Title: REPORT: DA Never Interviewed Cop Before Justifying Murder of Innocent Dad in Raid on Wrong Home Source:
Free Thought Project URL Source:https://thefreethoughtproject.com/r ... ent-dad-in-raid-on-wrong-home/ Published:Jan 1, 2019 Author:Matt Agorist Post Date:2019-01-01 13:05:01 by Deckard Keywords:None Views:1880 Comments:5
Wichita, KS – In December of 2017, police responded to a prank call, also known as a “swatting,” at the home of Andrew Finch. When the entirely innocent and unarmed father answered the door during the raid, Officer Justin Rapp was recorded on video killing him in cold blood. After the coverage died down in the press, and as TFTP accurately predicted in January, the Wichita District Attorney quietly announced that there will be no charges. Now, we are learning that this decision was made in spite of the fact that the DA reportedly never even interviewed Rapp.
“It’s one year later and the leadership of Wichita and the WPD have failed to take any responsibility for the unjustified, unconstitutional and tragic death of Andy Finch,” Attorney Andrew Stroth wrote in a statement. “Two young children no longer have their father because of a pattern, practice and history of excessive force utilized by the Wichita Police and the unreasonable actions of Officer Justin Rapp.”
According to Kansascity.com, in April, District Attorney Marc Bennett said he had to make a determination based on Kansas law and law handed down by the Supreme Court, which says that when determining if an officer acted reasonably, evidence has to be reviewed based on what the officer knew at the time of the shooting, not 20/20 hindsight, he said.
The DA’s office also stated that they kept the officer’s name a secret because he will not be charged. However, it would later be learned that the officer who killed this unarmed father of two was Jason Rapp.
Now, according to a report out of the Daily Haze, we are learning that the DA never once even spoke to Rapp before ruling him justified in Finch’s death. This was in spite of the fact that, on multiple occasions, Rapp gave conflicting testimonies about seeing a gun and how the situation unfolded that night.
When defense attorney Bradley Sylvester asked Rapp during his testimony if he saw a gun in Finch’s hand, he responded “no”.
Despite the discrepancies in Rapp’s statements, in April Bennett made the rushed and unexpected decision to declare the shooting justified. Bennett’s office kept it very quiet that a decision had been made. Local media did not even know what the last minute press conference was about. Now one year later, a source close to the case has confirmed to TDH that Bennett never interviewed Rapp before deciding the shooting was justified. TDH reached out to Bennett’s office for comment, but did not receive a response at the time of this article being published.
The Finch family found the news extremely disturbing. For a family that already feels as if the City of Wichita gave no justice in the murder of their loved one, to hear Bennett did not even demonstrate due diligence when justifying the shooting was a devastating blow to find out a year later.
As TFTP reported at the time, Finch, 28, was shot and killed for the crime of opening his front door when a slew of SWAT team members arrived at his home and claimed that he “reached towards his waistband,” possibly preparing to retrieve a weapon. However, the father of two was unarmed, and the reason officers were at this house had nothing to do with him.
Finch was shot 10 seconds after he opened the door.
“Shots fired. One Down. Confirming. It’s the suspect?” dispatch asks.
“Don’t know,” a WPD sergeant responds, according to a report released by Bennett.
The 911 call was placed by Tyler Barriss, 25, a man who had never met Finch and who lived nearly 1,400 miles away in Los Angeles, California. Barriss has a history of “swatting,” or calling 911 to file a false report about a fake emergency that includes murder or hostages, prompting the deployment of a SWAT Team. While the FBI claims that around 400 swatting incidents occur each year, reports claim that Barriss has made a significant contribution and has spent time in jail for making fake bomb threats.
Before Finch, Barris had made dozens of swatting calls and not a single one of them ever ended in the death of an innocent unarmed person — until Jason Rapp responded.
In fact, Barriss even went by the username “SWAuTistic” online. He made a call to police on Dec. 28 claiming that he had just murdered his father, and was holding his mother and brother at gunpoint, after covering the house in gasoline with the intent to set it on fire. Barriss used Finch’s residence, which had been given out during an argument on a Call of Duty game online that neither Barriss, nor Finch, were involved with directly.
Despite the fact that police should have been able to see that Barriss was not located in the state of Kansas when he made the call, they took his claims seriously and deployed a SWAT team to the residence.
Barriss was arrested on a felony warrant shortly after police killed Finch. He has since been charged with involuntary manslaughter for Finch’s death, giving false alarm, and interfering with law enforcement. Last month he pleaded guilty to 51 charges related to similar incidents, which, as stated above, never led to the death of anyone.
“This is one of the most egregious police shooting cases in the country. Andy Finch was in the sanctity of his own home, opens up his front door and is shot and killed within seconds by officer Justin Rapp with a high-powered rifle from approximately 44 yards away,” Stroth said Friday. “It’s unimaginable.”
The murder of Andrew Finch was tragic, and while Tyler Barriss should be held accountable for his actions, that should not take away from the fact that a police officer shot and killed a man who never once threatened their lives or tried to hurt them.
The DA’s office also stated that they kept the officer’s name a secret because he will not be charged. However, it would later be learned that the officer who killed this unarmed father of two was Jason Rapp.
You insist on knowing the name. Gotta know the name. Give us the name, you say.
OK. There's the name. Now what? Crickets.
Maybe you should put your efforts into finding the name of the prank caller rather than the name of the responding officer. Idiots.
Seems hardly a case of the guy being perceivable as an imminent threat to anyone at all.
Hopefully for the civil case, they will consider the perspective of the guy who got killed rather than from the perspective of the cops who killed him, ALSO without the benefit of hindsight. You notice a commotion outside your home one evening with emergency lights flashing. Who doesn't go outside to see what's going on?
The guy certainly had no idea he was the subject of the activities, so when he goes out and someone yells from a distance to do something, it can take a moment for things to register, including whether the order was directed at him. They didn't address him by name, I noticed, though they had his name already.
These cops just assume that every citizen they encounter has had as much training about how to obey police orders in these high stress situations as the cops have had in giving those orders. And of course people don't have a clue that there's even any high stress situation unfolding. They are having dinner, enjoying a movie or driving down the road signing their favorite song and then wham -- they have 2-4 seconds to comply with a shouted order by some stranger and if they fail to comply they are dead.
These cops just assume that every citizen they encounter has had as much training about how to obey police orders
People have been obeying police for hundreds of years. Why is it just the last 20 years, it’s now a problem for sheeple to make common sense decisions?
The millennial retards are dysfunctional from the start, because they were raised by generationally increasing immoral sheep. Then when libtard MSM and the Paultards make EXCUSES for poor behavior and show the little snowflake sheep they really aren’t responsible for their actions, then they lose the ability to obey anything.
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People have been obeying police for hundreds of years. Why is it just the last 20 years, it’s now a problem for sheeple to make common sense decisions?
As I have always known by your questions, you are STUPID.
People have been obeying police for hundreds of years. Why is it just the last 20 years, it’s now a problem for sheeple to make common sense decisions?
The police from 25+ years ago would not have killed the guy shown in this video the way today's police did.
