Posted on 01/23/2017 4:18:04 PM PST by Leaning Right
Lots of good learnings here. If your spouse calls the cops while you go investigate ,very important that spouse describes you and tells 911 that you are the homeowner and you are armed. Also, the fact that the screen door had holes in it but the front door didn’t might mean the intruder was on the way out the door when the homeowner opened fire , with the cops coming up the front steps at the same time. I’ll definitely adopt a wait and see on this one as it sounds like a chaotic scene. If you want to see true cop incompetence, google for the guy in Georgia who was shot in his own house though he was unarmed. Thankfully he survived. Cops went to wrong house while responding to a call. Killed his dog to boot.
One place I’ll never be caught dead - is in bed with either of my ex-wives. That’s a bad call right there!
Excellent point.
Ex-wife of homeowner in bed with ex-husband. What a tangle web is weaved or is it a federal benefit rip-off?
Ouch!
Yep. “felony murder rule”.
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Yeah, I wasn’t saying either police or homeowner did anything wrong, but seems like there are some missing details here. If someone woke me up in bed, it would be much less time than police could respond before I could find a gun, even if it was down stairs with someone else. So seems like the reaction time of the homeowner and the response time of the police are out of synch. Would the police roll up silent or with lights and siren? Seems like the owner was not all there and some stupidity/drugs/mental condition/association with the intruder may have been involved.
I think you misread, he retrieved the gun from his ex-wife’s purse, who he was sleeping with, then went downstairs to check on his mother.
I agree, way too many people who are willing to jump to conclusions and blame the cops.
Could be they got divorced, then reconciled but didn’t bother to get married again. It happens.
Interesting that the deceased worked miscellaneous jobs and had a cleaning business but was home quite often according to the neighborhood acquaintance? Also that he was always very well dressed and had some high cost sports cars? Hmmmm?
Of course they will, the traditional paid vacation for a job well done.
A job well done?
Killing the home owner, instead of the intruder?
They’ll likely get to keep running their patrols, endangering the lives of other victims. Not even put on paid leave.
Yep. Justice has become a business in America. To the detriment of thousands of families and innocent lives ruined. At the root of it all is money. It all comes back to money.
I wouldn’t mind a full justice system reform.
“To the detriment of thousands of families and innocent lives ruined. “
Thousands ???
.
It’s because they are the cops, they can do no wrong, and they are the cops so they must be right all the time. NO MATTER WHAT. That’s why.
It’s why the ATF exists, its why SWAT throws flashbangs in baby cribs, its why they issue no-knock warrants. They can do whatever they want. Lots of people don’t understand that. Hopefully they never will.
Tens of thousands?
Hundreds of thousands?
....Millions?
The lesson is.
Never sleep with your ex-wife.
The poison is that prosecutors have UNLIMITED $$$. When an OJ or Woody Allen has the ability to match them, everyone gets upset. But when the government has a bad case, but charges a poor guy with crimes that will add up to life, they settle for lesser charges even if they're innocent.
Woody Allen is a jerk & sexually weird. But the case against him was bogus. The fact that he fought back pretty much ended the child abuse witch hunts. If he was poor, he'd have been railroaded.
Yep. It’s a completely one-sided system that favors the criminal justice system when one of the values of the criminal justice system is that justice is supposedly blind. But if you lose cases or don’t get plea downs as prosecutors you won’t have a career.
It’s totally bullshit.
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