3w ago

‘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

atlantablackstar.com ‘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

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

‘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

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.

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3w ago

‘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

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4w ago

Kentucky Cops Raid Wrong Home, Kill Innocent Man over Alleged Stolen Weed Eater

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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.
- 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
  
  I found these articles with a little more information.
  Business Insider, paywall
  Business Insider, Archive Link
  Wave3, local news station

Why the fuck do they need to raid any house for a fucking weed eater!? That is serious small time shit.
- 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.
- Maybe because it was a judge's weed eater
- Because we train cops to kill and give them military surplus and they're just itching to use it.
- It was the Judge's weed eater.
- 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'.

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.
- It was stolen from a judge. So the police treated it as important. You know, the same as when a rich person is harmed
- The cops deserve to reap what they sowed.
  
  But they won't. Qualified immunity, which means they can and will murder with impunity.
- A lot of people have proven self defense against police breaking into their home and attacking him. Legally speaking.
  
  Which is why they go all the way. Can't prove self defense if you're dead.

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.
- you know, I just now realized it was a weed eater and not a weed eater
  
  Perhaps Weedeater were hanging out with the judge and he kidnapped them? Just kidding, Weedeater would never hang out with a judge.

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.
- 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.

Is this the only profession that lets you make consistent fatal errors with impunity? I really can't think of another.
- CEO?
  
  Except that's not ussually by error.

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
- No, it's right there in the story. The weed eater belonged to a judge, so obviously someone's gonna pay.
  
  Death penalty for the cops, life in prison for the judge?
- 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.
- 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.

What's it's matter about the address. We are talking about a weed eater. Chill the fuck out.
- Why did they even do anything? Whenever something is stolen from I get told there is nothing they can do but take a report.
  
  I'm sure "judges weed eater" had nothing to do with the enhanced police response. /s
- 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.

This dude got executed by a death squad.
- 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.
  
  Either the cops are incredibly competent (likely)
  did you mean to say incompetent? (genuine question)
  
  When you can't tell if police killed someone through staggering incompetence or deliberate malice... something is fundamentally wrong.

Why does the article give a street address??? Wtf?
- Well, it's only fair we make the judge's address public too!
- Home addresses are not private information.
  
  Drop your home address then.
  
  I would consider them to be private information.

What are Kentucky police doing in London? Far from home
- Nothing much, just killing some people.

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

"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

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.

ACAB

Fuck pigs

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

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!

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.

More importantly, did they get the weed eater back? /s
- The police didn't get the weed eater back however they did get to kill someone. That's a win for the police.
- There was no weed eater there because they had the WRONG HOUSE

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

Yep, Stand Your Ground Kentucky.

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