Posted on 09/10/2024 5:20:23 AM PDT by marktwain
On May 3, 2024, a Florida Okaloosa County Sheriff Deputy shot and killed Senior Airman Roger Fortson. The deputy, Eddie Duran, was responding to a false, anonymous tip about supposed domestic violence in an apartment complex.
Fortson was playing with his dog and on the phone with his girlfriend. When Roger Fortson realized someone was insistently knocking on the door and demanding entry, he accessed his legally owned pistol, and with the pistol held by his side, pointed at the floor, opened the door.
After an internal investigation by the Sheriff’s Department, Fortson was fired. The Sheriff’s Office did not file criminal charges as the incident was being criminally investigated by an independent agency, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. AmmoLand covered the tragic incident four months ago.
“I hope this brings about change and it teaches others that you can’t just kill people,” his mother Chantemekki Fortson said Friday after learning of the charges. “Because he should have waited for back up. And investigated a little more.”
(Excerpt) Read more at ammoland.com ...
I assume this means former Deputy Duran was fired.
Yes, you are correct. What a horrible mistake! Glad you caught it!
Police need to show occupants that they are really police before the occupant opens the door. Running a siren and lights would be a good idea.
Never open your door to a stranger without first making sure of who and what he is.
We also need severe penalties for making false police reports (swatting).
Could also mean “we investigated ourselves and found we did nothing wrong.”
” was responding to a false, anonymous tip”
I want to know who swatted him.
2)..Why hire a person to be a cop that is scared to death of the general public?
3)unglued person one meet unglued person 2..
4)Shoot first ask questions later seemed to be the first thing in both men's minds. One of them was quicker on the draw.
Any time a uniformed “public servant” assaults someone, invades someone’s property, threatens someone, or in any other way violates that person, the “public servant” does so “WITH A DEADLY WEAPON”. Punishment of the criminal “public servant” needs to be adjusted accordingly.
While on duty. A county sheriff ran over and killed a woman sitting in a chair on the beach in myrtle beach. The family sued the county...The horry county sheriff’s attorney claimed the sheriff’s department wasn’t responsible for him running her over. . Yes, we live in a country that hires anybody.. p.s. it wasn’t the first beach goer he hit, and he soon retired with full benefits.
Answer: Because it might not even be a cop!
Regards,
4)Shoot first ask questions later seemed to be the first thing in both men’s minds. One of them was quicker on the draw.
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If I read it right, the occupant didn’t know it was a cop.
If I thought someone dangerous was trying to make entry (for one thing, I wouldn’t open the door) I would freeze if I saw a cop in uniform if I was expecting an intruder.
You don’t want to hesitate, but you don’t want to shoot someone you know by mistake, or shoot law enforcement because that will never end well for you I don’t care how good your case is.
Didn’t this guy have a peep hole?
I don’t understand why he opened the door, unless he knew it was a cop though. But if he knew it was a cop, why did he have a gun out?
AirMAN, nor Airmen’...............Lived up the street from me.................
That's how I open my door when not expecting someone, (like folks coming over for a Bible study, etc).
Are you sure you're an American?
Familiar at all with the 2nd and 4th Amendments?
Better question: Why open the door for a cop at all? They're not "here to help you". Ever.
Do you need to be armed in your own home?
Yes. Anyone who feels otherwise hasn't thought the matter through completely.
.Why hire a person to be a cop that is scared to death of the general public?
They aren't really scared to death. They're just violent thugs who get off on abusing people. Why hire them? The people doing the hiring are also just violent thugs who get off on abusing people.
Your comments give the appearance of making excuses for the violent thug who killed an innocent man.
How do you think that Fortson should have answered? I think I would have answered like he did, and I would be just as dead. You have to be aware that Barney Fife is alive and well, and instead of one bullet, he has a mag with 15 bullets in it.
You'll always find on this site a subset of lowbrow chuds who'll defend "law enforcement" no matter what. Such types may think of themselves as "conservatives," but all they really are are knee-jerk "law-and-order" types who are as much a threat to our liberties as any far-Left statist.
NOPE.
No search warrant? No arrest warrant? No exigent circumstances?
When they kick at your front door
How you gonna come?
With your hands on your head
Or on the trigger of your gun
-The Clash The Guns of Brixton
That person or persons should also be charged with murder.
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