Brickbat: The One Time Cops Didn't Knock Down the Door

In England, two police officers face a professional incompetence tribunal for waiting outside a woman's house while her partner killed her. They could hear the assault but were waiting for their supervisor to tell them it was okay to go inside. The day before the murder, the officers went to the house for a domestic abuse report and arrested Olobunmi Abodunde for assault, but he was let out on bail that night. The next day, the same officers came back to meet the woman and take her statement. While standing outside, they heard noises inside the house. They spent 35 minutes talking to their supervisor about whether they could go in. By the time they finally entered, the woman was already dead. Abodunde got a life sentence for the murder in May 2024. One of the officers and the supervisor are under investigation for incompetence. The other officer, who was serving in a probationary capacity, has left the force.

Comments

[Vernon Depner]

Well, obviously, you can't just knock down a Muslim man's door just because he's beating his wife. We need to show cultural sensitivity.

[Adans smith]

I blame DOGE.

[Fist of Etiquette]

They were taught to respect others' cultures.

[Mickey Rat]

Obviously showing due deference to immigrant culture

[Mickey Rat]

So for police, it is a damned if you do and damned if you do not. If they intervened in time, it is not unlikely they woukd be up on different charges as they p4evented a capital crime from happening.

Why woukd a rational put themselves in that kind of situation?

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Mohammed approves! Hamas, too.

[IceTrey]

The UK does everything back asswards.

[AT]

They could hear the assault but were waiting for their supervisor to tell them it was okay to go inside.

Yea, get used to that. Coming soon across the pond.

But hey, no more no-knock warrants or claims of "Did you hear that" to justify exigency.

That's got to make y'all happy. Why aren't you more happy?

[LIBtranslator]

Altruist Totalitarian here is an expert on both kickin' in doors and bullying women.

[AT]

I said why aren't you happy about this, LIB? It's literally everything you've asked for.

Woman gets murdered. Cops do nothing.

[LIBtranslator]

"The other officer, who was serving in a probationary capacity, has left the force." No big loss.

[AT]

Yea, something tells me, "We could have saved that woman if not for this bureaucratic red tape," nonsense would sour anyone on the job.

[LIBtranslator]

"Olobunmi Abodunde..." dif'nitly an Irish name. This is what comes iv lettin' thim in.

[docduracoat]

Too bad that woman did not have a revolver