‘Murdered In His Own Home’: Kentucky Cops Raid Wrong Home and Kill Innocent Man Over Alleged Stolen Weed Eater Despite Receiving the Correct Address At Least Five Times

2 years ago by ByteOnBikes to c/thepoliceproblem

Kentucky dispatchers repeatedly told police officers the address of a house they were supposed to raid over an alleged stolen Weed Eater, only for the cops to raid the wrong home and kill the man inside.

But the man who police say admitted to stealing the Weed Eater from a home of a local judge had already been in custody prior to the deadly raid that took place minutes before midnight last month, according to WLEX. That man told police he had stored the stolen Weed Eater at a home at 489 Vanzant Road which is a rural area outside of London city limits.

Snowclone 129 points 2 years ago

Check to see if there's a development looking to buy all the land in that area. You know. Like the last time police did this, and it got buried for years until public outcry made the legal system reluctantly look into and find out there were very rich people who wanted the home of Brianna Taylor, and got it for what $1.00 after she was murdered in her bed by a cop who snuck behind the house to her bedroom and opened fire.

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Gradually_Adjusting 68 points 2 years ago

I found an article verifying the price, but do you have a source that connects the rest of the dots? I'm shocked (not that shocked) this isn't on screaming front page headlines

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kiterios 49 points 2 years ago

I found these articles with a little more information.

Business Insider, paywall

Business Insider, Archive Link

Wave3, local news station

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Gradually_Adjusting 53 points 2 years ago

Good stuff, key point from the BI article:

Mary Ellen Wiederwohl, head of the city's economic development foundation Louisville Forward, the city's economic development organization, told local news channel Wave 3 that the updated lawsuit "is a gross mischaracterization of the project," and said that the foundation had worked with community organizations throughout. She added that the foundation is discussing the creation of a community land trust "to ensure investment without displacement."

And yet I found more using a search of "Place Based Investigations " as the main keyword: https://www.courier-journal.com/...

it was revealed that the "no-knock" warrant police used to force their way into Taylor's apartment, leading to her death, was obtained by a member of the Place-Based Investigative team.

The dots are connected enough for me. PBI obtained the no-knock, likely on Wiederwohl's initiative. Further lead: https://www.acceleratorforamerica.org/who-we-are/

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Clinicallydepressedpoochie 13 points 2 years ago

Can we get this to the front page of lemmy? Brianna's story is one of injustice and this is more proof of what these cretins are able to do in broad daylight.

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Snowclone 9 points 2 years ago

Yeah the alerts to police that led to the warrant were from the team working on the project inside the police department or something? It's so ugly and obvious it really bothers me that I'm sure no one will ever face a single consequence. Just like always. The law is apparently totally incapable of even bothering those that have vs those that have not.

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mantra 109 points 2 years ago

Why the fuck do they need to raid any house for a fucking weed eater!? That is serious small time shit.

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jaybone 57 points 2 years ago

And the thief was already in custody. He had “stored” the weed eater at the address they were supposed to be searching (er, raiding), meaning whoever would have been present there wasn’t even the thief.

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Maultasche 37 points 2 years ago

Maybe because it was a judge's weed eater

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Auli 2 points 2 years ago

Or a CEOs gardener.

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prole 28 points 2 years ago

Because we train cops to kill and give them military surplus and they're just itching to use it.

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rumba 12 points 2 years ago

It was the Judge's weed eater.

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Snowclone 7 points 2 years ago

The whole raid and SWAT tactics are insanely ineffective and deadly. Before that detectives would just come by in the day time and knock and be like 'we have a warrant'.

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jpreston2005 4 points 2 years ago

fuckin' misdemeanor shit, stealing something under $1000. This judge ordered his little goon squad to seek vengeance and retribution on anyone who would dare steal from someone of his stature. No warrant, doubt they even announced themselves as police. They killed a man over a fucking used weed whacker. Raided his home in the middle of the night and killed an innocent American citizen over fucking nothing.

hey judge your cops just stole a mans life, you gonna go seek vengeance and retribution again?

