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99th_Monkey

(19,326 posts)
Tue Oct 14, 2014, 02:01 PM Oct 2014

More Murderous Thuggery by Cops in Colorado. Man shot in back for no reason.

Colorado family stunned: Cop breaks in, fatally shoots man in back, and ‘no one knows why’
DAVID EDWARDS * 13 OCT 2014 * Raw Story

Colorado family said that it was stunned over the weekend when an officer broke down their door, and fatally shot one of the residents in the back without an explanation.

Sara Lindenmuth told KRDO that a Rocky Ford police officer forced down the door to their home sometime after her brother-in-law, 27-year-old Jack Jacquez, came home around 2 a.m. on Sunday morning.

She recalled that the two men started shouting at each other.

“He was standing next to his mom, his back turned toward the officer and then he shot him twice in the back and then pepper sprayed him,” Lindenmuth said. “Then they hand cuffed his fiancée, for reasons I don’t know why. And the mom went to call the cops and the cop took her phone and threw it against the wall.”

“He just showed up,” she insisted. “No one knows why he just showed up. It just all happened unexpectedly.”

Jacquez’s fiancée, Mariah, told KKTV that he had been out late because he was helping a friend babysit. She said she was asleep when she heard the gunshots.

“Came out, gun shots firing. Found my fiancé on the floor. He couldn’t breathe,” she explained.

The Colorado Bureau of Investigation was reportedly investigating the case. KKTV identified the officer as James Ashby. He was placed on administrative leave pending the outcome of the investigation.

Authorities said that there would be no additional details released until the investigation concluded.

Watch the video below from KRDO, broadcast Oct. 12, 2014.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/10/colorado-family-stunned-cop-breaks-in-fatally-shoots-man-in-back-and-no-one-knows-why/
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More Murderous Thuggery by Cops in Colorado. Man shot in back for no reason. (Original Post) 99th_Monkey Oct 2014 OP
Disgusting! Faux pas Oct 2014 #1
They NEVER arrest them. bravenak Oct 2014 #2
Another investigation that will result in no action atreides1 Oct 2014 #3
I'll know there really are good cops 99th_Monkey Oct 2014 #5
We really don't have police anymore. iscooterliberally Oct 2014 #21
+1 CanonRay Oct 2014 #26
most of these investigations are internal and are not public records Supersedeas Oct 2014 #25
This looks bad, but it's early. The cops have hunkered down. Comrade Grumpy Oct 2014 #4
Victim's Fiancé Pregnant otohara Oct 2014 #6
This is too much. logosoco Oct 2014 #7
I agree. What other job gives you a paid leave for committing murder? 99th_Monkey Oct 2014 #10
So who does a cop have to murder, before they get treated like common people? Rex Oct 2014 #8
Someone with a 8 figure net worth. n/t A HERETIC I AM Oct 2014 #11
Right!? At one time a six-figure income would be enough. Rex Oct 2014 #14
Not income, net worth A HERETIC I AM Oct 2014 #16
I agree, but that will be limited to the times they are not in a limo/lear jet. Rex Oct 2014 #17
This shit has got to stop!!! This is war. Initech Oct 2014 #9
I totally agree. 99th_Monkey Oct 2014 #12
Single cop breaks down a door in the middle of the night........shoot man in the back twice pepper SammyWinstonJack Oct 2014 #13
"what was this cop on?" A HERETIC I AM Oct 2014 #15
I suspect there is a seamy back-story to this incident. 99th_Monkey Oct 2014 #18
End police militarization. End corporate government. woo me with science Oct 2014 #19
Disaster Capitalism Baby!! 99th_Monkey Oct 2014 #20
including? in specific. notrightatall Oct 2014 #22
I'm not even an avid Obama supporter 99th_Monkey Oct 2014 #24
He wasn't even facing the cop damnedifIknow Oct 2014 #23

atreides1

(16,093 posts)
3. Another investigation that will result in no action
Tue Oct 14, 2014, 02:30 PM
Oct 2014

Cops are now a protected group...they can wound and kill children at will, and will either have the charges dropped(because of incompetent, i.e. ass kissing prosecutors) or no charges will be filed at all!

