Posted on 01/05/2009 8:28:58 PM PST by MplsSteve
A call about a domestic dispute led to shots being fired by a Scott County deputy in New Market.
Scott County sheriff Kevin Studnicka tells KARE 11 the deputy, whom he won't name until he's interviewed by investigators, was sent to a home in New Market on reports of a fight. When nobody answered the door at that address, the deputy forced his way inside. "He knocked on the door and was refused entrance. And again we were called to a domestic there, so he made forced entrance."
"I was just watching TV and then the guy comes banging on the door. Just sounds crazy. Just screaming open the door," the home's resident Justin Friedges said of the man who he thought was an intruder.
Justin says he and his brother Peter Friedges, who was also inside, ran upstairs yelling they had a gun and were calling 911.
"I was screaming get out. 911. I just barely got my head out and see a shadow of a guy and then a gun flash," Friedges said. He said it was the first of five shots.
Three entrance holes from bullets do mark the wall leading up the stairs at the house Justin rents from his father. Another hole can be seen on a wall upstairs. Friedges says the officer did not identify himself as a deputy until after firing shots.
Following the shooting the officer retreated from the house.
(Excerpt) Read more at kare11.com ...
I watched this same story being reported on this evening's news and the people in this house did exactly what someone should have done to defend themselves.
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And what about the 22-year-old shot in the back by the BART cop?
Well, there’s good cops and there’s bad cops.
Much depends on the politicians who hire them and supervise them.
The news media are so untrustworthy sometimes it’s hard to tell, but this sounds like a bad apple to me, or someone who was very poorly trained how to respond to this kind of emergency call.
Some of it is running amok, most of it doesn't. I don't think a single definition will cover hundreds of thousands of people.
What we see in this story, though, looks more like a cop on drugs (or alcohol.) Who in his right mind will shoot into the house, at a shadow, without a specific threat, with bullets penetrating walls and hitting who knows what inside? What cop will not identify himself - if only to facilitate peaceful entry? Finally, what condition that cop should be if he fired five rounds point blank and missed? There are 27 reasons why he should be sent packing.
IMO, if the officer was so concerned about his safety, he could have stepped back a few feet and nobody would see him in the night (I presume it was dark.)
What is disturbing, though, instead of Sheriff coming to the house and personally apologizing to victims of his department he ordered them arrested (on what grounds?) A lawsuit in the making, that's what it is.
I'm confused. Did the LEO have the wrong address? Who was calling in reporting a fight and/or domestic disturbance?
With that said, if that had happened at my house there would have been a gun-fight in my front hall. I live in a less-then-great neighborhood and anybody beating on my door at night will be met by an armed citizen. We have a large, thick window in our front door so we would be able to see it was a LEO as long as he is in a uniform.
Five shots? Barney needs more time at the range.
why were the police called twice to the location?
I vote for running amok. I had a home invasion in Melbourne, FL and when I called the police they said that since I produced a gun to drive the home invader away, they would confiscate all my guns as being present at a crime scene, or I could decline to file a report and nothng would happen. My question is: why don’t all police guns get confiscated if one of their guns is near a crime scene? Also, who works for who and who pays their salary?
Why exactly were the residents taken into custody?
According to Sheriff Studnicka, it was later discovered that the original domestic dispute call, made from a cell phone, was from a building that was near the home at the same address.
More then one building on the same piece of property, fairly common in rural areas.
Failure to respect his Ah-thora-tie!
that probably means the call went back to a cell site at the address and not a specific dwelling. Cell phone calls can only be traced back to the location of the cell tower on the roof of an address. So if u have apartments u cannot be sure what apartment the call originates from.
Wait...the FR “Cops Can Do No Wrong” contingent of JBT boot-lickers will show up in all their authoritarian statist glory to defend this garden slug with a badge.
Had these brothers returned fire, even before realizing it was a botched police operation, they'd be looking at attempted murder charges. That's what bothers me about these stories. Residents don't know until it's too late if they are the victim of a criminal home invasion or a FUBAR police raid.
Now imagine how upended your life would become if you were accused of attempted murder on a police officer? Just try and visualize losing your job as you languish in jail. Losing your savings, your car, your home, everything. And what's your family to do? It could be a year or more before you get a chance to defend yourself in trial.
You may be the most law-abiding person in the world and it won't matter if the cops have the wrong address and kick in your door. If you return fire, you're gonna burn.
Because the Sheriff and his deputy boobs are morons.
Like MOST LEOs around today.
They should all be fired and stripped of their pensions. While your at it, make the county pay so dearly they’ll have to cut budgets for the next decade or two.
Separately, do you want to be on the Brevard Co. ping list?
Its happening in Pittsburgh now.
An alleged “drug dealer’s” house was raided in an early morning no-knock raid as the homeowner’s wife was upstairs. Their kids were upstairs and she just heard the commotion downstairs. No one yelled “Raid!” or “Search Warrant!” or “Police”.
She said she thought it was a home invasion, (there’s been a rash of those around da ‘Burgh, too.), ran down the stairs, and opened fire - killing an FBI agent.
Now she’s on trial for murder one.
And IMO she did the right thing. Of course the G-Man got a huge state funeral and the local LSM only tell the grieving widow’s and kid’s sob story.
Sounds like their way of saying, "You took care of it. What do you need us for? Don't waste our time."
The defense rests.
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