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atempuser23 1 point 2 years ago

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i_dont_want_to 74 points 2 years ago

They broke into his house, and he got a gun out. Which is one of the few times it is reasonable to brandish a weapon... And they use that as justification to kill him. Over a weed eater.

The police don't give a shit if someone steals your catalytic converter, your whole car, or all of your tools. But I guess if you're a judge they will kill for your weed eater.

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iknowitwheniseeit 38 points 2 years ago

It was stolen from a judge. So the police treated it as important. You know, the same as when a rich person is harmed

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vaultdweller013 13 points 2 years ago

The cops deserve to reap what they sowed.

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samus12345 13 points 2 years ago

But they won't. Qualified immunity, which means they can and will murder with impunity.

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vaultdweller013 10 points 2 years ago

They sow death so they deserve to reap death. Legality is not a factor in my proposition.

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Snowclone 7 points 2 years ago

A lot of people have proven self defense against police breaking into their home and attacking him. Legally speaking.

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Manalith 12 points 2 years ago

Which is why they go all the way. Can't prove self defense if you're dead.

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Dorkyd68 51 points 2 years ago

There is more to this story that we will never know. You raid a home over a stolen fucking weed eater. Gross abuse of power by someone

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Subverb 41 points 2 years ago

No, it's right there in the story. The weed eater belonged to a judge, so obviously someone's gonna pay.

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Skates 18 points 2 years ago

Death penalty for the cops, life in prison for the judge?

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Clinicallydepressedpoochie 8 points 2 years ago

If only. Man, if only there were some Mario Bros that could handle something like this. They hate the forces of evil.

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lightnsfw 16 points 2 years ago

Even if it was the correct home. They killed the guy over a fucking weed eater. Even if he'd been violent back off and fucking let things cool down. Grab him when he goes for groceries or something. Fuck.

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PM_Your_Nudes_Please 8 points 2 years ago

I mean, the article plainly says that the weed eater belonged to a local judge.

This dude wasn’t executed because of what he was accused of stealing. He was executed because of who he was accused of stealing it from.

I can almost guarantee that some police higher-up is getting a free/cheap piece of “forfeited” property in the coming weeks.

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Auli 3 points 2 years ago

The thief was in custody. They where just going to where the guy stashed it. Like why couldn't they roll up in a patrol car and knock.

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PM_Your_Nudes_Please 1 point 2 years ago

I know, that’s why I said accused. The dude didn’t steal anything, but was still killed.

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dalekcaan 50 points 2 years ago

stealing the Weed Eater from a home of a local judge

Aha, so that's why they suddenly give a shit about property theft, because it was from a member of their little club.

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TriflingToad 12 points 2 years ago

you know, I just now realized it was a weed eater and not a weed eater

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MutilationWave 6 points 2 years ago

Perhaps Weedeater were hanging out with the judge and he kidnapped them? Just kidding, Weedeater would never hang out with a judge.

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Clinicallydepressedpoochie 47 points 2 years ago

What's it's matter about the address. We are talking about a weed eater. Chill the fuck out.

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PM_Your_Nudes_Please 36 points 2 years ago

Ah, but the weed eater belonged to a judge. It wasn’t because he stole something valuable; It was because he stole from someone important.

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Auli 9 points 2 years ago

He didn't steal anything they had the thief. It was a recovery operation. You know it's dangerous getting a weed eater from someone who doesn't know they have it.

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Clinicallydepressedpoochie 8 points 2 years ago

Ok, Judge, chill the fuck out. It's a fuckin weed eater you psycho.

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RagingRobot 28 points 2 years ago

Why did they even do anything? Whenever something is stolen from I get told there is nothing they can do but take a report.

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Trigger2_2000 23 points 2 years ago

I'm sure "judges weed eater" had nothing to do with the enhanced police response. /s

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Snowclone 8 points 2 years ago

Yeah, police are unwilling to do anything about vandalism in my neighborhood, smashed windows on homes and cars, 20+ smashed windows, everyone knows exactly who is doing it to the kid who goes around trying to jump kids in the area half their size and has been caught and witnesses red handed multiple times, ''aww jeez guys, looks like.. there's nothing we can do...'' useless.

