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MI:Homeowner is Arrested for Open Carrying an Empty Shotgun on His Own Property
gunsnfreedom.com ^ | 25 September, 2013 | Jonathan S.

Posted on 09/26/2013 4:34:45 PM PDT by marktwain

Man is arrested on his own property for open carrying an empty shotgun

(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.


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Links to YouTube video at the site. Seems like very clear police abuse of this man's constitutional rights. First amendment, they forced the wife to delete video of the officers actions. The Seventh Circuit has ruled that recording police in the performance of their public duties is a first amendment right.

Second amendment, self explanatory.

I suspect that a big settlement is coming from this arrest. The officer who intimidated the wife into deleting the file should be fired.

1 posted on 09/26/2013 4:34:45 PM PDT by marktwain
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To: marktwain

Fired? He should be jailed.


2 posted on 09/26/2013 4:36:59 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: marktwain

I am really starting to dislike LEOs of all stripes. When not shooting pets they seem to be harassing citizens who are within their rights! I remember watching them pull people out of their homes when searching for those Boston Bombers.


3 posted on 09/26/2013 4:38:22 PM PDT by seeker41 (take your country back by whatever means necessary)
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To: Springman; cyclotic; netmilsmom; RatsDawg; PGalt; FreedomHammer; queenkathy; madison10; ...
A Crawford county cop should know better. I'm guessing the real issue in the arrest was "escorting" the trespasser back to the house.

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4 posted on 09/26/2013 4:39:26 PM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: marktwain

When the cop said “doing this for our own protection”...she should have said the same...with regards to the camera.


5 posted on 09/26/2013 4:44:02 PM PDT by RckyRaCoCo (Shall Not Be Infringed)
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To: marktwain

Welcome to the new USSA. Before I left, I noticed that police, everywhere, were morphing into jack-booted thugs, even in small rural areas. I now see the same thing on US TV programs that I get via Satellite.
I guess they are gearing up to control the descent.


6 posted on 09/26/2013 4:47:26 PM PDT by AlexW
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To: marktwain

In ancient Rome it was illegal to put shackles on a citizen for any reason.


7 posted on 09/26/2013 4:49:50 PM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8: verses 38 and 39. "For I am persuaded".)
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To: marktwain

The question on everyone's mind: how is the family dog?


8 posted on 09/26/2013 4:50:35 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Let your 'Yes' mean 'Yes,' and your 'No' mean 'No.' Matthew 5:37)
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To: marktwain
The official-looking costume that guy in the picture is wearing apparently confers all sorts of authority and privilege: to bully citizens, slap them around, order people to turn off cameras, tie-wrap their wrists, confiscate their property, and generally violate their God-given rights.

Wow - I wanna be one of those guys!

9 posted on 09/26/2013 4:51:18 PM PDT by bkopto (Obama and Biden are merely symptoms of a more profound, systemic disease in American body politic.)
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To: marktwain

Heck all my neighbors got loaded guns on their properties n the local cops did the same thing before they were cops so wht the hell is wrong with those city slicker cops in MI?


10 posted on 09/26/2013 4:56:04 PM PDT by bunkerhill7 (("The Second Amendment has no limits on firepower"-NY State Senator Kathleen A. Marchione.))
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To: marktwain

“But soon the cops were saying that Thomas Donald was pointing his shotgun at the trespasser and he was charged with felonious assault, even though the couple says he never pointed his gun at the trespasser...”

I wish the wife had started the recording sooner, to have irrefutable proof of that. As it is, it will probably be the police’s word against theirs come court time (assuming the police don’t have video of their own here).

Whoever is telling the truth about how it went down, “I’m taking that for evidence” is just bull. I can’t see any where a cop had any legal right to confiscate the wife’s cell phone. Seems like unlawful seizure of property, in fact - i.e. theft. Not that I’m naive enough to think anything will come of it.


11 posted on 09/26/2013 4:56:20 PM PDT by DemforBush (Bring me the head of Alfredo Garcia!)
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To: marktwain

Cops are conditioning the 3% to treat them as the enemy.


12 posted on 09/26/2013 4:58:04 PM PDT by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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To: marktwain

13 posted on 09/26/2013 4:59:04 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You can't invade the mainland US There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: bkopto

Bad officer! - NO doughnut for you!


14 posted on 09/26/2013 4:59:10 PM PDT by DaveyB ("When injustice becomes the law; rebellion becomes duty." - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: marktwain

Cops ever do that to me, and I will become a permanent fixture in the line for Freedom of Information Act requests. Every hired, appointed, or elected official in the hierarchy above the cops would see their public careers go down the tube, and their private ones as well. And it would not end until I died.


15 posted on 09/26/2013 5:02:54 PM PDT by Born to Conserve
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To: marktwain

With the massive uptick in membership at the NRA, NRA attorneys should be on their way to this homeowners house to provide him defense in court.


16 posted on 09/26/2013 5:13:51 PM PDT by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America (If Americans were as concerned for their country as Egyptians are, Obama would be ousted!)
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To: bunkerhill7
wht the hell is wrong with those city slicker cops in MI?

Crawford county is rural and that ain't no "city slicker cop from MI"..............

And FWIW, he's probably no different than the "city slicker cop" in your own hood.........

17 posted on 09/26/2013 5:14:10 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (Ms. Muffett suffered from arachnophobia)
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To: bunkerhill7

And as a side note, the cop is a County Sheriff, not a “city slicker cop”..........


18 posted on 09/26/2013 5:18:11 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (Ms. Muffett suffered from arachnophobia)
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To: yarddog

For a long time, Roman citizenship was a precious jewel.

If only American citizenship was similarly cherished.


19 posted on 09/26/2013 5:26:24 PM PDT by Jacquerie (An Article V amendment convention of the states is our only hope.)
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To: marktwain

Seems like not a day goes by but what there’s another story like this.


20 posted on 09/26/2013 5:37:59 PM PDT by Past Your Eyes (You can't force people to care. Sometimes I don't myself.)
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