Posted on 12/28/2013 9:03:20 AM PST by Oldpuppymax
On December 19th, a sheriff’s deputy was shot and killed during an attempt to serve a “no knock” warrant near Sommerville, Texas. Just before 6:00 A.M. an 8 member SWAT team broke through the door of Henry Goedrich Magee to serve a warrant which would permit the team to search the mobile home in which Magee and his pregnant girlfriend were living. Reacting to the pre-dawn, forced entry Magee grabbed a rifle propped against a bedroom door frame and fired at the unidentified intruders, killing 31 year old sheriff’s deputy Adam Sowders. No one else was injured and Magee was taken into custody. He is being held on $1 million bail and has been charged with capital murder, punishable in Texas by life in prison without possibility of parole or death by lethal injection.
These are the broad facts of the case as first reported by a number of print, radio and TV sources. The following additional information has been made public during the past few days:
1.) The “no-knock” warrant was issued at the request of...
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Not much good against a .30'06 at bedroom range.
What were they there for and was this a bad guy they were trying to surprise? if not and they can’t prove he was a criminal before the forced entry I doubt they will get a conviction for murder when they broke in.
Even if they shouted who they were they were breaking in and how do you know if they are who they say until they are in and you get ID, but if you wait that long and they get in and are NOT the police you are dead.
So unless this guy was way bad before I do not see this guy getting a murder wrap for this police action.
And this is why the left is going after the second amendment. The minute there is no fear by the government on entering someones domicile, the citizenry will no longer be able to protect themselves.
That is followed up by the confiscation of our weapons for self defense and eventually totalitarianism.
Ok, I read the whole article.
If the story we have is accurate, all guns in the house were legal and the prior history of this man was a little pot and a couple of old DUI arrests. So he’s no saint, but doesn’t have any kind of rap sheet to justify treating him like a killer either.
So, whether he’s a nice guy or not, police break into his mobile home with him and his pregnant woman inside.
He shoots one guy, then figures out what’s going on and is taken alive (damn miracle, I’d like to hear how he wasn’t shot! That alone would be a heck of a story.)
End result based on what we know:
At the very least everyone goes home and has to live with their stupidity and life choices getting a man killed. The dead man started all this himself... so...
And the PD should be lucky if they aren’t sued for distress and mental anguish.
If a cop is going to break into a citizen’s home at an odd hour unannounced, he would be safer doing so in Chicago, Washington, DC or Massachusetts than in Texas.
And they can do it with the support of a faction of "social conservatives" who buy into the premise of a "drug war" -- i.e., a "war" on an age-old human failing. They're all against government involvement -- except when it involves their own ideas of righteousness.
* i.e. 'manufactured'
But, I do not have all of the facts. We will see.
Dick DeGuerin has taken this case. The guy will walk and DeGuerin will take it to the Supremes if he has to.
Review your Newton. Thw whole point of body armor is that it PREVENTS the impact of the bullet from concentrating on one spot. The poster said "without penetration" So without penetration the momentum is spread out over a larger area and because of the MASS of the body armor the impulse is spread over time.
I reiteratr that it isn't the momentum per se that causes the damage it's the hole that the bullet leaves.
Look for a stacked jury pool, and look for all of the spectator seats to be filled with cops to intimidate the jury. Also look for a gross miscarriage of justice.
Very sad about the deputy, another senseless death.
perhaps, but if it starts to reduce the abuse of citizens by police, then mybe some good will come of it.
"...I must shoot straighter than my enemy who is trying to kill me. I must shoot him before he shoots me. I will...
Not just for Marines any more, but for all freedom loving citizens, although sadly it's one's own government that seems to be the enemy these days.
Not needed *No knock raid*, cops fault.
Cops playing cowboy again.
Sure it does. But once again. You’re not gonna like getting hit by a 30/06 bullet in a plate. I promise. And from 20 ft or so I’m pretty sure that,yes, it could kill you. Most cops don’t wear hard armor, that I know of anyway.
It should be assumed that behind every locked and private door lies a lawfully armed citizen who will justly defend to the death any trespass without prior full notice.
This is the very person and purpose for whivh we need the Constitution--to protect the individual by the law, from the law.
Hear! Hear!
My sister's boy killed himself on drugs -- OD'd on heroin. It was a nightmare. But so were the three jail terms he'd already served. By the end of the third when I went to pick him up at the bus station on his release, all he could talk about was his rights and suing the jail-guards.
In short, he'd become a convict.
Those jail terms didn't set him straight and, meanwhile, the rest of us are suspects who stand to lose our property even on the accusation of drug use.
Drugs are terrible. They kill. So do the laws we've allowed to be passed to control them.
Can’t get a stacked jury pool because ALL juries of more than two weeks only consist of retirees, government workers and a very few independent business man.
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