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BobGnarley 2 points 2 years ago

You can hurt him bad enough to where he stops

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Snowclone 2 points 2 years ago

We all bought ring doorbells with the nifty "YOU HAVE ACTIVATED A CAMERA! YOU ARE BEING RECORDED!'' on it, and people must be turning in videos because they blanketed the whole area in ''General Warning to everyone, you can be evicted if your children vandalize or break into any apartment used or not'' which really feels like a lawyer recommended move to make sure they can point to something and say ''see it's the same rules for everyone and everyone was told not just that one family''

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demizerone 47 points 2 years ago

This dude got executed by a death squad.

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FilthyHookerSpit 15 points 2 years ago

Either the cops are incredibly competent (likely) or they intentionally raided the wrong home as an excuse to kill this man, perhaps under judges orders.

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affiliate 20 points 2 years ago

Either the cops are incredibly competent (likely)

did you mean to say incompetent? (genuine question)

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FilthyHookerSpit 12 points 2 years ago

Lmao yes. Most cops are incompetent, pretty sure it's a requirement

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affiliate 6 points 2 years ago

ah okay thank you for clarifying. i completely agree, just wanted to make sure i understood your original comment correctly.

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Robust_Mirror 4 points 2 years ago

When you can't tell if police killed someone through staggering incompetence or deliberate malice... something is fundamentally wrong.

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HawlSera 44 points 2 years ago

"Oh don't like the cops? I guess the next time you're in trouble you'll call a crackhead?"

That does seem to have a better survival rate

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kreskin 12 points 2 years ago

If given the option of where my tax money would go, I'd give crackheads a try at this point, yes.

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HawlSera 4 points 2 years ago

Worst case scenario, we'll learn new recycling habits, like using old coke cans as bowls.

No joke, my boyfriend actually used an old Coca-Cola can to smoke weed out of because he forgot that I owned a couple of actual pipes.

I mean he's not that bright, at least he doesn't seem too bright, but then he pulls some shit like that and I feel kinda dumb and sorry for misjudging him.

I guess what Einstein said is true, if you judge a fish based on its ability to fly or a bird on its ability to swim, you'll think they're both worthless idiots. Not exactly what he said mind you, but that was the sentiment.

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kreskin 2 points 2 years ago

if you judge a fish based on its ability to fly or a bird on its ability to swim, you’ll think they’re both worthless idiots.

I like it. I'll be stealing that to talk about centrists not understand how they lost the election. :-) Will follow your comments for more.

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teamevil 4 points 2 years ago

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BobGnarley 7 points 2 years ago

I know 3 crackheads right now that would handle things with a much cooler head than the police here. And that is not an exaggeration.

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fuzzyspudkiss 38 points 2 years ago

So police get to kill anyone over anything with the word 'weed' now? I can't think of any other reason to raid the home for a fucking $300 item.

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MutilationWave 13 points 2 years ago

It belonged to a judge so they sent a death squad after it, and cops are so fucking stupid they didn't realize the thief was already in custody. It's either that simple or they wanted this man dead for another reason.

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KnowledgeableNip 33 points 2 years ago

Is this the only profession that lets you make consistent fatal errors with impunity? I really can't think of another.

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JustinTheGM 31 points 2 years ago

CEO?

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Bwaz 9 points 2 years ago

Except that's not ussually by error.

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MutilationWave 4 points 2 years ago

This was also perhaps not an error.

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Auli 33 points 2 years ago

What the fuck does a stolen weed eater require a home raid? Like WTF.

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kreskin 23 points 2 years ago

A weed eater stolen from a judges home. Judges and cops worship each other. To cops its like someone stole god's weed eater.

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kreskin 13 points 2 years ago

Cops like to charge others for extra crimes when they eff something up, so now they will charge the guy who stole the weed eater from the judge with murder. And Kentucky has capital punishment...

