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Title: What if the Police Don’t Identify Themselves?
Source: The Libertarian Institute
URL Source: https://libertarianinstitute.org/ar ... lice-dont-identify-themselves/
Published: Oct 21, 2019
Author: Peter R. Quinones
Post Date: 2019-10-22 19:02:25 by Deckard
Keywords: None
Views: 22023
Comments: 83

Anyone who pays attention to cases involving police shootings, especially those that result in a fatality, has noticed that the narrative we first hear coming from the press soon changes. It is no different in the case of Atatiana Jefferson, who was gunned down through a closed window in her home on October 12, after a neighbor called police to report that her front door was ajar at 2AM.

Fort Worth police showed up for a “wellness check.” They didn’t bother knocking, instead deciding to pull their guns and lurk around the outside of the house with high-lumen flashlights. Officer Aaron Dean and his partner opened a gate to the backyard, entered, and noticed a silhouette in the window that turned out to be Jefferson. He never identified himself as a police officer, yelled “show me your hands,” and a split second later fired the fatal shot.

On Monday, 10/14/19, the Fort Worth PD announced that Dean had resigned from the police force before they could terminate his employment. The same day the report came that FWPD had filed murder charges against Dean. He was arrested, and soon after made the $200,000 bond.

When the arrest warrant affidavit was released to the public, it was alleged that Jefferson’s un-named 8-year-old nephew, who was playing video games with her, claimed that Atatiana had noticed people lurking outside, picked up her gun and pointed it at the window. Granted, until an investigation is done, facts such as these are not expected to come out (not that it exonerates the officer). On Thursday, the 17th, the narrative surrounding the initial call to police was changed from that of a “wellness check,” to one of a “potential burglary.” Once again, anyone who has examined cases as such recognizes that this is often done in officer-involved shootings.

The subject here should not be what the original intent of the call to law enforcement was made for, but whether a “mundane” has a right to protect their home from a “protected class member,” especially one who failed to identify himself as such. That there are people willing to defend the actions of officer Dean should come as no surprise. But is there a precedent for defending your home from officers who do not announce themselves?

Ray Rosas

On February 19, 2015, a Corpus Christi SWAT team led a “no-knock warrant” assault on the home of Ray Rosas. They had a search warrant and were looking to arrest his nephew, Santiago Garcia, who they suspected of selling drugs. Garcia was not in the home at the time. One would think that simple surveillance of the property could’ve informed police of this. Or they could’ve knocked and asked if he was in the dwelling. But no, Rosas suffered the typical, cowboy-type SWAT raid that police, on average do 50,000 times a year. When you compare that to 800 per annum in the 1980s, one should ask, why?

The team threw a flash-bang grenade into the bedroom of the Rosas home, which was followed by three cops entering without announcing that they were, in fact, law enforcement.

Rosas, whose home had been shot at in the past during drive-by shootings, believed he was being robbed, so he pulled out his gun and fired 15 times, striking three officers, all of whom survived the shooting.

Rosas was arrested on attempted capital murder which, if convicted, carried a sentence of life in prison. During the trial, those charges were reduced to three counts of aggravated assault on a “public official.” Prosecutors argued that he should’ve known they were police because he had a surveillance camera outside his home.

But Rosas had always maintained he did not know they were cops, telling cops as he was being arrested that he did not know they were cops. He also told jailers the same thing that night as they were booking him.

After almost two years in jail, awaiting, and during his trial, the jury deliberated for only two hours and found him not guilty.

The surveillance camera footage that allegedly captured the raid, was never released to the public.

How the case of Ray Rosas relates to the shooting death by law enforcement of Atatiana Jefferson should be clear. In Rosas’ case, the police never announced who they were, threw an explosive device into his bedroom, and trespassed into his home. A Texas jury decided that the testimony of police was contradictory, and that Ray was defending his castle from what he thought were criminals.

In Ft. Worth, the police officers never announced who they were and prowled around the outside of Jefferson’s home with flashlights, entering her fenced-in backyard. At 2 AM, it is not unreasonable to believe that anyone who owns a firearm would’ve done the same. Many on social media have proclaimed they would have done the exact thing that Atatiana did. Yet, there are those who seek to make the inane argument that if Dean is held responsible for this murder, “Who Would Ever be a Cop?” That is a great question ignoring the shooting.

Using the precedent of the Rosas case, the conviction of Aaron Dean looks to be a slam dunk, although they differ in that the aggressor was unharmed and the peaceful inhabitant was slaughtered. The defense will no doubt rely on the Graham vs. Connor decision. Taking that into consideration, the prosecutor is now the one looking down the barrel.

