Florida cops kill innocent man at his own home
http://rt.com/usa/news/florida-man-police-kill-325/
http://libertycrier.com/front-page/florida-cops-kill-innocent-man-at-his-own-home/
Hearing a knock on his door at 1:30 am, a perplexed Florida man answered the door to see what kind of unannounced visitors were outside. Holding a gun for security, 26-year old Andrew Scott was instantly shot dead by police after he opened the door.
It took the Lake County Police Department an hour and a half to realize they had killed an innocent man.
“There’s things I would have done differently, but you never know when you wake up out of a sleep and somebody’s knocking on your door,” a neighbor told Fox 35 News. “You don’t know what’s going on.”
The police had been searching for Jonathan Brown and an accomplice, who had attacked a man in the street and attempted to smash a cinder block on his head before being stopped by a passerby. Being pursued by deputies, the attempted murderer escaped, and Florida police began their search.
Seeing Brown’s motorcycle parked outside of Scott’s building, they quietly approached, refraining from announcing themselves outside of the wrongly suspected attacker’s door to avoid scaring him off. Upon seeing the man’s gun, the police opened fire, leaving multiple bullet holes in his door as they killed the innocent man. Neighbors awoke to the sound of gunfire and screams from the victim’s girlfriend.
“I was in bed and heard about seven or eight gunshots. Got up, looked outside the window, by that time you heard a woman screaming,” a neighbor told Fox 35 News.
After realizing their mistake, police found 31-year old Brown in the building next door and arrested him.
Neighbors said Scott was a nice guy, and find the mix-up a sad mistake. The police department says it would not have opened fire if the man had not been holding a gun, but neighbors want to know why the authorities didn’t identify themselves at the door.
But Scott was just one of many victims of police pursuits each year. In the U.S., innocent bystanders account for a third of those killed in police chases, according to USA TODAY. Each year, 360 people are killed in high-speed chases. While Scott was killed in another manner, his death shows the level of carelessness sometimes found in police departments while pursuing a suspect.
It took the Lake County Police Department an hour and a half to realize they had killed an innocent man.
“There’s things I would have done differently, but you never know when you wake up out of a sleep and somebody’s knocking on your door,” a neighbor told Fox 35 News. “You don’t know what’s going on.”
The police had been searching for Jonathan Brown and an accomplice, who had attacked a man in the street and attempted to smash a cinder block on his head before being stopped by a passerby. Being pursued by deputies, the attempted murderer escaped, and Florida police began their search.
Seeing Brown’s motorcycle parked outside of Scott’s building, they quietly approached, refraining from announcing themselves outside of the wrongly suspected attacker’s door to avoid scaring him off. Upon seeing the man’s gun, the police opened fire, leaving multiple bullet holes in his door as they killed the innocent man. Neighbors awoke to the sound of gunfire and screams from the victim’s girlfriend.
“I was in bed and heard about seven or eight gunshots. Got up, looked outside the window, by that time you heard a woman screaming,” a neighbor told Fox 35 News.
After realizing their mistake, police found 31-year old Brown in the building next door and arrested him.
Neighbors said Scott was a nice guy, and find the mix-up a sad mistake. The police department says it would not have opened fire if the man had not been holding a gun, but neighbors want to know why the authorities didn’t identify themselves at the door.
But Scott was just one of many victims of police pursuits each year. In the U.S., innocent bystanders account for a third of those killed in police chases, according to USA TODAY. Each year, 360 people are killed in high-speed chases. While Scott was killed in another manner, his death shows the level of carelessness sometimes found in police departments while pursuing a suspect.
Think (unregistered) July 18, 2012, 10:05
Your giving them LEAVE? THEY can't even read the address correctly! FIRE THEM! They Did NOT Follow PROCEDURE! THEY DID NOT Announce Themselves as POLICE, THEY KILLED A INNOCENT MAN! This isn't 'BIZARRE', THEY are INCOMPETENT! TAKE THEIR GUNS! The man had every right to answer his door with a gun. They wear Black and Strapped with GUNS, 1:00 in the morning! Aggressively Moving Toward the INNOCENT man, with guns drawn. There HAS to be a TRIAL! We Have to start testing Cops for COMPETENCE, CHARACTER, PERSONALITY TRAITS! 'Trained' to know? I was AMAZED How MANY COPS Had Killed INNOCENT PEOPLE when I searched 'Police killed innocent Man'!!!! In Cali a 19 yr old was killed when they asked to see his $2 ticket! They shot him in the back and neck and then let him bleed to death! And an 81 yr old man chased some cops off his lawn thinking they were drug dealers and the police Shot Him! Where DID the Counties, State, Federal get these Idiots From? THOSE WHO HIRED THEM ARE ON THE BLOCK TOO. THEY ARE RESPONSIBLE as well and need to PAY for the INSTABILITY of the people THEY have HIRED! Heads need to roll here!
That could have happened to anybodies son or father. What these cops did is unforgiveable! that could have been my 26 year old innocent son, and if it was me I would hunt those cops down like the animals they are! How do you bang on a door unannounced not sure if you have the right apt. and shoot an innocent man who brought his gun to the door for protection never in a million years thinking it was cops? They better be held accountable!!
