Philadelphia police say an armed home intruder impersonating a police officer was shot and killed by a Mayfair resident Sunday night.
Authorities say the shooting happened on the 7200 block of Battersby Street just after 10 p.m.
Officers from the 15th District responded to the scene and found a man outside a doorway with gunshot wounds to the head, chest and arm, according to officials.
Police say he was taken to Jefferson Torresdale hospital where he was pronounced dead at 10:19 p.m.
According to Chief Inspector Scott Small, the deceased victim, who had a fake police badge around his neck, and another man approached an apartment where a 25-year-old was coming out.
Small says the two men said they were police officers and forced their way inside the apartment.
Officials say the suspects threatened to shoot and kill the 25-year-old as they were attempting to zip tie his hands.
When the resident realized the two men were not police officers, he pulled out his own gun and shot one of the suspects, killing him, authorities say.
SAN ANTONIO (KABB/WOAI) – A woman has been fighting the China Grove Police Department for almost four years to retrieve property she says was unfairly taken from her family.
Brandy Napier lives in Seguin, but she and her husband have family they visit in China Grove.
That’s where her husband Franklin was pulled over by a China Grove officer in August 2018 for reportedly running stop signs.
Brandy says he had just left the gun range and had three guns in the car.
The officer confiscated them, but made no arrest.
No formal report was ever given to the Napier’s, just a burglary inventory sheet typically used to document items stolen in robberies.
“She stated that she didn’t have the proper documentation to give him, so that’s why she put it on that and she let him go,” says Brandy.
Brandy showed us receipts for two of the guns listed in her name and Franklin’s along with the serial numbers listed.
The third gun she says was bought at an auction.
She’s made several attempts to retrieve those guns since, making trips to the City of China Grove office.
Every time she says she’s been told the case is pending in the District Attorney’s office and that the guns couldn’t be returned without documentation from their office.
Brandy made a last ditch effort to retrieve the guns last month.
“He said, ‘I don’t have the documentation from the District Attorney’.”
KABB/WOAI made calls a few weeks ago requesting a formal police report from Franklin’s traffic stop in 2018.
KABB/WOAI also stopped by the department Monday to ask for the report and why the guns hadn’t been returned.
We were told we had to go through the DA’s office to retrieve any information about the case.
The DA’s office sent us a letter, stating that media requests had to be processed by the Attorney General’s office.
But the Napier’s lawyer says he’s checked: it doesn’t look like a case exists with Franklin’s name at the DA’s office and at this point, it’s too late to create a case.
“If they haven’t filed a criminal case against the person by now, the statute of limitations has run,” says attorney Patrick Hancock. “A lot more than two years has gone by, so I don’t think the DA can file anything against him and I don’t believe there’s a case sitting in the DA’s office by China Grove on this matter.”
Nearly four years later, no arrest or charges have been filed, a red flag for this attorney.
“If they can’t produce the guns that were taken, the personal property of the individual that was taken and they can’t produce a public police report to even verify that a China Grove officer stopped them and took an individual’s property, then they need to be investigated by the Texas Rangers,” says Hancock.
Sounds about right. No arrest, no charges, no involvement by prosecutors, no guns returned.
Because shiny badges and DAs and judges in your corner.
The mere possession of a firearm by a homeowner is not sufficient to justify the use of deadly force by officers.
There is a right to come to the door with a firearm.
Officers must identify themselves as officers to gain qualified immunity.
Mere verbal announcement, without visual confirmation, is not sufficient to gain qualified immunity.
Sufficient precedent exists for officers to be aware of their duty in these situations.
It’s a weak ruling in my opinion, since the officer should have been charged with murder. But at least this should trickle down into behavior – or at least one would hope so.
It’s yet another case of a cop shooting a homeowner INSIDE HIS OWN HOME when the officer was standing OUTSIDE THE HOME.
Texas police are asking for the public’s help after they say a group of robbers pretending to be Houston police officers broke into a sleeping man’s apartment, armed with rifles and handguns.
At around 12:30 a.m. on March 18, several people broke down a Houston resident’s door, home security camera footage shared by police showed.
The intruders, armed with rifles and guns, yelled “HPD” as they entered the home, the video showed.
The resident of the apartment was sleeping at the time and told police he heard someone attempting to kick down his door.
He grabbed his handgun and told police he “did not think that they were the police” and fired his gun several times, according to a news release from the Houston Police Department’s Robbery Division. The resident believed the suspects, who he said were men, were there to rob him.
Clad in black masks and dark clothing, the attempted robbers fired their guns, causing shots to go through the walls and into other apartments, police said in the release.
Police said the men then fled the area.
The video doesn’t show very convincing posing to me. However, consider the fact that you’re asleep, and the noise at the door indicates that LEOs want in. Judgment before 30 minutes after waking up is impaired. Studies have shown that you need 30 minutes before you can make good critical judgments.
I’ve also pointed out before that police should understand that while they are recklessly invading homes, they aren’t just putting our lives at risk. They’re putting their own lives at risk too.
They must understand that criminals have caught on to the game. Announce that you’re police, yell obscenities, scream for people to get on the floor, and instinctively some people will do that.
But understand that we can’t do that. We … cannot … do … that. We don’t know who you are and we have our own lives to protect.