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#19. To: misterwhite (#16)

Bullshit. Had she pointed the gun and fired, the cop would be dead. She hesitated. She lost.

You are treating her as being as deserving of death for pointing a gun as she would be for a cold-blooded premeditated murder of a cop. She's dead either way, either for just picking up a gun to defend herself in her home against suspicious human noises in her backyard in the dead of night or for engaging in a first-degree murder of a cop. Same result for her.

The mayor and the chief of police both say you're dead wrong about this. She was blameless. That is the official position of the mayor, the council, the PD chief, and the prosecutor.

You're in for a big disappointment when this goes to trial. And, as with nolu's sad attempts to justify this murder by cop, if your idea of a legal defense for Dean is so viable, then why haven't his attorneys even made an attempt to dismiss the charges entirely?

Yet everyone denies that Dean has any immunity from criminal prosecution or civil immunity that covers his homicide of this poor resident with a lawful CCW and a nephew to protect.

Tooconservative  posted on  2019-10-25   14:47:35 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#20. To: Tooconservative (#17)

You're in for a rude wake-up call from a Texas jury.

If I'm on it he walks. Self defense. You have to judge his behavior on what he knew at the time, not two weeks later when all the facts are in.

misterwhite  posted on  2019-10-25   14:49:24 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#21. To: misterwhite, Deckard (#18)

The cop didn't know that was an innocent homeowner.

His job is to determine who is a criminal and who is not in real time. And to announce his presence as a law enforcement officer engaged in legitimate law enforcement duties.

The laws are not complex. The police department policy is not unworkable.

Dean will have no immunity from prosecution as you seem to imagine.

Maybe Dean should hire you and nolu as his legal dream team.

Let me hear you say, "If the glove don't fit, you must acquit".

Tooconservative  posted on  2019-10-25   14:50:39 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#22. To: Tooconservative (#19)

You are treating her as being as deserving of death for pointing a gun

Deserving of death? A bit over the top, no?

I'm saying, and have said, that when you point a gun at someone they have a right to defend themselves.

misterwhite  posted on  2019-10-25   14:53:23 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#23. To: Tooconservative (#21)

His job is to determine who is a criminal and who is not in real time.

You mean in the 1.44 seconds as you calculated? That real time?

What about the homeowner? She's allowed to just blast away without determining if it's the police outside her window?

misterwhite  posted on  2019-10-25   14:57:12 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#24. To: misterwhite, Tooconservative (#16) (Edited)

They picked up a gun and pointed it out the window at someone they hadn't identified.

Atatiana Jefferson's nephew said she pointed a gun out of a window before a Fort Worth police officer shot her. Her family and the police chief say she had every right to do so.

press release from the Fort Worth Police department said that Dean saw a person standing near a window while searching the home's perimeter and drew his weapon.

  • The Fort Worth Police Department's interim police chief, Ed Kraus, defended Jefferson's decision to carry a gun. 

  • Lee Merritt, a lawyer for Jefferson's family, said she had every right to defend herself, and echoed the fact that officers did not announce themselves when they were on Jefferson's property.

    Also, there's this: The warrant doesn’t say Dean told police he saw a weapon, but it does say his partner could only see Jefferson’s face in the window before Dean opened fire.

    If he had indeed seen a gun, one would think he would be telling everyone in Texas - instead, after realizing he screwed the pooch big time, he resigned before he could be fired.

    The guy was basically a rookie with what, a year on the force? Maybe he didn't realize that history has shown if he had made up some bullshit story about seeing a gun, chances are he'd be given a two-week vacation (suspension) while the department "investigated" the incident and escaped any kind of punishment.

Government is in the last resort the employment of armed men, of policemen, gendarmes, soldiers, prison guards, and hangmen.
The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.
Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.

Deckard  posted on  2019-10-25   14:57:45 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#25. To: Tooconservative (#21)

Let me hear you say, "If the glove don't fit, you must acquit".

misterwhite  posted on  2019-10-25   14:59:02 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#26. To: Deckard (#24)

The warrant doesn’t say Dean told police he saw a weapon ...

Does the warrant say Dean told police he didn't see a weapon? The nephew said she had one and pointed it out the window.

misterwhite  posted on  2019-10-25   15:03:02 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#27. To: misterwhite, Deckard (#20)

If I'm on it he walks. Self defense.

No doubt his lawyer will try to exploit that angle.

And the prosecutor will be doing plenty of voir dire to stop such jurors as you from being seated on the jury.

