Posted on 06/20/2008 6:42:16 AM PDT by LibWhacker
Years ago. I got a phone call in the middle of the night. It was the Cobb County dispatcher asking me if I owned a canary yellow olds Delta......I said no I sold that to my sister across the road, etc. She said the police were on the property looking for a distraught teenager missing from his nearby home after a fight with parents. They were searching the area. I told them okay but to call FIRST like you did with me, because in my family we believe in the 2nd amendment and loaded weapons are no strangers to us....
Yes they should have rung the bell, but after they did enter, and found sleeping kids in the living room, probably in sleeping bags, I'd think they'd have figured out why the TV was on. After determining that the father/uncle was upstairs sleeping, it might have been the better part of discretion to tell the kids to go back to sleep, lock the doors, and leave a note. Waking the man up by knocking on his wall and shining a light in his eyes is just plain stupid. Unless you're in Gun Free Chicago or DC, and *know* that the man is a law abiding disarmed citizen. Otherwise someone is likely to get shot.
“I left my garage door open one night in Lino Lakes. The police rang my door bell.”
That is the way it should be done and IMO, that is good policing. The police performed unlawful entry the way they did it in the article.
LOL! You must live in an area where it’s only safe to live behind locked doors. There’s more to life than that and it’s 100% bona-fide legal.
Ditto me, last summer. I thanked the sheriff’s deputies and closed the garage door. The whole interaction took about 30 seconds, and I truly appreciated their concern.
That said, the Lakeville cops are knuckleheads & should be disciplined. The actions they took are totally unwarranted.
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