But if we abolish the police, who will shoot a guy to death in his own home while executing a stolen weedwacker search warrant on the entirely wrong person at the entirely wrong address www.lex18.com/news/coverin... - ThreadSky

criminalerin.bsky.social • 118 days ago

But if we abolish the police, who will shoot a guy to death in his own home while executing a stolen weedwacker search warrant on the entirely wrong person at the entirely wrong address
https://www.lex18.com/news/covering-kentucky/neighbors-police-killed-man-after-serving-warrant-to-wrong-home

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gabbklein.bsky.social•118 days ago

This has happened so many times, I literally clicked on the article just to see if you were sharing an older one.

Nope. Sequel number infinity plus one.

justinseitz.bsky.social•118 days ago

I was like: wait this isn't Ohio and the wrong address LIKE FUCKING YESTERDAY!

justinseitz.bsky.social•118 days ago

How can you buy increasing amounts of surveillance tech and still not be able to drive your finger up your own ass with a roadmap and GPS?

mathewvoth.bsky.social•118 days ago

ACAB

nildaebs.bsky.social•117 days ago

How in god's name do they have the wrong address?
It's like doctors who amputate the wrong leg.

goreckis.co•118 days ago

They liberated the weedwacker, right?

Right?

bobkurats420.bsky.social•118 days ago

So what is your solution to no police? I’m friends with several cops and they are incredible people. Do you have any idea what this country would be like without police?

joeg49620.bsky.social•118 days ago

Perhaps police doing the bare minimum leg work and we wouldn’t be having this fucking discussion

ishfery.bsky.social•118 days ago

Your friends suck and if you don't see that, there's a good chance you do too

bobkurats420.bsky.social•117 days ago

How bout you go fuck yourself! Who are you to judge people you never met? You are the worst kind of people

ishfery.bsky.social•117 days ago

I've met you and you've proven my estimation is correct. Fyi: It's never too late to be a better person.

bobkurats420.bsky.social•117 days ago

Says the person that said my friends suck when they are great men. But that doesn’t fit your snowflake narrative, does it honey. You are the type of person that helped cost us the election being so unhinged you hypocrite. Let me know when the go fuck yourself part of your evening starts.

ishfery.bsky.social•117 days ago

You said your friends suck

slightlylyons.bsky.social•118 days ago

I've know several cops myself. All of them where nice guys in person but bragged about abusing power as police officers.

roxy3172.bsky.social•117 days ago

We could have people who protect and serve the community instead of corrupt frat boys with no consequences.

elfqueeng.bsky.social•118 days ago

I'd love to find out.

tbati.bsky.social•118 days ago

I know there’s a dead guy in KY that would be better off without police.

criminalerin.bsky.social•118 days ago

Abolition is not my solution, it's everyone's solution

Try reading even a single book about it to find out what a world without police could actually be like

https://bsky.app/profile/criminalerin.bsky.social/post/3leesuhoims2v

ratchetology.bsky.social•118 days ago

"everybody need a gun to protect themselves in their home"

police "we shot him because he had a gun in his home"

roxy3172.bsky.social•117 days ago

Americans don't get that they explicitly do not have the right to bear arms; they're just told they do.

If you can be killed for suspicion of owning a gun, you do not have the right to bear arms.

jocastaway.bsky.social•118 days ago

Heyyyy we have the Michigan Militia to do that for the low low price of just one extortion

justharris.bsky.social•118 days ago

“Let’s allow the police to excuse this case of murder before we demand ANY improvement.”
Our media sucks.

dogontheroof.bsky.social•118 days ago

This should be a murder charge at minimum. They shouldn't be allowed to do this at the right house for a gardening tool, much less at the wrong one because every cop involved was too dumb to find an address.

edwoodk.bsky.social•118 days ago

Or murder a 16- yr old child in his bedroom over a warrant for an entirely different person over Cannabis possession.

