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Neighbors: Police killed man after serving warrant to wrong home
WLEX-TV (Kentucky) ^ | 12/27/2024 | Lauren Minor

Posted on 12/29/2024 1:47:27 PM PST by DFG

There are a lot of questions surrounding the deadly shooting of a 61-year-old Laurel County man this week, by London police officers who say they were there to serve a search warrant.

"I heard five shots," says a neighbor, who does not want to be identified. "At least five shots. Woke me up. I was laying on the couch."

Neighbors are still in disbelief and looking for answers as to why London Police were at the door of 61-year-old Doug Harless the night of December 23rd. One neighbor walked us through what they say happened that night.

"My wife looked out the back door and said, Doug's house is all lit up. At that time, we had seen several cop cars up and down the road and I contacted his daughter. She sent her husband out here to find out that her dad was deceased. The cops had shot him."

London Police say they were attempting to execute a search warrant at a home on Vanzant Rd. In Laurel County.

In a press release, officers say Harless pointed a gun at officers, and that's when an officer opened fire. Harless died as a result.

(Excerpt) Read more at lex18.com ...


TOPICS: US: Kentucky
KEYWORDS: banglist; donutwatch; kentucky; police; swat; weedeater
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1 posted on 12/29/2024 1:47:27 PM PST by DFG
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To: DFG

Did he know they were police, or was this another deadly “No Knock” that killed another innocent?

I say we should change the laws to allow surviving friends and family members do this to the people who did this to him.


2 posted on 12/29/2024 1:50:00 PM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: DFG

The officers were undoubtedly trained by the ATF.


3 posted on 12/29/2024 1:50:51 PM PST by Colt1851Navy (What was wrong with Nixon?)
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To: DFG
Why are the police doing "dynamic entries" at night for a stolen weed eater?

Why are they not knocking on the door in the middle of the day?

4 posted on 12/29/2024 1:51:02 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
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To: DFG
But now everything is breaking out, whether the search warrant was for 489, which is right here on this corner, two doors down from Doug. They are looking for the guy that lives there in that house for a stolen weed eater."

Wow, all this for a stolen weed eater ?

Well, the cops all finished their shift safely.. /s

5 posted on 12/29/2024 1:53:41 PM PST by OldHarbor
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

Quit asking reasonable quesgions. What is the matter with you?


6 posted on 12/29/2024 1:55:06 PM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

Emulating TV cop shows?


7 posted on 12/29/2024 1:55:15 PM PST by SharpRightTurn (“Giving money & power to government is like giving whiskey & car keys to teenage boys” P.J. O’Rourke)
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To: DFG

Looking for a “WEED EATER” really? With a search warrant and late night raid? Somebody tell me how the cops are not gone rogue and trained to be desensitized and abusive to the public. Please explain that to me.


8 posted on 12/29/2024 1:56:48 PM PST by Sequoyah101 (Donald John Trump. First man to be Elected to the Presidency THREE times since FDR.)
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To: DFG

“in the future only two classes will be armed...the criminals without a badge and the criminals wearing one” L.Star


9 posted on 12/29/2024 1:58:43 PM PST by Qwapisking (Q: know the difference between a petulant 6 y.o. and a liberal? A:age. L.Star )
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To: DFG
Wowzer, don't steal a weed eater in Laurel County, guilty or not.


10 posted on 12/29/2024 2:02:13 PM PST by Theoria
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
I am sorry.

You are right, a weed eater is a pet, is an adult, is a child.

What was I thinking?

11 posted on 12/29/2024 2:03:00 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
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To: ConservativeMind

Well that’s because you’re a psychopath :)

Prison time for the people that did it.

People need to stop being fake tough guys on here and start talking sense again.

FEW here, I am quite sure, would want to shoot someone else in return.

Many just talk too big...thank goodness.

I talk like a tough guy too sometimes :) I’m not :)


12 posted on 12/29/2024 2:04:42 PM PST by dp0622 (Tried a coup, a fake tax story, tramp slander, Russia nonsense, impeachment and a virus. They lost.)
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To: SharpRightTurn
It is my contention that the cops watch way to much TV. Or media or something.

The cops in the shows are always right and big heroes.

Real life rarely works that way.

13 posted on 12/29/2024 2:04:42 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
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To: DFG

Justice for Doug!


14 posted on 12/29/2024 2:09:45 PM PST by Rural_Michigan
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To: dp0622

This was premeditated murder. They had all the information and chose to not take any simpler path for the crime this innocent man was to have done.

A good “No Knock” on these people would get be a fair action to allow.

I think it should be allowed to happen several unannounced times on these same people. The original victim’s family could choose either a very large sum of money or to have this happen.

I want it to be legal.


15 posted on 12/29/2024 2:10:23 PM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: DFG

“I hate when that happens”
——Saturday Night Live (1980s)


16 posted on 12/29/2024 2:11:57 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: DFG

The cops broke into a house without a warrant and killed the guy defending his home. That is murder.


17 posted on 12/29/2024 2:12:01 PM PST by PhiloBedo (You gotta roll with the punches, and get with what's real.)
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To: OldHarbor

WOW 😳


18 posted on 12/29/2024 2:14:30 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Day's of Lot; They id Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: PhiloBedo

But did they plant a ‘drop’ weed eater when they were done?


19 posted on 12/29/2024 2:17:39 PM PST by Scrambler Bob (Running Rampant, and not endorsing nonsense; My pronoun is EXIT. And I am generally full of /S)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

(Quit asking reasonable questions)

Yep


20 posted on 12/29/2024 2:18:42 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Day's of Lot; They id Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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