Posted on 07/19/2013 9:10:11 PM PDT by tpmintx
After leaving her operating room scrub nurse duties at Sarasota's Doctors Hospital on Wednesday, Louise Goldsberry went to her Hidden Lake Village apartment.
Her boyfriend came over, and after dinner — about 8 p.m. — Goldsberry went to her kitchen sink to wash some dishes.
That's when her boyfriend, Craig Dorris — a manager for a security alarm company — heard her scream and saw her drop to the floor.
Goldsberry, 59, said she had looked up from the sink to see a man “wearing a hunting vest.”
He was aiming a gun at her face, with a red light pinpointing her.
“I screamed and screamed,” she said.
But she also scrambled across the floor to her bedroom and grabbed her gun, a five-shot .38-caliber revolver. Goldsberry has a concealed weapons permit and says the gun has made her feel safer living alone. But she felt anything but safe when she heard a man yelling to open the door.
He was claiming to be a police officer, but the man she had seen looked to her more like an armed thug. Her boyfriend, Dorris, was calmer, and yelled back that he wanted to see some ID.
But the man just demanded they open the door. The actual words, the couple say, were, “We're the f------ police; open the f------ door.”
Dorris said he moved away from the door, afraid bullets were about to rip through.
Goldsberry was terrified but thinking it just might really be the police. Except, she says she wondered, would police talk that way? She had never been arrested or even come close. She couldn't imagine why police would be there or want to come in. But even if they did, why would they act like that at her apartment? It didn't seem right.
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No mat - it's more important that I go home tonight. Get the hell off my lawn!
“I feel bad for her,” Wiggins conceded, finally. “But at the same time, I had to reasonably believe the bad guy was in her house based on what they were doing.”
Goldsberry wasn't arrested or shot despite pointing a gun at a cop, so Wiggins said, “She sure shouldn't be going to the press.”
What were they doing?
But when the people in Goldsberry's apartment didn't open up, that told Wiggins he had probably found the right door. No one at other units had reacted that way, he said.
Goldsberry wasn’t arrested or shot despite pointing a gun at a cop, so Wiggins said, “She sure shouldn’t be going to the press.”
I’m sure he didn’t want her going to the press and letting everyone know how Police and Federal Marshals abuse law abiding citizens in their own homes.
Cops are getting so screwed-up, it’s hard to believe some of the crap that is going on. For one thing, why does a federal officer doing a supposed felony raid have to scream F-words at people? Is that supposed to scare bad guys or someting? I’m sure they never heard those words otherwise! But what it does do is sound unprofessional and amateurish, like some gangsta movie, and confuses ordinary citizens like this woman.
Come cops. Do your job but stay calm and be professional. Isn’t that why you are on that side of the thin blue line?
Wiggins speaks volumes about modern policing, in just a few, idiotic, words.
>> felt like home
With a disco ball, black lights, and a Earth Wind and Fire spun up on the record player.
The irony of this statement by this thugcop is stunning, but I'm sure the jackbootlickers will be here soon to defend this may as well be Stasi agent.
Oh. and to translate this POS’s words: it is more important for him, the enforcer for the state, to go home than it is for you to be safe in yours.
Of course it is, as is explained in my brochure.
I’ve read your brochure. It is recommended reading to people I know. Well done.
” But Wiggins didn’t think that was much
excuse for the woman’s behavior. He said
he acted with restraint and didn’t like
having that gun aimed at him.
The irony of this statement by this
thugcop is stunning, but I’m sure the
jackbootlickers will be here soon to
defend this may as well be Stasi agent.”
You said it. The self important arogance. And yet the boot lickers won’t understand it.
BTW things really are different in Texas (with exceptions, of course). I actually initiated a LEO encounter in an city north of Dallas. I was legally armed and respectful. The LEO clearly knew that, but didn’t say a thing about it - just collected the info about the crime I had witnessed.
Then there are the Texas Rangers. Met a few. Just wow. They also shut down corrupt cops and judges. It is one of their specialties. Just Google it.
So to be clear: I am not anti-cop. I am anti-thugcop. In fact, I’d get into the mix and risk taking a bullet for the police in my little corner of Texas.
Corrupt cops like this one make the other 10% look bad.
I have a question for Mr. Wiggins - has he ever used steroids?
Because that's exactly what it was!
By the way, congratulations porkchops. Another citizen learns who cops really are and how little respect you have for us. Keep up the good work. Who needs cop haters, when the cops do such a great job destroying themselves?
bttt
Maybe the officer should have been a little more covert in his actions while peering into the windows of easily frightened woman who possess concealed weapons permits for just such situations.
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