Leavenworth Family Upset After Police Enter Home Uninvited With Guns Drawn
BY Herschel Smith
4 years, 8 months ago
LEAVENWORTH, Kan. – A trailer violation lead police to enter a home leaving a Leavenworth family upset after they say the incident scared their child.
Robert Ennest wants to know how a call for an illegally parked trailer turned into Leavenworth police drawing firearms and letting themselves in a house when the owners were not there.
Ennest said his 12-year-old daughter was the only one home. They believe she was outside with neighbors when police were scoping out the property.
“It’s traumatizing that my little girl’s home and I’m not there,” Ennest said. “Now she’s scared. She called me crying.”
Police said the officers’ intentions were good. They said officers knocked on the door and the door opened.
Ring Doorbell Footage suggests a different story. In the video, you can hear a doorknob twist and the officer knock.
Earlier that morning, video footage shows the family doubled checked to make sure that door was shut tight.
After failing to get in touch with the owners, police said the officers made a judgment call and went inside the house to see if someone was hurt.
Ennest said that decision put his daughter in distress.
“It made me angry because I support the police and they’re here to help, but there’s no reason to enter into somebody’s residence with their weapons drawn for no reason,” Ennest said.
Police said it’s protocol to have their weapons out while searching a home or business.
Ennest said officers also tracked mud throughout the house — on carpets, clean laundry and bedding.
His family spent the whole night sanitizing. their home because their son, who is fighting cancer, can’t afford to get sick.
“His immune system is not up for that,” Ennest said.
Let’s see: reckless endangerment, trespassing and assault with a deadly weapon. That should about cover it.
Well, you’re not in Kansas any more, Dorothy. Maybe from now on you won’t be so quick to “support the police” and believe “they’re here to help.” The .gov is never there to help you. That isn’t their mission.
On March 11, 2020 at 10:52 pm, X said:
The stupid lawn sighs saying “God Bless Our Police” and bumper stickers that say “Pay Police Like Your Life Depends On It” really piss me off…
On March 12, 2020 at 9:56 am, revjen45 said:
“Let’s see: reckless endangerment, trespassing and assault with a deadly weapon. That should about cover it.”
The Pigs are exempt from the laws that govern the rest of us.
On March 12, 2020 at 11:53 am, Okanogan Offgrid said:
Title 18, USC, Section 242.
Deprivation of Rights Under the Color of Law.
On March 12, 2020 at 12:35 pm, Fred said:
“It made me angry because I support the police and they’re here to help, but there’s no reason to enter into somebody’s residence with their weapons drawn for no reason,” Ennest said.
Clearly the man has brain damage from the TV and chemicals.
On March 12, 2020 at 4:05 pm, Wes said:
“went inside the house to see if someone was hurt.”
In the Academy-101 appendix of standard excuses to allow illegal entry/trespass.
On March 12, 2020 at 4:44 pm, Charlie Foxtrot said:
This folks, is why i have video/audio surveillance cameras covering front and back doors, sides of home and a camera recording inside the home….
All data feeds automagically sent up to a secured cloud storage account….
On March 14, 2020 at 12:10 pm, anonymous said:
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/lawyer-man-asleep-police-fired-house-killing-69587748
On March 17, 2020 at 8:17 pm, Danny said:
Uh, Officer (says me at the door muffled by my N95 mask) I am presently quarantined and you prolly dont want to come in. Please come back in 27 days, cough, cough, sneeze; when I am asymptomatic. Cough, hack, achew!!
On March 23, 2020 at 2:53 pm, Jack Crabb said:
“Police said the officers’ intentions were good.”
Pardon the vernacular, Cap’n, but fuck the pigs and their “good” intentions. Lying SOBs deserve the (in best Maxwell Smart accent) “old-rusty-chainsaw-up-the-posterior-act”.