From the Dallas Morning News:
“Lt. Brandon O’Neil, a Fort Worth police spokesman, said at a brief news conference Sunday afternoon that two officers had been dispatched to the home in the 1200 block of East Allen Avenue after a neighbor made a call early Saturday to the nonemergency police line. They arrived about 2:30 a.m. and walked into the backyard.”
“A neighbor, James Smith, said he had called a nonemergency line to ask police to do a welfare check when he noticed the front door was open at the home where Jefferson was.
In audio released Sunday, Smith told a dispatcher that it wasn’t normal for his neighbors to have “both doors open at this time of night.”
Smith said he didn’t know what happened inside the house after police arrived.
“All I know is my neighbor died unnecessarily at the hands of the Fort Worth Police Department,” he said.
There was no sign that anything violent was going on inside the house before the officers arrived, he said.
“All they had to do was announce who they were and if she heard them, she’d probably come to the door to see who was at her front door,” Smith said.”
Nonemergency line, welfare check, open structure. Cops had no need of stealthy approach.
Right now *I* have all my windows and doors open to let the smell of my burned bagel out of the house. Does that give the cops the right to shoot me?
I hope you have bulletproof screens, Dean’s partner is still out there.
And my question is, did all that information get relayed to the police in the patrol car?
That depends on what type (flavor) Your Bagel was and if any Spreads or Toppings were compromised in the event.
Yes, it does, in some people’s minds.