Posted on 08/30/2015 3:28:02 PM PDT by Sir Gawain
Tampa Bay, FL – A Florida family seeks justice after their son Jason Westcott, was killed by members of a SWAT team, during a “drug raid” on his house which yielded only $2.00 worth of marijuana.
An ‘internal investigation’ absolved officers of any wrongdoing though police only found .02 grams of marijuana in Westcott’s home.
“They have IA, they have internal investigations but when you police yourself, you have that veil of concern by the outsider,” said attorney T.J. Grimaldi.
On Tuesday, attorney T.J. Grimaldi, representing the family of Westcott, informed the city that family would be filing a lawsuit, after finding numerous “glaring inconsistencies” in police statements in the aftermath of the killing.
“We have developed and seen what we view to be significant inconsistencies with the way that the police department portrayed this case from the get-go all the way to its conclusion,” he said. “We have put the city and the police department on notice that we are going to be filing a lawsuit,” Grimaldi said.
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Hope you remember not to point guns when somebody breaks your door down CLAIMIMG to be the police.
Where is the fun in that?
These guys probably sit around the ready room all day yapping away about all the perps they are going to blow away. No way they will pass up the opportunity for a "dynamic entry" and the chance for a shoot.
How could he have pulled off such mischief and it not be noticed. Something is rotten in the state of Denver, as Archie Bunker might have said.
This is how to get away with murder. The lying “informant” will never be charged.
I think the police officer profession is made to order for the narcissist type. What needs to be done is screen this type of personality by psychological testing. How you do that is for the experts because the narcissist will try to figure out how to beat the test.
Yes, psychological screening would remove those who exhibit narcissist personality disorder.
We have a bifurcated folly going on here. In a parallel thread there is the story of an officer that got offed at random by a #BLM zealot.
The overall story here is not a police problem or even a crime problem as much as it is a godlessness problem.
No, Westcott wasn't killed over $2.00 worth of pot. He was shot because THE POLICE SAID he aimed a gun at a policeman.
Thanks for that.—signed, A former drug warrior.
Killed a man over $2 worth of pot?
Is that like killing a person for Jaywalking?
Why not just kill everyone for everything and claim they were resisting because they did not want to die?
What the hell America?
That was my question. Thanks for answering.
Absolutely agree.
Actually he aimed his gun at a criminal who had invaded his home under color of authority. Mr. Westcott knew he had done nothing at all to warrant a raid.
or PTSD & borderline personality disorder
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