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Originally Posted by wutamess
Like I said... it's the same concept as playing the race card. If dumbass wasn't farting around shooting potato guns in the backyard then Sandy would be alive today.
The Policeman's job is to protect and serve. Why knock on the front door when they're shooting in the back? That's kinda stupid.
It could've easily been avoided if dumbass wasn't farting around in the backyard doing ILLEGAL shit.
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Again - they weren't shooting in the back. Nothing was going on at that point, the people were inside.
They weren't doing anything illegal when the cops got there, the cops had merely recieved reports of 'gunfire' in the area. Hell, based on that alone, I'm not so sure the cops had the right to enter the 'curtilage' of the home. That's certainly not public view and with no warrant along with no direct observation of illegal activity, the cop shouldn't have just walked into the back yard. A cop may be able to give you a better breakdown of that, but I don't believe opening a gate to enter a privacy fence without a warrant and without direct observation is Constitutionally permissible.
And I reiterate, I'd have never even considered the possibility of a damn spud-gun being considered an illegal firearm. Had this cop not just ****ed up and killed someone else's dog, he wouldn't have either. That's the kind of stuff that slides by with a warning every time.
Had Columbus not discovered America, none of this would've happened. At the same time, at some point supervening stupidity takes over. A cop walking into a backyard without so much as knocking on the door based on nothing more than a neighbor's report, despite the fact that there would have been no 'gunshots' when he arrived, qualifies as supervening stupidity.
Afterall - these neighborhood reports were so accurate that they clearly mischaractarized the nature of the activity. They could've just as easily led the cops to the wrong house. There's a reason we have the procedural safeguards in place that we have. Things like requiring a warrant or knock/announce or even requesting consent for a search - they all are designed to avoid things exactly like this.
This cop was reckless ****wit. His conduct overrides the relatively benign misconduct of a couple of kids with a damn potato launcher.