(Las Vegas Sun) A man was shot to death Friday night while narcotics officers were executing a search warrant at an east Las Vegas apartment, Metro Police said.
A pregnant woman was found hiding in a bedroom closet and was taken into custody, police said.
Detectives then tried to enter a bathroom where the suspect was hiding. Police said the man made a “furtive movement” toward a detective, who fired a single shot at the man.
The suspect died at the scene a short time later, police said.
“It was during the course of a warrant and as you all know, narcotics warrants are all high-risk warrants,” Capt. Patrick Neville of Metro’s Robbery-Homicide Bureau said Friday night.
“As we all know?!?” Yes, the narcotics warrants are extremely high risk… for the suspects, for their children, and for their pets. But rarely does an officer face any risk from the suspects. Last year, no police died serving narcotics warrants and over the past ten years the odds of an officer dying during a narcotics raid were 1 in 350,000.
Keep in mind these are figures for narcotics, everything from marijuana to coke, meth, and heroin. If we had data for marijuana alone, I can assure you the danger to officers is even far less than the 1 in 350,000. Cannabis users are generally peaceful non-violent people, but police seem to think every pot smoker is lurking behind the door with a Tec-9 blasting “F*ck tha Police” on the stereo and waiting to go down in a blaze of glory. They do not see the tragic irony of using deadly force to police a non-violent crime.
LAS VEGAS — The Las Vegas Metro police detective who shot a 21-year-old man during a drug raid was identified Monday as Brian Yant.
Yant and his fellow officers were searching the house for marijuana, according to a search warrant.
Pearce spoke to FOX5 Sunday, admitting that her boyfriend used drugs but saying that he was not a threat.
“Trevon was a recreational smoker. He smoked weed, marijuana. That’s what he did,” she said. “They didn’t have to kill him.”
Pearce, 20, is nine months pregnant with the couple’s child.
“We were supposed to get married next year, plan a black and white affair,” she said. “He was all I ever knew, we were gonna make it.”
via Girlfriend Mourns Man Shot By Vegas Police – Las Vegas News Story – KVVU Las Vegas.
Smoking weed in your own home can get you killed by police in a state that has decriminalized the personal use and possession of marijuana and legalized the medical use of marijuana. This is why those measures, as progressive and compassionate as they are, do not go far enough in protecting the users of cannabis Only when cannabis use is legal and regulated will police no longer kill peaceful people for choosing marijuana over alcohol.
[...] no reason that we have to have a fully armed SWAT raid to bring down someone who’s violating a marijuana law. According to the latest FBI statistics of officers who [...]
the cops save there responces for celebs.
[...] But any public policy that mandates that marijuana remain, by definition, an illegal commodity (contraband) is woefully insufficient — as by definition it grants the state (law enforcement) the power to forcefully engage with the public in order to legally seize said commodity. That is why, even in places that have ‘decriminalized’ marijuana possession, we still see horrific acts of violence by police upon marijuana consumers like this and this. [...]
[...] But any public policy that mandates that marijuana remain, by definition, an illegal commodity (contraband) is woefully insufficient — as by definition it grants the state (law enforcement) the power to forcefully engage with the public in order to legally seize said commodity. That is why, even in places that have ‘decriminalized’ marijuana possession, we still see horrific acts of violence by police upon marijuana consumers like this and this. [...]
[...] this. By contrast, simply removing marijuana from the entire criminal code in California, which appears [...]
[...] But any public policy that mandates that marijuana remain, by definition, an illegal commodity (contraband) is woefully insufficient — as by definition it grants the state (law enforcement) the power to forcefully engage with the public in order to legally seize said commodity. That is why, even in places that have ‘decriminalized’ marijuana possession, we still see horrific acts of violence by police upon marijuana consumers like this and this. [...]
[...] But any public policy that mandates that marijuana remain, by definition, an illegal commodity (contraband) is woefully insufficient — as by definition it grants the state (law enforcement) the power to forcefully engage with the public in order to legally seize said commodity. That is why, even in places that have ‘decriminalized’ marijuana possession, we still see horrific acts of violence by police upon marijuana consumers like this and this. [...]
[...] But any public policy that mandates that marijuana remain, by definition, an illegal commodity (contraband) is woefully insufficient — as by definition it grants the state (law enforcement) the power to forcefully engage with the public in order to legally seize said commodity. That is why, even in places that have ‘decriminalized’ marijuana possession, we still see horrific acts of violence by police upon marijuana consumers like this and this. [...]
Worse again. Now the shooting has been ruled justified in a special coroner’s inquest (not a real trial) even though his testimony contradicted forensic evidence and the statements of most of the people involved, including other police. On a side note there were also Air Force police involved, even though the raid took place many miles from the base.
See: http://www.lvrj.com/news/officer–shooting-victim–made-me-do-my-job–as-testimony-continues-101234024.html
…and today It’s looking like this detective has been falsifying evidence, carrying around pre-filled-out “preliminary field test checklist” “affirming that evidence seized in that nonexistent raid was positive for cocaine but did not list an amount or the specific date”, and has filed an affidavit saying that he witnessed a confidential informant buying drugs from a man who,turns out, was not even in the country at the time.
See: http://www.lvrj.com/news/officer-under-suspicion-101541563.html
Can’t believe this guy is still on paid vacation.
Please help us russ!
This has gotten worse. The pigs shot this poor guy in the forehead at point blank range with an AR-15 (essentially a semiautomatic M-16) while he was on his knees with his hands in the air for making a “furtive” move.
http://www.lvrj.com/news/affidavit-alleges-detective-bought-marijuana-from-man-officer-killed-98658969.html
This story makes me literally SICK to my stomatch like Im going to puke, WTF!!!!???? The police are a effing joke anymore, completly UN justified and sensless shooting of a SMOKER just a smoker, they are NO better than the thugs kickin in doors on the street pullin home invasions, only differance is you cant defend yourself and shoot back when these thugs kick in your door…or youd be sent to the chair asap!
Dirt. Animal Poop. Raindrops. A Seed. A Plant.
Why do we kill others over this?