check on their kids because they haven’t heard from them in a couple days...so we are put In bad situations...

[Gaffer]

Arm yourself and be prepared and defend yourself. After an incident, call the police ONLY after you have spoken with a lawyer.

[Gaffer]

Exactly how can a relative who does not own a home give permission for the police to enter into it? They can express concern, but concern does not confer ownership.

[Gaffer]

There is a difference between a homeowner with a gun awakened at midnight and an ‘intruder’.

I once got a called very late in the night from the Cobb County Police dispatcher. She told me the police were outside my home and were wanting to ask me if I’d seen a runaway teenage girl in the area. It was actually a very smart thing to do.

[muir_redwoods]

I wonder how anyone knows how the cop announced himself.

[Jonty30]

That is a fair question.

[Leaning Right]

Here’s two more for your list:

Have you ever been a police officer? No, eh? Then shut up. You don’t know anything.

It’s us against them. If you’re not for us, you’re for them.

[Leaning Right]

The police see an intruder with a gun who won’t back down then the intruder is the bad guy, not the cop.

Well, yeah, except that the old man was not an intruder. He was in his own home, facing what he thought was an intruder.

So actually, you have identified the wrong person as the intruder.

I have mentioned this on other threads. If cops are going to barge into a home, especially at night, they should be required to have a marked patrol car out front with lights flashing and siren on. Give the homeowner some kind of heads up.

[Leaning Right]

The notion that a cop can enter your home to check on you without a warrant is making the cop the intruder.

That's a very good point. If this sort of thing is allowed to stand, then there's nothing to stop me from calling the cops at 1 AM and saying "I think I saw blackdog just leave a bar. He looked really depressed. I'm afraid he'll hurt himself of someone else."

Then at 1:30 blackdog's door gets knocked in. Unpleasantries result.

[TangoLimaSierra]

When he goes over to check on a 74 year old man, the cop thought that another 74 year old man was burglarizing the house or something?

Exactly. Cop should have backed out and tried another tack. Ego probably wouldn't let him.

[riverrunner]

Never was a shoot to wound unless you believe in Hollywood

[Shimmer1]

I think I love you!!!!

No, really, you’ve inspired me to prepare better. Thank you

[Lazamataz]

Family: “Could you check on our relative?”

Police: “He’s dead.”

[School of Rational Thought]

Why did cop not back out of the house? Why did he did he feel need to advance?

[ontap]

The police have become very good ticket writers and very bad at most every thing else....why were they entering his house uninvited???

[Lazamataz]

THE POLICE ARE EVIL! They are written about in Romans, New Testament. JESUS WARNED YOU!

[Lazamataz]

I once got a called very late in the night from the Cobb County Police dispatcher. She told me the police were outside my home and were wanting to ask me if I’d seen a runaway teenage girl in the area. It was actually a very smart thing to do.

They were just provoking you to take a pot shot at them.

[Lazamataz]

I'm only 53

You're almost dead. Can I take a Life Insurance policy out on you? I need money.

[JRandomFreeper]

If I can borrow your car for a few hours.

/johnny

[Iscool]

How was the lighting in the home where the shooting occurred?

Apparently good enough that they could see guns being pointed at each other...