Negative. Law enforcement should be held accountable for mistakes. This is a ridiculous example. But, if BigBob rolls through a stop sign, and a cop shoots him in the face, I don’t believe Bob has 100% culpability.

To be honest, I don’t much care what happened to this lady. That’s because I suspect she was a scumbag. But, as much as I don’t like it. Scumbags have rights also. Cops have a tough job. I wouldn’t want the job. But, they should be held responsible for mistakes, just like everyone else.

The officers were plain clothes officers, they were not wearing body cams. Only one neighbor testified that they had heard the officers announce thenselves. The boyfriend claims they did not hear it in their apartment. That there was a knock, then someone kicked in the door and he thought it was a break in so he fired his gun to protect himself and his girlfriend. Sometimes there is no blame in a situation. In this case, the officers were legally entering under the warrant. The boyfriend had a right to defend within the home if he didn't hear them say they were officers. Just a bad situation all around.

Davedave, come on man, Comparing the execution of a warrant to a traffic violation is not even fruit to vegetable comparison, you're right, it's ridiculous.

Here's something back, just how much coddling should LEOs be forced to do when executing legal warrants? Should they wait till everyone is up and had breakfast? Should they make sure it's not a nap time?

Once again, no knock warrants IMO are not right, unless there's 100% validation of who's in the house. But if a warrant is issued, the LEO has to execute it. The person that broke the law in the first place owns everything that happens from that point forward....

And Emit, that's exactly why I don't think no knock warrants are good. I'm pretty sure a lot on here would be firing their weapon if anyone kicked the door in. Any bad guy could be at the door saying "open up, Police". Kicking the door in puts everyone at risk.

If these LEO's didn't have body cams on or activated during a late night raid then that's just plain stupid. In today's climate and distrust of leo's, CYA is the name of the game! Having cams clearly could back their story of how it went down and all culpability would be on the cop shooter. Case closed! Something ain't right

I think there is pretty good evidence that the boyfriend didn’t realize he was shooting at the police.

I guess I've been living under a rock lately-- Just read that Breonna Taylor returned a rental car with a dead body inside in 2016 and claimed to know nothing about it.

I'm of the mindset that everyone has problems. However, there comes a point where you have to take responsibility for the company you keep. I've had to cut people out of my life that were higher risk than I was comfortable with because I have a responsibility to my family. I don't think we will ever know the whole story, but I'm not buying the "innocent women gunned down by police" narrative.

“Culpability would be on the cop shooter”???

I’m just a simple ole country boy...your modern world confuses me. Some things were as basic and true back in my day as they are today. I don’t need to see a duck wearing a co2 triggered PFD in order to believe their “we can float” story.

Lol, add not driving around with dead body in trunk to my earlier list

do you have a link to that story?

To answer your question... if it happened as reported, then all blame should lay with the boyfriend whom shot at the leo's

There are quite a few. https://www.google.com/search?clien...ned+a+rental+car+with+a+dead+body+inside

Her ex boyfriend supposedly drove that car and the police put out a warrant for his arrest over the matter if I read a couple of them right.

It seems that a lot of these incidents happen because the cops rush to take control of the situation in a more aggressive manner than is necessary. Apparently, the police had reason to believe illegal activity had been occurring (Though no evidence was apparently found in the residence), or they wouldn't have received the warrant. The perceived accomplice who had been picking up packages at the address had been arrested earlier. Why not wait it out until they had more input from him before bashing the door in and putting everyone at danger. These rush to actions have put this country in a world of hurt. Training, supervision, and procedures need to change - especially right now when the entire country is a powder keg. Several of these could have been avoided entirely if common sense, sensible judgement, and patience had been used.

I wouldn't consider any of those as credible. just cause it's printed doesn't make it wo.