It seems you are ready to engage in some jury nullification now. I thought you were fiercely opposed to that.

Tooconservative  posted on  2019-10-25   15:05:18 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#28. To: misterwhite (#23)

You mean in the 1.44 seconds as you calculated? That real time?

His job is not to shoot innocent people. First and foremost. He's supposed to be there for public safety, not to just blast people at random if he gets frightened after he broke recognized police department policy by refusing to take any opportunity to announce his lawful presence. And a woman died due to his criminal negligence. And so he has been charged with murder. And he will be convicted, likely in less than six months.

Tooconservative  posted on  2019-10-25   15:07:21 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#29. To: Tooconservative (#27)

It seems you are ready to engage in some jury nullification now.

No need. The law on self-defense is clear.

"And the prosecutor will be doing plenty of voir dire to stop such jurors as you from being seated on the jury."

The jurors who apply the law, you mean?

misterwhite  posted on  2019-10-25   15:10:37 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#30. To: Deckard (#24)

Also, there's this: The warrant doesn’t say Dean told police he saw a weapon, but it does say his partner could only see Jefferson’s face in the window before Dean opened fire.

No one has even established if Dean could actually see the resident's gun through the window. We have a photo of a bedroom window with a bullet hole in it but with the blinds pulled more than halfway. If they were in that position during the shooting, we have good reason to doubt that Dean could even have seen and accurately identified a gun in her hand. If he couldn't see well, it could have been the game controller for the game console she and her nephew were gaming on. It could even have been a plastic replica gun or rifle used to play shooting games on the gaming console.

It could be germane as to whether Dean could even have seen the gun in her hand. He may have just blasted a dimly seen black person, seen partially through blinds at night while trying to discriminate the dark background, the lighted window and his own flashlight's very bright beam. It is not a good situation for anyone to discern targets with any accuracy.

The simply story is this: a fraidy-cop didn't announce his lawful presence and blasted a homeowner without any justification. And that will convict him.

Tooconservative  posted on  2019-10-25   15:13:55 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#31. To: Tooconservative, misterwhite (#27)

It seems you are ready to engage in some jury nullification now. I thought you were fiercely opposed to that.

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Government is in the last resort the employment of armed men, of policemen, gendarmes, soldiers, prison guards, and hangmen.
The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.
Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.

Deckard  posted on  2019-10-25   15:18:01 ET  (1 image) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#32. To: Tooconservative (#30)

No one has even established if Dean could actually see the resident's gun through the window. We have a photo of a bedroom window with a bullet hole in it but with the blinds pulled more than halfway. If they were in that position during the shooting, we have good reason to doubt that Dean could even have seen and accurately identified a gun in her hand.

I watched the body-cam video again - the light he was pointing into the window was reflecting off the glass. He couldn't really see much of anything IMO.

Government is in the last resort the employment of armed men, of policemen, gendarmes, soldiers, prison guards, and hangmen.
The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.
Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.

Deckard  posted on  2019-10-25   15:20:02 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#33. To: Tooconservative (#28)

His job is not to shoot innocent people.

You do this on every one of these types of stories. You wait until all the facts are in, then judge all the players based on those facts.

At the exact time of the shooting, he didn't know she was innocent. Or guilty. Or the homeowner. Or a burglar. Or an armed felon who had just murdered the occupants.

The police were sent on an open door call. The front door was open. It was 2:30 am and lights were on. Suddenly a figure appears in the window with a gun pointed right at him, and you expect him to somehow know she's innocent ... in 1.44 seconds.

Why didn't SHE say something?

misterwhite  posted on  2019-10-25   15:23:00 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#34. To: Deckard (#32)

He couldn't really see much of anything IMO

Wasn't there a light on in the room?

misterwhite  posted on  2019-10-25   15:24:34 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#35. To: Tooconservative (#30)

If he couldn't see well, it could have been the game controller for the game console she and her nephew were gaming on. It could even have been a plastic replica gun or rifle used to play shooting games on the gaming console.

The nephew said she took a REAL gun out of her purse and pointed it out the window.

misterwhite  posted on  2019-10-25   15:28:54 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#36. To: misterwhite, Deckard (#33)

You do this on every one of these types of stories. You wait until all the facts are in, then judge all the players based on those facts.

But you are the only one here who has already stated categorically that you will exonerate him no matter what, Mr. Foreman.

Tooconservative  posted on  2019-10-25   15:38:52 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#37. To: Deckard, TooConservative, misterwhite, nolu chan, GrandIsland (#0)

For all the responses & analyses I've read from on both sides of this issue regarding this incident, the real problem or blame seems to be the matter of basic protocol and policy.

