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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teams out to make the arrests or warrants section did not communicate to the computer system -- that the warrants were no longer active.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.
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(Score: 5, Interesting) by FatPhil on Monday December 23 2019, @03:11AM (5 children)
https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/countries-where-the-police-force-does-not-carry-firearms.html
You do realiase that just running off to a historical document written in a different time and culture, and which may not be altered[*] by modern enlightened thinking is indistinguishable from a religious argument, don't you.
Your founding fathers in heaven said so, therefore so mote it be.
[* Yes, I get the irony, but do you?]
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Monday December 23 2019, @03:44AM
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 2) by Arik on Monday December 23 2019, @05:10AM (3 children)
True of every historical document, by definition.
"which may not be altered[*] by modern enlightened thinking"
Show me some thinking which is both modern and enlightened?
It's better to have a system which isn't easily and quickly de-railed by the next fad.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Monday December 23 2019, @12:00PM (2 children)
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 2) by Arik on Monday December 23 2019, @12:28PM (1 child)
It's not actually unchangeable, you know. Just not *easily* changeable.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 2) by dry on Tuesday December 24 2019, @03:03AM
American's do seem very reluctant to change it though, they'd rather some unelected old people whittle away at it, therefore getting rid of the rule of law in the name of the rule of law.
The 1st and 2nd amendments are pretty simple and really the only legal arguments that should be possible per the 2nd is what exactly is an arm, eg is poison gas covered by the 2nd? And whether it is just government that is restricted from infringing on the right or is it anyone? Historically there was also the question of what are people.