[nickcarraway]

Video at site.

[gaijin]

When they blow away a Trayvon or gentle giant I am the entire trumpet section.

but when dogs or veterans get the same treatment I don’t support the pigs.

[loungitude]

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[Robert DeLong]

The overriding damning fact, to me at least, is the refusal to listen to the family friend. Most certainly a major problem for these officers.

[TADSLOS]

UR Doing It Wrong Ping.

[glasseye]

“There is no situation so bad it cannot be made worse by the presence of a policeman.”

[doorgunner69]

Roberts said was hard of hearing, told Marshall he thought someone was outside his house trying to break in.

Well, yes, there was someone trying to break in.

At least the cops all went home safe that night.

[bk1000]

There is no way this should be allowed. If the LEOs that did this are not approprialy punished, then a lynch mob perhaps should form. No justice, no peace. Isn’t that what they say?

[trisham]

Murder, it would appear.

[Nifster]

Santa Clara PD is notoriously bad. Officers are over aggressive even at traffic stops

[lee martell]

When the Officer broke his way into the house through a side door, and saw the Homeowner standing there with a gun, that’s when he should have tried to explain. Perhaps the police are taught to never ‘retreat’ from such a situation.

Maybe the Police Department is slow walking this case, stringing it along for a couple of years, waiting for the widow to pass away.

[fruser1]

I’ve heard of these things called lockpicks...

[SkyDancer]

They will, as usual, state that the police followed accepted policies and procedures, so there .... deal with it citizens.

[Flick Lives]

Wellness check.

That turned out poorly.

[arthurus]

After a long siege of this crap a few years ago, I thought this stuff and gone away. These cops shot somebody strictly for the experience of it. Departments used to train cops to do this to inure them to shooting citizens for when the crisis comes but the publicity got so bad that , it seemed at least, that training was deleted. Maybe not everywhere.
, Back when this stuff was SOP police practice, I determined that I would never call the police in any situation. I still feel that way. Wife swore not to call police before that when she had called for intervention for a couple of kids in an unorthodox home situation who were getting abused pretty badly. Family Services came and got the kids and put them in a worse foster situation that eventually killed one of them.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

I notice something seems to have gotten lost in the store and that is who the heck called for a "welfare check"?

The couple had been out that night so it was not as if they had not been seen for a week or two.

It is very odd.

[Flying Circus]

Under no circumstances what-so-ever should a person in their own home, who is not even suspected of a crime be shot by police. If these officers failed to follow procedure they should be fired and prosecuted to the full extent of the law. If they did follow procedures then the police chief and whoever else was responsible for the procedures should be fired and the procedures rewritten.

Someone is responsible for this man dying in what should be the safety of his own home and there must be severe consequences.

[eyeamok]

We used to call this a :
HOME INVASION ROBBERY and FIRST DEGREE MURDER, With Special Circumstances of Using a Firearm during the Commission of a Violent Felony.

THEY ALL DESERVE LIFE IN PRISON!

[sport]

The police just can't kick doors, come into the house and start shooting.”
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They did it. The police can't prevent Trump supporters from getting the hell beaten out of them in plain view. They can't prevent people attending a lecture at Berkley in plain view from getting the hell beaten out of them. However, when it comes to shooting 86 year old men in their own homes, they are johnnie on the spot and are hell on wheels.