Posted on 12/27/2018 10:55:13 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper
PRIEST LAKE — Snipers claimed the life of a Washington state man who engaged in a standoff with Bonner County sheriff’s deputies, according to counsel for the man’s widow.
Craig Johnson, 50, was shot to death outside his Coolin cabin after allegedly pointing gun at deputies on Sept. 26, 2017. Deputies were attempting to serve an arrest warrant on Johnson after he had pointed a gun at a deputy during a welfare check that was conduct a day earlier.
April Linscott, who represents Johnson’s wife, Robin Andrews, told a 1st District Court judge that Andrews requested the welfare check after being unable to reach Johnson. The deputy conducted the welfare check at around midnight.
“He came to the door armed not knowing who was there. As a result of the welfare check, nothing happened. The officer left and then did proceed to get an arrest warrant because Mr. Johnson answered the door with a firearm,” Linscott said during Dec. 10 hearing on a defense motion to dismiss the civil case against Idaho State Police.
Andrews sued the state to obtain public records about the shooting and the earlier confrontation, in addition to evidence seized in the shooting investigation. Andrews has also filed a claim for $5 million in damages from the county for unlawful use of force.
When deputies went to serve the arrest warrant on Johnson, they arrived at the cabin in a Lenco BearCat, a wheeled armored personnel carrier, Linscott told the court. She added that two law enforcement snipers were positioned in the woods nearby and that Johnson exited the rear of the cabin to avoid a confrontation with the SWAT team at his doorstep.
“He was afraid for his life, presumably, when he left the rear of the cabin and was subsequently shot by the snipers,” Linscott said during the hearing.
Idaho Deputy Attorney General Leslie Hayes argued Andrews’ complaint should be dismissed because the plaintiffs were unable to show that the search warrant was unlawful or that criminal charges were not being contemplated. Hayes added that the initial public requests could not be honored because an investigation into the officer-involved shooting was ongoing.
Special prosecutor Barry McHugh, the elected prosecutor in Kootenai County, ultimately cleared Bonner County deputies of wrongdoing in the shooting, according to Hayes.
Linscott argued that Andrews is owed the information about the welfare check and shooting by ISP under state law.
“There was a widow who was trying to find out what happened to her husband. As you could imagine when you lose a loved one you need to answer the questions of why? (and) How did this happen?,” said Linscott.
Senior District Judge Steve Verby took the motion to dismiss under advisement.
bkmk
A sniper job has got to be a policeman’s plum assignment.
“So he answered the midnight call at his cabin with a gun in his hand. How is that a crime?”
He obviously needed a rocket launcher, that’s the crime.
We have met the enemy and he hasn’t changed.... the reason the founding fathers put in the 2nd amendment. Coupes and treason. It used to be pitch forks and torches.....
Don’t Trust anyone over Thirty!
Might be a replay..
Read ..Police State by. Gerry Spence....there is no justice for the ones who do injustice to inocnt people
Ten percent are never prosecuted because the ninety percent of the honest ones will not rat them out..
Suicide by cop.
“Why should a man have an arrest warrant filed against him for coming to his door at Midnight with a firearm, especially in, what seems to be, a remote place?”
I do not live in the city. A couple of months ago there was a knock at my door at 1130 at night. To get to my door you must first drive down 450 feet of my driveway in a wooded area.
It was two kids with the wrong address, GPS will do that to you. I had a weapon in my hand when I answered the door.
"...suicide by cop..."
The Bonner County Daily Bee is a really bad source for “news”. They rarely get the story right and are notorious for leaving out key details. Keith Kinniard is a moron libtard. As you can see from the other postings from slightly more reputable sources there is a lot more to the story than what is reported in the “Bee”.
Our Bonner County Sheriff Daryl Wheeler is very conservative and a strong supporter of the Second Amendment. That being said, this whole incident smells bad.
It seems like various forms of government have a license to kill.
“Deputies identified as defendants in the suit include Shawn Deem, Gary Madden, Tim Reynolds, Phil Stella, Ted Swanstrom and Jordan Thomson.”
Did you ever Start Smoking?
I have first hand experience that
when arguing with “Open Borders”
Liberals face to face
And You want Them Gone,,,
Logical Arguments, don’t work.
Whistles, don’t work.
Air Horns, don’t work.
What works?
Cigarette smoke blown
In Their Face!
So light Up,
Leave Me Alone!
“The deputy who shot and killed Craig A. Johnson was identified Friday as Sgt. Shawn Deem, an eight-year veteran of the department.”
You can't go anywhere in the woods these days without the possibility of being recorded by a game camera - but these guys don't have none of that there new-fangled technology on them.
Pull the other one.
I got a walk thru of a
Bearcat,
Very Impressive indeed.
Battering Rams Included!
Exactly my thoughts. I smell other motivation by the cops here.
007 got nothing on police snipers.
Depending on where you live, there may be cops and local magistrates slavering at the thought.
I keep my real ID invisible with the local newsrag opinion postings. There are at least two liberals that would SWAT me in an instant.
It is only the State Police that I worry about. They do nearly all the killing around here, and are uniformly (no pun intended) unfriendly.
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