SoylentNews is people
SoylentNews
Here, we have a case of "blame the victim", and the cops are going to get away with it. The fact that she is young, white, and pretty will work against her, I'm sure. And, she's from Alabama. The Gestapo busts in on her, while she's taking a nap, shoot her down, and they have the nerve to say, "Well, if she hadn't pointed her gun at our officers . . . "
This, among many other incidents, is why I can't follow the liberal logic. WTF do any of you want the cops to have guns, but deny yourselves the opportunity to defend yourself from those rogue cops? Disarm the police, then I might think about giving up my own weapons. Key words are "might" and "think about".
WILMER, Ala. (WALA) -- A huge investigation underway after a woman is shot during an undercover warrant roundup. It happened Thursday morning at a home in Wilmer on Old Moffat Road.
Turns out the suspect agents were looking for was already in Metro Jail.
"As agents went up to the house they detained two men outside, who said there was a woman still inside. As they went to make entry into the house... This lady had armed herself with a shotgun and the entry team was giving her orders to drop the gun, put the gun down, drop the gun several times -- over a period of a few seconds it seems like... And there is video recordings of that. She didn't and she pointed the gun at one of them -- then two or three agents fired upon her striking her three or four times," said Mobile County Sheriff Sam Cochran.
The woman idenitfied as Ann Rylee was not who agents were looking for. Instead, they were there to execute outstanding drug warrants for 41-year-old Nicholas McLeod -- the uncle of Rylee's fiance.
McLeod has a long drug arrest history. Prior arrests list the home on Moffat Road as McLeod's home address. Turns out he was already in Metro Jail. McLeod booked in on Wednesday at 3:36 p.m. on the outstanding warrants.
Sheriff Cochran says had they known -- they wouldn't have gone to the house.
"We do know there was a miscommunication... And we've narrowed it down to one of two things: The investigators did not make one final check this morning to send teams out to make the arrests or warrants section did not communicate to the computer system -- that the warrants were no longer active. We're running that down," said Cochran. "However, if she would not have pointed a gun at the agents -- they would have determined all of that on the scene and would have bid her a good day and thank you very much."
It's a multi agency team -- running the warrant round-up consisting of Mobile County Sheriff's deputies, Homeland Security, and agents with the U.S. Marshals Office. Sheriff Cochran tells us it was not one of his deputies that fired the shots.
Meanwhile, there is no body camera footage because the Mobile County Sheriff's Office doesn't have body cameras.
The Alabama Bureau of Investigation was called in to take over the case.
All content © 2019, WALA; Mobile, AL. (A Meredith Corporation Station). All Rights Reserved.
https://www.fox10tv.com/news/mobile_county/mcso-sheriff-woman-pointed-gun-at-officer-before-she-was/article_effd4f0c-22da-11ea-b92c-97a70d44e2ba.html
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 23 2019, @01:40AM
Please, show us the mainstream popularity of "you want the cops to have guns, but deny yourselves the opportunity to defend yourself from those rogue cops?"
You'll find the vast majority of liberals only want better background checks and licensing. The mainstream media extremism can be disregarded as propaganda to fuel the emotional divisions, much like the extremist abortion and war on christmas bullshit. Ooooh scary black "tactical" AR-15s! Thanks to some posters on here and people I've met in person I've learned how a lot of gun regulations are nonsense "we're doing something!" type crap. Care to return the favor?
I think the answer is clear, you Runaway need to get your opinions more from real people and less from TV / news propaganda. Also, to head this off, if you want to compare extremist legislation attempts it won't go well for a Republican supporter, so no need to post about how some liberal tried to ban all guns or whatever.
All that aside, I think cops should be disarmed, with SWAT basically being a truck that brings in the weaponry when necessary. Give them armor and clubs, along with actual consequences for wrongful deaths. Like prison time.
Also, obligatory calling out of your bullshit "The fact that she is young, white, and pretty will work against her, I'm sure" which seems to be the only reason you care. All the other articles about wrongful deaths, along with that bitch who murdered the innocent guy in his own apartment, yaaaa you weren't exactly hard on the cops. I'll leave the interpretations of what that means to the reader.