lauragoof.bsky.social•118 days ago

The cops will zip tie your grandma and kill her dog while serving a no-knock marijuana warrant meant for a house two doors down and not one cop will be fired or arrested. Police are not on our side

cheers464646.bsky.social•118 days ago

Over-seers

oldmanant.bsky.social•118 days ago

We unlocked another option though...

friskiedgrrl.bsky.social•118 days ago

I hope his family sues the ass of those officers! Can they NOT read? Are they THAT fucking stupid to not see the addresses were different?

ildfluer.bsky.social•118 days ago

Liberty for all... Liberty to go into any home and execute someone in his home w/ few consequences. Excellent.

megateer.bsky.social•118 days ago

Police rarely actually try to solve crimes, but when they do, they do it poorly and murder someone over a minor offense - cool, cool. No problems with this system at all.

carlnyberg312.bsky.social•118 days ago

I need to record a video that if the police kill me, I authorize retaliatory killings of police.

carlnyberg312.bsky.social•118 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/carlnyberg312.bsky.social/post/3leezsqpzek2p

mrflibbles.bsky.social•118 days ago

I was really confused at first because the MET don't carry guns, but then I realised this is London, Kentucky.

shockingsounds.bsky.social•118 days ago

In the local parlance, "UK" will not be what you think it is.

realityred.bsky.social•118 days ago

I wonder, was Mr. Harless a registered Democrat? If so, this should be investigated as a hate crime.

schwarzinexile.bsky.social•118 days ago

Based off his Facebook posts, it seems like he was pretty conservative.

realityred.bsky.social•118 days ago

Thanks for checking and letting me know. It was just a thought that crossed my mind. I have no faith in cops anymore.

realityred.bsky.social•118 days ago

They recovered the weed eater though, right?

ishfery.bsky.social•118 days ago

Lol no

cookie1962.bsky.social•118 days ago

Why are cops so universally poorly trained? I cannot understand this.

justharris.bsky.social•118 days ago

(1) in a time of shrinking applications to police forces, legal decisions related to the selection process would appear significant; (2) the rejection of an applicant due to his /her high intelligence appears to create or reinforce negative stereotypes of police;

https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/jordan-v-city-new-london-policing-hiring-and-iq-when-all-answers

rosaluxlux.bsky.social•118 days ago

They're trained to do this. Remember Derek Chauvin got put in charge of rookies.

llm61.bsky.social•118 days ago

Are police even literate in Kentucky? It appears not.

davidpetraitis.bsky.social•118 days ago

The other guy needs to get rid of that illegal weed whacker!

gregkaiser.bsky.social•118 days ago

My son is a police officer. Whenever these incidents occur, he points to one thing, training. They either aren't trained well enough or have gotten to the point where they feel the training doesn't matter. Either way, officers like these cannot continue to serve.

fluidlikewater.bsky.social•118 days ago

it’s not just training it’s the lack of quality recruitment. There needs to be more restrictions. Any ties to any militias, extremist groups, etc should be an automatically disqualifying . Instead we have a system where they make up a high % of cops.

gregkaiser.bsky.social•118 days ago

That too

mragusa.bsky.social•118 days ago

The easiest thing to do would be to stop letting just anyone become a police officer. We have too many cops who are just terrible at their jobs.

speedbudget.bsky.social•118 days ago

Why do we keep letting the police investigate themselves?

paoloalessandro.bsky.social•118 days ago

This is one of the reasons why In would never live in the US.
You espouse freedom, yet you are oppressed and you do not know it!

shazster.bsky.social•118 days ago

It don't really think there are that many questions.
We're all quite aware of the "Cops fuck up/someone dies anyway" algorithm that keeps trucking along, no matter how many "questions" are asked.

Cops aren't interested in "answers". It's an "A" word...like accountability.

theeazita.bsky.social•118 days ago

Oh for crying out loud. That’s like a $45 item.

concretehalloween.bsky.social•118 days ago

What a public service they provide!

/s

69sunflower.bsky.social•118 days ago

Yet trump wants to give the cops immunity from prosecution

hexarthrious.bsky.social•118 days ago

You americans.

thelaststraw.bsky.social•118 days ago

Uh-oh. You said "abolish the police!"

