Posted on 10/12/2013 8:20:46 AM PDT by moonshinner_09
The wife of an 80-year-old man who was shot dead by deputies in a mistaken meth lab bust is suing the county for $50million, it emerged today. Eugene Mallory was shot six times in a June 27 raid by Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department who arrived at the property with a search warrant because it allegedly smelled of the ingredients used to make methamphetamine. No evidence of a meth lab was ever found at the Littlerock home but marijuana and marijuana-growing equipment were said to have been found. Police also found two guns on the property.
The report says that during the raid, deputies only fired at Mallory when he raised a semi-automatic handgun at them. A statement was released saying: 'When deputies approached a rear bedroom at the location, they encountered an 80-year-old male who was armed with a semi-automatic handgun. 'The suspect pointed the handgun at the deputies and a deputy-involved shooting occurred.'
Sheriff’s department spokesman Steve Whitmore said: 'Age does not preclude somebody from being aggressive toward deputies. The lesson here is… don’t pull a gun on a deputy.' Widow Tonya Pate disputes this and says that her husband respected law enforcement and would never point a gun at officers, KTLA5 reports.
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So a few marijuana plants make someone a dopehead filth?
So what other heinous crime had he been convicted of?
How does jackboot polish taste?Come on ,tell us.
“Anything it takes for me to go home safe...”
$50 million is anything, yup.
I used to trust “law enforcement” but anymore it seems like they are all jacked up with their miltary style garb and toys they just have to use.
Just keeping pushing it fellas, the push back is coming and you aint gonna like it.
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That's one possible reason why.
Another reason for excluding those with IQ over 110 is that most of those excluded will be white, and it allows you to hire more of the black applicants without getting sued for discriminating against whites.
yep...and until they do (have to personally pay), there is no incentive to change their behavior.
Yes, these people need to start paying up out of their own pockets
Dang dopers are an even bigger threat to this nation than rock n' roll and bikinis!
Yes, the same dopehead hippie filth that has been voting for marxist libs for decades, turning this once great country into a putrid, degenerate sewer. The same liberal, dopehead scum that votes for crap like gun control and fag-marriage. Damn them all to hell. Hope they all overdose, choking on their own vomit.
First let me state that I despise dope. Period. With that said, I have a vietnam vet neighbor that used marijuana medicinally for his leukemia that he believes was caused by Agent Orange exposure. The man is SKINNY. Bone thin. His wife says that the marijuana was the only way he could eat anything and keep it down. The VA now sends him THC pills that he hates because he says they make him higher than the marijuana did. I know nothing about the veracity of these claims, but my neighbors are exceptionally nice neighbors.
Since the man was 80 that was shot 6 times in the article, I wondered if he was smoking it medicinally.
Uniformed cops on patrol robbed me of my cash on the street I. The Mission District of San Francisco.
I have smoked pot ZERO times and have ZERO tattoos.
I used to love cops but now I hate most of them.
“a deputy-involved shooting occurred”
It was, of course, the gun that did the actual shooting and, somehow, the deputy just found it in his hand. He was as surprised as anyone.
This Buridan-involved posting occurred while I was just browsing.
You have the name calling down pat
that has been voting for marxist libs for decades, turning this once great country into a putrid, degenerate sewer.
Where in the article did it say this person is a democrat?
The same liberal, dopehead scum that votes for crap like gun control and fag-marriage.
More name calling.
Damn them all to hell. Hope they all overdose, choking on their own vomit.
There is not one documented case of death from a marijuana overdose. As for Damning them to hell, that decision is not yours to make.
If weed was in the house,why didn’t the police arrest the wife ?
“The lesson here is… don’t pull a gun on a deputy.” or make sure your deputies all have throw downs.
Meth is a horrible drug.
http://planetoddity.com/faces-of-meth-addicts/
The War on Drugs is pretty bad, too. If the police really thought there was a meth lab there, why couldn’t they do a bit of investigative work first? Someone calls in a suspicious smell. That alone justifies a nighttime raid on someone’s home? Plus even after a decision to raid a home is made, what’s so difficult about double or triple checking the address?
I wonder how many of these raids could be handled in a less violent manner by traditional law enforcement. Is it simply impossible these days to go to a place in daylight, speak to the owners, and look for signs of drug manufacturing, like unusual smells, empty chemical bottles in the trash, etc? Is it simply impossible to take the owners into custody without a midnight raid by militarized police, aka SWAT?
Stop feeding the troll.
Maybe you need to watch less television and shoot more. Two deputies with 9 mm pistols could put six shots in him in not much more than a second. He likely wouldn’t react at all to those shots while they were being fired. They probably stopped firing when he lowered the gun and by then he was mortally wounded. Not defending the cops just saying six rounds does not seem excessive if it was a good shoot. People don’t go flying backwards when shot in real shootings.
Police are increasingly out of control.
This was a case of well armed, well armored cops wanting to shoot someone, and they did. Nothing is more dangerous than cops on a hunt. They are worse than feral blacks prowling for whities.
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