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Professorozone 26 points 2 years ago

So they wanted to kill this man and decided to use this flimsy excuse? I mean WTF?

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TheObviousSolution 21 points 2 years ago

This is a repeat post, so I'll repeat one of my replies partially: I wouldn’t be surprised if a suddenly vacant lot wouldn’t suddenly be auctioned off to a cop’s relative in areas with a high predominance of this. Read up on civil asset forfeiture as well. In some places, cops are basically legalized mafias.

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JackbyDev 21 points 2 years ago

Why does the article give a street address??? Wtf?

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psyklax 2 points 2 years ago

Well, it's only fair we make the judge's address public too!

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pimento64 -2 points 2 years ago

Home addresses are not private information.

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JackbyDev 8 points 2 years ago

Drop your home address then.

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BetaBlake 10 points 2 years ago

1600 Pennsylvania Ave, Washington DC

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Manalith -3 points 2 years ago

Confirmed, Joe Biden is a Beta male.

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Bgugi 6 points 2 years ago

Hunter2

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Klear 2 points 2 years ago

1060 West Addison

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Auli 0 points 2 years ago

If you know who he is IRL easy enough to find. But you know when are on a semi anonymous board so...

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JackbyDev 1 point 2 years ago

So you agree it's private?

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pimento64 0 points 2 years ago

Your mom's house

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ChairmanMeow 6 points 2 years ago

I would consider them to be private information.

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thedirtyknapkin -1 points 2 years ago

they used to be published in books you know? it's generally a thing that can be searched easily if you have someone's name and municipality.

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ChairmanMeow 2 points 2 years ago

That has as far as I know always been a very optional thing.

What people publish online themselves of course becomes public.

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pimento64 -1 points 2 years ago

So what? They aren't.

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ChairmanMeow 2 points 2 years ago

In the Netherlands at least it is considered personal private information by law. It is in many other jurisdictions as well, including the US actually. Just because few people take the steps to protect it doesn't make it any less personal nor private information.

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DavidDoesLemmy 19 points 2 years ago

What are Kentucky police doing in London? Far from home

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lath 17 points 2 years ago

Nothing much, just killing some people.

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ShaggySnacks 2 points 2 years ago

Which is a typical day for the police.

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MiDaBa 17 points 2 years ago

This happened in a state where the majority of residents (especially in these rural areas) feel everyone should be armed for protection. They are also overwhelmingly in favor of aggressive police tactics so when I see a rural man defending himself and being shot for it by police I can't help but sigh. I mean, anyone with half a brain could see these situations coming. Do we really need to use swat teams for non violent property crimes?

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limelight79 9 points 2 years ago

He might have been armed with a weed eater!

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Madison420 2 points 2 years ago

Peace officer goes over this pretty well.

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt4079142/

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satans_methpipe 16 points 2 years ago

It sounds like the judge and police were working together to execute someone. I really can't tell incompetence from pure evil anymore.

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Olgratin_Magmatoe 16 points 2 years ago

ACAB

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NoneOfUrBusiness 13 points 2 years ago

The one part I as a non-American don't understand about this is: Is America not supposed to be a free country? Why the hell do you have people who can kill anyone with no repercussions? What the hell happened to the rule of law? And, more importantly, why the actual fuck is the whole country not up in arms over this?

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octopus_ink 6 points 2 years ago

Man, RATM had it figured out in 1992. 😬

Now I got no patience

So sick of complacence

With the D, the E, the F, the I, the A, the N, the C, the E

Mind of a revolutionary, so clear the lane

The finger to the land of the chains

What? The "land of the free"?

Whoever told you that is your enemy

I wish it hadn't taken 30 more years before I realized how right they were.

Brother Ali says it even better:

They keep sayin' we're free

But we're all just loose

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callouscomic 4 points 2 years ago

We were never a free country in any sense like you're describing. That'd just our own internal propaganda.

I agree with your last statement. There are countless reasons I can't understand why people aren't burning this country to the ground. Especially those further in poverty and struggling to just get by.