Who really bears the responsibility?

IS this an LE problem? The judiciary? Anti-2A Globalist-Elites?

Who is purposely re-interpreting our laws and setting up protocol & policy so that they lack common sense & common courtesy while humiliating & disrespecting the American citizenry? Isn't this exactly what we're experiencing?)

The drip-drip of over-officiousness and intrusiveness we've been witnessing has coincidentally started just after 9/11, has it not??

Here is what reportedly happened to jump-start this incident:

* A neighbor called police to report that her front door was ajar at 2AM.*

Q: What is any "neighbor" doing up at 2:00AM? Even IF is was merely "ajar" as reported and NOT "opened," WHY did a simple slightly opened door warrant calling the Police? "Wellness Check," my azz.

None of this makes any sense.

WHY didn’t the investigating LE bother knocking at the door IF it was indeed a "Wellness Check"??

WHY did the investigating LE decide instead to "pull their guns and lurk around the outside of the house' with "flashlights" (which by then was un-Godly hour? (Might other neighbors be alarmed and awakened to report IT as "potential criminal intruders"?)

Again, more non-sense.

WHO has green-lighted this ongoing OFFICIAL(?) 20-year long policy of intrusiveness, anti-privacy, anti-personal space, and anti-Constitutional assault on the American people?

Given these two factors lurking as the elephant in the room, why are people seemingly always willing to overlook or consider that it's AN AGENDA and not rogue LE at the root of this as well as countless similar problems?

Many can't help but notice a trend (since the imposition of the Patriot Act) afoot in which Americans have been victimized by this sure but steady erosion and violation of Constitutional Rights....

...whether it's via LE home invasion, shot dogs, OR as routine violations of our personal, domestic, OR state or national space & sovereignty. ALL sovereignty is being dismantled before our eyes.

Can it be said (and observed) that we have been conditioned and programmed like hamsters to accept a tacit "Right of the State to impose its will to intrude upon us; to invade our home? To spy on us? To intimidate, coerce, and otherwise dismiss and crush dissent and pre-911 liberties?

What's the next "Stage"?

Liberator  posted on  2019-10-25   16:21:13 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#38. To: Liberator (#37)

WHY didn’t the investigating LE bother knocking at the door IF it was indeed a "Wellness Check"??

You need to read the story and catch up on the facts before asking questions.

misterwhite  posted on  2019-10-25   17:04:01 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#39. To: Tooconservative (#36)

But you are the only one here who has already stated categorically that you will exonerate him no matter what, Mr. Foreman.

Not "no matter what". I would exonerate him based on the facts presented so far.

It's not the cop's fault he was told it was an "open structure" call whereby they don't announce their presence. It's not his fault that a person suddenly appeared in the window with a gun pointed at him.

misterwhite  posted on  2019-10-25   17:12:30 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#40. To: Liberator (#37)

WHY didn’t the investigating LE bother knocking at the door IF it was indeed a "Wellness Check"??

The neighbor called the cops and asked them to do a wellness check, which was ignored - the police changed it to an "open residence" call which apparently gives them the right to ignore all police protocols, refuse to identify themselves and allowed Officer Dean (the murderer) to open fire on an innocent woman without identifying himself as police.

Even he has not claimed that he saw a gun - he shouted "get your hands up" but shot and killed Atatiana Jefferson even before he finished that sentence.

Government is in the last resort the employment of armed men, of policemen, gendarmes, soldiers, prison guards, and hangmen.
The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.
Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.

Deckard  posted on  2019-10-25   17:18:33 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#41. To: Tooconservative, misterwhite (#11)

Do you view it as perfectly acceptable and lawful for a cop to skulk about a property without any evidence of a crime in progress and then blindly shoot a homeowner

Do you find it perfectly acceptable to lie that a cop was skulking about?

Do you find it perfectly acceptable to lie that a cop was not authorized to be where he was at?

Do you find it perfectly acceptable to lie that a cop blindly shot a homeowner .

The cop was duly authorized to be there. He responded to a call to go there. He followed protocol for the call he was given. He did not shoot blindly. His flashlight revealed a person with a gun aimed at him. YOU FORGOT ABOUT HER GUN AND HIS FLASHLIGHT. He hit his target with one shot.

You can keep posting this until you wear out your CTRL-C and CTRL-V keys and have to buy a new keyboard. This law only applies if the officer is clearly discerned as a legitimate lawful authority, by presenting themselves in uniform, with a badge. Not skulking around and then blasting someone to announce their presence.

Your bullshit does not change the Texas statute.

