Posted on 10/14/2019 2:01:24 PM PDT by Raymann
First, if you believe a burglary is in progress, you don’t alert the burglar to your presence. Burglars carry guns sometimes or other weapons. Also, they might run away and the police can’t catch them. They could also be committing a felony inside the house. I am neither pro police or anti-police. I am pro fairness. And all these people on this comment board that are making asinine statement have absolutely no experience in the criminal justice system. We entrust police to carry guns and, regrettably, rare mistakes are made.
Finally, apparently the victim was carrying a handgun when the officer observed her through the window. The cop was probably startled by seeing a person with a gun a few feet away from him and pulled the trigger.
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Maybe because the victim, wondering what the noise was outside, thought there was someone trying to break in, so she picked up a gun.
“Nobody keeps their front door wide open. Nobody. Unless you have a screen door, which is not the case here.”
I have done that on many nice weather nights.
On the job for 18 months. Did he work anywhere else as a police officer? And if so, why did he leave?
For "rare" these things seem to happen on a regular basis.
All this guy has to do is claim he thought he was entering his own home ... and he’ll have his own fan club making excuses for him right here on Free Republic. :-P
Because doing police work is tough business. Rare mistakes are made by the police. We entrust our police to enforce the law and to carry guns. And I don’t think it’s fair to the police for people who have no experience in the criminal justice system being Monday morning quarterbacks when they don’t know all of the facts. Do you know how many times police officers have been shot dead responding to non-emergency calls like this? The victim in this case was carrying a handgun. I am not blaming the victim. I simply want to know all the facts before I join the NAACP and the leftists in calling a cop a murderer.
The East Allen Avenue shooting was the seventh time since June 1 that a
Fort Worth police officer has shot a civilian. Six of those people died.
The determination of police Internal Affairs Unit reviews of those cases
or whether grand juries have considered them was not clear.
Body-worn camera video police released shows two officers using flashlights
to check the perimeter of the house, inspecting two doors that are open
with closed screen doors. At the back of house, one officer appears to see
a figure through a dark window, and he quickly twists his body to the left.
“Put your hands up! Show me your hands!” he shouts through the window,
his gun drawn. He then fires a single shot through the window.
https://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/fort-worth/article236067328.html
The Fort Worth police showed a still photograph from body camera footage showing a handgun on the floor of the bedroom where the victim was shot. The handle of the handgun was blurred deliberately by the police. The only assumption I can make is that the police did not want to show the victims’s hand in a photo that was released to the public, so they blurred the handle part of the handgun out of respect for the victim’s family.
Actually it is the case here. Watch the body cam footage. The screen door is clearly visible and shut.
Everybody knows that it’s best to form an opinion as fast as possible. Don’t wait for an investigation to establish the facts of the incident and certainly by no means study Texas law on criminal homicide.
Everyone has a supercomputer in their hands and can look up the law. They just lack the common sense to make pronouncements of fact before they become available.
That’s sensible.
Unfortunately too many people on the internet think they must form an opinion as fast as possible, do no research, and lobby for their opinion to be accepted as the right one.
> if you believe a burglary is in progress... <
Bort, please remember that the neighbor who called did not even hint at a burglary in progress. He just called a non-emergency number to ask for a welfare check.
Now, suppose the neighbor had instead dialed 911 and said, “My neighbor is on vacation. And I just saw a man with a gun break into her house.”
That would call for extreme caution on the part of the responding officers. But just showing up and shooting through a window...that’s playing judge, jury, and executioner. Indefensible.
Where do you live? In a mountaintop in Idaho? Nobody leaves their front door wide open in a high crime neighborhood in daytime let alone at 230 am Nobody.
I say put him in a cell with that PoS with “You’re F’d!” printed on the dust cover of his AR when he murdered the guy on his knees in his underwear in the hall of the hotel. Leave a sole jagged piece of glass and tell them both, “Survivor gets the needle.”
One thing for sure about that, if it was a cops home and the cop looked out the window and he got shot, the perp would be in jail already. That's the way it should be.
I guess the justification for shooting that has served officers for a long time, namely, “I felt threatened,” has lost its efficacy in ths case.
Actually, they don’t happen that often. What we don’t hear about in the national news or the police officers who get assaulted, killed, shot at, which happens every day in this country.
Hey, I think that's a box on the bingo card above.
“...The only assumption I can make...”
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No, that is not true, you have already made several assumptions.
You have made several excuses for the shooting on this thread,
and several assumptions, and yet, you know nothing.
You are a boot licker, plain and simple.
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