Posted on 12/04/2006 9:08:57 AM PST by jjm2111
The State Bureau of Investigation is examining the case and three deputy sheriffs on the team are on paid leave, New Hanover County Sheriff Sid Causey said Sunday.
Peyton Strickland, 18, was killed Friday night at a home he shared with three roommates. His German shepherd dog, Blaze, also was shot to death.
The deputies were helping police for the University of North Carolina at Wilmington serve an arrest warrant that charged Strickland with armed robbery, assault with a deadly weapon and breaking and entering a vehicle.
Causey declined to identify the suspended deputies — members of an elite emergency response team — because he feared for their safety.
Roommate Mike Rhoton said Strickland was unarmed, but may have been holding a video game controller when he went to the door, which the roommate said was bashed in by officers.
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Unless it comes out that the kid had a gun, he doesn't deserve to die, even if he is a punk bastard. SWAT is used way to much for too many of the wrong reasons.
They were afraid he was going to throw an egg at them.
The warrant charged him with armed robbery and ADW. Why shouldn't the police assume he was armed and dangerous?
Yeah, but how else are you going to justify a bloated police budget?
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John Edwards is going to strange extremes to get his son that Christmas gift.
I'd reserve judgment on this. If he really committed armed robberies, as the report led the police to believe, then they would have expected him to be armed and dangerous, and might have mistaken what he held in his hand.
If he DIDN'T commit armed robberies, then whoever wrote the report needs to be disciplined. But I see no reason to disbelieve it.
The words "elite emergency response team" are a good indicator that shots will be fired and someone will likely die. We'll likely never know whether that death was necessary and justified or not.
The article I read said they killed his dog, too. I tried posting it earlier, but at the time, I could only find the AP link.
I think it is really ironic that our military gets in trouble for killing insurgants that are actively trying to kill them, but this kind of stuff is acceptable behavior right in our own backyards.
Granted, the kid sounds like a total punk, but this seems so extreme to me.
Looks like this kid had at least one other assault charge.
LOL! Good one.
By the way, the CBS Sunday show on Sunday morning had a puff piece about John Edwards as their lead story. I couldn't turn the TV off fast enough.
Oh my, how sad.
And they say that gaming isn't dangerous- proof right here that it is! http://sacredscoop.com
Also, it said he had a controller in his hand when he went to the door, but they said he didn't answer his door. If he wasn't going to answer the door, why would he go to it when they kicked it in.
It sounds all sounds weird to me.
But OBSERVE first. Too often the late night dynamic entry is the first choice of action when it should be toward the end. This kid wasn't some drug kingpin with tons of bodyguards and security systems. He was some jerk. Arrest him somewhere else or try knocking first.
OldEagle has said for years that when police departments started wearing fatigues and combat boots law enforcement totally lost it.
Oldeagle is right on the money with that observation.
They probably just saved 80 future Acuras from being stolen, and who knows how many related deaths and injuries of innocent victims in the process.
He was unloading the units at his campus apartment when a car pulled up and one man beat him to the ground while another took the Playstations, the sheriff said.
No tears for the thug. I'm glad he's dead.
Police forces attract sadists. Its a sad fact of life. These types relish the opportunity to commit murder in the name of the law.
I agree. Too much money allocated.
Don't forget to shoot the dog!
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