And each time one cop gets away with an action like this, others become bolder in how they act towards the civilian populace!

Soon the police will no longer be held to any standards...perhaps sooner then we think.

And please...no BS feel good stories about how there are good cops...just because one cop buys shoes for a homeless man, or another buys a car seat for a mother who is poor...it isn't enough!!!!

 

99th_Monkey

(19,326 posts)
5. I'll know there really are good cops
Tue Oct 14, 2014, 02:36 PM
Oct 2014

when they start turning in the bad ones, and stop covering up for them.

Until then, I regard all cops as thugs that I cannot trust.

iscooterliberally

(2,863 posts)
21. We really don't have police anymore.
Tue Oct 14, 2014, 04:54 PM
Oct 2014

What we have is an occupying military force thanks to the war on drugs.

 

Comrade Grumpy

(13,184 posts)
4. This looks bad, but it's early. The cops have hunkered down.
Tue Oct 14, 2014, 02:31 PM
Oct 2014

They identified the killer cop, but released no further information.

So far:

Man comes home.

Cop then enters home.

Words are exchanged.

Cop shoots man in the back twice.

Cop then pepper sprays dying victim.

Cop handcuffs fiancee.

Cop seizes mother's cell phone and throws it against wall.

The killer cop's name is James Ashby.

logosoco

(3,208 posts)
7. This is too much.
Tue Oct 14, 2014, 03:12 PM
Oct 2014

Yeah, they are getting away with it, because they get away with it.

I am starting to think also, since nothing ever seems to come to the bad cops, they are doing it to get a paid leave. That and maybe they are trying to make more people afraid of the police so they won't call them.

This has got to stop.

 

99th_Monkey

(19,326 posts)
10. I agree. What other job gives you a paid leave for committing murder?
Tue Oct 14, 2014, 03:57 PM
Oct 2014

except the military, but even then, they kill people, but still they get NO leave.

Just the cops get that. I totally think this is a factor.

I think cops should be put on UNpaid suspension if they shoot anyone who is unarmed.

 

Rex

(65,616 posts)
8. So who does a cop have to murder, before they get treated like common people?
Tue Oct 14, 2014, 03:14 PM
Oct 2014

Amazing, but hey no doubt someone will come along and correct me. Cops don't murder people, they make 'mistakes'.

 

Rex

(65,616 posts)
14. Right!? At one time a six-figure income would be enough.
Tue Oct 14, 2014, 04:14 PM
Oct 2014

Today you have to be busting down 8 digits.

A HERETIC I AM

(24,378 posts)
16. Not income, net worth
Tue Oct 14, 2014, 04:18 PM
Oct 2014

As soon as they kill a multi millionaire with a net worth exceeding 20 million or so

 

Rex

(65,616 posts)
17. I agree, but that will be limited to the times they are not in a limo/lear jet.
Tue Oct 14, 2014, 04:20 PM
Oct 2014

Maybe out joy riding in their new Lamborghini.

 

99th_Monkey

(19,326 posts)
12. I totally agree.
Tue Oct 14, 2014, 04:12 PM
Oct 2014

I think ALL settlements from lawsuits related to cops shooting unarmed civilians should be required by Federal law to get paid out of the police retirement funds. This would stop this kind of shit from happening real fast IMHO. Plus cops who shoot unarmed civilians should NOT get a paid vacation on the taxpayers dime, as they currently do.

SammyWinstonJack

(44,130 posts)
13. Single cop breaks down a door in the middle of the night........shoot man in the back twice pepper
Tue Oct 14, 2014, 04:14 PM
Oct 2014

sprays him...arrests his fiancee....throws his mom's cell phone when she tries to call the cops.......what was this cop on?

