Jeez, it was almost murder:
"He suffered one gunshot wound to his aortic artery"
Never answer the door without body armor nowadays
Short version: he lied. He rang the door bell in what was apparently a medical alarm by a security system. Saw the homeowner through the window with a gun and shot him. This gets into a whole host of bad territory, but the comment that the homeowner "wasn't charged" is downright offensive.The events in the video differ from the original account of the June 14 shooting that was reported by the Greenville County Sheriff's Office. In the video, the deputy shoots the man through the window of the Simpsonville house. Initially, the agency said the man was shot after he opened the door and pointed his gun at the deputy.
Several seconds later, the man asks, "Why did you do that?" and the deputy responds, "You pointed a gun at me, man." The man replies, "Dude, you came to my house at 12 o'clock at night, I'm sleeping. (Expletive), I've got to protect my house."
Now that is, interesting. I'll just mention that my cell phone does a better job than that.AXON, a leading manufacturer of police body cameras, explains on its website that while in "buffer mode" body cameras are recording, but do not capture audio, and only create 30-second clips that are not saved to permanent memory until cameras are fully activated.
Man, when I think of at least a dozen times over the years I've done a 1am house check because I or the wife or kids heard something.
Here's the rub. He was already caught lying about what happened. He could pinky swear that the homeowner pointed a gun at him and yelled I'm going to blow your MF'ing head off or anything else and because he was already caught in a lie would have ZERO credibility.I couldn’t tell if the cop just saw a gun and started shooting or if the homeowner actually pointed the gun at the officer,
Here's the rub. He was already caught lying about what happened. He could pinky swear that the homeowner pointed a gun at him and yelled I'm going to blow your MF'ing head off or anything else and because he was already caught in a lie would have ZERO credibility.
There was a 30 sec sound delay. Oh, and you probably still couldn't hear it over his gun shots anyway.What ever happened to 'Sheriff Dept. make yourself known'?
Consequences of an aortic rupture tend to be sudden and catastrophic. And final.
Note to self:
- cover the windows
- answer/ check the door with a rifle at night with the lights out.
Or even better, how about,” sheriff’s dept. we received an emergency medical alert. Is everything ok?” No need to try to get “authoritative” and “commands”.What ever happened to 'Sheriff Dept. make yourself known'?
It can be moved if the mods deem it so, I figured it would end up there eventually anyways. These discussion typically doWell all I can say is you shouldn’t be in your own home with a gun and @Cpippen I find it unfair that you did not put this in special access where I can unleash my true feelings.
So I mentioned this to a friend that is a cop. He said ever since Michael Brown issues in Ferguson and the Trayvon (I know it was not a cop that shot him) Case and a few others that caused the Obama administration to not really stop any violence that came from those issues. He said cops are now so jumpy and scared that they do not do the right things anymore. He said the older ones no longer care about working as much they just want to retire knowing most of the populace hates them. The younger ones want to make a name for themselves and fight and be a bad ass until such time as they get whipped and then end up doing stupid things like shooting someone that really didn’t need it. It made me ponder that thought I don’t really know if it is 100 percent true but part of it definitely seem to ring true from what I have seen
Something similar happened to a coworker. Apparently someone with the same first and last name (common name) made a public suicide declaration and they called in a cell phone locate for the guy and got my coworker, or something to that effect. He almost answered the door with a shotgun at the ready because he was awoken by his dog going ape at the cop poking around the house looking in the windows. Took several minutes before he even realized it was a cop.Wife wakes me from a dead sleep saying someone is breaking in the front door. Loud beating on the metal door echoing thru a high ceiling foyer. I grab the 45 and immediately head down the steps which face the front door. A flashlight is waving thru the side glass panels. Half way down the steps my wife grabs my arm announcing it’s the police so I give her the gun while I watch the officer staring at me during the exchange.
Consider what policing has turned into and what it’s being used for and how that has changed in just your lifetime. Do that and you’ll start to see the problem.He said cops are now so jumpy and scared that they do not do the right things anymore. He said the older ones no longer care about working as much they just want to retire knowing most of the populace hates them.
Yeah, my wife is like "I enjoy letting the sunlight in".And people wonder why I don't like it when folks can see into my house, especially at the front door.
BINGO! No one wants to hate cops when they are doing what we OSTENSIBLY hire them to do, which is serve as protectors of the peace and our liberties. It is this bullsh!t about "law enforcement" that is turning those who would normally be the biggest cheerleaders into hostile, sullen "cop haters."Consider what policing has turned into and what it’s being used for and how that has changed in just your lifetime. Do that and you’ll start to see the problem.
Something similar happened to a coworker. Apparently someone with the same first and last name (common name) made a public suicide declaration and they called in a cell phone locate for the guy and got my coworker, or something to that effect. He almost answered the door with a shotgun at the ready because he was awoken by his dog going ape at the cop poking around the house looking in the windows. Took several minutes before he even realized it was a cop.