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TX: No-Knock Police Raid Ends In Blazing Tragedy
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Bruce W. Krafft
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"Gun owners and self-defense advocates are lauding a rare victory in which a Texas grand jury has refused to indict a homeowner for shooting and killing a police officer who entered his home unannounced in the middle of the night."
"The homeowner, Henry Magee, 28, said he thought the officers who broke through his door were robbers and he acted in self-defense to protect his pregnant girlfriend and two children."
"Police were acting on a tip from a criminal informant that led them to believe Magee had more than a dozen marijuana plants, all at least six feet tall, in his rural home in Burleson County. Officers included a line on the warrant that Magee also had 'possible illegal guns' stolen from the local sheriff’s office. ..." ... |
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Millwright66
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Yet another another example of the increasing alienation of our police forces/procedures from the public they're charged to protect. SWAT interventions - because of their inherent perils - ought to be the "last resort" of PDs everywhere. Yet the numbers of these actions, (approaching 100K/yr) continue to climb yearly even as violent crime numbers decline.
I suspect we're reaping a harvest of discord deliberately sown by political elements seeking to change America into a police state. |
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| I do believe that where there is a choice only between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son asked me what he should have done had he been present when I was almost fatally assaulted in 1908 [by an Indian extremist opposed to Gandhi's agreement with Smuts], whether he should have run away and seen me killed or whether he should have used his physical force which he could and wanted to use, and defend me, I told him it was his duty to defend me even by using violence. Hence it was that I took part in the Boer War, the so-called Zulu Rebellion and [World War I]. Hence also do I advocate training in arms for those who believe in the method of violence. I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honor than that she should in a cowardly manner become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonor. — Mohandas K. Gandhi, Young India, August 11, 1920 from Fischer, Louis ed.,The Essential Gandhi, 1962 |
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