A Furtive Movement is Not a Crime
BY Herschel Smith
1 year, 7 months ago
Watch the entire video. Furtive movement. That’s their excuse for arresting and throwing a man in prison for a year after they had let him go.
This is the stuff of school yard bullies, whether they bullied little boys and girls, or got bullied, they learned it without learning that you don’t do that.
They’re learning this somewhere – probably in police academy, or perhaps from the public prosecutors. A furtive movement is reasonable excuse for beating someone up, or illegally detaining them, or throwing them in prison.
This is the same category as the cops in NM who shot an innocent homeowner dead after going to the wrong house.
An experienced investigator in officer-involved shootings who viewed the footage said he understands why Mr Dotson would have a gun ready after getting a knock unexpectedly late at night.
However, the officers believed they were going into a domestic violence situation and they are taught domestic violence calls are among the most dangerous, said Edward Obayashi, who is also deputy sheriff and policy advisor for the Plumas County Sheriff’s Office in California.
He said officers on domestic violence calls can find themselves facing people “hell-bent” on killing officers or being killed by officers themselves.
“I’m not saying this is the situation here,” Mr Obayashi said.
“But the officers definitely — based on their training and experience nationwide — are taught this. As soon as they saw the gun, instinctively that’s exactly what went through their mind.”
They’re a gang, and the gang leaders are teaching them all the wrong things. I’ll say it again. My son did room clearing in Fallujah for seven months, and never shot any innocent people. It’s possible to be a man, not to be so timid and scared, and to do this the right way. Unleashing cops who have been trained to be unaccountable monsters has ruined their reputation. And properly so.
Don’t talk to cops. Don’t open the door for them. Get away from them as soon as possible. “You’re never in more danger than when the police are around.” Calling cops to a scene only makes it more dangerous by orders of magnitude.
On April 19, 2023 at 10:38 pm, Chris Mallory said:
“Furtive movement.” Vin Suprynowicz was documenting cops shooting men for carrying a basketball or pulling up their pants years ago.
On April 20, 2023 at 7:13 am, Archer said:
“But the officers definitely — based on their training and experience nationwide — are taught this. As soon as they saw the gun, instinctively that’s exactly what went through their mind.”
Irrelevant. Irrelevant for a number of reasons, but the most important one is this: They had already realized they were at the wrong house. They said so on camera.
It is therefore NOT reasonable for the cops to maintain the mindset that they are walking into a domestic violence situation. As bad as that training is, it is also irrelevant to this case; that situation is a few blocks over and has zero bearing on this home.
What we have here is two cops willing to jeopardize everyone around them — even to kill an innocent man — to ensure their own safety, when they’re not even in danger.
That said, I fully expect “qualified immunity” and “acted consistent with training and department protocols” to rule the day.
A man is dead, a wife is wounded, and they will receive nothing.
On April 20, 2023 at 5:17 pm, Jack Crabb said:
NWA was so right decades ago.
Fuck da Police.
On April 20, 2023 at 9:10 pm, X said:
The guy should have said “Officer, I wasn’t making furtive movements, I was playing with myself!”
The cops deserve zero respect. They are swine. The Constitution has been effectively nullified and we are living in a police state.