Posted on 08/07/2019 6:28:00 AM PDT by big'ol_freeper
A 61-year-old man is dead after he was shot by an officer trying to enforce Maryland’s new ‘red flag’ law in Ferndale Monday morning.
Anne Arundel County Police confirmed the police-involved shooting happened in the 100 block of Linwood Avenue around 5:17 a.m.
According to police, two officers serving a new Extreme Risk Protective Order (Red Flag Law), a Maryland protective order to remove guns from a household, shot and killed the man listed on that order.
“Under the law, family, police, mental health professionals can all ask for the protective orders to remove weapons,” said Sgt. Jacklyn David, with Anne Arundel County Police.
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My thoughts as well. I'd like to hear their rationale for going in at such an early hour.
Legal murder by cop.
JoMa
Yes. We see the idiocy all around us with squalor following closely behind. It’s appalling.
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