Posted on 09/26/2013 4:46:03 PM PDT by marktwain
A man in Crawford County, Mich., was arrested and charged with felony assault with a deadly weapon on Sunday after he called authorities about a trespassing suspect on his property, his wife tells TheBlaze. There are also serious allegations being made about officers demanding that video footage of the incident taken by the mans wife be deleted.
Thomas Donald, a military veteran, was reportedly out hunting with his 11-year-old son and armed with an unloaded single-shot .410-gauge shotgun (his son chose to use a crossbow instead) when he confronted a man riding a dirt bike on his 10 acres of land. The man and his son then reportedly escorted the trespasser to the front of his property and told his wife, Heather, to call the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) to file a recreational trespass.
What happened when the Crawford County Sheriffs Department arrived shocked them both, though Sheriff Kirk Wakefield tells TheBlaze quite a different story.
In an exclusive interview with TheBlaze, Heather Donald recounted what happened from the couples perspective. Her husband, Thomas, declined to speak with us on the advice of his attorney and due to the charges against him. His attorney also declined an interview request.
(Excerpt) Read more at theblaze.com ...
“unless the video is, shall we say, lost somehow...”
which happens every time the video doesn’t back up their version of an incident
Until the cops are personally responsible they will not really care.
Better for us non-LEOs to purchase individual wireless webcams to record situations so even if the camera is forcibly turned off by LEOs or "accidentally" rendered inoperable (broken) at any time a record exists that will provide proof of actual occurrences rather than only the LEO's statement as to how events transpired.
“A little off subject butI read someplace today those cops in Arizona that shot and killed the Marine in his home in front of wife and child paid 3.4 million to the family.”
Here it is:
AZ:Pima Co. agrees to settle over botched SWAT raid
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3067153/posts
So when does the capital murder trial start for the murdering leos? /s
I guess that's why cops rarely get out of line on the long-running TV reality show, Cops; in fact, they often come across as good samaritans in their degree of helpfulness.
The cops paid it or the taxpayers?
The wife had the last laugh.
She used recovery software to do just that.....she recovered the video the cop deleted, according to the article on “The Blaze.”
No, the dumba$$ taxpaying morons who voted in the corrupt sheriff are going to pay.
Is there a you tube? The vid at the site crashes my player.
Well, because of the "social contracts" inherent to a democracy, the ones who didn't vote for them are responsible for paying too.
After all you can't ignore the law, unless you 1) make the law, 2) enforce the law. "Some pigs are more equal than others."
Perhaps. But when the records are examined and the camera appears to be turning off and on frequently during the duty period can not the argument that the equipment perhaps is faulty somehow be established thereby?
What is the name of the service that lets you automatically upload to a cloud server when you film police, so that you have the video even if they confiscate your phone?
I believe it is Instagram from what i have read. Can’t say for sure though, I try to leave as tiny a fingerprint in the Web as possible. It helps that I was never impressed by the narcissistic time suck that they call Facebook or the many copycats that were even more intrusive to privacy and offensive to common sense.
Did the cops pay or did the taxpayers have to pay? Would be nice if they made the cops sign over their pensions.
"Um, duh, he's under arr.. no, wait, I mean, uh, forget it."
"We need your camera for, like, um, wait, it's coming to me, evidence," followed by trying, unsuccessfully, to delete the "evidence."
Whadda buncha marOONS!
These cops put the “police” in police state.
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