I can virtually guarantee you that this will not be the backbone of Dean's defense at trial.

You cannot guarantee a damn thing because you know nothing except:

You "knew" the cops faked a video of the gun.

You have stated

One more, on the gun that is shown very very briefly in the cop-cam footage.

It's #FakeVideo. They edited it.

During Monday’s press conference, Fort Worth Mayor Betsy Price said that displaying the gun in the bodycam footage was unnecessary.

“The images released showing the gun inside Ms. Jefferson’s home… the gun was irrelevant,” Price said. “She was in her own home caring for her 8-year-old nephew.”

Kraus agreed that in hindsight, showing the weapon in the bodycam footage video was the wrong thing to do. He said they will review why they added that to the footage and when it is and is not appropriate.

The PD tried to fake a cop-cam video and put a weapon in it. Gee, I wonder what the jury will think of that. You can expect the defense will call expert witnesses and also call the PD employees tasked with inserting that bogus footage of the gun.

I thought it looked hokey the moment I saw it. It looks wrong, like an amateurish fake video made by teens on YouBoob.

The window that he shot through to murder this woman. Looks like he shot her in the face. Those autopsy photos will be brutal

How stupid can you be? The video was real. The hole in the window shows the bullet passed through the LOWER SASH of a double hung window. By your expert calculation, she must have been about three feet tall. The autopsy photos will likely show a shot to her gut, or possibly her leg.

You have stated:

At some point, people will not accept a cop saying "Oh, I saw a nigger and I was frightened so I shot her full of holes with no regard for anyone else in the house."

He shot her because she was black. Did you embarrass yourself enough? Nope.

You stated:

The other officer was Carol Darch who passed her police trainee eligibility test on 3/7/2018 with a rank of 65 out of 100 applicants. Yet she did not take lead in the backyard. Because she was following PD policy and not murdering the black voters.

She was not murdering black voters. And Officer Dean was murdering black voters? Officer Dean was engaged in voter suppression?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law

Godwin's Law

Godwin's law (or Godwin's rule of Hitler analogies) is an Internet adage asserting that "As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1"; that is, if an online discussion (regardless of topic or scope) goes on long enough, sooner or later someone will compare someone or something to Adolf Hitler or his deeds, the point at which effectively the discussion or thread often ends. Promulgated by the American attorney and author Mike Godwin in 1990, Godwin's law originally referred specifically to Usenet newsgroup discussions. It is now applied to any threaded online discussion, such as Internet forums, chat rooms, and comment threads, as well as to speeches, articles, and other rhetoric where reductio ad Hitlerum occurs.

You also won an award re Godwin's Law for your reductio ad Hitlerum.

Godwin's Law

You stated:

You two just want to give any cop a get-out-of-jail-free card for anyone they shoot, no matter the circumstances. Because they have a badge. And because you two seem to have a fascistic homo-erotic fixation on constumed men with badges. This is a particular cultural characteristic of German and Russian totalitarianism that was expressed as Nazism and Soviet communism back in the era. Here's a photo that you two will probably like by the official top Nazi sculptor, pictured below with Hitler and Goebbels and Hitler's doggie Blondi sniffing the sculptor's crotch, like he has some B.O.

Pin badges on those statues and both you [nc - misterwhite] and nolu would be groveling on your knees.

The other cop on the scene is going to testify against him.

The other cop was not in position to see anything but Jefferson's face. The other cop was senior and did not break protocol to announce her presence.

She can testify that she saw only Jefferson's face, she hear Officer Dean call out for Jefferson to show her hands, put her hands up, and she heard the report of Dean's gun when he shot, and that he discharged one, and only one, shot. And she can testify as to why, as the senior of the two, she did not announce her presence or knock on the door, and why she was engaged in surveillance of the house.

Misterwhite stated:

You point a gun at someone walking outside your window it's not self-defense. It's assault. Which is a crime.

You replied to misterwhite:

It is not.

You're a piss-poor armchair lawyer. Maybe you should leave that end of it to nolu.

You stated:

Let's look at just one state's definition of assault and how it applied to a cop.

And you quoted an article that began:

Prince George's County Police Officer Jenchesky Santiago was convicted of first-degree assault and three other charges for pointing and holding his gun in a black man's face.

[snip]

misterwhite stated:

I say pointing a gun is assault, you say I'm full of it, then you post an article where a cop pointed a gun and was charged with assault.

Did you forget your original position?

I posted an authoritative law dictionary definition of assault, and requested you respond with a quote from your imaginary lawbook.

