Posted on 02/06/2014 6:37:50 PM PST by Teotwawki
A Central Texas man who shot and killed a sheriff's deputy entering his home will not be charged with capital murder, attorneys said Thursday. A local grand jury declined Wednesday to indict Henry Goedrich Magee for the December death of Burleson County Sgt. Adam Sowders, who was part of a group of investigators executing a search warrant for Magee's rural home. Sowders and other officers entered the home about 90 miles northwest of Houston without knocking just before 6 a.m. Authorities were looking for guns and marijuana. Magee's attorney, Dick DeGuerin, said his client thought he was the victim of a home invasion, reached for a gun and opened fire.
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Comment: Bound to happen sooner or later.
/johnny
Good for him, reminds me of a Marley song. Oh, wait...
I’ve been waiting for this.
To quote:
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”
Not the first time LEO have been shot serving no-knock warrants.
But a very rare instance of the grand jury not indicting.
This is a symptom that Americans are awakening to the police state abuses being heaped upon them. Thank you Youtube and cell phone cameras.
| Deep mourning ping |
And more dangerous for the Jack Booted Thugs.
If I was on a Grand Jury hearing this type of case I’d be thinking ‘nullification’, too.
Always the evasion of the passive voice. WHO MADE the "announcement"? What was the "announcement"? Was there any "evidence" whatsoever that the "announcement" was something that somebody in the house could have heard? How many milliseconds from the "announcement" did they "enter" (no doubt by smashing down the door)?
No Knock - No Quarter
I am surprised the guy didn’t get shot about a hundred times by the backup cops.
Man, was that cop surprised!
And good for the Texas grand jury! If someone bursts into my house in the middle of the night without yelling “Police!”, and I can get to my gun, I’m going to shoot. My biggest fear is some thug (not a cop thug) yelling “Police!” and it causes me to hesitate.
I just realized something. I have two dogs that will run to the sound barking. If I hear a gunshot I’ll KNOW it’s cops. Then I’ll really have to restrain myself. Man, I hope nothing like this ever happens to any of us.
I had never heard of this case until I saw this thread. With the hindsight of having read this article and initial reports of the arrest, my already chronic cynicism has grown just a little more:
- “Texas Rangers ... say they found a sophisticated marijuana grow operation” here http://kwhi.com/henry-magee-no-billied-in-deputys-death/ but “DeGuerin said all investigators found inside the trailer were a few marijuana plants” here http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2013/dec/24/texas_deputy_killed_dawn_noknock
- The Huffington Post helpfully accompanies its original article http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/23/henry-goedrich-magee-_n_4494527.html#slide=1388754 with a slide show entitled “Cop Killers”, mostly already convicted BTW, including the left’s favorite, Mumbo Abu-Jumbo.
- This guy was damn lucky he didn’t get the spray-and-pray treatment from the rest of the SWAT team — eight in all.
In this day and age, with today's technology, we all have a good awareness of the real situation. If the scum sucking dirt bags in government try a major gun grab, for instance, we will all know about it, across the country, in minutes. F the rat bastards and their re education camps.
This is fantastic news.
The only way to end Police abuse is to remove all obstructions to personal responsibility from Police Officers.
This particular LEO paid with his life for his decisions, and the shooter was NOT held responsible for the violence caused by the LEO’s actions.
So a good day in America. LE cannot be allowed to be the cause of violence and chaos. This Officer, this supervisor who designed the raid paid with his life. If the lesson to LE in general is to do No Knock raids by backing an armored vehicle through the living room wall then we are going backwards. If LE just escalates tactics then no progress has been made.
However the court ruling seems to put limits on what is tolerated from LE. I hope that it is the case, and not just a concurrent escalation of tactics.
Yes, that has happened too.
Excellent decision by the grand jury. Perhaps someone will think twice about trampling on the Constitution next time.
“not enough evidence that Mr. Magee knew that day that Peace Officers were entering his home”
I guess the dead fat slob peacefully bashed the door down.
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