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lostnfound

(16,179 posts) Thu Sep 1, 2016, 11:33 PM Sep 2016

Hillsborough deputy fatally shoots unarmed man while serving warrant at Clair-Mel home

http://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/crime/man-shot-as-hillsborough-deputies-serve-search-warrant-at-palm-river-home/2291477

Hillsborough deputy fatally shoots unarmed man while serving warrant at Clair-Mel home

TAMPA — A Hillsborough sheriff's deputy fatally shot an unarmed man Tuesday morning as a SWAT team raided a Clair -Mel area home looking for illegal narcotics, the Sheriff's Office reported.

The raid yielded a small amount of marijuana, the agency said.

Levonia Riggins, 22, had been the subject of a monthlong drug investigation, sheriff's Maj. Chad Chronister said at a news conference.

...She said they believe investigators confiscated about 2 grams of marijuana from Riggins' body.

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Hillsborough deputy fatally shoots unarmed man while serving warrant at Clair-Mel home (Original Post) lostnfound Sep 2016 OP

Point 1. Dear Police, stop thinking these guys' lives don't matter. lostnfound Sep 2016 #1

Point 2. Another person dead due to the War on Drugs lostnfound Sep 2016 #2

Legalize it! Quantess Sep 2016 #3

Point 3... In his bedroom at 8 AM, unarmed, and everyone else had already exited the house lostnfound Sep 2016 #4

lostnfound

(16,179 posts)

1. Point 1. Dear Police, stop thinking these guys' lives don't matter.

Reply to lostnfound (Original post)

Thu Sep 1, 2016, 11:38 PM

Sep 2016

The rest of us are really tired of seeing their lives thrown away like a crumpled piece of paper.

Damn. I don't care that he's got a record. He was a human being, and we are supposed to be living in a country where you're innocent until proven guilty and entitle to due process.

lostnfound

(16,179 posts)

2. Point 2. Another person dead due to the War on Drugs

Reply to lostnfound (Original post)

Thu Sep 1, 2016, 11:40 PM

Sep 2016

2 grams of marijuana. All these dead young me because our government carries on the pretense of a drug war.

Quantess

(27,630 posts)

3. Legalize it!

Reply to lostnfound (Reply #2)

Thu Sep 1, 2016, 11:44 PM

Sep 2016

marijuana, that is.

lostnfound

(16,179 posts)

4. Point 3... In his bedroom at 8 AM, unarmed, and everyone else had already exited the house

Reply to lostnfound (Original post)

Sat Sep 3, 2016, 07:47 AM

Sep 2016

What do you think the chances were that he was asleep and/or surprised and half asleep when the police came in and shot him?

Everyone else had already exited the house. Why didn't he?

How horribly sad that there's a whole group of people that (in 2016) repeatedly the victims of this?

And I'm sick of showing past criminal record to justify it.

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