This is such a scary scenario. I don't live in a bad neighborhood, but there is one house close by where there's suspicious activity...just makes me think.
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You would think that with the negative press the PD would release any evidence that proves they were in the right.
This is such a scary scenario. I don't live in a bad neighborhood, but there is one house close by where there's suspicious activity...just makes me think.
A marine who didn't have time to even flip the safety off is man who was mowed down on purpose.
With the attitudes that are in place, I see it as a very small step from the over-reaction to finding some spent .22 brass on the floor of a school to incidents like this. From the info available, seems like a trained marine addressed an unknown armed threat on his property with his weapon on safe. Comparitively inexperienced trigger happy nervous cops mowed him down at the mere sight of a weapon. Seriously, 60 shots? At what point do you stop pissing your pants to realize he is no longer (was not to begin with) a threat.
A marine who didn't have time to even flip the safety off is man who was mowed down on purpose.
Interview with Spokesman Lt. Michael O'Connor: http://www.kgun9.com/story/14643812...t-narcotics-related-material-that-can-be-drug
Interview with Vanessa Guerena: http://www.kgun9.com/story/14644188...t-narcotics-related-material-that-can-be-drug
O'Connor: "It appears that it was 71 rounds were fired."
Waldman: "Someone on the street might perceive that as excessive force. In your opinion as a law enforcement officer, was it?"
O'Connor: "No, it's not, for a couple of reasons. One, this was an operation being conducted by SWAT members. They have special weapons when they're doing this. Also, where this occurred: There were five officers at the door beginning to make entry into this home, when they engaged this individual that they believed was actually firing at them. They're going to fire until that threat is no longer. And in this case, they fired those rounds in approximately seven seconds. So, it may sound like it's a high number. But when you have five officers firing semi-automatic weapons, that can be done in less than seven seconds, and that's what happened in this case."
O'Connor: "Absolutely. Those are very specific cases when it's a no-knock warrant. This was not a no-knock warrant. This case was, we came in very high profile, lights and sirens. We go to the door, we pound on the door. We wait approximately 15 seconds. If no one answers the door, we breach the door with a heavy tool and open the door.
I guess they heard the sound of their fellow comrades firing and decided to join in.There were five officers at the door beginning to make entry into this home, when they engaged this individual that they believed was actually firing at them.
I guess they heard the sound of their fellow comrades firing and decided to join in.
There is some good news in the story though: all the cops and SWAT officers got home safe.
O'Connor: "This case involves a narcotics conspiracy case, which means that we are looking for a lot of different narcotics related material. That can be drug ledgers, scales, anything that would be in furtherance of this narcotics conspiracy. And it involved all four residents that we were looking at in that quarter mile of so of each other."
O'Connor: "We did find things that we were asking for in that. It may have been drug ledgers, narcotics paraphernalia, any other connecting material between the residences. Those things were found, in addition to a large sum of money. Somewhat larger that what you would expect to find in anyone's home."
Waldman: "Can you say if that was the residence where the shooting happened?"
O'Connor: "No, it was one of the four, but it was not that residence."
SWAT +
= bad time
What a shitty story.
SWAT + Wolf T-shirts?
I'm not sure I see where you are going with this
Yup, the dead marine for having the gall to stand up to people who are above the law.Somebody`s got some splainin to do.
So, it would appear that homeowners should possess/install some kind of hard cover from behind which to "greet" people breaking into the house. Maybe a vest (and helmet?) for proper attire when investigating things going bump in the night, as well?