Black's Law Dictionary, Sixth Edition

Any willful attempt or threat to inflict injury upon the person of another, when coupled with an aparent present ability so to do, and any intentional display of force such as would give the victim reason to fear or expect immediate bodily harm, constitutes an assault. An assault may be committed without actually touching, or striking, of doing bodily harm to the person of another.

Quote your imaginary lawbook.

You responded:

Dear God, are you under the impression that Black's Law Dictionary constitutes the statutes of the state of Texas or the city of Fort Worth or the official policies of the Fort Worth PD?

My opinion of your credibility on laws is plummeting.

Your non-answer did not provide any definition of assault or any Texas statute.

I responded to your non-answer with a quote from the applicable Texas statute:

You huff and puff, but you offer nothing to support your bullshit at #49 with more bullshit at #73, which descended lower at #74.

[Tooconservative #74] The police receive deference to their authority only if they identify themselves and present credentials. This is buttressed by making certain that the public can see their uniform as well as their badge.

As with #49 and #73, you pulled that out of your ass, not out of a lawbook or statute.

The Texas criminal statute on assault provides:

ASSAULT.

(a) A person commits an offense if the person:

[...]

(2) intentionally or knowingly threatens another with imminent bodily injury, including the person's spouse; or

[...]

(b) An offense under Subsection (a)(1) is a Class A misdemeanor, except that the offense is a felony of the third degree if the offense is committed against:

(1) a person the actor knows is a public servant while the public servant is lawfully discharging an official duty, or in retaliation or on account of an exercise of official power or performance of an official duty as a public servant;

[...]

(d) For purposes of Subsection (b), the actor is presumed to have known the person assaulted was a public servant, a security officer, or emergency services personnel if the person was wearing a distinctive uniform or badge indicating the person's employment as a public servant or status as a security officer or emergency services personnel.

[...]

Have you no shame? You grossly misstated the law. You responded to Black's Law Dictionary by saying it was not Texas state law. You did not provide any quote of any law. In response to the Texas state law that was force fed to you, you have regurgitated and dribbled ever since.

You posted bullshit. You got caught. Deal with it.

nolu chan  posted on  2019-10-25   18:52:33 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#42. To: Deckard (#13)

Peter R. Quinones is managing editor of the Libertarian Institute and hosts the Free Man Beyond the Wall podcast. He released his first book, Freedom Through Memedom – The 31-day Guide to Waking Up to Liberty in November 2017.

Those terms "libertarian" and "liberty" sure do scare you copsuckers.

Just the thought of a salesperson from NYC, when summoned as a legal expert, strikes fear in the hearts of men. Not as much as the usual summoning of a libertarian used car salesman, but fear nevertheless.

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Whatever you aim your gun at, you are responsible for knowing what you are aiming at.

Unless you're a cop.

Officer Dean aimed at a person already aiming a gun at him. He perceived a deadly threat and, in one shot, eliminated the threat.

nolu chan  posted on  2019-10-25   18:55:52 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#43. To: Tooconservative, misterwhite (#17)

And to you that warrants a death sentence for the innocent homeowner with no repercussions to the officer who had violated police department policy multiple times, primarily by not announcing his presence.

You meant to say Officer Dean did not break protocol and announce his presence. Neither did the senior officer present.

nolu chan  posted on  2019-10-25   18:57:31 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#44. To: Tooconservative, misterwhite (#19)

She's dead either way, either for just picking up a gun to defend herself in her home against suspicious human noises in her backyard in the dead of night or for engaging in a first-degree murder of a cop.

Of course, she was not shot for picking up a gun. She was shot because she went to the window and aimed her gun at a cop, causing the cop to perceive a threat to his life and respond to it.

nolu chan  posted on  2019-10-25   18:59:01 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#45. To: Tooconservative, misterwhite (#21)

Let me hear you say, "If the glove don't fit, you must acquit".

Let me see you present the proof of OJ's guilt beyond a reasonable doubt that was presented at the criminal trial. The glove did NOT fit, and the jury DID acquit.

Proof. No Baby Justice blather.

Closing argument of Christopher Darden:

Now, usually justice is a — a strong woman, but in this case justice is just a baby. And you hear that baby and you hear that wail and you see the smoke. You see the defense. There's all this smoke in front of you. And you feel a sense — you have a sense of justice. And you have a sense of what the law requires. And you have a strong commitment to justice. And to the law, and you want to do the right thing where justice — justice is about to perish. Justice is about to be lost. Baby justice is about to be lost.

And so you start to wade through that smoke trying to get to that baby. You've got to save that baby.

