Man pleads not guilty to killing detective
No drugs found in raid that claimed the life of Texas police officer
Posted on 07/11/2014 2:35:13 PM PDT by bamahead
When the San Antonio Police Department’s Tactical Response Unit busted through his front door, 52-year-old Adrian Perryman says he opened fire because he believed a home invasion was underway. He wounded a police officer, but claims he tossed his firearm once he saw they were cops and not criminals.
It took a jury in San Antonio, Texas, nine hours of deliberation to find Perryman not guilty on four counts of aggravated assault on a peace officer earlier this week. The raid occurred at Perryman’s home back in October 26, 2010.
Police officers testified that they shouted, “Police! Police!” as they broke down the door and then again when they were inside the home, KSAT-TV reports.
That was the big disagreement in the trial as Perryman’s attorney, Tony Jimenez, told the jury his client did not hear the police identify themselves or make it known that they had a search warrant. Perryman reportedly fired four rounds at police.
“The door goes down – he shoots,” Jimenez said, according to KSAT-TV. “Was it in the direction of police? Did he know they were police?”
The defense attorney also told jurors that Perryman was protecting his house, girlfriend and family. His 3-year-old granddaughter, Savannah, was reportedly in the house on the night of the raid.
“He was protecting his house, he was protecting Ms. Flores and he was protecting Savannah,” Jimenez said.
Prosecutor Steve Spier argued it’s implausible that trained police officers would risk their lives and “have no regard for themselves” by failing to loudly proclaim who they are.
“Though jurors never heard about the reasons for or results of the search warrant, police at the time reported finding methamphetamine, drug paraphernalia and firearms in the home,” MySanAntonio.com reports.
Add to that, this is in San Antonio. baraq and his buds are releasing hordes of illegals into our country.
Say, at 2AM, English speaking foreign democrat voters show up at your door, yelling that they are police as they are breaking down your door. Then what?
My thinking is that more people are going to just decide to shoot first and worry about the consequences later.
But no dogs were murdered in the process.
D’oh on finding the firearm being mentioned in the article.
“Good cop” is very subjective. Every cop, every single one of them, say or do nothing when other cops violate the people’s God given rights. There are cops who are decent people, but none of them should be trusted.
So what?? What's inconceivable is that you're so stupid that you think home invaders can't enunciate the word. And further, what's also inconceivable is that being that stupid, you STILL think we should care what you think about anything.
Man’s quite lucky to still be on this side of the lawn.
B...b...but did all the cops get home safe? That’s the important question.
The guy was compliant once he learned it was police - further proving that the no-knock raid was totally unnecessary.
Could end up becoming a landmark home defense precedent in Texas. A court affirmed right to defend your family + property from unannounced invasion/entry, no matter who the entrant - criminal, or agent of the state. Even with a warrant. Win for the 4th amendment.
Man pleads not guilty to killing detective
No drugs found in raid that claimed the life of Texas police officer
Exactly cops can no longer be trusted ... and if they can't be trusted, they should be replaced by those who can be trusted. The cure (LE) has gotten worse than the disease
Dear poh-lice,
The justice system worked, whether you liked it or not.
12 jurors have spoken, that you, the poh-lice, ain’t all that!
Why not arrest him in the day time when he is walking out of 7-Eleven with a slurpee? Or around noon when he wakes up and goes outside?
What is this fascination that cops have of late-night, break down the door, throw the flash-bang, shoot the dog raids??
Some actual police work before any “raid” to collect some actual evidence of the persons guilt would be nice, and some actual police work to confirm WHO is in the house, and making sure it is the right house would also be pretty nice.
I don’t think my standards are too high.
Yes
Pull up the stairs at night kind of place?
I’ll go further and say that even the trustworthy ones are corrupted by the system they work in.
Law Enforcement has turned into a for profit / revenue cash cow for the state. Asset forfeiture has made it ok to violate the rights of innocents - just on the mere chance that the state (and department) will get a big payday if the ‘innocent until proven guilty’ suspect can’t prove their asset isn’t a criminal too. Heck, the forfeiteer doesn’t even have to be charged with a crime for the state to confiscate assets. It’s insane.
There are a few Law Enforcement Organizations there who do resist this evil temptation, you hear them speak out from time to time. But they’re in the minority.
“Why not arrest him in the day time”
Ouch, that’s going to leave a mark!
I live in San Antonio, and at the time this happened, many neighbors commented that he was out and about all the time. I think we have too many people in our police these days that just want to play dress up and run around like fools. Anybody smart would have easily grabbed this guy while he was out, and walked right into the house without an ounce of drama,
Why didn’t the police come during the day and ring the doorbell?
If these raids were in the day time maybe they wouldn’t get the wrong address so often. lol
According to the article, the police were looking for drugs. From what I can tell, they do almost all of those as no-knock raids. Another unintended consequence of the war on drugs.
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