i would have done the same thing.... damm
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-st...hot-at-austin-police-gets-13-year-prison-term
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-st...hot-at-austin-police-gets-13-year-prison-term
Considering that this was an approved no-knock drug raid on his home, I'd say that your analysis is pretty close, since the jury had good reason to believe that this was not a simple case of self defense.My guess would be that possibly the reason the court case went down this way is that it seems very likely he was not an "Innocent law abiding citizen".
I'm guessing there is a strong possibility that he was involved in something not legal in the state & was expecting "Fellow entrepreneurs" to be the ones busting down his door, hence the shoot first, shoot more, approach
There is probably someone on the forum here with a bit more firsthand knowledge of the situation that could explain it from the police point of view.
I would venture that the Jury probably thought that he should have figured out it was the police before shooting or at the least somewhere after the first shot or two and that emptying your mag kind of says to the jury that you had a bit of time. It sounds like the prosecution laid out a believable case that somewhere either before he started shooting or while shooting he had a clear view of the police and should have known to not shoot or to stop shooting immediately.
Also as I usually advise people, don't use the AK series for your defensive weapon if you have another choice... juries tend to equate them with criminals.
He should however thank his lucky stars, the police showed rather great restraint as proved by him not being dead.
He should also thank his lucky stars for the light sentence by comparison, judges and juries in Texas don't much like people who shoot at the police unless it's under some freak crazy unavoidable circumstance.
not enough in the article to give me direction at whom to throw rocks
.... not always the case....Don't run a drug house or do other stupid and grossly illegal shit, and you won't have a no-knock warrant executed on your house
Don't run a drug house or do other stupid and grossly illegal shit, and you won't have a no-knock warrant executed on your home.
More people win Powerball than have a wrong address hit done on their home. Both come with astronomical odds of happening to the point only the foolish worry about either. Not saying some departments don't have piss-poor reconnaissance of their target site (if they even do it at all) or poor execution of their raids, there's some that absolutely do, but a hit carried out on the wrong location is very, very rare..... not always the case....
There are a number of reports of police raiding the wrong house entirely, and plugging the guys because they had the audacity to wake up to someone barging through their doors
More people win Powerball than have a wrong address hit done on their home. Both come with astronomical odds of happening to the point only the foolish worry about either. Not saying some departments don't have piss-poor reconnaissance of their target site (if they even do it at all) or poor execution of their raids, there's some that absolutely do, but a hit carried out on the wrong location is very, very rare.
For the record, I'm not a fan of no-knock warrants being awarded unless there is strong evidence of weapons and intent to use them being present within the location, and assurance there are no children on site unless absolutely unavoidable. Surprising them for the sake of preserving evidence is not a good enough reason in my book for a no-knock. Save that shit for suspected terrorists, murderers and kidnappers where the element of surprise will save lives, not potentially cost them.
My thinking in that may be flawed, my raid execution included a Force Recon platoon doing the hit and missiles being included in possible breaching techniques, me on the R&S end of the operation, but I didn't operate inside the US either.
Actually, burglaries happens at a rate that is reported and is (unfortunately) very common, over 1.5 million in 2016 according to FBI statistics. No-knock on the wrong house is so rare that it makes national news and a family gets a 7+ figure payout every time it occurs. So no, I'm not worried about it nor should any other law abiding citizen be either.Same thing could be said about burglars in the middle of the night, but we are all ready for that. Any no knock raids at the wrong house is something everyone should be concerned about. Just what kind of morons are we giving permission to armor up, kick in doors, and put lives at risk? If we can't be 100% they will go to the right place.
Don't run a drug house or do other stupid and grossly illegal shit, and you won't have a no-knock warrant executed on your home.
Unless you get swatted...Don't run a drug house or do other stupid and grossly illegal shit, and you won't have a no-knock warrant executed on your home.
These types of threads are just cop hater bait.
They have warrants, that's kind of the exception to search and seizure.Dont violate the 4th amendment and you wont get shot.
No knocks are stupid. The cops use no knocks like candy, LEO's seal the deal in other ways. I know of two cases where a perp was pissed at someone an planted evidence in their garbage or yard. A no knock happened an it cost 10'sof K's of dollars for the folks to prove they did nothing wrong. This same thing can happen to anyone at anytime. A no knock at many places will not go well for another reason that seems to be cropping up in some areas. Dirt bags dressing as cops an doing a no knock. My place cop or, no cop, someones going to have a toe tag when leaving as no one can run 22K FPS.
Fucking no knocks is a lazy way to hook some one up, at some point they will come out of their space, hook them up then!
They have warrants, that's kind of the exception to search and seizure.
Yeah swatting never happens.Actually, burglaries happens at a rate that is reported and is (unfortunately) very common, over 1.5 million in 2016 according to FBI statistics. No-knock on the wrong house is so rare that it makes national news and a family gets a 7+ figure payout every time it occurs. So no, I'm not worried about it nor should any other law abiding citizen be either.
Police are human, humans fuck up, even US mil ran a Spooky hit on a hospital while liberating Konduz. But as tragic and headline grabbing as those mistakes are, they're all still very rare.
Neither does rival gangs calling in bogus info on targets, and law enforcement taking their word as gold. Read my above opinion on what no-knocks should be reserved for.Yeah swatting never happens.
C'mon Jerry, you can do better than mentioning something that predates the Revolutionary War and Bill of Rights. At least bash the present day judges signing off on warrants at the cyclic...
Dont violate the 4th amendment and you wont get shot.
They have warrants, that's kind of the exception to search and seizure.
No weapon just std items from Walmart an Lowes, an if you buy it all at lowes an are past military they will give you a 10% discount! Standing up against domestic terrorists an getting a 10% discount at the same time, win--win! A gun will be worthless in whats coming, hide your shit in plain site that most people don't have a clue about, ID'ing. When you ets the training does not just go away.Woah. Stop the thread. What HD weapon are you using?