Kentucky dispatchers repeatedly told police officers the address of a house they were supposed to raid over an alleged stolen Weed Eater, only for the
  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
    10·
    2 hours ago

    Court documents obtained by local media reveal the Weed Eater was stolen from the home of Laurel County Judge-Executive David Westerfield by a man named Hobert Buttery, 49, who confessed to the crime

    Judge-Executive is something I’ve not seen or heard. According to Wikipedia, it’s unique to Kentucky. Also, fuck Kentucky. Nothing good comes from there.

    Sidebar to say that Hobert Buttery is a wild name.

    The incident is also raising questions as to why London police were asking dispatchers for the address if they had an actual search warrant which would list the address on it. WKYT said it has made several public records request for the warrant but the Laurel County courthouse says it has no record of a warrant and police have not produced a copy of the warrant either.

    Sounds fishy. But the south is absolutely where I’d expect to see this kind of fuckery. Not that it wouldn’t happen on either coast, but this sounds like some very “we do our own laundry” type thinking.

    But Kentucky State Police specifically mentioned London police had a “search warrant” in its statement published on its website.

    Cops never lie, so I’m sure this is fine.

    Footage from local media shows the address, 511, was clearly visible on the front of Harless’ home. Yet after the shooting, a voice can be heard on the dispatch recording saying, “shots fired. 489 Vanzant Road.”

    People should be tried and convicted for this fuckup.

    “… I hope the man that stole it is enjoying his Christmas. God will judge us all in the end.”

    And then your last sentence reminds me why I hate you. Keep that shit in your home and your church. Fuck off conservatives.

  • Heikki@lemm.ee
    23·
    3 hours ago

    This is pretty insane. They have the guy in custody that sold them the address he stored the stollen goods at. The city police go to the wrong address, outside their jurisdiction, at 11:50PM. They didn’t even inform the local county police whose jurisdiction this would be in. The address was repeated multiple times by the dispatcher and should have been on the warrant.

    Multiple officers are joined on the search with gun drawn ARs. After knocking on a door and a brief wait, when most people would be sleeping, they kick the door down and are “surprised” the person in the home responds with grabbing thier weapon and shoot him dead.

    Then, an FOI act is requested for the warrant non are found. All of this is none over a weed eater that is pretty useless in the winter and run on average $150-$250 for most models.

    This is a major mess up and all officers involved should be jailed

    • secretlyaddictedtolinux@lemmy.world
      1·
      20 minutes ago

      Was it a mess up? Seems like a very convenient “accident.”

      A lot of these people, judges police etc, are all part of the same social clubs. Piss off one bee and rest come after you.

      I don’t believe anyone, even the average “I can’t believe I barely got my high school diploma” police officer, is that stupid.

      No, there was some reason they wanted this person dead. It’s just that no one has found it yet.

    • AngryRobot@lemmy.world
      16·
      3 hours ago

      Outside their jurisdiction? Isn’t that just straight up murder since they had no legal right to enforce any lass there?

  • ef9357@lemmy.sdf.org
    26·
    6 hours ago

    Since police in the US aren’t responsible enough to carry guns, they shouldn’t have them. Take guns away from cops so they have a harder time murdering innocents.

    • kipo@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      2 hours ago

      Neither cops nor citizens should be carrying handguns around, for sure. The US needs major efforts to de-escalate our police response, but we are going the opposite direction.

  • Buffalox@lemmy.world
    19·
    8 hours ago

    If the police enter your home, even if they have a warrant, and you shoot them. How can the police ever claim that it wasn’t self defense, especially in areas where these things happen?

    • yeather@lemmy.ca
      22·
      6 hours ago

      They generally are not able to because of the castle doctrine. However, that implies someone shot a cop and survived the rest of the encounter, and the cops respect the laws and do not throw you in jail anyways.

  • themeatbridge@lemmy.world
    221·
    17 hours ago

    If you wonder why the police kicked a door in guns blazing for a $200 yard tool st 11:50 PM, it’s because the tool belonged to a judge. Also, they were outside their jurisdiction, and there’s no evidence they actually had a warrant.

  • rottingleaf@lemmy.world
    84·
    9 hours ago

    And that is why gun rights are human rights. Also intrusion detection sensor rights and automatic turret rights. Automatic flamethrower turret rights, for the smell of burnt flesh to indicate consummation of civil freedoms.

  • orcrist@lemm.ee
    60·
    16 hours ago

    Based on the video, it was probably one single cop who fired all the shots. His or her name should be plastered all over the headlines as a murderer who hasn’t been arrested despite video evidence of the slaying.

    • A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world
      98·
      16 hours ago

      Don’t downplay thee rest of them that were outside of their jurisdiction doing a midnight raid for a weed eater when the suspect was already in custody.

      Every person involved is guilty as hell, and that judge should face charges.

      • secretlyaddictedtolinux@lemmy.world
        1·
        14 minutes ago

        Let’s say that person had been killed, and no one heard the shots and called it in…

        Would the executive judge had really continued complaining about this weed eater and would the “suspect” have remained in custody? No, it’s bullshit, they would have deleted that paperwork, let the “suspect” go, and that person being killed would be unsolved. They likely created all that bullshit in case someone called it in before the dirty cops could leave. That’s no fucking accident because there would be no reason to do a midnight no knock raid with a suspect in custody.