 

99th_Monkey

(19,326 posts)
18. I suspect there is a seamy back-story to this incident.
Tue Oct 14, 2014, 04:42 PM
Oct 2014

I'm sure the "investigation" will clear it all up, as in cover the cops ass somehow.

woo me with science

(32,139 posts)
19. End police militarization. End corporate government.
Tue Oct 14, 2014, 04:44 PM
Oct 2014

Militarization of our police departments is a *bipartisan* effort of corporatists in both parties, right along with mass surveillance, the assaults on journalism, and the persecution of whistleblowers. The programs and legislation that are turning our police departments into paramilitary forces come through Homeland Security and the Pentagon, and are being used to suppress and intimidate dissent, exploit communities, and fill lucrative private prisons with slave labor as the nation is corporatized and Americans are made into a nation of low-paid wage slaves.

Both parties are complicit in this outrage. See the links below. Real change requires pushback against corporate politicians who are enabling this militarization, and that includes both corporate Democrats and Republicans.

_____________________________________________________________________________________________

The entire Democratic leadership opposed Grayson amendment to stop arming cops with DOD weapons
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025390424

WOW... Went Looking For Connections Between Ferguson And ALEC... Found This Piece Of The Puzzle...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025413841

The exploitation of Ferguson I: In 2013 the town issued over 24,000 arrest warrants..
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025404667

The exploitation of Ferguson II: The Seamy Underbelly Of Ferguson Starts To Appear
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025416747

The exploitation of Ferguson III: Ferguson Feeds Off the Poor: Three Warrants a Year Per Household
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025428157

Police Militarization (including the Obama administration's role)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/06/aclu-police-militarization-swat_n_2813334.html

It's almost certain that if the police agencies cooperate, the ACLU will find that the militarization trend has accelerated since Kraska's studies more than a decade ago. All of the policies, incentives and funding mechanisms that were driving the trend then are still in effect now. And most of them have grown in size and scope.

The George W. Bush administration actually began scaling down the Byrne and COPS programs in the early 2000s, part of a general strategy of leaving law enforcement to states and localities. But the Obama administration has since resurrected both programs. The Byrne program got a $2 billion surge in funding as part of the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, by far the largest budget in the program's 25-year history. Obama also gave the COPS program $1.55 billion that same year, a 250 percent increase over its 2008 budget, and again the largest budget in the program's history. Vice President Joe Biden had championed both programs during his time in the Senate.

The Pentagon's 1033 program has also exploded under Obama. In the program's monthly newsletter (Motto: "From Warfighter to Crimefighter&quot , its director announced in October 2011 that his office had given away a record $500 million in military gear in fiscal year 2011, which he noted, "passes the previous mark by several hundred million dollars." He added, "I believe we can exceed that in FY 12.”

Then there are the Department of Homeland Security's anti-terrorism grants. The Center for Investigative Reporting found in a 2011 investigation that since 2001, DHS has given out more than $34 billion in grants to police departments across the country, many of which have been used to purchase military-grade guns, tanks, armor, and armored personnel carriers. The grants have gone to such unlikely terrorism targets as Fargo, N.D.; Canyon County, Idaho; and Tuscaloosa, Ala.




"Operation Urban Shield"...Training our Police, Fire, First Responders..in Military Tactics
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025412909

 

99th_Monkey

(19,326 posts)
20. Disaster Capitalism Baby!!
Tue Oct 14, 2014, 04:51 PM
Oct 2014

I say fuck these corporatists, regardless of party... including the Clintons.

 

99th_Monkey

(19,326 posts)
24. I'm not even an avid Obama supporter
Tue Oct 14, 2014, 08:04 PM
Oct 2014

for whatever reasons, but even I am thoroughly disgusted by how the Clintons and Panetta are now trashing Obama -- "stepping on his neck" according to Rachael Maddow -- a seated two-term Democratic POTUS who deserves more respect than that.

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