Posted on 10/18/2019 8:44:41 PM PDT by heartwood
Body camera footage of SC shooting contradicts police claims By JEFFREY COLLINS
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina homeowner who was shot by a deputy checking a medical alarm did not jerk open his front door with a gun and was instead standing in the home’s foyer when the officer shot through a window, according to body camera footage released Monday.
Homeowner Dick Tench has a concealed weapons permit and did have his gun in his hand, but was devastated when the Greenville County Sheriff’s Office’s initial account of the incident had him pointing his weapon at a police officer, his lawyer said.
“We were waiting to see the body camera footage to confirm what Dick knew all along — That he was shot through the window,” attorney Beattie Ashmore said. “The deputy’s version doesn’t hold up.”
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I live in a county about the size of Rhode Island. IIRC, at night, there are six deputies on road patrol...six.
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“But I will have to say, what kind of citizen would draw a gun and brandish the weapon “protecting” his house?”
After midnight? ME! Protecting what is inside the house - me and mine!
Hide and Cower is how the gun-grabbers want you to live.
Free Men are proactive. Cowards hide and hope for the best.
You didn’t even read the excerpt.
Or they'll just arrest/kill you anyway.
This is why police unions fight so hard against body cams.
Nobody in my area is ever more than a half mile away from an excavator.
What did the citizen posses that he had to perform sentry duty to protect?
His life.,
His life.
yeah he should have stayed unarmed and then let whatever happen happen
Please tell me you’re trying to be funny.
...and sometimes the police facilitate lethal situations such as the botched raid on a so called heroin house in Houston...that wasn't actually a heroin house. One of the lead officers fabricated intelligence that led to the drug raid that ended up with the homeowner attempting to protect his home against government invaders.
Came out of the back room with a .357 mag after intruders busted into his home. He managed to shoot 4 officer invaders before he, his wife and dog were murdered.
No heroin or paraphernalia were found. Furthermore, after the gun battle, someone discharged another round from outside the home attempting to alter evidence as to how the battle went down.
Houston police dept., instead of being transparent, they closed ranks, slow go’d releasing investigation details. To this day...still not being totally transparent.
One of the lead officers was fired and I believe faced charges. Another officer was caught falsify info.
Mess up.
Maybe police training should include the idea that cops creeping around a house at night looks suspicious and scary and that it is not obvious that they are cops in the dark.Today’s cop culture drives LEOs to make every situation more dangerous and thrilling for the cop.
Routine traffic stop? Park 2-3 cruisers at various angles sticking out into the normal traffic flow.
Welfare check? Sneak up like a commando.
Serve a warrant? Why knock?
Interaction with a law-abiding citizen? Bark at them and cuff ‘em….for your safety.
By all means, ALWAYS escalate.
“ Probably because cops are exposed to more lethal situations than your random armed citizen.”
I doubt that. Being a cop isn’t even in the top ten of dangerous jobs.
And even if it were true that’s no excuse for shooting people who don’t present a lethal threat.
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“What did the citizen possess”?
His Constitutional rights! How do you not grasp this?
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