Posted on 10/29/2013 9:39:21 AM PDT by Eagle Bomba
"No officers were injured during the shooting," Samples said, but "we did have one officer receive a minor injury, not related to the gunfire."
Though police were guarded with details surrounding the case, eyewitnesses claim the shootout was prompted by a code enforcement operation involving an old, rusted and inoperable van owned by Pryor.
Witnesses say a Statesboro Code Compliance officer reported to Pryor's home to seize the van, which has sat idle in the yard for several years.
"He has had the van forever. They have been asking for years for him to move it. He signed some papers, went back into the house, and then all of a sudden everything happened," Roberts said. "The van had a lot of sentimental value for him. He wanted to get it fixed." A tow truck, with the van loaded, was still on the scene hours after the shooting.
The city's Code Compliance department, under the umbrella of Planning and Development, is responsible for "ensuring that the city's physical environment is maintained through the enforcement of codes related to building and property maintenance, sanitation, zoning, etc.," according to the city of Statesboro website. "Code compliance staff is responsible for investigating complaints which may often be categorized as ‘nuisances' including: vacant and dilapidated buildings, overgrown vegetation, front yard parking, abandoned vehicles, litter, etc. The activities of code compliance staff are intended to improve the community's standard of living and enhance property values throughout the city."
Samples said he could neither confirm nor deny the witness accounts, or release the names and job statuses of officers involved in the shooting.
(Excerpt) Read more at statesboroherald.com ...
It wasn’t abandoned. It was behind his fence, in his yard, on his property, and mostly hidden from anyone unfortunate enough to be traveling down his “street”.
From the looks of things, his property was the nicest kept on his stretch of road.
I get a grant from the Goodyear tire company for my lawn planters.
I can tell my neighbors really like them because they’re always waving at me, making the “You’re #1! sign with their fingers.
I always find it incredible that there are so-called FReepers that believe that the government has the right to steal our property because they (FReepers) don’t think that we are using it correctly! That certainly doesn’t fit my definition of a conservative. DU might be a better home for them.
It is a common trait of judgmentalist lofo voters to nose into how people fashion themselves. Gays are notoriously aggressive in thAt respect in criticiZing how women or their children are dressed.
“Bigger government RINO’s”. Nimby’s and Nanny Staters can be nominally “conservative”, if woefully short sighted.
Any power you give to government WILL be used against you. Probably when you least expect it and when you thought you’d carved yourself an exemption.
I think if the cops come out to the house maybe they will help me clean out the garage.
Tell ‘em you dropped a baggie of dope in the back corner a few years back. They’ll have everything out of there in a jiffy...
These are homelessness removal type ordinancea cities keep in order to have certain people of certain military garrison like codified living.
They all are unconstitutional but our government nazies and denunciative neighbors love them.
For some reason when a hurricane strikes and every one is homeless, people change in attitude or require assistance. In the case of Hurricane Katrina, the evacuation and gun confiscation was in line with such codifications.
Then we wonder why they find it now effective to implement martial law without impedement in places like Boston. This is all part of the conditioning.
and some of those libs have been that way 30-40 years and more. Let’s have them all hauled away.
People that divorced from reality used to be committed to a psychiatric care facility.
We never should have stopped doing that...
not enough space for all of my in-laws
Whenever these things happen you have to remember this from Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s masterwork, “The Gulag Archipelago”:
Part I The Prison Industry, Ch. 1 “Arrest”
“What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, polkers, or whatever else was at hand?”
I don’t see that his neighbors have anything to complain about, at least he has a fence. Not like his is the old “grandfathered” property among new houses or anything.
With the right level of Thorazine, you can stack ‘em...
Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
Absolutely, if they hadn't already given up their firearms earlier.
There were a whole lot more Jews than there were Nazis rounding them up, imprisoning and exterminating them.
I was just following orders?
I thought that defense went out the window a long time ago.
The correct response would be, "I am sorry but I am unable to obey that order. You are ordering me to steal. Stealing is unlawful. Therefore the order is unlawful."
Dittos.
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