‘Murdered In His Own Home’: Kentucky Cops Raid Wrong Home and Kill Innocent Man Over Alleged Stolen Weed Eater

[Desk trauma]

That's certainly the situation for anyone else.

Because blue lives matter, significantly more than those of civilians.

 

[Desk trauma]

The cops stopped using body cameras back in 2023.

Must not of been able to acquire the models that automatically stop recording during altercations.

 

[Nithavela]

Sounds like someone in his family will be getting a huge settlement

That's why they call it "buying the farm".

 

[Desk trauma]

That's why they call it "buying the farm".

Said farm would be bought with the money of a third party who was not involved, the tax payers, as the police individual and collectively are not responsible for paying the settlements their negligence incur.

 

[rjs330]

I think it's debatable if you are defending yourself when you started the confrontation in the first place.

They definetely had no search warrant for the house they raided.

If they had no warrant then it's absolutely homicide in my opinion. There is no excuse.

 

[Belk]

If they had no warrant then it's absolutely homicide in my opinion. There is no excuse.

From what I understand they had a warrant but for a completely different house then the one they raided and different from the address the guy who stole the item told them.

 

[Desk trauma]

If they had no warrant then it's absolutely homicide in my opinion. There is no excuse.

Good luck getting it prosecuted as such.

 

[BPPLEE]

Said farm would be bought with the money of a third party who was not involved, the tax payers, as the police individual and collectively are not responsible for paying the settlements their negligence incur.

Police officers can be sued individually apart from the department if they are negligent

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[BPPLEE]

Good luck getting it prosecuted as such.

There is more chance than ever these days

 

[RDKirk]

From what I understand they had a warrant but for a completely different house then the one they raided and different from the address the guy who stole the item told them.

No warrant at all has been produced, and the district judge who would have issued it has said that he did not.

 

[Desk trauma]

There is more chance than ever these days

Damming with faint praise.

 

[CRAZY_CAT_WOMAN]

There is more chance than ever these days

Probably not in Kentucky.

 

[rjs330]

Just a bit more on this..

The cops stopped using body cameras back in 2023..

London, Ky. Police Dept. suspended use of body cameras

WKYT continues to follow a deadly police shooting involving the London Police Department.

www.wkyt.com

The article above and this one..

https://www.kentucky.com/news/state/kentucky/article297928768.html

Go into some more detail and contain one very sad fact and one interesting fact..



They already had the guy that stole the weed eater in custody at the time of the raid.

So why all the fuss and a midnight raid over a weed-eater if they already had the guy to who stole it? Much less a raid that they conducted outside their jurisdiction? I wonder if it was because they were stolen from a judge's house?


Has anyone here had anything stolen? Did the cops conduct a midnight raid outside their jurisdiction to get it back? In my case the answers would be "yes" and "No, they really didn't seem to care." But, I'm not a judge either..

This just gets worse and worse.

 

[BPPLEE]

Probably not in Kentucky.

They've screwed this one up so bad that they are in deep trouble, even in Kentucky

 

[rjs330]

Did you know that home invaders have been known to shout that they're police as they break into a home?

It still doesn't give the homeowner a right to pull a gun on actual police. Especially if they are in uniform and have police written all over them.

The police have to have some sort of avenue to enter a house legally and take people into custody, search it etc. If an owner pulls a gun in them during the process they have to have the right to shoot. Period.

And the way to do that is by doing everything they can to identify themselves as police. Verbal and uniforms.

If they go into the wrong house then that's on them. The individual officer may or may not be culpable in a shooting like that if it's the wrong house and he doesn't know. But the leader is responsible for making sure they are at the right place.

 

[BPPLEE]

It still doesn't give the homeowner a right to pull a gun on actual police. Especially if they are in uniform and have police written all over them.

The police have to have some sort of avenue to enter a house legally and take people into custody, search it etc. If an owner pulls a gun in them during the process they have to have the right to shoot. Period.

And the way to do that is by doing everything they can to identify themselves as police. Verbal and uniforms.

If they go into the wrong house then that's on them. The individual officer may or may not be culpable in a shooting like that if it's the wrong house and he doesn't know. But the leader is responsible for making sure they are at the right place.

From what I'm reading about this the police didn't have a search warrant and were outside of their jurisdiction.
If this is true they are in serious trouble

 

[seeking.IAM]

It still doesn't give the homeowner a right to pull a gun on actual police. Especially if they are in uniform and have police written all over them.

I have not heard. Did they ring the doorbell, announce "Police" and warrant search, and wait for the door to be opened or merely kick the door in? It seems to me if a law-abiding citizen's front door flies open, he is more likely to think "criminal intruder" than "police are here for me" when he comes out of the bedroom carrying a gun to investigate.

It's hard to imagine, though, that you have your door kicked in over a weed-eater, or that you get a search warrant for that matter. I'll be waiting to hear more.

 

[rjs330]

Did they ring the doorbell, announce "Police" and warrant search, and wait for the door to be opened or merely kick the door in?

Exactly. I want to know. At this point it seems unlikely, but I have no idea. If they didnt then rhey screwed up in far more ways than one.

It seems to me if a law-abiding citizen's front door flies open, he is more likely to think "criminal intruder" than "police are here for me" when he comes out of the bedroom carrying a gun to investigate.

I totally agree. He had a full right to defend himself and his home if he had no idea. And the police had a right o defend themselves as well. However, they caused this and should pay the penalty for killing an innocent t man who was just trying to protect himself from an intruder.

 

[RileyG]

Well if he pointed a gun at them, they didn't have any other choice but to open fire. However a raid at the wrong house, not to mention a raid over a weed eater, is ridiculous and inexcusable.

Agreed.

 

[RDKirk]

It still doesn't give the homeowner a right to pull a gun on actual police. Especially if they are in uniform and have police written all over them.

The police have to have some sort of avenue to enter a house legally and take people into custody, search it etc. If an owner pulls a gun in them during the process they have to have the right to shoot. Period.

And the way to do that is by doing everything they can to identify themselves as police. Verbal and uniforms.

If they go into the wrong house then that's on them. The individual officer may or may not be culpable in a shooting like that if it's the wrong house and he doesn't know. But the leader is responsible for making sure they are at the right place.

I'm wondering what kind of scenario you have in your mind.

What we see happening in case after case is that the person in the house does not know it's the police. The police open fire before they could be recognized.