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Jury acquits Gifford man who claimed self-defense after girlfriend killed by sheriff's SWAT team in 2017 raid
Yahoo ^ | 11/19/21 | Melissa E. Holsman

Posted on 11/20/2021 10:03:38 PM PST by Mr.Unique

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Some interesting parallels to the KR trial.
1 posted on 11/20/2021 10:03:38 PM PST by Mr.Unique
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This is more good news and if these out of control police raids continue more of them deserve to be shot.


2 posted on 11/20/2021 10:07:55 PM PST by RBW in PA
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To: Mr.Unique

SWATing is out of control.

Meritless Garland to blame.


3 posted on 11/20/2021 10:22:37 PM PST by Paladin2 (Critical Marx Theory is The SOLUTION....)
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To: Paladin2

yup


4 posted on 11/20/2021 10:31:29 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Mr.Unique
Mark Dice sites this case and several other cases of black men being acquitted on the grounds of self defense as a counter to the many instances of MSM hosts and guests claiming that "black men wouldn't get the same treatment as Kyle Rittenhouse." He plays clips of all their propaganda.

Media Has Total Meltdown Over Kyle Rittenhouse Verdict Youtube video 8:20

5 posted on 11/20/2021 11:20:28 PM PST by TigersEye (Resistance is not futile!)
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Yes, and this sounds like a righteous self-defense verdict also. The prosecutors seem pissed and are trying to give him thirty years on that single firearms charge.


6 posted on 11/21/2021 12:10:14 AM PST by House Atreides
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If you are not going to ban no knocks at least severely restrict them. Judges just rubber stamp them and it leads to tragedies like this.

And I know the police claim they announced themselves. They always claim that. It's a little hard to hear over the battering ram and gunfire.

7 posted on 11/21/2021 12:50:04 AM PST by colorado tanker
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Good. Cops have gone over board by going after “easy” targets when they should not and ignoring “hard” tragets like antifa rioters when they should.


8 posted on 11/21/2021 3:18:42 AM PST by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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Wait a second...I thought he would be convicted because of his swarthy nature? Dats whut MSDNC and CNN and da watchington post told me, duh...


9 posted on 11/21/2021 4:31:08 AM PST by frogjerk (I will not do business with fascists)
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I disagree with those that are saying “If Rittenhouse had been black, he would not have been acquitted.” They are wrong. If he were black, he would never have even been charged.


10 posted on 11/21/2021 4:33:21 AM PST by norwaypinesavage (Capitalism is what happens when you leave people alone.)
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To: Paladin2

It happened in 2017 actually...? Well before Merritt Garland was enshrined at Justice??

I completely agree with you that SWAT tactics in the middle of the night is way beyond useful in so many cases. These Keystone cops get a big head and develop bad habits when they are enshrined in special weapons units.


11 posted on 11/21/2021 5:06:40 AM PST by Sa-teef
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Frankly, legalizing marijuana is going to take a lot of the wind out of the sales of these kind of groups. They’re going to have to go after people that are actually into harder stuff, and leave the rest of the general public alone.


12 posted on 11/21/2021 5:42:35 AM PST by cuban leaf (My prediction: Harris is Spiro Agnew. We'll soon see who becomes Gerald Ford, and our next prez.)
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Sales = sails. Stupid autocorrect. I’m tired of its shirt!


13 posted on 11/21/2021 5:43:49 AM PST by cuban leaf (My prediction: Harris is Spiro Agnew. We'll soon see who becomes Gerald Ford, and our next prez.)
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Midnight no-knock raids need to be banned. They really do.


14 posted on 11/21/2021 5:47:54 AM PST by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (America -- July 4, 1776 to November 3, 2020 -- R.I.P.)
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The sheriff raided a home I rented to a frail elderly couple. They used all their SWAT gear, an armored car and smashed in the door. This couple had no guns and there was zero reason to believe they’d be dangerous. They had 48 pot plants maybe eighteen inches tall. The only reason I can think they used this approach was to give the SWAT guys overtime pay and maybe some training-wheel experience. The government does not pay for damage, which was pricy and unnecessary.

I am of the opinion that these raids should be signed off on by the governor. You’d quickly see them go down to the number where they were actually required. I think they’d be required if there was a hostage situation, where evidence might be destroyed, or, some situation where they were deemed the only safe alternative.

The vast majority of arrests can be made while the subject is at work, at a gas station or a grocery store parking lot. The fact that Congress gifted all that military equipment to sheriff’s offices is because it’s a jobs program for those equipment manufacturers. Not because after two hundred years of arrests they suddenly are dealing with foreign armies in our neighborhoods. And, if there were such armies, those lightly armored vehicles would be useless against an RPG7.

I’m beginning to hate our modern, militarized police. That, and the fact they are monetizing the law to fund themselves. If the community needed the level of cost this funding carries, it should pay it in taxes. You’d quickly see how much policing we REALLY needed.


15 posted on 11/21/2021 5:50:53 AM PST by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud?)
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He was convicted of possession of a firearm by a felon and the state will seek the maximum 30 year sentence on that charge.


16 posted on 11/21/2021 6:03:09 AM PST by xxqqzz
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one count of shooting or throwing a deadly missile.

? Tossed an RPG at them or what ?

17 posted on 11/21/2021 6:14:46 AM PST by mabarker1 ((Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress !!!!)
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just a big club


18 posted on 11/21/2021 6:18:25 AM PST by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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“...and took fire from Coffee upon which they had no choice but to protect themselves and others,” Flowers said via text.”

Well, except for the dead girlfriend that they murdered.

Sounds like Mr. Coffee needed that weapon.


19 posted on 11/21/2021 7:42:18 AM PST by moovova (I'm dismayed that most of the world hates me for being non-vaxxed. Honest. No, really.)
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To: TigersEye

Bkmrk


20 posted on 11/21/2021 8:15:47 AM PST by kelly4c
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