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Well then there's a problem . The key worked so they didn't have the wrong house as one news cast said.
News last night said that they were looking for his cousin.
I believe it was wrong to need to break in without knocking here. There is no evidence to the contrary given what the warrants were for.
The post I quoted said they used a key.The police came in the room by using the keys?
In the rare case where the police think they need to go in shooting, use a robot, or use body armor that makes it unnecessary to shoot to defend their lives.
The post I quoted said they used a key.
Trunks2k #90Police didn't use a battering ram. They used a key. And Locke didn't point a gun at them. If you watch the video, while the gun is visible, he didn't point it at the police. Locke had something like 9 seconds to realize what was going on. thats no time when you are woken up.
You can always make the case where police are safer by not knocking, but doing so prioritizes police safety over everyone else.
As far as my understanding of the criminal justice system, we are supposed to be presumed innocent until proven guilty, and, it's hard to presume someone innocent if you have to break into their apartment while they are sleeping with guns out and will shoot at the first provocation.
It's hard to parse in a country where we have a right to own a gun to protect ourselves and a right to protect our houses.
Trunks2k #90
Perhaps people will grasp at anything to complain about these days as they miss the old days where lynchings and the like were common and real fuel for the fire.If he shot at the police....and police shot at him and killed his dog....the same people would blame the police. As if rampant dog killing was an issue.
And there's always money to be made.Perhaps people will grasp at anything to complain about these days as they miss the old days where lynchings and the like were common and real fuel for the fire.
Yes families can end up set for life, if they don't blow it away quickly. But that doesn't change the fact when you look past that, that there is still something very wrong with the system where everybody mistrusts everybody.And there's always money to be made.
I would not recommend following your legal adviseFalse, this was a no knock warrent, given the fact that between excercising said warrant and shooting the victim dead was just 9 seconds, he had every legal right to reach for and pointing his gun on persons unknown breaking into the be room he was in, he was given no time to respond to their identifying themselves.
If that were the case there would be charges pending against the officer and there would be a civil rights investigation by the FBI. I do not see either one of those things happening. Do you?The officer was the deadly threat, and Locke was undoubtedly within his rights to defend himself.
No charges pending against the officer, No FBI investigation, looks like a justified shooting from all indications.Locke did have the legal right to hold a gun and point it at an apparent intruder to where he was sleeping, according to the 2nd amendment. Locke was fully licensed to have that gun. He broke no laws. The fact that the police also had a legal right to enter the apartment as they did is evidence that our laws are contradictory and lead to such outcomes. That is why I do not blame the officers who entered the apartment. They were just doing what they were told. I blame the city itself for executing Locke. Unfortunately there is no means to put a city on trial for murder. By the way, Minneapolis is my city. I live here and I am disgusted by what my city has done.
No, I want the city not to place cops in that position unnecessarily where they have to defend themselves. I know there are some situations where cops have to face bad guys with guns and that the cops have to defend themselves in such cases. But this didn't need to be such a situation.Unfortunately since basically everyone from 8 to 80 is armed in the US, literally every case of an interaction with the public is potentially a case where they are in danger. But consider what you're saying...you literally want the police to not defend their own lives from deadly force because of the possibility of some super man type armor that makes them invincible?
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