And kill the innocent homeowner at an address outside the city limits.
The parties involved aren’t chatty, but the claim about the middle of the night raid at the wrong house over a weedeater story seems to be fairly solid.
A few mentions from the area that the weed eater belonged to a judge and the cops gained entry via shooting the door lock.
Review and comments from the folks that ended the area under siege due to the I75 shooting event.
Seems likely. The government will kill you over a $200 weed eater or a $200 tax stamp. Hey, $200 is $200.
The murder victim.
The perps
I swear they want to get home warrant service banned nationwide. How many dead innocent people does it take to get your shit in one bag? SMH…
Doing away with legal exemptions/immunity would get the fun and excitement pared down to situations where there is a solid belief that hostages are inside.
What is going on in the South?
It’s more than time to enact strict liability for all actions just like doctors and any other professional.
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I’ve been in a situation or two in my younger years.
There’s always that realization a couple of seconds before everything hits the fan when you come to understand you have no control of the situation and things are going really bad.
When you’re at home, alone and haven’t done anything dicey in about a decade, that’s not what you want to happen.
I’m old, tired and angry, so if I do answer the door, i will pissed off and I will have a gun.
To tell you the truth, this Cop got lucky. He got lucky he knocked on the right door and got away with his Tyrant act.
Someday if he dont change his ways, that Cop will get his.
Two houses away from the address on the warrant? Busted down the door in the middle of the night over a used weedeater? Then shoot and kill a frightened homeowner?
I’m pretty “pro LEO”, at least local LEO, but damn. At first blush I’m thinking f*** these guys. Can’t wait to see what KSP has to say after the investigation.
As I’ve mentioned elsewhere, Qualified Immunity needs to disappear.
With all the cameras and facial recognition software they’ve made it very hard if not impossible to do what really needs to be done to clean this up. It would be suicide.
Both of my Brothers were/are Law Enforcement, so I’m pretty pro Law Enforcement, but damn.
I have Eight inch letters engraved in stone on my five foot Mail Box and yet I still get people and mail coming to the wrong address.
So things like that happen, you get someone else’s mail or have some yahoo at your door, but to think a Cop has to kick in your door over a weedeater?
And he has the address wrong? WTF over?
More from the McCoys.
Weed eater and the murder victim had nothing to do with it.
The immunity should cover any innocent homeowner who shoots/kills an LEO in self-defense. This sh_t has got to stop.
But it won’t. We’re peons, they are the King’s Men. BIG difference. We are beneath them, a U.S.-style caste system.
Facebook posts from the area, which have proven true so far, claim there was no warrant.
“I told them on Vanzant Road, there was a weed eater there, and they took it to where they wanted to go with that,” Buttery, speaking from Laurel County Correctional Center, told WKYT. “That wasn’t me. That was them. I used to live down over the hill down there where they were supposed to go to that address, but they went to the wrong address, is what that was.”
Court records show Buttery previously lived at 515 Vanzant, just a short walk from Harless’ home.
Buttery says he got to know Harless while living there and that he was a good man who didn’t deserve what happened to him.
“Everybody knows him. My whole family knows him. That is sad. That it’d come to that over…I hate to say it but it never would’ve come to that if it wasn’t whose stuff it was.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZjpIXxBGaM
That explains it a bit better. They had the address wrong from the word go.
That report left out that the cops had been at the address used for the shots fired call out earlier in the day.
They seem to be working very hard to blame the victim.
This is a hoot too, no right to say anything negative about police.
Again, why are they doing a forced entry search warrant after dark for a freaking weed eater? We all know the answer, though.