I still am shocked Occupy Wall Street wasn't more violent. It probably needed to be.

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Itsamelemmy 2 points 2 years ago

The reason we haven't burt it down is because the ones in power are really good at making the ignorant masses hate each other. Even during covid people were pissed off that unemployed people were getting a little extra help, when business owners were raking in PPE loans. Instead of focusing that anger where it really belongs. Half the country hates minorities and trans people, the other half hate maga. When instead, we should all be focusing on the bezos and musks and guillotines.

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bitjunkie 12 points 2 years ago

Fuck pigs

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TheFin 10 points 2 years ago

wtf but hey it was swiped from a judge. what a sad story

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ansiz 10 points 2 years ago

Seems likely that the guy who actually stole the weed eater and was already in police custody will now get charged with murder in some kind of weird police logic.

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LovableSidekick 5 points 2 years ago

Don Pardo, what do we have as lovely parting gifts for our widow?

Welllll... Mrs. Dead Guy will receive this space-saving twin bed, and a year's supply of Rice-a-Roni!

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aesthelete 5 points 2 years ago

More importantly, did they get the weed eater back? /s

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ShaggySnacks 10 points 2 years ago

The police didn't get the weed eater back however they did get to kill someone. That's a win for the police.

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LordCrom 4 points 2 years ago

There was no weed eater there because they had the WRONG HOUSE

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whotookkarl 3 points 2 years ago

Yet another reason to have minimum 2-3 year federal training program and licensing to work law enforcement, add it to the pile

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KNAYITNA 1 point 2 years ago

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Gammelfisch 1 point 2 years ago

Yep, Stand Your Ground Kentucky.

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The police problem is that police are policed by the police. Cops are accountable only to other cops, which is no accountability at all.

99.9999% of police brutality, corruption, and misconduct is never investigated, never punished, never makes the news, so it's not on this page.

When cops are caught breaking the law, they're investigated by other cops. Details are kept quiet, the officers' names are withheld from public knowledge, and what info is eventually released is only what police choose to release — often nothing at all.

When police are fired — which is all too rare — they leave with 'law enforcement experience' and can easily find work in another police department nearby. It's called "Wandering Cops."

When police testify under oath, they lie so frequently that cops themselves have a joking term for it: "testilying." Yet it's almost unheard of for police to be punished or prosecuted for perjury.

Cops can and do get away with lawlessness, because cops protect other cops. If they don't, they aren't cops for long.

The legal doctrine of "qualified immunity" renders police officers invulnerable to lawsuits for almost anything they do. In practice, getting past 'qualified immunity' is so unlikely, it makes headlines when it happens.

All this is a path to a police state.

In a free society, police must always be under serious and skeptical public oversight, with non-cops and non-cronies in charge, issuing genuine punishment when warranted.

Police who break the law must be prosecuted like anyone else, promptly fired if guilty, and barred from ever working in law-enforcement again.

That's the solution.

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Our definition of ‘cops’ is broad, and includes prison guards, probation officers, shitty DAs and judges, etc — anyone who has the authority to fuck over people’s lives, with minimal or no oversight.

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① Real-life decorum is expected. Please don't say things only a child or a jackass would say in person.

② If you're here to support the police, you're trolling. Please exercise your right to remain silent.

③ Saying cops ANYONE should be killed lowers the IQ in any conversation. They're about killing people; we're not.

④ Please don't dox or post calls for harassment, vigilantism, tar & feather attacks, etc.

Please also abide by the instance rules.

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ALLIES

• !abolition@slrpnk.net

• !acab@lemmygrad.ml

• r/BadCopNoDonut/

• Randy Balko

• The Civil Rights Lawyer

• The Honest Courtesan

• Identity Project

• MirandaWarning.org

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INFO

• A demonstrator's guide to understanding riot munitions

• Adultification

• Cops aren't supposed to be smart

• Don't talk to the police.

