Posted on 12/30/2010 4:19:27 PM PST by smokingfrog
Shouts break the evening silence.
“Police! Search warrant!”
Officers burst through the door. A man appears across the room. Metal glints from his clasped hands. Shots echo from a police-issue Glock 22. Todd Blair slumps to the floor.
“Five seconds,” said Blair’s mother, Arlean. “In five seconds, he was dead.”
Officers entered Blair’s home Sept. 16 during a drug raid when he stepped into the hall, wielding a golf club, police video shows. Ogden police Sgt. Troy Burnett shot Blair, 45, in the head and chest.
The shooting was deemed legally justified.
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It always is. The wonder is that they did not find any number of guns on him. They wold have planted them on him,but, still they would have found them.
The apologists for the police state make me sick.
Are we supposed to feel bad about that? If someone puts themselves in that situation to where they are no knocking peoples homes for minor drug offenses and they get capped themsves - that’s life or death for that matter.
I used to be far mpre sympathetic to law enforcement than I am now.
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Why don’t they just toss in a couple of hand grenades, then after the explosion go in and spray everything down good with MP5s? They murdered that man.
Wrong. Tens of Thousands of Law Enforcement Officers use their discretion each and every day in refusing to enforce absurd laws. I know officers who in their decades of service not once wrote a seat-belt ticket, because they believed that seat-belt laws were absurd and nonsensical. I know others who refuse to enforce pro-arrest policies at domestics. There are very few mandatory arrest provisions in law, very few. In all the others, individual officers can utilize their discretion on whether to charge an offense or not.
What happens with the constant reductio-ad-hitlerum that is prevalent among libertines, is chasing good people out of the police forces, people who will exercise their discretion in a good way. If good people won't join the police forces, they will be replaced by people who shouldn't be there. That's exactly what the Communists have wanted since the 1950s.
But BAD,vicious killers just love kicking in doors ,and shooting dogs and residents.
A pox on you and your dirty cops.
freedomwarrior998 is a well known police bootlicker. Trying to reason with him is futile as he ALWAYS takes the cops side. Keep reading his posts and you will understand. He may call himself a conservative, but he is NOT your friend. In fact, cops are NOT your friend-PERIOD!
Me too.
Heck, I have little cloth bags of white crystals;it is some kind of chemical that sucks up the moisture inside enclosed ,delicate electronic and optical instruments .
Badge Bunny.
If you think that the cops are your friends, ask the guy who got 7 years in NJ.
I have been subjected to numerous “stop and fish” including the DUI checkpoints ,because I currently work late into the evenings.!2 or 15 cops blocking a four lane roadway or an hour or two,questioning maybe a hundred drivers and lucky if they find ONE drunk!
You bet...There is always someone out here that thinks it's perfectly OK to shoot someone to death who are clearly not a threat to a dozen people carrying multiple weapons.
They could have easily tased or pepper sprayed this guy....
Unfortunately, many law enforcement agencies today are completely out of control, moving from traditional local police to a para-military us VS them mentality..
I wonder if they realize they only have a bit of power because the people, at this point, have allowed them to.
I wish I had thought of that one.
Read again. I said NOT your friend.
I see you swallowed the Communist lie. Stalin would be proud of you.
Socialist.
Still spouting that Communist bullshit lie. Read my tagline cause it describes you and your ilk.
freedom warrior? LOL!
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