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Homeowner Shot After Georgia Police Go to Wrong Home Dies
ABC News ^ | June 10, 2016 | Jeff Martin

Posted on 06/10/2016 12:02:58 PM PDT by Trump20162020

A Georgia homeowner shot in the neck after police went to the wrong house has died, a lawyer for the family said Friday.

William Powell, 63, died Thursday afternoon at Atlanta Medical Center, attorney Keith Martin said.

A preliminary review of the 911 call indicates the three officers who responded had gone to the wrong home and showed up at Powell's house, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said.

Powell was armed with a gun and was shot in the neck by one of the officers, authorities said. He had grabbed the gun for protection, not knowing who might be outside in the dark of night, Martin said. A nearby home had been burglarized just two weeks before the shooting, he added.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: Georgia
KEYWORDS: abuseofpower; cops; donutwatch; emergency911; georgia; jbts; police
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To: Popman

IP based HD Video Security systems are cheap now with options of audio capture...GET ONE. Install it and store to the cloud.

Then let the “boys” lie thru their teeth......

If anything happens, wait until the LEO Establishment lies thru their teeth to the public. Then broadcast the hit on youtube.

Make them all famous.


21 posted on 06/10/2016 12:25:43 PM PDT by VRWCarea51 (The Original 1998 Version)
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To: who knows what evil?

It’s going to take a political groundswell to push back against the trend.

Liberals have convinced Americans that they are better off with an all powerful armed elite while being unprotected themselves. And the elite in turn then works tirelessly to get more and more power.


22 posted on 06/10/2016 12:26:42 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Trump20162020

23 posted on 06/10/2016 12:27:31 PM PDT by Fido969
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To: PAR35

"...'Bang' 'Stop resisting' 'Bang, bang' 'Stop resisting'..."


I swear they teach all those steroid-pumped, shaved-head new officers to always be screaming "Stop resisting!" whenever interacting with the public.
Courtesy is a two-way street, LEO friends.


24 posted on 06/10/2016 12:37:34 PM PDT by Blue Jays
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To: Trump20162020

Sounds suspiciously like a swatting.

anyway, these 3 officers should have their firearms pulled and put on duty that doesn’t require a firearm for the rest of their careers.

It’s the only way to stop this nonsense. Prosecuting rarely does any good because most times it’s just perceived as a mistake and/or accidents and the civil suits do not punish the officers involved.


25 posted on 06/10/2016 12:39:19 PM PDT by Fhios (Remember who supported who and who said what in election year 2016.)
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To: Fido969

Who watches the watchers???

An independent board which also includes one representative police officer not from the department in question should review officer involved shootings. I have relatives who are currently officers or retired and the retired one is literally on his death bed and he told me he was told to carry a drop gun and did so his entire career just in case.

If it is a righteous shoot fine if not let the law take its course just like it would on any other citizen. But it won’t because the elites and bureaucracy are held to no standards while the average citizen will have the book thrown at them.


26 posted on 06/10/2016 12:45:16 PM PDT by sarge83
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Why would he deliberately defy the police if he understood they wanted him to follow instructions?

Almost certainly the shine flashlights in his eyes, shouted confusing, contractor and generally incoherent instructions and while he’s thinking “What?” they murder him in his home in cold blood.


27 posted on 06/10/2016 12:52:49 PM PDT by Fido969
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To: Popman

“Throw down your weapon!.....BANG!.............Or I’ll shoot!.....................


28 posted on 06/10/2016 12:53:51 PM PDT by Red Badger (Make America AMERICA again!.........................)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
It’s going to take a political groundswell to push back against the trend.

There was. But the badge lickers react by shouting down all critics as "BLM" and citing phony stats about how many cops are being murdered. Face it. The frog is boiled. We live in a police state now. And "conservatives" are just as guilty as the totalitarian Left.

29 posted on 06/10/2016 12:54:35 PM PDT by Forgotten Amendments (Nessie ... Sasquatch ... The Free Syrian Army ...)
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To: Forgotten Amendments

I remember when posses made sense.


30 posted on 06/10/2016 12:58:08 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: saintgermaine

“Something tells me that this incident will be costly.”

And it should be.


31 posted on 06/10/2016 1:00:13 PM PDT by beelzepug (For English press #1; for Spanish, learn English and press #1)
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To: VRWCarea51

+1.


32 posted on 06/10/2016 1:02:32 PM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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To: Forgotten Amendments

One might wonder to what extent situations like Baltimore are overreactions to an elite-allpowerful-guardian model that isn’t viable in any truly civilized society. BLM are loathsome parasites and troublemakers, but could they be largely taking advantage of a situation that was bad in the first place?


33 posted on 06/10/2016 1:03:17 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Forgotten Amendments

The ‘badge lickers’ simply haven’t experienced police abuse first hand.


34 posted on 06/10/2016 1:03:40 PM PDT by MeganC (The Republic of The United States of America: 7/4/1776 to 6/26/2015 R.I.P.)
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To: Fido969
A bunch of steroid-jacked guys behind million-lumen spotlamps yelling conflicting instructions like:

"Stand down! I said STAND DOWN motherf*cker! Stand down, NOW!"

Whoever created that absurd command,anyway? Does it mean stand there with hands over your head? Lay down on your belly?
No matter what, an officer can say you were NOT obeying his "specific" orders.

"I told him/her to stand down and they menacingly started to lay on their belly as if preparing to wrestle me to the ground. I feared for my safety and shot the homeowner. I went home safely at the end of my shift, though."

35 posted on 06/10/2016 1:04:32 PM PDT by Blue Jays
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To: Forgotten Amendments

And BLM isn’t trying to “democratize” the process of domestic security. It’s trying to change who the elites are, but otherwise keep the model just the damned same as it was.


36 posted on 06/10/2016 1:05:39 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Trump20162020

This is just a real tragedy


37 posted on 06/10/2016 1:10:52 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Blue Jays

And when you ask if there is some more reasonable way to address the public, they distract the discussion by complaining how easy it is to get shot.

What ever happened to courage. If you are going to get commended for showing it, it might be a good idea to show it in the first place.


38 posted on 06/10/2016 1:10:54 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: SaveFerris

Unfortunately the 911 call didn’t give a specific address. It was a location.


39 posted on 06/10/2016 1:11:47 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
I remember when posses made sense.

Oh yeah! When this was AMERICA, there would've been tar & feathers or worse when things like this happened.Back in the '40s some town literally went to war with a corrupt force and ran them out of town. I think they made a movie out of it.

40 posted on 06/10/2016 1:14:49 PM PDT by Forgotten Amendments (Nessie ... Sasquatch ... The Free Syrian Army ...)
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