Thread: Deputies Knock On Wrong Door At 1:30AM At Night, Shoot & Kill Man Who Answers W/Gun

Deputies Knock On Wrong Door At 1:30AM At Night, Shoot & Kill Man Who Answers With Gun

Chris | InformationLiberation

Sheriff's deputies who failed to identify themselves when knocking on a man's door at 1:30AM at night immediately shot and killed the homeowner after he allegedly opened his door with a gun in hand.

The man who was murdered, 26-year-old Andrew Lee Scott, was described by neighbors as a good person and "very nice guy."

The deputies realized later they got the wrong house, but for good measure they searched the man's apartment and found drugs, which apparently justifies their murdering him randomly.

The police are entirely unapologetic. Lt. John Herrell said of the incident, "The bottom line is, you point a gun at a deputy sheriff or police office, you're going to get shot."

For police who refuse to identify themselves to point their guns at you is A-OK, yet for you to do the same in self-defense is grounds for summary execution.

In contrast with this gang of criminals, a 92-year-old Toledo woman who found herself in the same situation just the other day actually shot an officer in the side of his head, yet the Toledo police chose not to press any charges against her, as Police Sgt. Joe Heffernan said, "I don't think it meets all the culpability standards for felonious assault on a police officer."

Indeed, 26-year-old Andrew Lee Scott had ever right to open his door fully armed, and, at least if he was in a state where the Castle Doctrine was recognized, he may have even had the right to use deadly force in defending himself from the police's illegal armed invasion.



See the additional video report here.
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A 'tapestry of ineptitude': Fury as police accidentally shoot dead pizza delivery driver after going to WRONG apartment

By Daily Mail Reporter and Reuters Reporter

PUBLISHED: 00:58 EST, 21 July 2012 | UPDATED: 09:16 EST, 21 July 2012
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Killed: Andrew Scott, 26, was shot dead in his home by a sheriff's deputy

The death of a man shot inside his home, by a sheriff's deputy who went to the wrong apartment looking for a criminal suspect, has sparked protests this week over police procedures in the central Florida city of Leesburg.

Andrew 'Drew' Scott, 26, a pizza delivery driver, was shot dead at 1:30 a.m. on Sunday when deputies knocked on his apartment door without identifying themselves as law enforcement officers.

Scott opened his door holding a gun, according to Lake County Sheriff spokesman Lieutenant John Herrell.

The Lake County Sheriff has no policy requiring deputies to announce themselves, Herrell told Reuters.

Prominent Orlando lawyer Mark Nejame, who has been hired by Scott's family, told Reuters on Friday that lack of policy puts gun-owning homeowners like Scott in a life-threatening dilemma.

'If they go to the door and it's a criminal, fine. But if it turns out in the game of Russian roulette that it's a law enforcement officer, you're dead,' Nejame said.

Nejame said Scott acted reasonably and legally in arming himself while trying to determine who was banging on his door in the middle of the night.


Wrong guy: A sheriff's deputy went to the wrong apartment and didn't identify himself as a law enforcement officer when knocking


Brian Evey, manager of the Hungry Howie's chain where Scott worked in Leesburg, 45 miles northwest of Orlando, scheduled a candlelight vigil for Saturday night in front of Scott's apartment complex, and marched with several dozen protesters earlier in the week in front of the sheriff's office.

'This could happen to anybody. We do not want this to happen again,' Evey said.

They said they mainly wanted to change the law, so police must announce who they are when knocking.
Kyan Ware, a former prosecutor and lawyer for the Florida Civil Rights Association which is conducting its own investigation, on Friday called the shooting 'a tapestry of ineptitude' in which poorly trained deputies operating with little information 'acted on a hunch that was wrong, that was miscalculated and ultimately resulted in an innocent person's death.'

At the time of the shooting, several deputies were looking for Jonathon Brown, 31, who was involved in a beating 37 minutes earlier in a different neighbourhood and fled the scene on a motorcycle, according to Brown's arrest affidavit.


Tragic mistake? Scott opened the door with a gun in his hand and was shot dead by the deputy


Deputies found Brown's motorcycle, still hot, parked directly in front of Scott's apartment although he was later located in an adjacent apartment building, Herrell said.

'When the person came to the door, the door was flung open and the occupant in that apartment pointed a gun at the deputy's face ... At that point, the deputy took the action he took, obviously he was in fear for his life, and at that point he shot Mr. Scott,' Herrell said.

Herrell said he did not know why deputies chose not to identify themselves as they knocked on Scott's door, but that decision was within the deputies' discretion.

Ware said the deputy who shot Scott had witnessed two other Lake County deputies shoot a suspect four days earlier, and should have been placed on desk duty to recover from the trauma.

Evey said he hopes to get more people involved in further protests until the sheriff's department makes changes to shore up public safety.

'This guy lit up every room that he was in. He was amazing. We want the whole country to know who this guy is,' Evey said of Scott.

Andrew Scott: Fury as police accidentally shoot dead pizza delivery driver after going to wrong apartment | Mail Online