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Cebu_4_2
9th June 2014, 06:33 PM
Peace Officer Shot and Killed During No-Knock Raid

May 12, 2014
The state’s ridiculous and criminal war on drugs claims another life.

A Killeen, TX police officer has died after being shot during a no-knock search warrant Friday.
According to KXXV (http://www.kxxv.com/story/25473631/two-officers-wounded-in-killeen-morning-shooting), Detective Charles “Chuck” Dinwiddie succumbed to his injuries at Scott & White Hospital in Temple, just after 2 p.m. Saturday afternoon.

Dinwiddie, along with three other officers were injured in Friday’s shooting.
Authorities went to a four-plex apartment on the 1100 block of Circle M Dr. to serve a search warrant. When Dinwiddie and another officer tried to enter the apartment, 50 year-old Marvin Louis Guy and a 49 year-old woman opened fire on authorities, hitting Dinwiddie in the face and Officer Odis Denton in the leg.

Now, because the state claims the authority to tell people what they can and cannot put in their bodies, a man is dead, and another faces three attempted capital murder charges.

Marvin Louis Guy is being held in the Killeen City Jail on a three million dollar bond, one million for each count against him.
The raid happened at 5:30 in the morning and, from what we can tell on the official report, no notification was given prior to police trying to enter the residence.
According to the KPD press release (http://www.kxxv.com/link/695406/kpd-release),

On Friday May 9, 2014, just after 5:30am, members of the Killeen Police Department Tactical Response Unit and the Bell Organized Crime Unit were attempting to serve a narcotics search warrant. The TRU was beginning to breach the window when the 49 year old male inside, opened fire striking four officers.



Is this a case of ‘capital murder’ or is this a case of self defense? Hopefully justice is served in this case.
Late last year we saw the case of Henry Goedrich Magee (http://thefreethoughtproject.com/murder-charge-dropped-man-killed-cop-no-knock-raid/), who shot and killed a Burleson County Sheriff’s deputy for entering his house during a no-knock raid.

A Texas grand jury refused to indict him for murder, as the warrant was being served unannounced and he was acting in self-defense.

Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/police-officer-shot-killed-no-knock-raid/#sd31H0uREJkeBz2i.99

Cebu_4_2
9th June 2014, 06:37 PM
They bust into a house and someone defends themselvs. Taken hostage by the peace officers and held on a bazillion dollar bond while in same peace officers custody.

Why didn't they just give the dude a thousand bucks a week to wait for trial? I don't get it.

It will be in his benefit to suicide himself while in custody.

Glass
9th June 2014, 06:39 PM
I think police have some confusion about the word "serve" as in to serve a warrant.

For a warrant to be legitimate it must be of correct form, it must be appropriately signed but an appropriate adult.

It must then be given to the named party so that they may view it. This step is the "serving" step. Without it a warrant is not served. You cannot be doing this correctly if you are busting in and shooting people. Either you go in an terminate everyone with prejudice or you do it the other way and serve the document. And follow the process which may or may not be a good thing for the parties involved.

I think the answer to the problem is they DO need to SWAT these warrants and they need to terminate everyone inside. People caught up in this are better of dead IMO. Just shoot them and be done with it. Stop pretending there is any due process left. It's just too messy and unfair otherwise.

I like how charges arise for the guy who thought he was defending himself. one sided law doesn't seem to fit with the scales of justice now does it?

Publico
9th June 2014, 06:41 PM
Sorry peace officers don't go around enforcing drug laws. Law enforcement officers do, but not peace officers. Peace officers keep the peace. Officers who enforce laws is a law enforcement officers.