Comments on: Tragedy and injustice in Chesapeake

By: Donald Sheldon

Donald Sheldon — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 09:37:28 +0000

We just had a tragic case in Broward County Florida where a 17 year old living with his parents was killed in a 2:00 AM no knock rad. He defended his house with a base ball bat against two officers was ta sered and then shot to death.
What are the cops thinking or are they thanking at all. no-knock raid on a 17 year old kid and then justifying killing him apparently while his parents looked on. Cops gone crazy is the only explanation I can imagine.

Donald Sheldon

By: Paul Russell

Paul Russell — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 19:28:11 +0000

It’s 2AM, your sound asleep. You hear your door crashing in. If it is a criminal crashing your front door and you take the time to go wash your face, wake up in other words, and then ask who is it, your dead. Our homes are our last sanctuary. This entire story is simply stupid. If anybody ever breaks my front door down under the conditions of this story, they will be wearing my base ball bat across their head. I’ll ask later for the ID.

By: Donald Sheldon

Donald Sheldon — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 20:47:50 +0000

This is a sad story. It demonstrated once again why we must re-legalize all drugs and stop this insane war. Debbie you and your son take a look at the web site LEAP.cc 5000 strong current and former law enforcement people calling for and end to the “War on Drugs”. These are and were the front line enforcement personnel and they have seen enough and are now talking about it. Have your son watch their 15 min video over and over again and change his choice of careers. I have a petition at ipetitions.com/petition/StopTheWaronDrugs Please sigh it and we will send it to all the major Presedential canadates. This “War” must stop. Thank you for your help

Don@helpstopthewarondrugs.com

Donald Sheldon

By: Your title here » Blog Archive » Grand jury indicts Ryan Frederick on capital murder charge

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 17:00:02 +0000

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By: thegnu

thegnu — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 16:10:49 +0000

@Debbie: I think it’s inconclusive whether the cop deserved it. It depends on whether he was involved in letting the credit card fraud guy off. It seemed pretty damn shady. Tell your son to stay out of shady business. If he doesn’t, he may very well deserve what he gets.

I feel sorry for the cop’s family, but not for the cop. If you don’t want to get shot, don’t get a job that requires you to carry a gun.

Anyway, the 2nd amendment protects our right to bear licensed arms to defend ourselves. For all he knew, he was just about to get tortured and murdered. I say he did a great job defending himself, and the cops maybe should’ve tried something a little less terrifying against this peaceful man. Why not approach him during the day? He had no criminal record or anything.

By: Brian Martinez

Brian Martinez — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 15:46:09 +0000

Mikael – Many if not most states do recognize an individual’s right to self-defense. However, Virginia does not have a so-called “Castle Doctrine”, which provides an affirmative defense for any homeowner who shoots an intruder.

And when the intruder’s a cop, the rules change anyway. According to Virginia’s criminal code, capital murder can only be charged when the act is willful, deliberate and premeditated. Clearly these prerequisites don’t apply in Frederick’s case, but because he shot a cop, the grand jury pretended that was somehow different.

By: Edward

Edward — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 15:45:06 +0000

Debbie,

yes, the police officer did deserve to die. He chose to become a police officer. He chose to demonstrate an authority that required his wearing a weapon. He chose to execute a no-knock raid.

I hope that someday you or your son will be tortured and killed by someone who is “doing their job”, so you can appreciate that that is not a viable disclaimer for personal responsibility.

By: BecauseBushSaysSo

BecauseBushSaysSo — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 15:38:25 +0000

Your right Brian. Marijuana should be legal. I wonder if these cops were in uniform or street clothes. It may not have mattered but if he at least maybe saw a uniform he would have reacted differently. And now Mr. Fredrick has to live with fact that he killed someone. But I guess if your a gun owner you have to accept that fact as a possibilty. And also these no knock warrants should be illegal but thanks to Bush they can.

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:56:37 +0000

perhaps the saddest part of this whole tragic tale is that it was all over some cannabis… a plant that is physically incapable of killing any person. The unconstitutional marijuana prohibition needs to end.

By: Ray NL

Ray NL — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:26:59 +0000

You would say that in this day and age and certainly in a developed country like the US this sort of ‘incidents’ should not occur.. With great disbelieve i have now read a couple of stories about ‘no-knock warrant’ raids, the previous one killing a 90-some year old women who was busy cooking in the kitchen..

I don’t see any reason why a ‘no knock warrant’ should be issued at all, especially in a country where everyone can buy guns at their local supermarket. Such actions will always result in violence, be it either from the police, the criminal or supposed to be criminal, or both: no matter if you are guilty or not, if someone breaks down your door in the middle of the night with no warning whatsoever, your first action will always be to defend yourself.

If you are a Democrat: make sure your future president Obama gets a copy of these stories so he can deal with it!