When cops kill folk during a raid...

In June 2010, Trevon Cole, 21, and fiancee Sequioa Pearce (who was nine months pregnant) were in bed at 9:00 pm on a Friday evening when Las Vegas narcotics officers forced their way into the couple's apartment for a drug raid. Cole dashed to the bathroom to flush a small supply of marijuana down the toilet, but was stopped when Det. Bryan Yant kicked open the bathroom door and apprehended him. What happened next is in dispute, but the raid -- and Cole's life -- ended when Yant fired one round from his rifle into Cole's head at close range. Cole was unarmed.

Yant testified at a coroner's inquest that when he kicked open the bathroom door, Cole was squatting in front of the toilet, and that Cole stood and brought his hands up to a firing stance while holding a shiny object that Yant thought was a gun. Other officers described the action as a "furtive movement." Assistant District Attorney Chris Owens disputed Yant's account, noting that the evidence suggested an an accidental discharge. Yant was ultimately cleared of any wrongdoing. The inquest uncovered serious errors in the drug investigation leading up to the raid, including the fact that Cole wasn't actually the target of the raid. The police had mistook him for another man by the same name who had several prior marijuana-related charges.

In 2002 Yant had been the subject of another coroner's inquest after shooting a man lying face-down on a sidewalk. Yant claimed that the decedent was aiming a gun at him, but the gun was found 35 feet from the suspect's body. He was cleared in that inquest, too. A 2011 investigation by the Las Vegas-Review Journal found that over a ten-year period, coroners inquests cleared 97 percent of police investigated for shootings or inappropriate use of force.

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These people want your DNA.....unbelievable.

RU2HI2C wrote:In June 2010, Trevon Cole, 21, and fiancee Sequioa Pearce (who was nine months pregnant) were in bed at 9:00 pm on a Friday evening when Las Vegas narcotics officers forced their way into the couple's apartment for a drug raid. Cole dashed to the bathroom to flush a small supply of marijuana down the toilet, but was stopped when Det. Bryan Yant kicked open the bathroom door and apprehended him. What happened next is in dispute, but the raid -- and Cole's life -- ended when Yant fired one round from his rifle into Cole's head at close range. Cole was unarmed.

Yant testified at a coroner's inquest that when he kicked open the bathroom door, Cole was squatting in front of the toilet, and that Cole stood and brought his hands up to a firing stance while holding a shiny object that Yant thought was a gun. Other officers described the action as a "furtive movement." Assistant District Attorney Chris Owens disputed Yant's account, noting that the evidence suggested an an accidental discharge. Yant was ultimately cleared of any wrongdoing. The inquest uncovered serious errors in the drug investigation leading up to the raid, including the fact that Cole wasn't actually the target of the raid. The police had mistook him for another man by the same name who had several prior marijuana-related charges.

In 2002 Yant had been the subject of another coroner's inquest after shooting a man lying face-down on a sidewalk. Yant claimed that the decedent was aiming a gun at him, but the gun was found 35 feet from the suspect's body. He was cleared in that inquest, too. A 2011 investigation by the Las Vegas-Review Journal found that over a ten-year period, coroners inquests cleared 97 percent of police investigated for shootings or inappropriate use of force.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/the-agitator/


These people want your DNA.....unbelievable.

It brings a smile to my face when criminals die.
Thanks for sharing this heart warming story.

In November 2002, Lewis Cauthorne was in the basement with his mother, girlfriend, and three-year-old daughter when a police team raided his Baltimore home. The cops didn't announce themselves. Cauthorne had no prior criminal record. His father had been robbed and killed while working as a cab driver.

When the police broke down his door, Cuathorne fired at them with his .45-caliber handgun. He claimed he thought they were criminals. The police fired back. Four officers were wounded, but miraculously, no one was killed. The police initially claimed to have found six bags with traces of marijuana, empty vials, a razor with cocaine residue, and two scales in Cauthorne's home. But an ensuing investigation found peculiarities with the evidence that precluded Cauthorne from being charged even with a misdemeanor. There was no record of where exactly in the home the drugs were found, and crime lab technicians were told by police not to photograph the evidence. The raid was based on a tip from a confidential informant.

The officers who conducted the raid were unavailable for interviews with investigators -- some for days after the raid, others for weeks.

Cauthorne was arrested after the raid and served spent six weeks in jail until prosecutors decided in January 2003 that he had acted in self-defense. They dropped the charges, and Cauthorne was released. The four wounded officers were issued citations of valor.

Sources: Allison Klein and Del Quentin Wilber, "Prosecutor to drop charges in shooting of four officers," Baltimore Sun, January 7, 2003; Del Quentin Wilber and Ryan Davis, "Police shooting suspect is denied bail by judge; Prosecutor, defense tell far different accounts," Baltimore Sun, November 22, 2002; Del Quentin Wilber, "4 city police officers presented certificates for valor ; Each was shot during November drug raid," Baltimore Sun, May 21, 2003.


Yep. LEO would never screw around w/ evidence at the scene of a home invasion shooting.

And they want us to trust them with our DNA...?