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 cops to raid the wrong home and kill the man inside.
But the man who police say admitted to stealing the Weed Eater from a home of a local judge had already been in custody prior to the deadly raid that took place minutes before midnight last month, according to WLEX. That man told police he had stored the stolen Weed Eater at a home at 489 Vanzant Road which is a rural area outside of London city limits.
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The one part I as a non-American don’t understand about this is: Is America not supposed to be a free country? Why the hell do you have people who can kill anyone with no repercussions? What the hell happened to the rule of law? And, more importantly, why the actual fuck is the whole country not up in arms over this?
We were never a free country in any sense like you’re describing. That’d just our own internal propaganda.
I agree with your last statement. There are countless reasons I can’t understand why people aren’t burning this country to the ground. Especially those further in poverty and struggling to just get by.
I still am shocked Occupy Wall Street wasn’t more violent. It probably needed to be.
The reason we haven’t burt it down is because the ones in power are really good at making the ignorant masses hate each other. Even during covid people were pissed off that unemployed people were getting a little extra help, when business owners were raking in PPE loans. Instead of focusing that anger where it really belongs. Half the country hates minorities and trans people, the other half hate maga. When instead, we should all be focusing on the bezos and musks and guillotines.
Man, RATM had it figured out in 1992. 😬
Now I got no patience
So sick of complacence
With the D, the E, the F, the I, the A, the N, the C, the E
Mind of a revolutionary, so clear the lane
The finger to the land of the chains
What? The “land of the free”?
Whoever told you that is your enemy
I wish it hadn’t taken 30 more years before I realized how right they were.
Brother Ali says it even better:
They keep sayin’ we’re free
But we’re all just loose
What the fuck does a stolen weed eater require a home raid? Like WTF.
A weed eater stolen from a judges home. Judges and cops worship each other. To cops its like someone stole god’s weed eater.
Cops like to charge others for extra crimes when they eff something up, so now they will charge the guy who stole the weed eater from the judge with murder. And Kentucky has capital punishment…
wtf but hey it was swiped from a judge. what a sad story
This happened in a state where the majority of residents (especially in these rural areas) feel everyone should be armed for protection. They are also overwhelmingly in favor of aggressive police tactics so when I see a rural man defending himself and being shot for it by police I can’t help but sigh. I mean, anyone with half a brain could see these situations coming. Do we really need to use swat teams for non violent property crimes?
He might have been armed with a weed eater!
Peace officer goes over this pretty well.
“Oh don’t like the cops? I guess the next time you’re in trouble you’ll call a crackhead?”
That does seem to have a better survival rate
If given the option of where my tax money would go, I’d give crackheads a try at this point, yes.
Worst case scenario, we’ll learn new recycling habits, like using old coke cans as bowls.
No joke, my boyfriend actually used an old Coca-Cola can to smoke weed out of because he forgot that I owned a couple of actual pipes.
I mean he’s not that bright, at least he doesn’t seem too bright, but then he pulls some shit like that and I feel kinda dumb and sorry for misjudging him.
I guess what Einstein said is true, if you judge a fish based on its ability to fly or a bird on its ability to swim, you’ll think they’re both worthless idiots. Not exactly what he said mind you, but that was the sentiment.
if you judge a fish based on its ability to fly or a bird on its ability to swim, you’ll think they’re both worthless idiots.
I like it. I’ll be stealing that to talk about centrists not understand how they lost the election. :-) Will follow your comments for more.
They would definitely steal less
I know 3 crackheads right now that would handle things with a much cooler head than the police here. And that is not an exaggeration.
What’s it’s matter about the address. We are talking about a weed eater. Chill the fuck out.
Ah, but the weed eater belonged to a judge. It wasn’t because he stole something valuable; It was because he stole from someone important.
He didn’t steal anything they had the thief. It was a recovery operation. You know it’s dangerous getting a weed eater from someone who doesn’t know they have it.
Ok, Judge, chill the fuck out. It’s a fuckin weed eater you psycho.
Why did they even do anything? Whenever something is stolen from I get told there is nothing they can do but take a report.
Yeah, police are unwilling to do anything about vandalism in my neighborhood, smashed windows on homes and cars, 20+ smashed windows, everyone knows exactly who is doing it to the kid who goes around trying to jump kids in the area half their size and has been caught and witnesses red handed multiple times, ‘‘aww jeez guys, looks like… there’s nothing we can do…’’ useless.
You can hurt him bad enough to where he stops
I’m sure “judges weed eater” had nothing to do with the enhanced police response. /s
This dude got executed by a death squad.
Either the cops are incredibly competent (likely) or they intentionally raided the wrong home as an excuse to kill this man, perhaps under judges orders.
When you can’t tell if police killed someone through staggering incompetence or deliberate malice… something is fundamentally wrong.
Either the cops are incredibly competent (likely)
did you mean to say incompetent? (genuine question)
Lmao yes. Most cops are incompetent, pretty sure it’s a requirement
ah okay thank you for clarifying. i completely agree, just wanted to make sure i understood your original comment correctly.