• Killings by law enforcement in Canada

• Killings by law enforcement in the United Kingdom

• Killings by law enforcement in the United States

• Know your rights: Filming the police

• Three words. 70 cases. The tragic history of 'I can’t breathe' (as of 2020)

• Police aren't primarily about helping you or solving crimes.

• Police lie under oath, a lot

• Police spin: An object lesson in Copspeak

• Police unions and arbitrators keep abusive cops on the street

• Shielded from Justice: Police Brutality and Accountability in the United States

• So you wanna be a cop?

• When the police knock on your door

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ORGANIZATIONS

• Black Lives Matter

• Campaign Zero

• Innocence Project

• The Marshall Project

• Movement Law Lab

• National Police Accountability Project

• Say Their Names

• Vera: Ending Mass Incarceration

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The police problem is that police are policed by the police. Cops are accountable only to other cops, which is no accountability at all.

99.9999% of police brutality, corruption, and misconduct is never investigated, never punished, never makes the news, so it's not on this page.

When cops are caught breaking the law, they're investigated by other cops. Details are kept quiet, the officers' names are withheld from public knowledge, and what info is eventually released is only what police choose to release — often nothing at all.

When police are fired — which is all too rare — they leave with 'law enforcement experience' and can easily find work in another police department nearby. It's called "Wandering Cops."

When police testify under oath, they lie so frequently that cops themselves have a joking term for it: "testilying." Yet it's almost unheard of for police to be punished or prosecuted for perjury.

Cops can and do get away with lawlessness, because cops protect other cops. If they don't, they aren't cops for long.

The legal doctrine of "qualified immunity" renders police officers invulnerable to lawsuits for almost anything they do. In practice, getting past 'qualified immunity' is so unlikely, it makes headlines when it happens.

All this is a path to a police state.

In a free society, police must always be under serious and skeptical public oversight, with non-cops and non-cronies in charge, issuing genuine punishment when warranted.

Police who break the law must be prosecuted like anyone else, promptly fired if guilty, and barred from ever working in law-enforcement again.

That's the solution.

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Our definition of ‘cops’ is broad, and includes prison guards, probation officers, shitty DAs and judges, etc — anyone who has the authority to fuck over people’s lives, with minimal or no oversight.

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RULES

① Real-life decorum is expected. Please don't say things only a child or a jackass would say in person.

② If you're here to support the police, you're trolling. Please exercise your right to remain silent.

③ Saying cops ANYONE should be killed lowers the IQ in any conversation. They're about killing people; we're not.

④ Please don't dox or post calls for harassment, vigilantism, tar & feather attacks, etc.

Please also abide by the instance rules.

It you've been banned but don't know why, check the moderator's log. If you feel you didn't deserve it, hey, I'm new at this and maybe you're right. Send a cordial PM, for a second chance.

♦ ♦ ♦

ALLIES

• !abolition@slrpnk.net

• !acab@lemmygrad.ml

• r/BadCopNoDonut/

• Randy Balko

• The Civil Rights Lawyer

• The Honest Courtesan

• Identity Project

• MirandaWarning.org

♦ ♦ ♦

INFO

• A demonstrator's guide to understanding riot munitions

• Adultification

• Cops aren't supposed to be smart

• Don't talk to the police.

• Killings by law enforcement in Canada

• Killings by law enforcement in the United Kingdom

• Killings by law enforcement in the United States

• Know your rights: Filming the police

• Three words. 70 cases. The tragic history of 'I can’t breathe' (as of 2020)

• Police aren't primarily about helping you or solving crimes.

• Police lie under oath, a lot

• Police spin: An object lesson in Copspeak

• Police unions and arbitrators keep abusive cops on the street

• Shielded from Justice: Police Brutality and Accountability in the United States

• So you wanna be a cop?

• When the police knock on your door

♦ ♦ ♦

ORGANIZATIONS

• Black Lives Matter

• Campaign Zero

• Innocence Project

• The Marshall Project

• Movement Law Lab

• National Police Accountability Project

• Say Their Names

• Vera: Ending Mass Incarceration

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