You have to save baby justice.

nolu chan  posted on  2019-10-25   19:01:39 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#46. To: Deckard, misterwhite (#24)

If he had indeed seen a gun, one would think he would be telling everyone in Texas - instead, after realizing he screwed the pooch big time, he resigned before he could be fired.

He was smarter than you. He has given no statement whatsoever. At the trial, if he testifies, he will certainly recall seeing Jefferson and seeing the gun. He will also remember fearing for his life.

The partner saw nothing but Jefferson's face. The nephew is documented as seeing Jefferson take her gun, go to the window, aim her gun out the window, and then get shot.

The guy was basically a rookie with what, a year on the force? Maybe he didn't realize that history has shown if he had made up some bullshit story about seeing a gun, chances are he'd be given a two-week vacation (suspension) while the department "investigated" the incident and escaped any kind of punishment.

The nephew is documented as having seen the gun. The gun is in the video. You are the one making up bullshit.

nolu chan  posted on  2019-10-25   19:03:43 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#47. To: Tooconservative, misterwhite (#28)

he broke recognized police department policy by refusing to take any opportunity to announce his lawful presence.

You meant to say Officer Dean did not break protocol and announce his presence. Neither did the senior officer present.

nolu chan  posted on  2019-10-25   19:04:24 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#48. To: Tooconservative (#30)

No one has even established if Dean could actually see the resident's gun through the window.

The defendant need prove nothing. The prosecution must prove all alleged facts beyond a resonable doubt. Your speculation serves acquittal. When the known facts lead to multiple reasonable conclusions, one of which leads to innocence, the one leading to innocence must be chosen.

Your desperate grope needs proof beyond a reasonable doubt that he could not possibly have seen the gun, not speculation.

The simply story is this: a fraidy-cop didn't announce his lawful presence and blasted a homeowner without any justification. And that will convict him.

That would have been a breach of protocol and will play no part in the trial. The senior officer did not announce her/their presence. She also followed protocol.

nolu chan  posted on  2019-10-25   19:07:36 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#49. To: Deckard (#32)

I watched the body-cam video again - the light he was pointing into the window was reflecting off the glass. He couldn't really see much of anything IMO.

The camera caught reflections from the flashlight. That is not evidence of what Officer Dean could, or could not see. Parallax is a bitch. The view from one eye is different from the view from the other eye. This is the view from Officer Dean's eyes, and a camera more distant than one eye from the other.

Your speculative opinion is inadmissible.

nolu chan  posted on  2019-10-25   19:09:14 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#50. To: nolu chan, Tooconservative (#41) (Edited)

He followed protocol for the call he was given.

The interim police chief disagrees, as does virtually every other cop and legal expert in the state of Texas no doubt.

Interim police Chief Ed Kraus said during a press conference earlier this week that he intended to fire Dean but the 34-year-old resigned first.

"Had the officer not resigned, I would have fired him for violations for several policies, including our use of force policy, our de-escalation policy and unprofessional conduct," Kraus said.

BTW - the original call was NOT made to 911. The neighbor called a non-emergency line to report that Jefferson's home's front door had been left open and requested a "wellness check" which was ignored by the police - instead they escaled the call to an "open structure".

There was NO Emergency.

The police officers never announced who they were and prowled around the outside of Jefferson’s home with flashlights, entering her fenced-in backyard. At 2 AM, it is not unreasonable to believe that anyone who owns a firearm would’ve done the same. Many on social media have proclaimed they would have done the exact thing that Atatiana did.

Government is in the last resort the employment of armed men, of policemen, gendarmes, soldiers, prison guards, and hangmen.
The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning.
Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.

Deckard  posted on  2019-10-25   19:31:30 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#51. To: nolu chan (#47)

You meant to say Officer Dean did not break protocol and announce his presence.

Bingo.

misterwhite  posted on  2019-10-26   9:27:40 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#52. To: Tooconservative (#30) (Edited)

No one has even established if Dean could actually see the resident's gun through the window ... it could have been the game controller for the game console ... It could even have been a plastic replica gun ...

So he needed to determine if it was a game controller, a plastic gun, or a real gun, through the window and blinds, in the dark at 2:30 am, in 1.44 seconds.

And even if he determined it was a real gun, he had to conduct a fact- finding mission to find out who she was and whether or not she was going to shoot him. In 1.44 seconds.

misterwhite  posted on  2019-10-26   9:35:53 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#53. To: Tooconservative (#30) (Edited)

and blasted a homeowner without any justification

Well, other than the fact that she had a gun pointed at his head.

misterwhite  posted on  2019-10-26   9:39:08 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#54. To: Deckard (#40)

- the police changed it to an "open residence" call which apparently gives them the right to ignore all police protocols,

Let's be clear. The change was made by either the call center or the dispatcher.

misterwhite  posted on  2019-10-26   9:41:37 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#55. To: Deckard (#50) (Edited)

Many on social media have proclaimed they would have done the exact thing that Atatiana did.

