And if they don’t respond and the wife winds up dead?
There are times when the police can’t win either way.
As for the woman being tazed, she may have turned her focus to the police. It happens all the time.
The guy beats here up. The police show up, and the woman attacks them.
My friend and I were entering a club one evening. Outside a guy one foot taller than the female he was with, was throwing her up on the car hood, and being violent towards here.
We asked if she needed help, and she flew into a rage at us calling us every name in the book.
We’ll see what happened here. It may not be as bad as you think.
Tazers suck. Bullets are worse.
Did you watch the video even? The woman wasn’t doing or saying anything and had her hands up. The police should and did respond, but a neighbor calling in doesn’t give them a warrent to bust down the door and taze people. Or if you think it does, maybe your neighbor should call about you.
there were no exigent circumstances allowing for warrantless entry unless something huge is missing from the story.
Ahhhh. Spoken like a truly impartial, cognizent observer. When yours is the next door they kick in because "somebody" dropped a dime on your ass, yours and your wife's are the next brains they fry with their Tasers, then I'll want to hear how impartial and logical you are about it.
We'll just call you "The Thinker."
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In reality, under Florida v. J.L. (March 28, 2000), “the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed that anonymous tips are not sufficient grounds to constitute probable cause for a search. Judge Ginsburg, writing for the Supreme Court, stated, “Such an exception would enable any person seeking to harass another to set in motion an intrusive, embarrassing police search of the targeted person simply by placing an anonymous call.…” Prison Planet
If the cops can't win either way then come down on the side of “we are not a police state and they have no right to come into my home......” unless they have probable cause which they did not.
You really should watch the video and read the accompanying story before commenting. In the video, both husband and wife are heard telling the police that there was no disturbance and neither had called the police. The police were able to look through the window and see them. Yet because the couple declined to come outside, the police broke in anyway.
The police admitted on camera that they had no warrant, and they had no probable cause to enter the house at that point according to the USSC. (An anonymous tip does not constitute probable cause for a warrantless entry into a residence). Best guess, the cops and city get sued for violation of civil rights under color of authority (federal civil rights violations).