Evidently the merest twitch around police is grounds for immediate execution. And just for you geographically challenged (like me) East Point is in Georgia. Here is the story.
Dwight Person, 54, was shot Thursday afternoon when, according to police, he made a threatening gesture at a female officer “that put her in fear of her safety.” The officer, who has not been identified, fired one shot and hit Person.
He was treated and the scene and taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead, police said.
OK the folks there were running some kind of dope house. Right? Right? Wrong.
“They didn’t even know he was shot,” Ballard said. “There were policemen saying, ‘Who fired that shot?’”
The search for drugs or a weapon was cut short after the shooting, police said.
“Once the shooting happened, our officers stopped their search and turned their focus to trying to save the man’s life,” Chandler said.
Police arrested seven people, charging them with operating a dive, a violation of a municipal code.
No drugs? No drugs? The article says nothing about drugs. Except that the police were looking for them. Normally if the police kill some one in a drug search everyone present (except the police) is charged with heavy felony drug crimes. Except no drugs were found. The heaviest crime they could find was a misdemeanor.
Seven people arrested during an East Point police drug search in which an officer fatally shot a man have been charged with violating a municipal code.
He was shot for that? And twitching. Fortunately for the police (I guess) he eventually stopped twitching.
It used to be such a nice country. Until some one decided it would be a good idea to start a war in it.
H/T Drug Policy Forum of Texas
Cross Posted at Power and Control
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4 responses to “He Eventually Stopped Twitching”
You have to love the police report boilerplate these days. LEO’s all over the nation know that if they fire their weapon, all they have to do is include the words “in fear of my life” in their report and all will be forgiven by their supervisors in almost any circumstance.
We are all supposed to be sympathetic to the risks LEO’s face when doing their jobs. It never seems to occur to the law and order drug warriors that sending armed LEO’s out in the community to enforce these ill-conceived, unjust and immoral drug laws actually put everyone, both LEO and John Q. Publilc, at greater peril too. No sympathy for the citizen it seems when it comes to drug warrior moral calculus. It’s like “Animal Farm”, we are all equal, except that people with badges are more equal than others.
Not to worry though. I’m sure this event will be proeprly investigated, and the officer in question will get a memo inserted into her personnel file and all will be well.
I will admit I think the police are a little quick to taser suspects but I seriously doubt he was actually shot for just twitching.
I like what Glenn said earlier:
“Vote against their pensions.”
http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/132068/
rjp,
I believe the phrase you are looking for is twitching with intent.