Mississippi police kill man while serving warrant at wrong house

UPI ^ | 7/26/17 | Ray Downs

[Timpanagos1]

Southhaven, Mississippi will have to take out their checkbook on this one, and that check is going to be very big.

Along with that, the police officer(s) should be protected and DeSoto County Prosecutor John Champion who said it was "possible" that police went to the wrong house needs to move on to a career of bagging groceries on the local Piggly Wiggly.

[Timpanagos1]

And our lesson should be, “Never Talk to the Police!”

[eyeamok]

First Degree Murder with Special Circumstances

I would charge ALL OF THEM and go for the Death Penalty, their Supervisor included.

[Lurkinanloomin]

Did they then search his home looking for any excuse for them to have shot him?

[NorthMountain]

"This is incredibly tragic and embarrassing to this police department that they can't read house numbers."

It's murder, plain and simple.

[lee martell]

Tragic and embarrassing. It’s always extra risky when an officer is looking for a specific address at nightime.
You need a bright beam flashlight, but don’t wish to attract too much attention, or alert the subject.

[Fresh Wind]

But police officers said they were forced to shoot Lopez when he opened his front door and his pet pit bull charged at them. Police said they opened fire at the dog and saw Lopez holding a gun from behind his door.

Hmmm.

[NorthMountain]

BTW, this incident, like many others of its kind before it, give credence to the BLM lies about “hands up don’t shoot”. The police are their own worst enemies.

[ghostkatz]

This is why I am absolutely terrified of being pulled over by law enforecment. I remember when as child we were told they were our friend and would help us. Now fear them more than criminal since can’t defend my self from a cop.( I am a boomer babe). What on earth is going on ??

[jaydubya2]

"Bullet holes suggest they shot through the door,"

Why do they need surprise raids to issue a warrant? Can't they just monitor the house and wait till the perp comes out and then arrest him.

[NorthMountain]

Sow up at the wrong address, then kill an innocent man in cold blood?

Murder. Nothing less.

[Timpanagos1]

Now suppose it were you or I and we wanted to deliver a birthday party invitation to a friend, but instead knocked on the door or the wrong house and killed the owner of said house when he opened the door?

We would never see the light of day, and no cop, prosecutor or jury cop will say that it was a mistake.

[NorthMountain]

What on earth is going on ??

It was a Republic ... if we could keep it.

We didn't keep it.

Now we have an increasingly tyrannical oligarchy.

[plain talk]

Here is what happened. Had the man obeyed the police and dropped the gun he would be alive. Siccing a pit bull on the police was not a wise move either. No good guys here. Mistakes made all round.

But police officers said they were forced to shoot Lopez when he opened his front door and his pet pit bull charged at them. Police said they opened fire at the dog and saw Lopez holding a gun from behind his door.

"One of the officers did fire a shot at the pit bull dog. While this was going on, they also noticed at the time that a gun was pointed outside the residence," Champion said. "At this point, the officers began hollering 'put the gun down, put the gun down,' at which point that did not occur and there were more than one shot was fired toward the door and there was a male subject inside the residence that was killed."

[umgud]

Would this shooting have been OK if it was at the right address?

[AppyPappy]

When the police show up after midnight, talk to them through a window and don’t be in the window.

[Timpanagos1]

“BTW, this incident, like many others of its kind before it, give credence to the BLM lies about “hands up don’t shoot””

It was midnight and the man heard violent knocking at his front door?

Yes, his dog was alarmed as was the homeowner.

[Timpanagos1]

“Would this shooting have been OK if it was at the right address?”

It does not appear so.

[NorthMountain]

That's a lot of bureaucratic double-talk and excuse-making.

The government goons showed up at an innocent man's house and killed him. It's not a "tragedy". It's a CRIME.

[arthurus]

The gun was on the table behind the man. If he were to "drop" the gun he first would have had to pick it up from the table or sweep it off the table with a hand movement that would be an apparent reach for the gun. The bullet holes in the door say that the police did not even see the gun or the man they killed when they opened fire. I cannot agree with too many otherwise rational conservatives that the man deserved what he got because the police shot him.