What. Leave the front door wide open at night with the lights on at 2:30 am? With an 8-year old in the house?

That simply means many on social media are irresponsible and reckless.

misterwhite  posted on  2019-10-26   9:52:11 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#56. To: Deckard (#24)

he had made up some bullshit story about seeing a gun

Uh-huh. And if they didn't find a gun? If the nephew said she didn't have a gun? Then what?

misterwhite  posted on  2019-10-26   10:03:45 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#57. To: misterwhite (#56)

Then he says it was a video game controller oops. Then you say it was dark how was he supposed to know.

A K A Stone  posted on  2019-10-26   10:13:03 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#58. To: A K A Stone (#57)

Then he says it was a video game controller oops. Then you say it was dark how was he supposed to know.

Yep. That's what happens when you go down the "what if" path.

Let's stick with the facts. He said he saw a gun pointed at him. The nephew said she had a gun pointed out the window. They found a gun in the room.

misterwhite  posted on  2019-10-26   10:21:27 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#59. To: Deckard, misterwhite (#50)

BTW - the original call was NOT made to 911.

Irrelevant to the criminal proceedings.

The neighbor called a non-emergency line to report that Jefferson's home's front door had been left open and requested a "wellness check" which was ignored by the police -

This is still bullshit and will remain bullshit no matter how many times you say it. There is no mention of "wellness check" or "welfare check" on the call. As there was no such mention, the police did not ignore what was neither said nor heard.

instead they escaled the call to an "open structure".

The call was recorded in the call log as burglary. It is first documented as open structure in a subsequent press release.

Burglary, suspected burglary, or open structure would all indicate a protocol that does not include announcing presence upon arrival.

He followed protocol for the call he was given.

The interim police chief disagrees, as does virtually every other cop and legal expert in the state of Texas no doubt.

If you know every legal expert in the state of Texas, why do you rely upon a salesperson from NY, and a Washington, D.C based anarcho-libertarian who writes about cars, as your source of legal expertise?

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Interim police Chief Ed Kraus said during a press conference earlier this week that he intended to fire Dean but the 34-year-old resigned first.

"Had the officer not resigned, I would have fired him for violations for several policies, including our use of force policy, our deescalation policy and unprofessional conduct," Kraus said.

It is easy for the Chief to say. The Chief has a PR problem. He had another cop convicted last week for murdering a black guy armed with a bowl of ice cream. And the previous chief was fired, which is why the current interim chief was appointed to that position in May 2019.

When one is at the scene of an open structure or burglary call and finds a gun aimed at him, what is the applicable policy mandate the officer to do? How long must he negotiate while waiting to see if a round comes out of the barrel pointed at him? If he gives a verbal command that causes no response, how long must he wait? What is reasonable? What is criminal?

What is the Fort Worth Use of Force policy? What Fort Worth Use of Force policy directive was violated? Why do you provide PR from the interim police chief, but not the actual written policy? Are you a copsucker?

According to Fort Worth policy, Officers are not required to exhaust other reasonable means before resorting to deadly force. More specifically, the policy provides:

"Under no circumstances will the force used by an officer be greater than necessary to make an arrest or a detention or to protect oneself or another, nor will the force be used longer than necessary to subdue the suspect, and deadly force shall not be used except as specifically provided in this directive."

"The use of deadly force is authorized only when it is necessary for officers to protect themselves or others from an immediate threat of death or serious bodily injury.”

Fort Worth Use of Force policy did not require Officer Dean to exhaust other means before resorting to deadly force. Fort Worth Use of Force policy permitted Officer Dean to use deadly force if it was necessary to protect himself or others from an immediate threat of death or serious bodily harm. Staring at the business end of a gun pointed at him, and after given verbal commands to which the subject was non-responsive, Officer Dean perceived a deadly threat of death or serious bodily injury to himself and others. He took the shot to remove the threat.

What about the allegedly required warnings? Is it safely possible and appropriate to issue warnings when thesubject has a gun aimed at you?

• "When safely possible, an officer shall use de-escalation techniques consistent with department training whenever possible and appropriate before resorting to force and to reduce the need for force.”

nolu chan  posted on  2019-10-26   12:29:00 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  



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