https://www.kwtx.com/content/news/Family-of-man-killed-during-no-knock-506737841.html
While police say James Scott Reed shot first, his fiancée is telling another side of the story. "He was laying right there with his eyes open," says Eva Brocks. She says she and James Scott Reed were in bed last Wednesday when something came crashing through the window followed by flickering, blinding lights. "It was like 'boom' and the flares- I jumped that way, and he jumped this way," says Brocks pointing to the sides of the bedroom where broken glass is scattered."Somebody said 'shots fired', and he didn't even fire shots. And that's when all of them went to shooting. She says Killeen police saw her fiancée reaching for his dresser and moments later opened fire. "I kept saying, 'Scottie, get up- get up Scottie,' but his eyes didn't move," she adds tearing up.
“James Scott Reed, 40, died early in the morning on Feb. 27 in an exchange of gunfire with police after Killeen officers executed a no-knock search and arrest warrant at around 6 a.m. at a duplex at 215 West Hallmark Ave.”
If shots didn’t hit anyone, how did Reed die?
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Just another example of local TV new reporting.
Are you a junior college journalism dropout? Do you have trouble reporting on basic news items? Can a 7 year old do a better job reporting than you?
No matter - YOU’RE HIRED!
No knock raids should be illegal. Bring enough manpower to cover all exits, and identify yourselves. If someone barged into our home in the middle of the night, the first thing we would do is grab our guns and shoot the perpetrators. Especially if they shone bright lights in our faces, so we couldn’t see they were cops.
The judge should be stripped of his robe and serve some jail time.
I’m surprised they didn’t shoot the witness too.
She’s lucky to be alive.
More criminal activity by the ever so compliant police forces in this country. It is no wonder why jack boots are so easy to come into being. The people who become cops do not do it for the betterment of society. They do it just for the rush of cracking somebody’s head. I saw the same mentality in the security forces in the USAF.
JoMa
When it comes to justice, there is non for We the People.
The abuse of so called no knock warrants is off the charts. It’s sickening. It is truly banana republic stuff.
They are [logically] a death warrant for someone in the house. If someone smashes in my door in the middle of the night I am going to start shooting. I would be stupid if I did not under those circumstances.
Another aspect is the use of para military teams (SWAT) to “serve” warrants for non violent offenses. Basically it is a military style attack. Eff the Bill of Rights.
Local law enforcement should not be a paramilitary operation. It is contrary to the whole principle of what America is supposed to be. The framers of the Constitution would be appalled at the military force being applied against citizens as it is now.
One person dead in shootout after Killeen police try to serve no-knock warrant
Killeen Daily Herald
KDHNews.com
By David Perdue Herald correspondent Feb 27, 2019
http://kdhnews.com/news/breaking/one-person-dead-in-shootout-after-killeen-police-try-to/article_f49a03ec-3a97-11e9-9cc4-270bb358e26d.html
“James Scott Reed, 40, had a violent history and was known to be armed when he was selling narcotics...Reed’s history of violent threats and criminal activity created a need for a no-knock entry...A woman who was inside the apartment at the time of the shooting was arrested and is facing narcotics charges, police said.”