‘Murdered In His Own Home’: Kentucky Cops Raid Wrong Home and Kill Innocent Man Over Alleged Stolen Weed Eater

[Nithavela]

No word yet on whether the stolen Weed Eater has been recovered or the real culprit arrested.

‘Murdered In His Own Home’: Kentucky Cops Raid Wrong Home and Kill Innocent Man Over Alleged Stolen Weed Eater Despite Receiving the Correct Address At Least Five Times

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

atlantablackstar.com

 

[ozso]

Well if he pointed a gun at them, they didn't have any other choice but to open fire. However a raid at the wrong house, not to mention a raid over a weed eater, is ridiculous and inexcusable.

 

[Nithavela]

Well if he pointed a gun at them, they didn't have any other choice but to open fire. However a raid at the wrong house, not to mention a raid over a weed eater, is ridiculous and inexcusable.

I struggle to accept the police officer's word without any evidence like bodycam footage after such a demonstration of incompetency.

 

[ozso]

I struggle to accept the police officer's word without any evidence like bodycam footage after such a demonstration of incompetency.

Yeah that's a definite if at this point.

 

[iluvatar5150]

I still don’t understand why we don’t have more folks exacting revenge for situations like this. We have enough guns.

 

[Aryeh Jay]

I know it hasn't been said here before but if you simply follow the instructions of the police, everything will be fine.

 

[Hazelelponi]

Well if he pointed a gun at them, they didn't have any other choice but to open fire. However a raid at the wrong house, not to mention a raid over a weed eater, is ridiculous and inexcusable.

I do think location matters, and cops should do more about making sure they have the right one, for real.

 

[RDKirk]

I know it hasn't been said here before but if you simply follow the instructions of the police, everything will be fine.

You forgot your Poe's Law tags.

 

[rjs330]

With all the training and planning that goes on for house raids it really is inexcusable that they get the wrong house.

If they end up shooting someone who is totally innocent then I believe the commanders should fired and their LE certificates revoked which means they lose any retirement benefits they hold. Planning a raid where you go into someone's home is frought with risk. There is no excuse for making an address mistake. This is completely on the commanders.

And what earth are they "raiding a house over a stolen weedeater" for?

For crying out loud go knock on the door. Show the owner the search warrant and search the house. Do it during the day so the owner can see you are the police and not some random stranger breaking into his home. Call him on the phone. Send him a text. It's a stolen weedeater, not known drug dealer or some dangerous felon where you want surprise and speed.

 

[ozso]

With all the training and planning that goes on for house raids it really is inexcusable that they get the wrong house.

If they end up shooting someone who is totally innocent then I believe the commanders should fired and their LE certificates revoked which means they lose any retirement benefits they hold. Planning a raid where you go into someone's home is frought with risk. There is no excuse for making an address mistake. This is completely on the commanders.

And what earth are they "raiding a house over a stolen weedeater" for?

For crying out loud go knock on the door. Show the owner the search warrant and search the house. Do it during the day so the owner can see you are the police and not some random stranger breaking into his home. Call him on the phone. Send him a text. It's a stolen weedeater, not known drug dealer or some dangerous felon where you want surprise and speed.

They didn't want to risk getting wacked by a spinning fish line.

 

[Nithavela]

With all the training and planning that goes on for house raids it really is inexcusable that they get the wrong house.

If they end up shooting someone who is totally innocent then I believe the commanders should fired and their LE certificates revoked which means they lose any retirement benefits they hold. Planning a raid where you go into someone's home is frought with risk. There is no excuse for making an address mistake. This is completely on the commanders.

Some would say that they should be charged with homicide.

 

[rjs330]

Some would say that they should be charged with homicide.

Why? Are you not allowed to defend yourself when someone points a gun at you? In these cases it doea depend on what the police were doing when they entered the house. Where they yelling that they were police. Where they yelling they were the police and saying they had a search warrant? Maybe they shoild be charged with homicide if they just kicked in rhe guys door and rushed in without announcing who they were or what they were doing. If they didnt announce and advise then the owner would have a right to point a gun and they should be charged with homicide depending on circumstances. But if they had POLICE on their uniforms and were announcing then no.

It also seems that there is a question on Whether of not they had a search warrant.

