Shooting Marbles for Keepsies

[XLFD]

Around midnight, a team of police arrives at a private residence, meeting and talking to a woman at the door.  The police enter and were met in the hallway by an elderly man, wielding a gun pointed at them and stumbling towards them.  The old man gets shot by one of the officers, while never getting off a shot himself.  After the shooting, a microphone on the responding officer has the police telling him to repeatedly "drop the gun" after the man was already shot.  The shooter is not reprimanded in any way.  The corpse was a respected professional who lived his whole life without any problem with the law, respected and active in his community the whole time.

 

Does this sound like the recent shooting of William Marble by Trooper Luttrull of the Michigan State Police right here in Ludington?  Very much so, but this is actually the tale of another unfortunate gentleman in California who seems to have been killed in a manner which defies the original claims of the police in their statements and reports, which the police kept from the public for over half of a year.  Maybe, this is more like the Marble shooting than we thought-- I have asked for the recording of the Marble incident which was provided to the prosecutor over a month ago, asked to pay over $100 for it, paid the money over two weeks ago, and have still not received it.  Did the Michigan State Police use deadly force on Bill Marble unjustly?  Their actions indicate guilt thus far.  The California case has the police officer's version of events look very shaky. 

 

 

Police Shoot, Kill 80-Year-Old Man In His Own Bed, Don't Find the Drugs They Were Looking For

 

 

 

In the early morning hours of June 27, 2013, a team of Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department deputies pulled up to the home of Eugene Mallory, an 80-year-old retired engineer living in the rural outskirts of Los Angeles county with his wife Tonya Pate and stepson Adrian Lamos. 

The deputies crashed through the front gate and began executing a search warrant for methamphetamine on the property. Detective Patrick Hobbs, a self-described narcotics expert who claimed he "smelled the strong odor of chemicals" downwind from the house after being tipped off to illegal activity from an anonymous informant, spearheaded the investigation.

The deputies announced their presence, and Pate emerged from the trailer where she'd been sleeping to escape the sweltering summer heat of the California desert. Lamos and a couple of friends emerged from another trailer, and a handyman tinkering with a car on the property also gave himself up without resistance. But Mallory, who preferred to sleep in the house, was nowhere to be seen.

Deputies approached the house, and what happened next is where things get murky. The deputies said they announced their presence upon entering and were met in the hallway by the 80-year-old man, wielding a gun and stumbling towards them. The deputies later changed the story when the massive bloodstains on Mallory's mattress indicated to investigators that he'd most likely been in bed at the time of the shooting. Investigators also found that an audio recording of the incident revealed a discrepancy in the deputies' original narrative:

Before listening to the audio recording, [Sgt. John] Bones believed that he told Mallory to "Drop the gun" prior to the shooting. The recording revealed, however, that his commands to "Drop the gun" occurred immediately after the shooting.

When it was all over, Eugene Mallory died of six gunshot wounds from Sgt. John Bones' MP-5 9mm submachine gun. When a coroner arrived, he found the loaded .22 caliber pistol the two deputies claimed Mallory had pointed at them on the bedside table. 

Mallory had not fired a single shot. The raid turned up no evidence of methamphetamine on the property.

To find out more about this case, including details about what the police did find, watch the above video, featuring Mallory's widow Tonya Pate. Pate has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department, an agency plagued by prison abuse scandals, questionable hiring practices, and allegations of racial profiling and harassment in recent years. 

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department declined multiple requests to comment on this story.

http://reason.com/reasontv/2014/02/13/police-shoot-kill-80-year-old

[Willy]

This isn't about why the officer was at the residence, it's about how an officer reacted when a person answers the door. Like I said, officers have many reasons to interact with residents of a dwelling. Many towns have a knock and talk policy where they go from house to house and ask questions about the neighborhood. The police officer could have been gathering information on neighborhood watch programs or who knows what. Officers will talk to neighbors of possible crime suspects to get information. It's also possible officers are at the wrong house to serve a warrant. It happens all the time. The problem here is the officer's reaction to the person answering the door. Imagine opening up your door for a police officer and getting a bullet in the chest. Do you think this will encourage people to open their door when an officer comes calling?

[AQUAMAN]

So, what Art Dean is saying is that the officer's actions are normal duty, having the gun pulled before the suspect is even seen or known to be there? Further, Art Dean believes this 17 year old boy deserves to get shot and killed for holding some remote control? And lastly, that Art Dean believes that anybody that might have broken their probation is automatically guilty, and must be dangerous, deadly, and hostile in being re-arrested? Last I knew, probation was only offered to someone whom could be trusted back into society, and most probation citations are for missing a visit to their probation officer. Apparently, the notion that someone is innocent until proven guilty has escaped the LE community. And Art Dean also believes that, and that rehabilitation is just a word, not a form of being given a second chance in life. Good golly miss molly, no wonder the legal system is so screwed up, our own LE is acting more like vengeful avengers, instead of peace officers nowadays. Being paroled means you committed a felony, much more serious than probationers, whom have misdemeanors, big difference there in itself.

[AQUAMAN]

Art, that boy that was murdered by an overzealous LE officer, in your opinion, it sounds like he was guilty too, just because his dad didn't report. That's a mighty arrogant interpretation of law imho. LE, all too often, seems to see society as their new wild west shooting gallery of picking off anyone in their path, and that sir, is down right illegal, and unethical in every aspect. Missing probation officer visits, from what I've heard these days, is due mostly to the outrageous fees applied at each visit to the correctional system, a dirty but legal form of, extortion, that some just can't pay over and over every time. He could have simply just forgotten the date too, and was in fear for not calling in. Either way, an innocent youngster of only 17 is dead as a result.

[AQUAMAN]

Forgetting your probation date, not having enough money for the correctional fees, not calling in for a missed appointment due to some valid excuse, or just not showing because you overslept, is that in itself a reason to be executed at your front door by LE's? Art, your type of LE disgusts me, and no wonder, it's simply warped! If you are in the majority of LE's out here, before, or now, it's scary to think of.

[AQUAMAN]

Art Dean, have you no respect for the innocent DEAD? Apparently not, you are confusing the value of money vs. a human life, of which you nor anyone else can put a monetary value on in dollars. I guess the entire thread here is way over your head.........sad, but, totally predictable from your other posts.

[XLFD]

Art, Could you explain that last statement "Let the bodies hit the floor" ?  It sounds like you are advocating for senseless police deadly force on citizens.  You really sound like someone that the authorities should be picking up, as a danger to society.  Unfortunately, you are probably serving besides them, protecting their back as they protect yours.

[AQUAMAN]

That statement Art, you should have retracted it sir. No doubt the NSA now should be investigating you in every shape, way, and form, and very soon! What you have done now is totally over the top in not just LE support, which I believe in more than not, but, it says you are creepy, and not to be trusted with LE duties, and more importantly, gun possession. I really don't think that you can justify any future statement with any humane heart, or can you? Either change your meds., or forever be an icon for violence against any citizen, and human on this earth! This truly goes beyond what I have ever seen on the web since 1998 when I first logged on! Simply gross and inhumane in any venue! Ewww!

[XLFD]

Art, you punctuate your last troubling message of senseless violence with a video glorifying totalitarian violence against 'queers', 'Jews', and 'coons' without any kind of reference or relevance to the post. 

I have came to the conclusion that you need to seek some form of counseling to address your obvious problems of adjusting to society norms, and to help in this effort I hereby set you free from this forum so you can devote some time to your recovery.