This made my stomach churn...

Funny most think the officer didn't know his responsibilities.

I’m not a police office, but isn’t pointing a firearm at someone without and immeadiate threat to life felony assault?

...and the officer didn’t have a weapon out initially.

I’m not sure the homeowner knew what his responsibilities are.
 
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Thank you for you're reply.

And clairifing the nystagmus on the eye test, not sure where I got stasis from?

My son is not a random family member, we are close .
La and then TX posts, ? T Close and cpo, I think it's called.

Due to security clearances since 1977 and working on some government items I had security investigations and interrogations more than many would believe . The truth is your friend.

I support the good cops and hold the incompetent with low regard.
Used to be TCLEOSE now TCOLE.
Don't take anything personal, just busting your chops.
 
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Hmmm, cop lied on his report to cover his ass for shooting into a house and injuring the homeowner. He is sent home on administrative leave, probably with pay. He will remain on vacation until the investigation is over and the DA or the Chief decide to clear him or fire him. 10 to 1 says that it will be on the homeowner to file a civil suit against the agency, officer and city because the investigation will take many months to finish. Time will allow the outrage to wane and the story will be last page news.

Change the scenario and the civilian sits in jail until they decide his date.
 
I’m not a police office, but isn’t pointing a firearm at someone without and immeadiate threat to life felony assault?

...and the officer didn’t have a weapon out initially.

I’m not sure the homeowner knew what his responsibilities are.

You are not correct in your assumption depending on the state and the corresponding trespassing laws. In this case the cop was trespassing and the homeowner is within his right to defend himself and his property. To what extent is determined by state law. The cop did not know his responsibilities, which is not to shoot an innocent homeowner.
 
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It’s going back in time to grab 30 seconds? No. It has to be continuously recording only video in 30 second increments and deleting when nothing happens to save space.
Why not record audio too, since cops apparently don’t activate their cameras until after shit goes down?

I agree it should have been on when he got out of his car. My car knows when my keyfob leaves the car. His could know when his camera does.
Then we would have a sudden increase of Leo killing from inside their car..
 
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Hmmm, cop lied on his report to cover his ass for shooting into a house and injuring the homeowner. He is sent home on administrative leave, probably with pay. He will remain on vacation until the investigation is over and the DA or the Chief decide to clear him or fire him. 10 to 1 says that it will be on the homeowner to file a civil suit against the agency, officer and city because the investigation will take many months to finish. Time will allow the outrage to wane and the story will be last page news.

Change the scenario and the civilian sits in jail until they decide his date.
You know a civilian wouldn’t make it to the back of a squad car.. ambulance or hurst
 
If anyone doesn’t think cops don’t get special status when it comes to shooting a fellow human being they must go to they same eye doctor Stevie Wonder goes to.
This is my comment from another thread, but it fits perfectly here as well.......
 
I’m not a police office, but isn’t pointing a firearm at someone without and immeadiate threat to life felony assault?

...and the officer didn’t have a weapon out initially.

I’m not sure the homeowner knew what his responsibilities are.

Not sure where you're getting the "immeadiate threat to life" thing.

There are laws about brandishing and threatening people, but there's no blanket law that applies to someone in their own home who is reacting to signs of an intruder in the middle of the night.

I would have handled the situation differently than the dude in the video (not showing myself to the bad guy through the door/window) but I don't see why the cop felt it was appropriate to shoot into a closed/locked home 4 times.
 
I was living next to a meth family not to long ago. I keep a surefire beside my .45. (It does actually get dark in Alaska.. especially in winter). When I saw a flashlight shining through my front window, I responded in kind. Pied to the front door and cracked it to find it was a trooper. Verbally told him I’m setting my gun down and then set the flashlight up on the ledge above the outer doorway. (Open mudroom outside of door) trooper was rather surprised as he thought he was dealing with a house not a duplex. We had a decent conversation about our neighbor after that. Then a month or so later the trooper ends up in jail for things involving underage girls. If you keep a pistol for responding you should keep a bright flashlight as well. Flashlight in eyes work both ways..
 
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So to recap the advice in this thread:
1. Avoid all contact with LEOs
2. Keep the lights off when investigating prowlers so they can’t see you.
3. Shine a bright light at them so they can’t see you.

I wonder if things really would have gone better for the homeowner if he had done the last two.
I don’t think the first was an option.
 
So to recap the advice in this thread:
1. Avoid all contact with LEOs
2. Keep the lights off when investigating prowlers so they can’t see you.
3. Shine a bright light at them so they can’t see you.

I wonder if things really would have gone better for the homeowner if he had done the last two.
I don’t think the first was an option.
In this situation we need to remove the criminal element.. not the homeowner. Nothing will change while People are treated like they are above the law.
 
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Not sure where you're getting the "immeadiate threat to life" thing.

There are laws about brandishing and threatening people, but there's no blanket law that applies to someone in their own home who is reacting to signs of an intruder in the middle of the night.