 

[Aryeh Jay]

I'll tell you what, if I enter someone's house in the middle of the night to ask them questions and they have the audacity to pull a gun on me, they are going to get two in the chest and one in the head. This guy messed with the bull and got the horns.

 

[Goonie]

Why? Are you not allowed to defend yourself when someone points a gun at you? In these cases it doea depend on what the police were doing when they entered the house. Where they yelling that they were police. Where they yelling they were the police and saying they had a search warrant? Maybe they shoild be charged with homicide if they just kicked in rhe guys door and rushed in without announcing who they were or what they were doing. If they didnt announce and advise then the owner would have a right to point a gun and they should be charged with homicide depending on circumstances. But if they had POLICE on their uniforms and were announcing then no.

It also seems that there is a question on Whether of not they had a search warrant.

Because the homeowner has a legal right to have the gun(assuming legal ownership) and to defend his property. Whilst on the police side their gross negligence lead to a homicide. In the UK it would be called gross negligence manslaughter.

 

[RDKirk]

I'll tell you what, if I enter someone's house in the middle of the night to ask them questions and they have the audacity to pull a gun on me, they are going to get two in the chest and one in the head. This guy messed with the bull and got the horns.

What?

 

[RDKirk]

Why? Are you not allowed to defend yourself when someone points a gun at you? In these cases it doea depend on what the police were doing when they entered the house. Where they yelling that they were police. Where they yelling they were the police and saying they had a search warrant? Maybe they shoild be charged with homicide if they just kicked in rhe guys door and rushed in without announcing who they were or what they were doing. If they didnt announce and advise then the owner would have a right to point a gun and they should be charged with homicide depending on circumstances. But if they had POLICE on their uniforms and were announcing then no.

It also seems that there is a question on Whether of not they had a search warrant.

Did you know that home invaders have been known to shout that they're police as they break into a home?

At some point, the situation rises to negligent homicide, and this appears to be a case at that point.

 

[Nithavela]

Why? Are you not allowed to defend yourself when someone points a gun at you? In these cases it doea depend on what the police were doing when they entered the house. Where they yelling that they were police. Where they yelling they were the police and saying they had a search warrant? Maybe they shoild be charged with homicide if they just kicked in rhe guys door and rushed in without announcing who they were or what they were doing. If they didnt announce and advise then the owner would have a right to point a gun and they should be charged with homicide depending on circumstances. But if they had POLICE on their uniforms and were announcing then no.

I think it's debatable if you are defending yourself when you started the confrontation in the first place.

It also seems that there is a question on Whether of not they had a search warrant.

They definetely had no search warrant for the house they raided.

 

[RDKirk]

I think it's debatable if you are defending yourself when you started the confrontation in the first place.

That's certainly the situation for anyone else.

 

[JustaPewFiller]

Just a bit more on this..

The cops stopped using body cameras back in 2023..

London, Ky. Police Dept. suspended use of body cameras

WKYT continues to follow a deadly police shooting involving the London Police Department.

www.wkyt.com

The article above and this one..

https://www.kentucky.com/news/state/kentucky/article297928768.html

Go into some more detail and contain one very sad fact and one interesting fact..

Hobert Buttery, 49, is accused of stealing a heater and a weed eater from a London house the day before the shooting. Police arrested Buttery at 7:34 p.m. on Dec. 23 in nearby Clay County, a little more than four hours before the shooting occurred. The house belongs to Laurel County Judge-Executive David Westerfield, but the stolen items belonged to Westerfield’s tenant. Buttery told authorities he took the lawn maintenance tool to a home in Lily. Court records show Buttery previously used the address 515 Vanzant Road as recently as October 2023.

They already had the guy that stole the weed eater in custody at the time of the raid.

So why all the fuss and a midnight raid over a weed-eater if they already had the guy to who stole it? Much less a raid that they conducted outside their jurisdiction? I wonder if it was because they were stolen from a judge's house?


Has anyone here had anything stolen? Did the cops conduct a midnight raid outside their jurisdiction to get it back? In my case the answers would be "yes" and "No, they really didn't seem to care." But, I'm not a judge either..

 

[BPPLEE]

‘Murdered In His Own Home’: Kentucky Cops Raid Wrong Home and Kill Innocent Man Over Alleged Stolen Weed Eater Despite Receiving the Correct Address At Least Five Times

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

atlantablackstar.com

Sounds like someone in his family will be getting a huge settlement