Brickbat: Who's There?

Responding to a disturbance call, police officers in Grand Prairie, Texas, mistakenly arrived at the home of Thomas Simpson. They say when they knocked on the door, Simpson confronted them with a gun, and they shot him in the leg. Simpson, meanwhile, says the police did not announce themselves as officers before the shooting, and he believed he was confronting burglars. Police admitted they were at the wrong house but blamed the error on 911 dispatch's auto-populated address. Officers also referred Simpson's case to the Dallas County District Attorney's Office for charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon against a peace officer.

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[Sometimes a Great Notion]

aggravated assault with a deadly weapon against a peace officer.

the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed...unless your in your own home and agents of the state come a knocking.

[Chumby]

Did they have badgecams for reviewing whether “police” was announced?

At least they didn’t kill an unarmed woman like sarc’s hero Officer Byrd did.

[MWAocdoc]

She had at least TWO arms!

[Fist of Etiquette]

Home invaders only need to present themselves as police as the government has worked very hard to cow people into not protecting themselves in their own homes.

[LIBtranslator]

Then when they retire on pension they can schaisstpost Reason to justify murdering legally disarmed citizens taxed to pay Dick Nixon's 1971 looter-party campaign subsidies law. Disfiguring babies with grenades is OK because the INTENTION was "for the kiddies"

[MWAocdoc]

For some reason "honest mistakes" by cops that lead to an innocent person being shot almost never result in charges for the cops and frequently result in charges for the innocent person. Can someone please explain this to me? Thanks, awfully ...

[KiwiDude]

Did the police say “Now look what you made me do?”

[AT]

Three things:

1) Who comes out straight blasting just because someone knocks on your door?

2) It takes a few seconds to open a garage. He couldn't identify his plainly dressed and identifiable target?

3) How bad could the shooting have been if "Simpson walked unassisted to an ambulance?"

[LIBtranslator]

Nark nark
Who's there?
No-knock
No-knock BLAM! Oops. Thass okay because some Houston cop did it first, then a Houston couple zeroed part of a cop gang, so this is payback--for the chilluns...