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Originally Posted by Mike Honcho
Cliff notes;
-Police get tip of drug activity from informant
-Raid the house next door by mistake
-Claim identified themselves as police
-61-year-old man and wife think it's a home invasion
-Man fires sawed-off at them
-Police shoot him 3 times and kill him
-24 and 25-year-old officers placed on paid leave
http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=95...LyhJG0.twitter
Lol at giving the cops a paid vacation after having just murdered a man in cold blood. What should happen here is the cops should be charged with murder, man slaughter at the bare minimum. |
To me the person or persons who should be charged with murder are those who made the decision that this was the correct house to raid.
If you are going to bust into a house with guns out you had better make sure you have the right one. You can't blame the old man for shooting at them nor can you blame the officers who shot back because in the heat of the moment they both felt they were defending themselves.
Neither of them would have been in that position had they gotten the correct house.
If course, if it turns out those who did the shooting were also responsible for making sure this was the correct house then they should be charged.