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.

  • @[email protected]
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    214 months 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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    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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    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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    744 months 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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        134 months ago

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

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          104 months ago

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

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      384 months 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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      74 months ago

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

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      154 months 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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        44 months ago

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

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        204 months ago

        Either the cops are incredibly competent (likely)

        did you mean to say incompetent? (genuine question)

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    1094 months 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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      574 months 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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      74 months 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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      294 months ago

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

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      44 months 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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    214 months ago

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

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    184 months 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?