Posted on 05/16/2010 10:47:23 AM PDT by Dallas59
Updated: Sunday, 16 May 2010, 11:09 AM EDT Published : Sunday, 16 May 2010, 8:44 AM EDT
DETROIT - A spokesperson for the Detroit Police Department says a 7-year-old girl named Ayana Jones was accidently shot and killed by a DPD officer.
Watch the latest video report by Fox 2's Roop Raj.
It happened in the 4000 block of Lillibridge at 12:40 Sunday morning. According to Detroit Police , officers went to the house to arrest a murder suspect, with a valid search warrant.
The suspect was wanted in another crime that happened on Friday in Detroit. A 17-year-old high school student was shot and killed in front of a party store. They had reason to believe the man inside the home on Lillibridge was the gunman in that murder.
(Excerpt) Read more at myfoxdetroit.com ...
So basically they threw a grenade in a window (of a house where there was less than a 50% chance of finding the suspect), setting a seven year old on fire and then shot her as she burned. If you or I did that, we would rightly face the death penalty.
“No, but her guardian was.”
Actually her guardian wasn’t. It was a duplex and the suspect was with the family NEXT DOOR. Let me explain what a duplex is for you. It’s two housing units with an adjoining wall designed for two unrelated families...
Suggestion for the swat team; next time just torch the whole building and kill all the families. Much less risk to your boys in blue...
Here's the bottom line, had the cops simply went to the front door and showed an arrest warrant and a search warrant I would be the little girl would still be alive. And yes, before you ask, I would rather see a cop go down than to have some 7 yo girl shot to death in front of her mother. Cops are paid to take the risks and they join the force voluntarily, 7 yo girls are paid and are not supposed to be a risk from their own police force. Anyone who can remotely blame the mother for this Cluster f*** has sh** for brains.
correction to post 83 this line “7 yo girls are paid and are not supposed to be a risk from their own police force” should read “7 yo girls and their parents are NOT paid and are not supposed to be at risk from their own police force”.
I guess my pen, or possibly the ink, mispell words when I write...
That is what I got from the article.
If you have a problem with the way it was written take it with the author.
Did I say the girl deserved to die?
No I mentioned the mother/grandmother looked like she was responsible for the misfire.
So the police can throw a flash-bang into my lower apartment with my kids there because someone living in a *different* residence upstairs is wanted for a crime?
If you’re for that, then 0bama is your man and this is becoming your country, but not mine. If anyone invades my home, whether it’s an apartment or home, when I’ve done nothing wrong, they *will* face resistance.
I am an American. I love freedom and will fight for it. And you are . . . ?
Hey, hoss, maybe you should learn what a “misfire” is before you start pounding the board.
A misfire is a cartridge that either does not fire or partially discharges when fired.
This is either a NEGLIGENT DISCHARGE or murder. If the SWAT team member was struggling:
1. A suspect got access to the officer’s weapon. The officer is at fault.
2. The officer did not properly control his firearm and negligently discharged it into the 7 year-old. The officer is at fault.
3. The officer intentionally killed the 7 year-old.
Those are the options. It didn’t “go off” or “misfire” it did exactly what it was designed to do: exit the barrel and destroy.
BUMP what you said.
By the way, I recommend staying away from these inane, cop-bashing threads unless you have a strong stomach for pompous irrationality. To some people (and they all seem to find these threads) all cops are goons, thugs, and bullies.
Don't forget extra points for shooting unarmed mothers in the head while holding her baby. Or shooting kids in the back. Not to mention burning down churches and running people over with tanks.
I am gonna go with what you said about a Negligent discharge.I’d call it accidental before anything else.
I highly doubt you will find a court that will convict an officer simply because the suspect managed to get the upper hand.
Mistakes happen.
Can you please explain your comments in light of the fact that the child was killed, apparently, in the downstairs apartment, while the suspect was located in the separate upstairs apartment?
Or does being within the building account for her condemnation?
“Police later said the officer may have just collided with the woman.”
Police can’t even tell the same story. This was completely avoidable. If it wasn’t the officer’s fault, who planned the raid? Why did they choose to go ahead with children in the house? How did they get the wrong apartment?
An innocent child died because *someone* put their finger on a trigger and discharged a firearm while it was pointed at a child.
First it was because a grandmother “struggled” with the officer. Now the office merely tripped over her.
I know a police officer who responded to a call for breaking and entering. He emptied his firearm into a vacuum cleaner in the closet when he got spooked. He wasn’t fired and, as far as I know, is still a LEO.
Too many LEOs want to be soldiers fighting a war or have watched too much tv. We need LEOs who care for the community they serve, not LEOs who think they need to control the communities they live in.
Yep! The demoncrat/marxists have a "solid" track record when it comes to emulating their marxist heroes...Mao/Hitler/Stalin/ etc...
Soon, our work will be cut out for us...
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