So by employing this tactic, police all across America have made the situation much more dangerous for the ordinary homeowner. That moment of hesitation waiting to be sure of who is at the door could spell the end of some homeowner’s life. That moment of quick reaction if it is cops could spell the end of some cop’s life, thus ensuring an awful trial for the homeowner in which s/he knows that the judge and jury will almost certainly side with the cop (because that’s what they do).
You can blame police for this conundrum. And it’s far past time to end no-knock home invasions by cops as if they are playing soldier-boy. If that restricts evidence gathering to more time consuming means for police (like good old fashioned detective work), then so be it.
I don’t care about convenience for cops. I don’t even care about their war on drugs. It’s not my war.
Absolutely absurd. And listen carefully to the cop’s testimony.
What is it? Does the haircut make them stupid? Do they hire the dumbest guys around for the job? Does it have to do with being beaten up on the schoolyard playground? Is it just a “controller” complex at work?
Even after constitutional carry is passed by Alabama, the would-be rulers are still bitter, wanting to make their own laws.
“I have heard all of this.” Meh. Couldn’t care less, so drop it.
What an arrogant prick. He’s better at lawmaking, just because. Shut up, he explained. He wears a shiny badge.
His county should kick him to the curb. He’s begging people to get permits because he believes in state permitting, and for leverage, he’s pointing out one more time that if you want reciprocity, you must get my permit.
“Time for the protesters to hear our jackboots on the ground,” one member of RCMP Musical Ride allegedly wrote. Musical Ride is described as an RCMP group assisting “front-line police operations by building positive relationships, supporting recruiting efforts and promoting the RCMP’s image in communities in Canada.”
“okay we can give out free hugs and unicorn stickers,” the RCMP member allegedly said after receiving pushback for his “jackboots” remark.
“Don’t kick all of them out until next weeks group gets our turn,” one member of RCMP Musical Ride allegedly said in the group chat accompanied by a photo of a beer, Rebel News reported.
“just watched the horse video – that is awesome,” the RCMP Musical Ride member allegedly wrote.
Hey Canadians, you’re watching and listening aren’t you? Tell me you’re watching and listening?
Do you believe that they love and support you? Or do you believe that they identify more with the effete, latte drinking ruling caste?
I had initially seen this with no direct reference to a name or a report in the field and was just a bit skeptical, deciding that I wouldn’t post it.
But then this report appeared, and it seems to corroborate the report above from someone to whom it happened.
But I’ll say (somewhat tongue in cheek) that the worst of all of this appears to be that they won’t let the lady in the video below buy coffee.
Beyond the fact that they acted like Nazi thugs (and certainly enjoyed it), this is just too far. If you get between me and my fresh ground black coffee, there’s going to be trouble.
As for the first two reports, if they know they can’t really legitimately arrest protesters and they’re simply dropping them off down the road, that seems to me to be a similar criminal offense to false arrest (and maybe worse).
I believe the formal name for this would be kidnapping.
Anyway, I suspect that “support the blue” thing is rapidly evaporating in Canada with this behavior (just as it is in the U.S. with SWAT raids, asset forfeiture, bad treatment of people who carry firearms, indemnification of police in bad shootings, vocal support for gun control and permitting schemes, and a host of other awful things). I also suspect that for every protester they mistreat or kidnap or trample with horses, they create a thousand new ones. As for the lady who wanted coffee, we should all condemn the cops in complete disgust for that offense.
From the perspective of COIN (counterinsurgency) doctrine, they have learned nothing from the misadventure in Afghanistan.
Then again, neither did our doomed elitists. They can talk about COIN all they want to and write pedantic and silly papers until they’re blue in the face. They never understood it then, and still don’t today. They never knew what they were doing.
Quick example: In Afghanistan they gave Viagra to child molester chieftains so they could continue their abuse, thinking they would make friends, while disgusting our own troops and infuriating the Taliban even more. In the end, no one loved the command structure or brilliant “thinkers” and “strategists.” They were hated everywhere and by everyone.
Western nations are one big gaggle of incompetence and stupidity.
Finally, there is this ridiculous, pretentious finger wagging and sermon-preaching by cops while threatening to bust doors down.
The story is in the comments. Basically, this restaurant owner was about to go out of business because of Covid restrictions. The truckers meant new business, saving his livelihood, while they also helped him clean up. He had given interviews about that, and this is the cops paying him back.
What was that I said about bullying one protester and creating a thousand more?
In the offices of Klaus Schwab: “Call on line 3 … the boy king is in a panic and needs assistance and direction.”
They’re cops, and cops will follow orders regardless of the morality of them.
“This is now a secure area”.
Police checkpoint at Metcalfe/Laurier in Ottawa. It seems they are only allowing drivers to pass if they live in the area or for work/medical purposes. https://t.co/8hpC710hZKpic.twitter.com/JSzpRfdrhb
They destroyed excavators, and they politely admit to it.
I accuse the @rcmpgrcpolice of committing crimes. Trespass. Break & enter. Mischief over $5,000. Breach of trust. Intimidation. The only question is: who ordered this illegal action? Kenney, Trudeau or Trudeau’s crooked commissioner Brenda Lucki? pic.twitter.com/sLtw8sTzHi
Next up, they’re planning false flags, or at least, they’re trying to pin things on the truckers in an attempt to wow the stupid “Karens” of the country. They also did the same thing at Coutts.
But the truckers in Ottawa are standing firm at the moment.
Cops. What a bunch of hoodlums and gangsters. Despicable and detestable.
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