Over armed pumped up testosterone/adrenaline lased cops, plus poor investigative ground work leads to these kinds of tragedies too often today. They not only had the wrong house to swat, they went in with sub-machine guns blazing. Then after the mayhem when the only guy in the place is a very dead, bullet riddled 80 year old man, they change their account of what happened as the original story starts to resemble swiss cheese. Too much high powered fancy hardware turns cops into trigger happy rambos. They believe they can make up in sheer fire power what they disregard in preparation and pre-staging of a raid. Unfortunately, duplicating in real life what they watch on the silver screen results in these sobering tragedies for all the parties involved.
This sounds like cold blooded murder to me.
Now all the Los Angeles County deputy sheriffs will get promotions and new toys so they can play army.
Ah, the adrenaline rush of getting to shoot a citizen! So strong that it renders normal perception and thought impossible! It even changes the order of events!
Obviously the fault belongs to the submachinegun.
Ban “assault weapons”..../s
Sgt. John Bones was scared to death and should not have been on the raid
The .22 was the cops throw down weapon.
It didn’t belong to the victim.
This was murder.
Arizona is now considering a law that information received from unlawful, unwarranted organizations, like the NSA, is to be inadmissible in state courts.
It seems to me that this law needs to be expanded so that anonymous tips given to the police *cannot* be used to justify a violent SWAT raid, without other evidence presented to a judge who then issues a written warrant.
The way things have become is like the Democrats’ indictment of Justice Clarence Thomas, that evidence does not matter as long as the accusation is serious enough.
Which is ass-backwards to how the law should behave.
Once again, an innocent man was murdered in cold blood by an overly-aggressive, machinegun armed, possibly steroid drugged police officer, with or also likely without a written warrant. Seriously, to repeatedly shoot an elderly man in bed, then lie about it, is beyond the pale.
In effect, this officer committed 1st degree, premeditated murder, which in the absence of any mitigating circumstances should qualify his actions for the death penalty.
This sounds more like Nazi police tactics, developed to incarcerate Jews in the middle of the night rather than the investigation of a peaceful 80 year old man with no previous criminal record for a questionable (at best) warrant.
The cops, the supervisor, the judge - the entire scurrilous lot of them - should be going to jail for this wicked murder.
If you haven’t already been,Ping.