Well, at least they didn’t do it based on a tip from another felon and they did find some drugs. Like that was worth killing someone over...
This was totally stupid. If nobody was in danger, and the suspect didn’t have a record of violence, why not serve the warrant with a polite knock on the door and a “We have a warrant, sir, may we come in?”
this is my fear...standing at my kitchen counter cutting up meat for dinner, when my door bursts open and a paramilitary dude in black see’s me standing there with a kitchen knife and shoots me dead...justifiable shooting, but was the raid itself justified...if you mapquest my address, it shows the wrong house on the wrong side of the street...if the command officers do not perform their due dilligence it is very easy to kill an innocent person...the command officers need to be held responsible for these murders ( yes, killing someone for a quarter ounce of pot is murder )not the officers defending themselves
Because under that scenario, the hideous, law-breaking perp might flush some pot down his toilet and the cops don't get their collar. How is a career LE officer supposed to get promoted letting that happen? No, he/she must crush their little subject heads, stomp their necks down to the floor, and make them submit like good subjects should. And NONE of the LEs will be held to account, so why shouldn't they do as they please?
Because the new para military policemen want 'trigger time". And they always seem to be able to justify it by simply saying "I felt my life was threatened", even though many times they unnecessarily put themselves in that situation.
Being gunned down by trigger happy police while defending person and property from unknown intruders is happening all too often to innocent civilians.
“why not serve the warrant with a polite knock on the door and a “We have a warrant, sir, may we come in?”
They may have known he was a gun owner, that makes him “armed”. This is how they respond to “armed people” like the woman in NOLA who got tackled for holding a revolver. She was “armed”, and you never hear “armed and docile”, it’s always “armed and dnagerous”, so if they know you have a gun, the response will be overwhelming.
That’s pretty much what happened in my town, and a policeman ended up dead, and a kid going to prison.
The suspect DID have a shotgun.
How were the police to know that the response to their polite query would NOT have been a 12 gauge round exploding through the front door? A reasonable question.
why not serve the warrant with a polite knock on the door and a “We have a warrant, sir, may we come in?”
A few years ago, our town did a mass bust on valentines day. The undercover cop showed up at the door carrying a bouquet of flowers, knocked and said “FTD flower delivery for [insert perp’s name].
They got everyone quite peacefully. The perps were actually eager to identify themselves and sign for their flowers. No guns were drawn and nobody got shot.