Posted on 08/11/2005 1:12:44 PM PDT by freepatriot32
SUNRISE -- Police seized 2 ounces of marijuana at the home of Anthony Diotaiuto after shooting him 10 times, according to information on the drug raid released Tuesday.
Also Tuesday, while many friends and relatives of the 23-year-old bartender and student mourned him at a Davie funeral home, others appeared at a Sunrise City Commission meeting to demand an explanation for the fatal raid
"Do 2 ounces of marijuana constitute a death warrant?" asked Sunrise resident William de Larm, a friend of Diotaiuto's.
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I have a very nice triple beam balance scale left over from 25 years ago when I made silver castings and I have a box of ziplocs for the sandwiches I carry when I go to work. If my neighbor tells the police he has seen these things I suppose I will star in one of these headlines, too. Maybe I should hide my sandwiches when I go out to the car and surreptiously dispose of the triple beam.
Better be careful, common sense will get you in trouble with *both* sides on this thread. :)
BINGO. You when a prize. Everyone repeat after me. If you are in a cash and carry bussiness you better own a gun. And if people come kicking in your door during predawn hours it better be some place you can get your hands on it.
You will lose EVERY time!
Yeah. We don't register them here in California either. But a record is created when you transfer one. Of course they are supposed to be destroyed after a year or so (maybe someone can clear this up for me.) I shudder to think that the SWAT team might decide to execute a predawn no-knock search warrant on my home, because the State's Department of Justice informs them that I own a gun. Anyone who kicks in the door to my house at that time in the morning is likely to be "ducking hot lead" as others have put it.
Do you keep your scale and baggies together with a supply of pot, and provide the police with enough probable cause to obtain a warrant by selling drugs to an undercover police agent? Bear in mind that a neighbor mentioning to police that you have a couple of legal items would never qualify as probable cause.
Not as exciting as getting all dressed up in black pajamas and kicking in the door... I'll give you that.
lol...
Is it enough for ten bullets?
Don't hurt yourself by misconstruing the meaning of my words. Semantics are the tool of the weak minded.
We don't know that that is what happened. We have only the officers' after-the-shooting account for it. Initially the department put out that they SWATed him because he had a CCW. It was obvious they went in intending to kill him. Otherwise he could have been arrested as he left work, or at work, if there was actually a before-the-action warrant, and escorted him home for a search.
You folks who think that if he was shot by a policeman then he more than deserved it by that fact alone have a very strange view of America. My brother-in-law thinks that way. He used to be state DEA and is all for killing anyone who is identified by an officer as possibly having any amount of any illegal drug or defined parephenalia. Bad shoots are just the "price you have to pay for order." So there are at least some LEOs who think that way.
Where did it say he grabbed a gun?...Obvviously the cops version?
Do you realize that you are actually making a very good logical case supporting mandatory registration of guns? You and others who are posting similar boasts of intent to shoot at law enforcement agents serving a warrant at your home are indicative of why those officers would really like to know in advance if there is the likelihood that their target has a gun.
But there's no evidence except the word of the officers themselves to say that he did in fact draw a weapon. Given that their claim of having announced their entry is disputed, there's no reason to take their word as given on the more important matter. Since there are no shots fired from the deceased's weapon, it's not established that the officers fired in self-defense. It has every appearance of a murder, and that's what it should be considered to be until there is evidence to establish otherwise (which there is none.)
Furthermore, there is still a 2nd Amendment, even if it's totally ignored, and citizens have the right to bear arms. On top of that, the method of entry of the police - especially if they did not announce their entry as they claim, but even if they did - gave the victim every right to believe his home was being invaded by criminals. I know that's what I would think if my door got busted down at 6:15 AM. Wouldn't you grab your weapon in the same circumstances? Wouldn't any sensible person? How do you know the people busting your door down are really cops?
It would have been the most basic of precautions for the folks conducting the operation to record their actions. Even traffic cops do that, so it is fully warranted in such an extreme operation as this. Where's the tape? With no tape, there's no evidence to say these cops are anything but cold-blooded murderers who behave as if they are above the law.
The facts as they stand now are 1 citizen dead in his own home, and nothing but the word of those who shot him to testify that anything happened otherwise.
One dead criminal drug dealer, for whom I shed no tears.
Good thing the IRS doesn't do the same. Yet tax evasion is also a felony. What will be your argument when your friend is shot by cops for not paying taxes?
Unless he happens to be carrying that weapon he has a CCW for and decides to make a stand there. Sure hope an errant bullet doesn't find its way to a group of schoolkids that happened to be walking along that street.
Hmm, maybe busting someone known to have a gun in public with the potential for innocent bystanders that could end up being shot/taken hostage/interfering with the arrest/etc. has its downside too.
No, just illegal drugs. Or terrorism related activities.
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