Good god.
GBI: Officer shot responding to wrong home shot by other officer
Yes, a police officer was shot by another police officer. At the wrong house. That’s the whole story, citizens, nothing more to see, move along.
Unless you read down to paragraph seven:
“It was determined that a dog was shot and killed inside the residence,” Alexander said. “A DeKalb County officer was shot as well.”
And then paragraph eight:
A man in the house, later determined to be the homeowner, left a room off the kitchen and was also shot by the officers, the GBI said.
Some day I’m going to find somebody who can tell me: “Protect and serve” who, precisely? Because if this is protecting and serving, I hope they leave me unprotected and unserved for just as long as possible.
It was later determined the officers went to the wrong house.
Police never suggested the homeowner had a gun or threatened the officer.
They did confirm the house they should have gone to is farther down the street.
“Our thoughts and prayers go out the homeowner,” Alexander said. “And our thoughts and prayers go out to the officer who suffered a severe, critical injury here tonight and lost a lot of blood. We just hope both of them recover well.”
Could be worse, I suppose. Could have burned the place down while they were at it.
h/t to Codrea.
The Blue Wall only exists to protect their Masters, protect their Brothers in Blue, and to generate revenue. Once you understand that, everything they do makes perfect sense.
One of these days, I truly hope, that blue wall is going to crack. When it does and these departments start seeing damages come out of their budget and pension plans we’ll start seeing the good cops turning out the bad cops, the Rambo wannabes, and the plain stupid. I hope we all survive until then.
Don’t hold you breath on that one waiting for a common sense conversation.
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Yeah I thought the priorities of the one who wrote that story were interesting. Like the cop shooting the homeowner was almost not worth mentioning.
Paul, home owners and dogs are just there to be shot, but it’s a real tragedy that a cop got an extra hole.