Posted on 09/25/2012 9:04:13 AM PDT by AAABEST
A 61-year-old man was shot to death by police while his wife was handcuffed in another room during a drug raid on the wrong house.
Police admitted their mistake, saying faulty information from a drug informant contributed to the death of John Adams Wednesday night. They intended to raid the home next door.
[snip]
The two officers, 25-year-old Kyle Shedran and 24-year-old Greg Day, were placed on administrative leave with pay.
“We did the best surveillance we could do, and a mistake was made,” Lebanon Police Chief Billy Weeks said. “It’s a very severe mistake, a costly mistake. It makes us look at our own policies and procedures to make sure this never occurs again.” He said, however, the two policemen were not at fault.
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There is no acceptable excuse for this. When the police have time to plan a raid there should be no mistakes when it comes to getting the right home.
You're right. Another deceptive practice by the "I hate the cops" crowd. Here's a story on the outcome for those interested.
http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle-old/239/tennesseetown.shtml
Seems other than the payout, nothing happened to the cops involved then, so now another innocent is dead.
We will never “deal with the problem” except some individuals may die or kill cops in self defense as more people learn that if the cops come for any reason it is better to die defending yourself and your family than to simply be shot so that some cops can get extra paid vacations.
how do you miss with a sawed off shotgun. those two offycers shoulda been Swiss cheese...maybe he was high...
If this story is 12 years old then why are they recycling it????
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Old Story, some more info here.
http://books.google.com/books?id=ydxMiGFyS5gC&pg=PT123&lpg=PT123&dq=Kyle+Shedran&source=bl&ots=yJ1Wz0fJYH&sig=9AkmPwC-btXS6Y1jn2xgZHir5qQ&hl=en&sa=X&ei=DexhUIcf0InRAZCOgUA&ved=0CDQQ6AEwBDgU#v=onepage&q=Kyle%20Shedran&f=false
Goggle this for a recent, strange shooting
Patricia A. Cook Culpeper, officer Daniel Harmon-Wright
Goes to trial early next year
Along with the CI.
So I take it there are judges somewhere giving these goons search warrants to make a no-knock crash of an address based on some low-life ‘informant’ saying there’s bad stuff going on there?
Can ‘WE the people’ ask this one question:
Is all of this worth it?
What is the justification for these drug raids given the carnage?
Geez, I must have told you a million times,
you are a moron.
“All because we don’t think people should be allowed to get high.”
No, it’s all because those of us who are sober don’t want to be subjected to the antics of the high.
I am not defending crappy policy work. But the solution is not to have junkies, acid freaks and meth heads running things. The solution is to have better, far better, police work.
If you don't have a dog for them to shoot, they just shoot you instead.
Precisely.
There is, however, a huge Constitutional problem with the War on Drugs. The authority for its enforcement can only legitimately come from one of two places [which are, ironically, illegitimate] (a) the power to regulate substances, as the 18th amendment granted, which was repealed by the 21st Amendment [I believe there are cases decided based on precedents set during prohibition], and (b) the commerce clause. The commerce clause is actually very interesting because "the states" appears the list with the Indian nations and foreign nations; now to apply the level of control that they are demanding [from the States] within/upon foreign-nations is an act of war [consider enforcement of such edicts], therefore using it as the justification for the authority to control drugs is extraordinarily... suspect, to say the least.
All because we don’t think people should be allowed to get high.
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