Here comes an endless barrage of the dumbest fucks ever to pretend to read the headers of articles they refused to understand.

tairawhitidoc.bsky.social•118 days ago

The data are very clear that a gun in the home is more likely to harm or kill you than it is to protect you.
Death by police, by accident, by escalated violence, by domestic violence, by suicide are just some of the ways.
Yet every gun owner thinks they're the responsible exception.

feesh76.bsky.social•118 days ago

If the guy even owned a gun. I wouldn't be shocked if it turns out the victim was holding a cell phone.

tairawhitidoc.bsky.social•118 days ago

Wow. But would the cops lie about someone pointing a gun at them? 🙄

roxy3172.bsky.social•117 days ago

They do about daily. At least weekly. Every black man they feel scared around has a "gun."

Then they shoot him dead because the right to bear arms is fake and there was never a gun anyway.

spunkysonja.bsky.social•117 days ago

Good point.

rkdrtlvr.bsky.social•118 days ago

Just Ugh. What the ever loving fuck.

malelo.bsky.social•118 days ago

This absurd might easily be in the world top 10 police abuses

justharris.bsky.social•118 days ago

This is the United States of America.
This may not make the top 10 list for TODAY.
Wake up.

malelo.bsky.social•118 days ago

Read again!

kaisardragon.bsky.social•118 days ago

"Let's allow the Kentucky State Police to thoroughly investigate this situation."

And that might be the scariest part of all of this.

marcstandley.bsky.social•118 days ago

It’s ok: the cops won’t be prosecuted and they’ll get to return home to 40% of their abused spouses.

sauldk.bsky.social•118 days ago

Plz replace "shoot [...] to death..." with "murder" (#cannotfindapropriateemoji)

accurateblasters.com•118 days ago

Headline writers def should be using “murdered” or “executed.” Give these things the weight and intensity they deserve.

cheers464646.bsky.social•118 days ago

They would get pulled over and harassed for a busted headlight

matthewshirts.bsky.social•118 days ago

If this weren’t tragic and stupid .. . Actually that’s what it is

roxy3172.bsky.social•117 days ago

Abolish the police

swizzlesister64.bsky.social•118 days ago

The victim is white, so justice will be served. Those cops are going to jail.

cheers464646.bsky.social•118 days ago

They will be let go and working the next county over after the investigation and some back pay

stu-lowfuel.bsky.social•118 days ago

Retrieving a $65 stolen weedwacker for the mere cost of an army of cops, a busted door, bullet ridden walls and a bloody floor, a funeral, a life, and widespread trauma. And of course, zero recovered weedwackers.

thefightforfreedom.bsky.social•118 days ago

The cops were obviously shitheads for this but also, what kind of judge issues a warrant for a bunch of officers to go retrieve a piece of gardening equipment? Fuck those cops and that judge.

tadrow.bsky.social•118 days ago

Gotta wonder whose weedwacker that was…

criminalerin.bsky.social•118 days ago

On reddit ppl are saying a city councilman's which

Feels true enough

theeazita.bsky.social•118 days ago

Was gonna say. People have multi-thousand dollar musical instruments stolen, track down the house and cops won’t do anything to retrieve.

stu-lowfuel.bsky.social•118 days ago

Yeah. In my experience in the very rare occasion they do, it's only because of the band or their fans did all the legwork for them. I gave up on finding my stolen foh rack the day it went missing.

theeazita.bsky.social•118 days ago

I’ve heard of people telling the cops which house the stolen gear is in and they still won’t do anything.

tadrow.bsky.social•118 days ago

Pretty sure the hit-and-run driver who smashed my car was only caught because there was a young officer who was new to town and eager to have a case under his belt. I'm sure he learned better eventually.

tadrow.bsky.social•118 days ago

Fits like the proverbial glove. Guy killed at the wrong damn house because an asshole sent the cops to harass another guy.

idiocracy.bsky.social•118 days ago

Wow. What is happening?

