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Not sure what the value is today. I've got one in a cedar chest here at home.
My dad bought as a lad growing up.
Posted on 04/08/2023 5:09:42 AM PDT by marktwain
FARMINGTON, N.M. — At around 11:30 p.m. Wednesday, the Farmington Police Department was dispatched to a domestic violence call on Valley View Avenue.
According to New Mexico State Police, Farmington police officers mistakenly approached the wrong house. Officers reportedly knocked on the front door and announced they were police. When no one answered, officers asked dispatch to call the reporting party back and have them come to the front door.
As officers backed away from the door, the homeowner approached the door, armed with a handgun. Police identified the homeowner as 52-year-old Robert Dotson.
“At this point in the encounter, officer(s) fired at least one round from their duty weapon(s), striking Mr. Dotson,” NMSP spokesman Ray Wilson wrote in a news release.
After the initial shooting, Dotson’s wife – who was also armed – opened fire from the doorway of the home. Once again, police shot back.
“Once she realized that the individuals outside the residence were officers, she put the gun down and complied with the officer’s commands,” Wilson wrote.
Dotson was pronounced dead at the scene. His wife was uninjured.
New Mexico State Police said the Farmington police officers were not injured and will not be identified at this time.
According to authorities, officers were dispatched to 5308 Valley View but ended up knocking on the door of the house across the street.
Neighbors are just beginning to process what happened on the street they describe as a close-knit community.
“Especially on this street, because half of us are related,” said one neighbor who did not want to be identified.
The deadly mistake is now capturing national attention. Neighbors say the street will never be te same with Dotson gone.
“Robert was a great neighbor ever since that house was built and they moved in,” a neighbor said. “He just always watched out for the neighborhood. I used to have an inflatable pool on my back porch and my Rottweiler got into it and couldn’t get out and he noticed it and literally saved my dog’s life.”
New Mexico State Police are handling the investigation. Body camera video of the police response is expected to be released in the coming days.
The worst are the people who get shot through the windows without even knowing cops are outside.
Do you call the police everytime someone knocks on your door late at night?
Personally, I wouldn’t open my door late at night, armed or not. If the knocker claimed to be police, I’d dial 911 to confirm before opening the door.
My entire 5 acres is fenced and has 2 gates,one of which is not useable due to plant growth. No trespassing signs and 4 dogs.
I generally know if somebody that doesn’t belong here, is here.
Everybody that owns a house should have it fenced and gated so cops, BLM, and Antifa can’t just drive up, beat your door in, and kill you.
In my state cops can tresspass if they think a crime is being comitted, other than that, any trespassers that are perceived to be a physcial threat, use of deadly force is permitted. By legal definition my entire 5 acres is considered my residence. I don’t have to hide inside my house in a closet. That fence is the walls of my residence.
Most bullet vests won’t stand up to a civilian version of an M14. Mine is pretty accurate out to 1000 meters.
I also have a “Slam” fire model 1897 Winchester shotgun for close up.
Cops coming here had better identify themselves VERY well.
Moral of the story;
Don’t rent, don’t live in places you can’t defend, and make sure you have well trained professional cops and not just spray and pray children, whose main pastime is writing speeding tickets and enforcing petty civil violations.
> When will police agencies stop training their officers to automatically shoot the moment they catch a glimpse of a gun? <
I get that policing can be dangerous. But your question is a good one. Innocent people have been shot and killed by police when they don’t even have a gun. Here’s an article about a guy who was killed while just holding a cell phone.
https://nypost.com/2020/12/28/ohio-cop-who-killed-unarmed-black-man-holding-cellphone-is-fired/
Death penalty ... Immediately and publicly ...
“They see drug deals everywhere when it isn’t and all they see are dollar signs. Drug busting is a good payday for a County department. It’s getting dangerous for regular law-abiding citizens.”
You can be driving somewhere to purchase something you found on Craigslist, and if the cops pull you over and you are found to have a wad of cash, they can and will take the cash claiming it is drug money. You have to prove to them it is not drug money. Asset forfeiture laws are evil and small time police outfits use them to enrich themselves.
Yes, and that’s scary.
Most businesses here don’t care if you are in the parking lot that early on Sunday morning when everybody is in church, or still in bed. We are extremely rural and the little town is probably under 20,000 people.
My husband’s friends often trade or buy/sell equipment to each other. They are all elderly. If they live in different towns, they meet somewhere in the middle so that they all save on gas and driving. They all buy/pay with cash.
Our County cops and the next town’s City cops had a feud a few years ago, or a turf war, over who parked where on the Interstate to stop suspected drug traffickers. They all wanted the forfeiture money.
They completely wasted time and gas following me just to find out I have no criminal record, no warrants, and I have a carry permit.
So true, I am against defunding police. I generally support them as well. However some one else said what do you call a scenario where police have easy jobs and never have to answer for wrongdoings and mistakes? Answer—a police state.
This one by the way happened 7 miles from my house:
They will sweep it under the rug, as they usually do.
.....AND THEY CAN’T EVEN GET A FR’KN ADDRESS RIGHT???
Once again, government protects murderous police officers. This is why I do not back the blue or the government that covers and protects murderous police.
*** Asset forfeiture laws are evil ***
Another nudge to digital currency.
With the cost of food going up it’s easy to run up a $300 purchase. Another
50 for gasoline (THX Brandon) and you are a fast food stop and another
purchase from being a suspect and robbed under Color of Law. Who needs a
Kangaroo Court like Manhatten.
Easy to spend $70 for less than 10 items. Did it 3 times in a row.
They completely wasted time and gas following me just to
find out I have no criminal record, no warrants, and I
have a carry permit.
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Well at least they are doing their job. How would they know
without checking you out? Sometimes they make stops just to
fill a work sheet to look like they are hard at it.
Farmington had lots of crime when I lived there back in 1954-1956 and 1973-1977. Even then an enjoyable place to live back then.
With the closing of the Power Plants there I have read it is now one of the worst places to live. Add to that the Feds trying to close down the gas well industry that has kept that place going for the last 70 years.
You can’t base your economy on simply tourism, mountains in Colorado and Indian ruins all over the place.
” Come see the Indian Ruins alongside the Ghost towns recently abandoned!”
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Not sure what the value is today. I've got one in a cedar chest here at home.
My dad bought as a lad growing up.
That's happened many times in the past. The one that sticks out in my mind was in 1999 when NYC police shot a black man in a doorway, and all he had in his hand was a wallet. It sparked weeks of protests with the chant to the effect of "it's only a wallet...it's only a wallet."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Amadou_Diallo
I have heard Tom Gresham on his radio program Gun Talk say that some departments even train on the pistol range using the command "GUN" as the signal to commence shooting. How widespread that was, or if it is still practiced, I don't know.
“Well at least they are doing their job.”
Yes, but while they are following people like me, they are ignoring other less profitable crimes.
If a business doesn’t want you in their parking lot, they need to post it and hire private security.
I’m not anti-police. I am anti-police harassment. Assuming everybody is a potential drug peddler is harassment.
You have no right to ask why a property owner does anything on his property. Several weapons inside the house that simply never set around unloaded or in a locked box. I open carry on my property and when you knock on my door you are already 100’ on my property.
Guess what Mr. police man, I am armed!
I don’t know how to post Pix on this site, but my 1897 was a trench gun in WW1.
Not what you show.
Government shooting up the wrong house again...
Perfect...
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