Amir Locke's Death Should Incense Anyone Who Cares About Gun Rights

[Woodznutz]

They killed him for legally owning a gun.

They shot him because he was wielding a gun, and they thought he was the one they were after.

 

[Woodznutz]

The police have a license to "shoot first and ask questions later". They are trained to kill people and they are really good at it. That said it's not entirely their fault. Our law makers refuse to enact the laws needed to effectively deal with crime.

 

[pknopp]

They shot him because he was wielding a gun, and they thought he was the one they were after.

In this country the cops can't kill someone because they think they might be someone they were looking for.

 

[SavannahMann]

In this country the cops can't kill someone because they think they might be someone they were looking for.

Yes. They can.

City Pays $40K to Newspaper Delivery Women Mistakenly Shot at in Dorner Manhunt

Los Angeles police opened fire on the women in a case of mistaken identity during the Christopher Dorner manhunt.

www.nbclosangeles.com

The cops thought the baddie might be in the truck and opened fire.

 

[pknopp]

Yes. They can.

City Pays $40K to Newspaper Delivery Women Mistakenly Shot at in Dorner Manhunt

Los Angeles police opened fire on the women in a case of mistaken identity during the Christopher Dorner manhunt.

www.nbclosangeles.com

The cops thought the baddie might be in the truck and opened fire.

Well, I meant with no impunity. At least today not as easy as they have in the past.

 

[SavannahMann]

Well, I meant with no impunity. At least today not as easy as they have in the past.

Yeah. They can. A couple weeks ago a cop was shot and killed in front of his own house. The responding officer thought the off duty cop was the baddie. He saw a man with a gun and opened fire.

No charges are pending. Because the responding officer knew the baddie he was responding to was armed and dangerous. All the cop was was a guy with a gun.

If they aren’t going to get in trouble for shooting another cop. What makes you think they will get in trouble for shooting anyone else?

 

[GHook20]

From Reason, the Libertarian source.​

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Amir Locke's Death Should Incense Anyone Who Cares About Gun Rights​

The 22-year-old man was shot by a Minneapolis police officer during the execution of a no-knock warrant on which he was not named.​

An officer with the Minneapolis Police Department SWAT team shot and killed a 22-year-old man early Wednesday morning during the execution of a no-knock raid, reinvigorating debate around a law-enforcement tactic that many say is ripe for abuse.

The victim, Amir Locke, who appeared to be asleep on the couch that morning, was not named on that warrant. In a matter of about three seconds, body camera footage shows the man—buried under a thick white blanket—stirring to the sound of the cops' entry with his hand on the barrel of a firearm. Officer Mark Hanneman then shoots him three times.

*snip*

Locke's scenario should bother just about anyone who supports the right to carry a firearm. The Second Amendment does not discriminate, nor does it evaporate as soon as the government enters the premises, particularly when considering that the Founding impetus behind it was to protect against a tyrannical state.

The National Rifle Association (NRA), the country's premier gun advocacy group, has yet to make a statement on the killing. They've struggled with this before. Consider Philando Castile, who was shot and killed by St. Anthony Police Department Officer Jeronimo Yanez in 2016 during a routine traffic stop after Castile calmly indicated he had a firearm in the vehicle. (St. Anthony is a suburb of Minneapolis, located about five minutes across the Mississippi River.)

The NRA remained silent for quite a while until August 2017 when then-spokesperson Dana Loesch said that the organization declined to defend Castile because he had marijuana in his car at the time of his death. As of this writing, no NRA spokesperson has responded to Reason's request for comment.

Who cares about an

From Reason, the Libertarian source.​

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Amir Locke's Death Should Incense Anyone Who Cares About Gun Rights​

The 22-year-old man was shot by a Minneapolis police officer during the execution of a no-knock warrant on which he was not named.​

An officer with the Minneapolis Police Department SWAT team shot and killed a 22-year-old man early Wednesday morning during the execution of a no-knock raid, reinvigorating debate around a law-enforcement tactic that many say is ripe for abuse.

The victim, Amir Locke, who appeared to be asleep on the couch that morning, was not named on that warrant. In a matter of about three seconds, body camera footage shows the man—buried under a thick white blanket—stirring to the sound of the cops' entry with his hand on the barrel of a firearm. Officer Mark Hanneman then shoots him three times.

*snip*

Locke's scenario should bother just about anyone who supports the right to carry a firearm. The Second Amendment does not discriminate, nor does it evaporate as soon as the government enters the premises, particularly when considering that the Founding impetus behind it was to protect against a tyrannical state.

The National Rifle Association (NRA), the country's premier gun advocacy group, has yet to make a statement on the killing. They've struggled with this before. Consider Philando Castile, who was shot and killed by St. Anthony Police Department Officer Jeronimo Yanez in 2016 during a routine traffic stop after Castile calmly indicated he had a firearm in the vehicle. (St. Anthony is a suburb of Minneapolis, located about five minutes across the Mississippi River.)

The NRA remained silent for quite a while until August 2017 when then-spokesperson Dana Loesch said that the organization declined to defend Castile because he had marijuana in his car at the time of his death. As of this writing, no NRA spokesperson has responded to Reason's request for comment.

Who cares about the source of an ignorant and stupid article! If you associate with murder suspects and point guns as police officers bad things happen.

No knock warrants should even be a debate… many suspects are armed and dangerous and it would put cops in moral danger if they announced themselves.

If they knocked this would be a different story of Locke shooting the cops.

The ACLU, racist black race hustlers and leftist police hating scumbag groups should all be ashamed of themselves!

 

[pknopp]

Who cares about the source of an ignorant and stupid article! If you associate with murder suspects and point guns as police officers bad things happen.

Did no one ever teach you about lying? Did your parents fail society this bad?