superlanyard.bsky.social•118 days ago

If we abolish the police Trump won’t like it one bit. No thugs to enforce his edicts.

acronymofficial.bsky.social•118 days ago

Good statement! #PoliceJustice

givemespacetravel.bsky.social•118 days ago

The lynch mob.

pppatticake.bsky.social•118 days ago

📌

criminalerin.bsky.social•118 days ago

Does Kentucky have castle doctrine or not 🪿 DOES KENTUCKY HAVE CASTLE DOCTRINE OR NOT??? 🪿

moonmayor.bsky.social•118 days ago

The post office gets in more trouble for delivering a letter to the wrong address than cops killing someone

criminalerin.bsky.social•118 days ago

You literally go to jail for using the wrong address for your kids' school but get a fully paid vacation and promotion to vice for shooting & killing the wrong guy and the wrong address

sitesafetynet.bsky.social•115 days ago

"Thanks for sharing this!" https://www.protectingourstudents.org/donate-new/

oilvla.bsky.social•118 days ago

the phrase “a victim, not a criminal” has terrible implications

criminalerin.bsky.social•118 days ago

Kentucky does have castle doctrine, to be very fucking clear

https://www.aclu-ky.org/en/news/no-knock-warrants-and-castle-doctrine

criminalerin.bsky.social•118 days ago

Maybe if more people had taken what the cops did to Breonna Taylor & her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, once again charged with the murder cops did, more seriously, this white Kentuckian wouldn't have gotten the exact same treatment

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/breonna-taylor-kenneth-walker-judge-dismisses-officer-charges/

sassystrega.bsky.social•118 days ago

Hmpf. That's exactly what I was thinking. Maybe now it happened to a white man ppl wil take it seriously. Shame.

icoost.bsky.social•118 days ago

Wait what? They can't be fucking serious

criminalerin.bsky.social•118 days ago

You know they are!!!

icoost.bsky.social•118 days ago

I can't say what I want to say

moonmayor.bsky.social•118 days ago

It's your home until a cop shows up

rjdeal.bsky.social•118 days ago

White people never think fascism will come for us. Especially white men. But it will. Things like this are just going to start escalating after Jan 20. The finding out is going to be really painful for a lot of people. Oh well, they were warned.

rostech.dev•118 days ago

might as well arm yourself. I got my great grandfathers guns.

prrsignal.bsky.social•118 days ago

The risk of getting shot by police is a function of the number of encounters you have with police, not skin color. Minorities just have more encounters per capita. Dems need to embrace this messaging.

criminalerin.bsky.social•118 days ago

Loudly and repeatedly!!

rjdeal.bsky.social•118 days ago

And it boggles the mind that all of this was over a stolen weedeater!?! Knocking down someone’s door and coming in with guns out seems like something that should be reserved for capturing a serial killer or a kidnapper, not a petty thief.

stunever.bsky.social•118 days ago

Remember Body Count “Smoked Pork”?

I do.

blaknwhite.bsky.social•118 days ago

Yeah and Cop Killer which was the one that drove the right insane and made the record company pull the album and take it off future pressings.

arolpin.bsky.social•118 days ago

I still have my CD in my physical media vault.

mcmikespigget.bsky.social•118 days ago

SO...you are not going to call the cops when someone invades your home? You must support the 2A then.

cainesnakeeyes.bsky.social•118 days ago

No but... He's white so the cops ARE wrong this time..! (/s please people realize I'm joking)

alipenguinz.bsky.social•118 days ago

For a fucking weed wacker????? Busting into a home in the middle of the night for a FUCKING WEED WACKER??????

pelsner.bsky.social•118 days ago

Why the fuck would you send 5 police officers out with a search warrant for a fucking weed eater??

I guarantee the weed eater costs less than what 5 officers make in a day. What asinine judge would sign a warrant like that?

prrsignal.bsky.social•118 days ago

Funny cause in most blue areas the cops have been on strike for years now. They just sit on their phones.

ishfery.bsky.social•118 days ago

Sometimes you get bored and wanna fuck up someone's day

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