Posted on 07/26/2017 7:32:32 AM PDT by Timpanagos1
July 26 (UPI) -- Close to midnight on Sunday, Southaven, Miss., police arrived at the wrong house to serve an arrest warrant and shot a man dead in his own home, according to reports.
Ismael Lopez, 41, was shot dead late Sunday night after he checked to see who was at his front door. But the police were supposed to be across the street to serve an arrest warrant for Samuel Pearman, who was wanted on an assault charge, reported WREG.
"Someone didn't take the time to analyze the address," said Murray Wells, the attorney representing Lopez's family. "This is incredibly tragic and embarrassing to this police department that they can't read house numbers."
DeSoto County Prosecutor John Champion said it was "possible" that police went to the wrong house and confirmed that Lopez's name was not on the warrant.
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No you don’t need a bright flashlight. You surreptitiously recon the target house during daylight hours in the days or weeks before serving the warrant.
Well, like I said, this was the 50’s and 60’s. Times and people were different then..............
except that the cops LIED!
The gun was sitting where it always was and Lopez never picked it up.
Someone knocks on your door after midnight, you open the door and there are a bunch of men who start shooting and yelling at you.
Do you stop, drop and cower?
I guess the police in Southhaven also startle easily.
The wife of the victim disagrees with the police's version of events.
No doubt the evidence from the body cams will clear things up. When a civilian has one version of events, and ten cops swear to a different version, I have reason to doubt them both. I believe that cops as a rule think they're always in the right, and if they're not, too many will manufacture whatever evidence is necessary to make them look like they were in the right.
Hmmm.
Hmmm is right. While that appears to be the correct response, it was the homeowner's deadly mistake. Would he have done this with a home invader? No? Then why did he do this with the cops? Did he know it was the cops at his door?
If so, opening the door with a pit bull and a personal weapon is just suicide by cop.
“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.”
Do they not teach Even and odd numbers at the Police Academy?
Here goes” 0-2-4-6-8 are EVEN Numbers and 1-3-5-7-9 are ODD Numbers.
Even Numbers are almost always on the opposite side of the street as Odd Numbers.
Maybe these cops missed that lesson in cop school.
>>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.
Screw their “risk”. They murdered a man in his own home. That could be any one of us dying confused as a mob of uniformed thugs stampedes over us.
Some cop had to ask for the warrant. I doubt that the circumstances to issue the warrant and the warrant itself all occurred on the same night. How about if the cop drives by in the daylight to ID the house and be sure of what it looks like before the ‘roided-up SWAT team comes back in the middle of the night to kick doors and shoot something?
Do you blame the police, or BLAME THE PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM for graduating people who can NOT read ?
people in that neighborhood might need to keep a big dog for a reason?
Let's see, daylight is roughly 14 of the 24 hours in Southaven, MS at this time of year. Someone could have done a quick drive-by to verify that address in that 14-hour period of daylight. No excuse to screw that up.
Why were they doing this in the dark?
The man they were looking for was wanted on an assault charge and they shot first, asked questions later.... Last time I checked, assault isn’t a capital offense even in Mississippi.
No doubt the evidence from the body cams will clear things up...
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IF (Big IF) they had cameras and IF they were on. Just like the cop who killed that Australian woman was not recording.
If there are indeed bullet holes though the door?
Yeah, that’s murder.
Gee, another “oops” .....
If police shot through the door, was it closed? If so how did the dog charge or the police see a gun?
I expect the Police School System to teach Odd and Even numbers.
Given the demographics It’s all good. It was Mississippi and his last name was Lopez. He needed to go sooner or later anyhow...
Hopefully I don’t have to explain that was sarcasm.
Why do I have a feeling that there will be no body camera evidence.
So if anyone claiming to be an authority over you shows up at your door: Abjectly crawl ass-first in whatever direction they command you to, and pray you’re not murdered?
“Had the man obeyed the police”... Horse shit! The man was in his own home, and WAS NOT the subject of any legal matter before the police.
There’s no justification for the police action against this man or his dog. None is possible.
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