I wish we would end the “no knock” warrant madness once and for all.
I'm not for legalizing pot but a misdemeanor raid is over the top if this is true.
Sounds like a justified shooting to me...
This guy is innocent, his story rings true.
Sadly he is going down because the fellow that assaulted him was a cop.
Live by the sword, die by the sword. They need to stop trying to be Navy Seals and go back to law enforcement.
The same police department that invaded Matthew Stewart’s home is the same police department that shot a man defending his home with a golf club.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2649578/posts
We need more peace officers who refuse to go on these no-knock/forced entry raids, and fewer law enforcement officers who are eager to do so.
Now there’s a defense fund I could donate to....
I am very much pro-police, but I can’t for the life of me understand how I am supposed to differentiate between real police and thugs who yell “police” when my door is busted down in the middle of the night.
Anyone can yell “police.”
They have got to quit this stuff. It is not workable and law-fearing people are going to end up hurting or killing cops even though they don’t want to. It is wrong.
Police have said officers repeatedly knocked on the door and called inside Stewart’s house before they broke inside
Oh Mr. Stewart, are you home sir?
Give me a break: We have all seen these things go down many times over. For a police officer to claim they stood outside his door and repeatedly knocked while they called out to him is laughable.
They went charging in and got shot.
They could just as easily arrested him when he went to work
and then gone to his home with a warrant to search for his Marijuana plants.
Stewart is lucky to be alive, and probably is because he hit several officers before they could get him. Jose Gorena was shot 71 times by officers of the law. Then laid there for over an hour while they watched him bleed out.
When they got to court, the jury heard all of the testimony, especially the ones from the neighbors on BOTH sides of the "raid" house. It was hot that evening, and rather early, 9pm or so, so the neighbors on each side of the house testified that they got out of the van, tried to break down the door, and DID NOT, repeat, DID NOT shout "POLICE" nor "WARRANT".
Guess what? The neighbors testimony stuck, and the homeowner was vindicated from police malfeasance. Topeka PD got into even MORE trouble after local TV crews caught uniformed cops bragging after the verdict that they will "get" the guy that killed their fellow brother....one even joking that he would be found with a gun in his hand the next time anyone reads about him.
Anyways, I wasn't at this latest shooting, and don't know the details, but I do know that a homeowner in the mid-90s was allowed to use deadly physical force against the police SWAT team fearing for his life.
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