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‘They Did Not Deal Drugs’: Neighbors of Slain Couple Who Shot 4 Cops Refute Official Story

The Cops Were the Aggressors in This Week's Deadly Houston Drug Raid

So the TL;DR of this is that the Houston Police played this off as a fairly typical drug raid but fudged some of the details until they were called on it. Those details being that the officers who broke their way into this couple's home were not in uniform, that almost immediately they killed the family's dog (and thus fired first), and that only after this happened did the woman try to disarm the man who killed their dog as the others gunned her down, while the man went back to their bedroom to retrieve a pistol and tried to defend himself against what he probably thought was a home invasion. He actually managed to shoot 4 of them before they killed him, but they were wearing body armor and the shots did not penetrate. They've played themselves off as heroes for killing these people in spite of not finding any of the drugs their "informant" said was there (the claim was that it was a heroin drug house), and the neighbors aren't having any of it.

Conveniently, none of the officers involved had body cams, and they seized the security footage from a neighbor's house as "evidence."

Sounds pretty standard. Police don't wear clear identification when serving such warrants because it makes them a target, dogs are considered dangerous so killed indiscriminately, and judges pass out these kind of no-knock warrants like candy with incredibly low thresholds for cause.

It's really something that in a state where Castle Doctrine is a given and killing armed intruders is considered a right, if not an outright duty, that law enforcement conducts themselves in such a manner.

Zoinksberg wrote: ↑Fri Feb 01, 2019 7:03 pm Sounds pretty standard. Police don't wear clear identification when serving such warrants because it makes them a target, dogs are considered dangerous so killed indiscriminately, and judges pass out these kind of no-knock warrants like candy with incredibly low thresholds for cause.

It's really something that in a state where Castle Doctrine is a given and killing armed intruders is considered a right, if not an outright duty, that law enforcement conducts themselves in such a manner.

Yep. Only thing I'm curious about is the false reporting. I'm sure this kind of thing has come to attention before, so what's the social reaction?

So far it seems to be pretty negative. The first article is all about how the neighbors are coming out and contradicting the police story that these two were dealers, and the police are getting pretty defensive about it, like always.