Posted on 01/30/2014 10:55:13 AM PST by dragnet2
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Rookie cop who shot 72-year-old dead in his home while investigating burglary at the WRONG address will not be charged
A family devastated: Waller was shot by Fort Worth police as they searched his home for burglars in the dark using only flashlights
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2548819/Rookie-cop-NOT-charged-killing-72-year-old-accidental-search-home.html
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
extreme deprivation of liberty PING
He was shot to death and found inside his OWN garage.
Most interesting links....thanks.
See 23.
No sale.
You've been on Free Republic for nearly six years, and you don't understand the Fourth Amendment?
OK, here's your homework assignment:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
Pay special attention to "curtilage"...
“Can’t say for sure regarding the deceased, but if I wasn’t convinced the people breaking into my house for no reason were police, I might raise my gun.”
So in effect you are dead if you do ( and it’s really is the cops). and dead if you don’t (when they are criminals who tell you they are cops). It is long past time when we need the level of “law enforcement” that’s been thrust upon us. Now every jerkwater hamlet wants to get a “free MRAP” to “roll up in.” Just ask that a$$hole chief of police from some podunk town in Florida.
“That’s why I’m not a cop. If I were anyone points a gun at me I assume they’re going to shoot me and they get no courtesy. Either quit pointing it at me or I start shooting to keep from being shot.”
Works both ways dude.
“[...] To defend your home from the police or the state could prove fatal with no consequences for the murderers.”
Sounds like some relatives or good friends need to create some consequences for the murderers. The rule of the three “S”s comes to mind.
Yes, it does work both ways so if anyone points a gun they better realize what the consequences can be and be prepared to accept that.
Few acts so simple can have such grave consequences. A merely dangerous situation can suddenly become a kill or be killed situation.
And ...I’m not a dude.
The next time you have someone pointing a gun at you in the dark and you don’t know whether you are going to die at that moment or not you be sure to take up the meaning and application of “curtilage” with them. You do that.
The next time you have someone pointing a gun at you in the dark and you don’t know whether you are going to die at that moment or not you be sure to take up the meaning and application of “curtilage” with them. You do that.
Maybe you have more information than everyone else on this incident? No? I didn’t think so.
So long as the police officially say the police did nothing wrong, and the police chief says the officers "were following protocol," then everything is A-OH-KAY.
/s
Perhaps if local government "officials" and prosecutors started swinging from lampposts, the folks that are supposed to oversee the police and prosecute crimes would be more inclined to inquiry how police departments conduct themselves and why police shoot dogs and citizens.
Perhaps.
"Former Fort Worth city councilwoman Becky Haskin lives in the neighborhood and told NBC 5 that shortly after 1 a.m. she heard five gunshots. She said she immediately went to the scene, saw officers looking for bullet casings and learned that it was her neighbor, identified by the Tarrant County medical examiner as 72-year-old Jerry Waller, who had been shot and killed."
Odd. What was so important about the spent brass? What about the guy they shot seven times?
He wasn't as important?
I think you might want to ask a NEW question, count-your-change...
Where did everyone go? I expected to hear the neighborhood filled with the sound of gunfire as they fought off murderous hoards of police.
Michigan police shoot Battle Creek teen Nicholas King holding toy gun
Michigan police shoot Battle Creek teen Nicholas King holding toy gun
Not being there or being part of the incident, just like you, I can only guess that gathering the spent brass was part of the investigation into the shooting.
Never met anyone pointing a weapon at you in the dark like these cops have, have you?
Remember when we all used to think that if you didn’t do anything wrong you had nothing to worry about?
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