I would have handled the situation differently than the dude in the video (not showing myself to the bad guy through the door/window) but I don't see why the cop felt it was appropriate to shoot into a closed/locked home 4 times.

in most places you can only use deadly force if there’s an immediate threat to your life or somebody else’s; stand your ground laws are not very typical in most places in the country. some places also allow for damage to property to be considered a reason to use deadly force.

it is absolutely assault to point a firearm at somebody without justification. ( I don’t think the homeowner actually pointed his firearm the officer though.)

what I was getting at is that if the officer thought his life was in immediate danger, he can shoot the other person.

The issue in my case is that the officer had lots of options… He could’ve called for back up… He could’ve had dispatch contact the alarm company and try again. ...He was able to retreat.
 
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Of law enforcement doesn’t hold itself to a higher standard, the public and legislatures will. See Washington and California for evidence of that.

yeah, but those two states are a bunch of whiners.

I know that law-enforcement screws up, and frequently that means that the rest of us are on the receiving end.

However, at the end of the day a police officer as a person just like any other… They’re going to make mistakes.
 
yeah, but those two states are a bunch of whiners.

I know that law-enforcement screws up, and frequently that means that the rest of us are on the receiving end.

However, at the end of the day a police officer as a person just like any other… They’re going to make mistakes.

The difference with cops mistakes is that justice has not been applied to them the same as civilians. If a civilian shot through a window and hit the homeowner where would he be right now? In jail or out on bail. You are doing nothing more than defending a shitty cop that should be in jail for attempted murder.
 
That is a travesty and the fat fucking piece of shit Chief in Houston should be dragged through the streets and made to answer to the families of the people assassinated by the cops.
This really needs its own post.. no evidence of shots fired from the homeowners and even the dog was over 15 feet away by the dining room table when shot.
 
This really needs its own post.. no evidence of shots fired from the homeowners and even the dog was over 15 feet away by the dining room table when shot.

There have been a some threads about this over the past few months BUT the more details that come out the more it afirms that the homeowners were murdered by the cops.
 
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The thread by itself gets the badge bunnies riled up so they complain to frank that the natives are complaining about getting murdered. Frank said no cop bashing so dont start another thread about murdering cops please, take your shots like a man and STFU about it lest the badge bunnies start another letter writing campaign.
 
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The thread by itself gets the badge bunnies riled up so they complain to frank that the natives are complaining about getting murdered. Frank said no cop bashing so dont start another thread about murdering cops please, take your shots like a man and STFU about it lest the badge bunnies start another litter writing campaign.
If they refuse to police their own then they get what’s coming to them. The writing is on the wall. Leo don’t want to be associated with this stuff but don’t mind treating everyone as they are criminal. Even leo can’t have their cake and eat it too. Has this criminal cop been apprehended yet?
 
You shoot at me I return fire. I may just do it with half inch beltfed API too, so you oughta be careful lobbing rounds through a window like you're in goddamn Fallujah... Jesus or a badge, i don't care. Not every unsuspecting homeowner will be that unsuspecting or forgiving for being shot at.

But let me get something clear first, I hate double standards and motherfuckers that hide behind 'em. I hate blue falcons and I hate fucking government criminals. I respect good policemen who respect the rights of citizens and understand their place in the world, but I don't hear about them too often. I do know a few though, one or two on here I'd walk through fire for and I've ran into more good ones than bad ones since I've lived where I currently live. But it wasn't always that way.

I did security for years and this isn't how alarm calls are handled either, BTW. ONLY durress calls, and those are entered by code and are almost never false alarms. This cop fucked up and America's "injustice" system worked once again, protecting yet another motherfucker who shouldn't be carrying a firearm on the job, and only further entrenching this attitude in other shitbag cops hellbent on turning this nation into a 3rd world police state, which you gotta admit, it's heading.

Also, in case of a false alarm, all you have to do is tell the dispatcher the code or whatever and they'll call and stop the cops. They'll still show up, but turn off the lights and horn and slow down and now just to ask questions, not with their goddamn weapons drawn. That's the protocol and it's been the same for over 25 years and every state I've ever worked in.
 
Fucker kills wife and is out on bail in a day,,,,WTF

i'm guessing he was on the juice again.

A Houston Police Department investigator talked to Patricia Spivey's brother, Ezra Washington, who said the couple had been fighting over Patricia's "suspicions that (Renard Spivey) was possibly back on steroids and/or having an affair, because of a lack of intimacy in their relationship," the complaint says.
 
Fucker kills wife and is out on bail in a day,,,,WTF


In TX LEOs are convicted of more crimes than CHL/LTC holders by a 10:1 margin.

 
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The thread by itself gets the badge bunnies riled up so they complain to frank that the natives are complaining about getting murdered. Frank said no cop bashing so dont start another thread about murdering cops please, take your shots like a man and STFU about it lest the badge bunnies start another litter writing campaign.

You know when cops come to defend criminal cops it kind of lends credibility that they are all bad. If you are a good cop and support or look the other way for bad cops. Guess what. You're a bad cop.

Same goes for enforcing unconstitutional laws or finding new ways to violate the constitution like using sting rays or DUI/drug mass car searches.