MI:Homeowner is Arrested for Open Carrying an Empty Shotgun on His Own Property

gunsnfreedom.com ^ | 25 September, 2013 | Jonathan S.

[marktwain]

(Credit: Heather Donald, YouTube)

A military veteran in Crawford County, Michigan has been arrested and charged with a felony assault with a deadly weapon even after HE was the one who called the cops in the first place when he found a man trespassing on his property.

When the man’s wife tried to video tape what was happening the cops told her to turn off the camera and tried to take it.  (You can see the video below… only because the wife figured out how to restore the “deleted” file)

The Blaze has reported that Thomas Donald was out hunting with his son on his own land when they came across the trespasser.  Donald had an unloaded .410 shotgun while his son was using a crossbow.

When they came across the trespasser on a dirt bike, they escorted him back to the house and called the Department of Natural Resources.  But when the police showed up everything went downhill fast.  According to Heather Donald when the cops showed up Thomas Donald held up his open shotgun in one hand and held a shell in his other hand to show that he was not a threat.

But the police did not get the hint and they soon had a pistol pointed at Donald as they put him in handcuffs and on the ground.  The following video shows what Heather was able to record before the police forced her to turn off the cell phone camera.

[PhiloBedo]

Bookmarked for future follow-up to see just what happens to this wanna-be sheriff’s deputy.

[bunkerhill7]

Heck something wrong with that cop coz everyone here shoots off guns in the back yards and it keeps the burglars away. we only got 2 cops in a rural town of 8,000 armed citizens coz we don need no more.

[VRWCarea51]

Most county cops are about 3 IQ Points higher than Corrections Officers.

[gigster]

... The City of Grayling is in Crawford County. That is not too far from Me, in Charlevoix,on Lake Michigan. Yep, there are definately Red-Necks in Them-There Hills.

[Lurker]

I’m tired of taxpayer financed settlements. I was assholes like this bankrupted and then prosecuted criminally. I want their families in the streets dead broke and starving.

I want these thugs with badges spending 15 years pinned to some lifer with AIDS.

[marktwain]

Please let us know if you obtain some local knowledge of the situation.

[from occupied ga]

I suspect that a big settlement is coming from this arrest.

Never happen

[RandallFlagg]

Bookmarking.

[nonsporting]

Never call a cop. Take care of the matter. Call the coroner, if you have to.

[VerySadAmerican]

First of all, most of them are too damned stupid to get a job doing anything else. Second, their training does not include the words “constitutional rights”.

[Delta 21]

Exactly. If you cant stay within the laws ((you took an oath to protect,)) you are a criminal.

[EdReform]

Rape of Liberty ping

[Sioux-san]

That’s what I was thinking, too. I couldn’t find anything that explains what happened with the trespasser - is he the one sitting on the chair? Were the police ever going to arrest someone for trespassing? Just don’t get what the end game was supposed to be before the SHTF.

[bamahead]

The cops then reportedly took the woman’s phone and forced her to delete the video she had just taken. But later on she figured out how to use recovery software to get the file back and upload it to Youtube.



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[GregNH]

If Police mis-conduct is not caught on video does it happen anyway?