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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With so many laws on the books can ANYONE be certain they are model citizens immune from such ‘official’ behavior??
I can't convict if these turn out to be the facts. I would, however, be predisposed to award the homeowner a sizeable amount in a civil suit against the county, for violating his constitutional rights under the color of law.
To paraphrase “Little Bill’s” last words, maybe
31 year old sheriff’s deputy Adam Sowders’ last thought was:
“I don’t deserve this—to die like this. I was-——————”
William Munny’s comment ““Deserve’s got nothin’ to do with it.”
My thought “ poetic Justice for a Ignorant action by Adam Sowders”!
Waco had the same discipline by LEOs!
The police are no longer just police but gestapo like militarized mechanized storm troopers. I fear we are losing our freedom and the police seem to like being aggressive beyond their civic responsibility.
I reside in Texas and people really don’t care for the no knock nonsense that goes on and I bet a jury will not convict him.
Knock Knock
If the amount of drugs can be quickly flushed down a toilet, then you're a pretty low-lovel offender.
There's two types of drug dealers; those who need forklifts and those who don't.
I did a quick search of my electronic version of the Constitution.
I did not locate the phrase “No Knock” in any of the main text or amendments.
I did find this thing called the Fourth Amendment, though . . .
Me too. My AR is loaded and at my bedside. Yes, with NATO green tips.
True, but do you believe that citing the Fourth Amendment would keep you from being charged with capital murder?
Good luck with that.
I believe it should have that effect, but that it won’t.
I bet that deputy’s family wishes the police had arrested the fellow at the grocery store.
Actually, I’d say that a young deputy was killed because of the stupidity of a corrupt judge and a corrupt deputy boss. Also likely a corrupt sheriff. He was just doing what he was told—although I suppose there’s a problem with that, too. But he may have just been told that this was a dangerous criminal.
Boo Hoo Jackboot.
Bird, buck, slug, bird, buck, slug, ...
They could have merely waited until 6 AM or so when it was light, thrown a rock against the door, and yelled "Police". He could have looked out the window and surrendered--or if he wanted to fight (which seems unlikely), he would have been at a terrible disadvantage.
The no-knock invasion only serves the ego of the arresting team in a situation like this.
You know things are very screwed up when home invaders yell "Police" to confuse and help overwhelm the residents. In this country, the residents should know (and used to know) that the policed don't behave like that.
Pleading the 5th has kept a lot of Democrats out of jail.
If the amount of drugs can be quickly flushed down a toilet, then you're a pretty low-lovel offender.
My thought as well, It's not that hard to drop a plug into the sewer clean out that normally is located near the front of the house.
[ In is vaguely remesencent of the KGB and Gestapo techniques used in the past. ]
Another reason they want us sheep disarmed, so they won’t get shot back at during these sort of hijinks...
You can actually trace this tragedy back to the Legislature, who passed:
* laws supporting no knock warrants
* Castle doctrine laws, allowing use of lethal force against intruders
Evidently Legislatures only have the attention span to consider one law at a time, and ignore interactions.
[ No Knock Raids... Another legacy of the War on Drugs. I supported the WOD for years, but today I would say “No, the damage to the civil rights and liberties of the citizens of the United States far outweigh any benefits gained from the War on Drugs.”
And it must go into the ash-heap of history as a good idea gone wrong. ]
Isn’t it funny how the war on drugs used to take place on cartels who lived in distant lands and along our borders, but now has been turned exclusively inwards towards our citizens while our Borders lay prone to anyone who wants to walk across them...?
We can’t patrol our G_D D_mned borders anymore but we can setup no knock raids and shoot peoples dogs and raid the wrong addresses and shoot innocent citizens... But patrol the border, no that would be mean and not politically correct......
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