There is more to this story that we will never know. You raid a home over a stolen fucking weed eater. Gross abuse of power by someone
No, it’s right there in the story. The weed eater belonged to a judge, so obviously someone’s gonna pay.
Death penalty for the cops, life in prison for the judge?
If only. Man, if only there were some Mario Bros that could handle something like this. They hate the forces of evil.
Even if it was the correct home. They killed the guy over a fucking weed eater. Even if he’d been violent back off and fucking let things cool down. Grab him when he goes for groceries or something. Fuck.
I mean, the article plainly says that the weed eater belonged to a local judge.
This dude wasn’t executed because of what he was accused of stealing. He was executed because of who he was accused of stealing it from.
I can almost guarantee that some police higher-up is getting a free/cheap piece of “forfeited” property in the coming weeks.
The thief was in custody. They where just going to where the guy stashed it. Like why couldn’t they roll up in a patrol car and knock.
I know, that’s why I said accused. The dude didn’t steal anything, but was still killed.
They broke into his house, and he got a gun out. Which is one of the few times it is reasonable to brandish a weapon… And they use that as justification to kill him. Over a weed eater.
The police don’t give a shit if someone steals your catalytic converter, your whole car, or all of your tools. But I guess if you’re a judge they will kill for your weed eater.
The cops deserve to reap what they sowed.
But they won’t. Qualified immunity, which means they can and will murder with impunity.
They sow death so they deserve to reap death. Legality is not a factor in my proposition.
A lot of people have proven self defense against police breaking into their home and attacking him. Legally speaking.
Which is why they go all the way. Can’t prove self defense if you’re dead.
This is a repeat post, so I’ll repeat one of my replies partially: I wouldn’t be surprised if a suddenly vacant lot wouldn’t suddenly be auctioned off to a cop’s relative in areas with a high predominance of this. Read up on civil asset forfeiture as well. In some places, cops are basically legalized mafias.
stealing the Weed Eater from a home of a local judge
Aha, so that’s why they suddenly give a shit about property theft, because it was from a member of their little club.
you know, I just now realized it was a weed eater and not a weed eater
Perhaps Weedeater were hanging out with the judge and he kidnapped them? Just kidding, Weedeater would never hang out with a judge.
Why the fuck do they need to raid any house for a fucking weed eater!? That is serious small time shit.
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fuckin’ misdemeanor shit, stealing something under $1000. This judge ordered his little goon squad to seek vengeance and retribution on anyone who would dare steal from someone of his stature. No warrant, doubt they even announced themselves as police. They killed a man over a fucking used weed whacker. Raided his home in the middle of the night and killed an innocent American citizen over fucking nothing.
hey judge your cops just stole a mans life, you gonna go seek vengeance and retribution again?
And the thief was already in custody. He had “stored” the weed eater at the address they were supposed to be searching (er, raiding), meaning whoever would have been present there wasn’t even the thief.
Maybe because it was a judge’s weed eater
Or a CEOs gardener.
Because we train cops to kill and give them military surplus and they’re just itching to use it.
The whole raid and SWAT tactics are insanely ineffective and deadly. Before that detectives would just come by in the day time and knock and be like ‘we have a warrant’.
It was the Judge’s weed eater.
Check to see if there’s a development looking to buy all the land in that area. You know. Like the last time police did this, and it got buried for years until public outcry made the legal system reluctantly look into and find out there were very rich people who wanted the home of Brianna Taylor, and got it for what $1.00 after she was murdered in her bed by a cop who snuck behind the house to her bedroom and opened fire.
I found an article verifying the price, but do you have a source that connects the rest of the dots? I’m shocked (not that shocked) this isn’t on screaming front page headlines
I found these articles with a little more information.
Good stuff, key point from the BI article:
Mary Ellen Wiederwohl, head of the city’s economic development foundation Louisville Forward, the city’s economic development organization, told local news channel Wave 3 that the updated lawsuit “is a gross mischaracterization of the project,” and said that the foundation had worked with community organizations throughout. She added that the foundation is discussing the creation of a community land trust “to ensure investment without displacement.”
And yet I found more using a search of "Place Based Investigations " as the main keyword: https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/politics/metro-government/2020/07/24/breonna-taylor-shooting-what-know-police-unit-linked-case/5443452002/
it was revealed that the “no-knock” warrant police used to force their way into Taylor’s apartment, leading to her death, was obtained by a member of the Place-Based Investigative team.
The dots are connected enough for me. PBI obtained the no-knock, likely on Wiederwohl’s initiative. Further lead: https://www.acceleratorforamerica.org/who-we-are/
Can we get this to the front page of lemmy? Brianna’s story is one of injustice and this is more proof of what these cretins are able to do in broad daylight.
Yeah the alerts to police that led to the warrant were from the team working on the project inside the police department or something? It’s so ugly and obvious it really bothers me that I’m sure no one will ever face a single consequence. Just like always. The law is apparently totally incapable of even bothering those that have vs those that have not.
It sounds like the judge and police were working together to execute someone. I really can’t tell incompetence from pure evil anymore.
ACAB
