Play Misty for Me?
Posted on 02/20/2014 6:48:58 AM PST by Uncle Chip
Police in Georgia on Friday served a warrant for a probation violation at the trailer park home of a man and his son, a 17-year-old aspiring Marine. In the process of serving the warrant on the boy's father, an officer fatally shot the teen.
His crime: according to his attorney, he did nothing more than answer the door while holding a controller of a Nintendo Wii.
Police in Euharlee, Georgia - about 50 miles northwest of Atlanta - however, claim that Christopher Roupe pointed a gun at the female officer when he opened the door, which prompted her to fire a live round at the aspiring military man.
No witnesses reported seeing the boy holding any weapons, and authorities won't say whether a weapon was found at the scene.
'It just doesn't add up,' Cole Law, who is representing the Roupe family, told wsbtv.com.
As for the claim that Roupe was holding a gun, Law says he's seen no evidence supporting the officer's claim.
'We don't know where that statement came from. The eyewitnesses on the scene clearly state that he had a Wii controller in his hand. He heard a knock at the door. He asked who it was, there was no response so he opened the door and upon opening the door he was immediately shot in the chest,' Law said.....
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She will be the same. Her incompetence will mean that she can murder again.
She should be in jail or out on bond. There is no way to justify killing an innocent. Not because he lived at a trailer park, not because his father has an outstanding warrant, nothing.
Cops justify killing by saying they just want to go home at night. If they are too afraid to stand at a door without pulling the trigger when it opens they need to be in another line of work. Their desire to go home at night does not trump my or your right to go home at night or to stay alive. They do this again and again and then lawyer up and cover for each other. They are criminals. Let me repeat that to make sure I made myself clear THEY ARE CRIMINALS!
She sounds and looks disturbed.
That still does not mean it wasn’t a crime.
You forgot the one where that she ‘heard the action of a firearm’ right before he opened the door. This cop deserves the medal of honor for facing all of those challenges.
Play Misty for Me?
She’s a super hero don’t you know —
2005 Award from the Governor of Georgia for heroism
She has super ears and xray vision to hear and see behind closed doors.
One commenter writes:
The Euharlee police dept went to serve a violation of probation warrant for a misdemeanor.
I have gone over and over this story with the two siblings of Christopher and there was not BB gun pulled on the officer.
Christopher had gotten up to put in a movie and had the wii remote in his hand so that he could start the movie.
There was a knock on the door and Christopher said who is it. No one answered him so he opened the door with the wii remote still in his hand.
The female officer already had her gun drew and saw the remote, assumed it was a weapon and shot my nephew in the chest. She never said put down your weapon she just shot.
The male officer told the female officer to put her gun away because it was only a remote control. She didn’t.
Christophers little sister started towards Christopher because he had already fell to the floor so this female officer pointed her gun at my niece who by the way is 13 Years old and told her to shut up and stay where she was.
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