You’re Never in More Danger Than When the Cops are Around
BY Herschel Smith
1 year, 10 months ago
New surveillance video obtained by Local 10 News shows Hollywood police officers dragging a 69-year-old condominium owner into an elevator after shooting him last year.
David Cottes later died from his wounds and exactly what happened remains a mystery to family members.
On Feb. 26, 2022, Cottes asked neighbors to call Hollywood police, because he thought someone was breaking into his condominium at around 8 a.m.
Cottes was a longtime resident of 3505 South Ocean Drive.
“He said someone was in his apartment, in his condo, he comes out with his gun licensed to carry and everything,” Christina Cottes, David’s daughter, said.
After police arrived to the 14th floor, they shot Cottes, the condo’s board president, in the chest.
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Cottes said her family needs answers.
“Why they would they treat him in such a way or drag him into an elevator, they already have him handcuffed behind his back,” she said. “He’s wounded.”
Cottes’ family says it took more than 30 minutes to get him help and they want to know why.
“He’s asking for police to help,” Christina Cottes said. “When police come to help, my dad is dead.”
They said they weren’t allowed to visit David in the hospital before he died weeks later, so he took what happened to the grave.
“It’s been a year waiting for forensic and ballistics (evidence) because they want to see who shot first,” private investigator Victor Elbeze said.
There’s video at the link. He obviously has a sucking chest wound in the video. Quick medical help might have saved him, but it’s a safe bet the cops didn’t want him to be saved.
There’s more. He lived for three weeks after this shooting. The police prevented his family from seeing him. You heard that right. The cops wouldn’t allow the family of an innocent man they shot to pass away with his family around him (or hear his story).
As I’ve said before and will continue to say, you’re never in more danger than when the cops are around. If you love your own life and the lives of your loved ones, don’t call the cops. Solve your problems yourself. Getting the cops involved only ensures that some innocent person will be shot.
In other news, state troopers in Texas just got 1,080 HP Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat so they can run criminals down. No one has to wonder how dangerous it is for cops to participate in road races on the highways of Texas.
On February 5, 2023 at 9:07 pm, George 1 said:
I wonder why they don’t release the body cam video.
On February 5, 2023 at 10:33 pm, Total Government Is Communism said:
But, but, but, muh protect and serve?
Minions of the state are never your friends.
They don’t work for you as Brandon said in a Freudian moment.