Sonny Clark
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- #21
To hell with a trial if you have a chance to shoot first. Let GOD sort it out afterwards. Again, trials do not determine justice when it's a cop's word against yours.AMEN !!!! There's a right way and a wrong way to do anything.I am sorry, but in a free country, the warrant must be served before there is forced entry.FYI - Anyone can buy and get their hands on a police uniform. Uniforms and badges are easy to get. Just because someone is wearing a uniform and has a badge doesn't mean they're cops. I'd shoot first and ask questions later if I saw them coming through a door or window. Cops can do the right thing and knock, and wait to be recognized by a homeowner. COPS aren't GOD.No such thing as an unjust no-knock raid. All raids are no-knock. "Hi it's the police, we're raiding your home, may we come in please?" That never happens.
If the police were in someone's home, but the home owner hadn't yet seen them, got a weapon, and fired the moment a target presented itself, you might convince a jury it was defensive. But you have no affirmative defense based on the lawfulness of the raid itself since you wouldn't know whether the search warrant was lawful or what law they used to conduct the raid when it's happening. You don't learn about that until much later. And you certainly have no right to shoot recognized police under any state 'castle amendment' type law. The assumption is if police are in your home it's lawful for them to be there.
The home owner's facing execution and rightly so unless he fired immediately upon seeing a target not knowing they were police.
If you can't show the local spate of gang members wearing police uniforms you're never gonan convince a jury you had a reasonable belief they weren't actual police officers. That's retarded to even try using.
Cops aren't God no. If a cop does something illegal you're free to file a complaint and win a million dollar lawsuit at trial. But there's next to no situation conceivable where a home owner is going to be justified shooting police conducting a raid. And certainly not in Texas. Ask the Davidians.
If suspects refuse to allow cops in to serve the warrant after they announce they have it, then forced entry is justified.
Not before.
At trial sure. When the SRT guys are pointing their MP-5s at you you have to the right to remain silent, and that's all.