ScooterSissy wrote:The Annoyed Man wrote:Quoting the article:
In the early-morning hours, deputies knocked on 26-year-old Andrew Lee Scott's door without identifying themselves as law enforcement officers. Scott answered the door with a gun in his hand.
"When we knocked on the door, the door opened and the occupant of that apartment was pointing a gun at deputies, and that's when we opened fire and killed him," Lt. John Herrell said. "Even though this subject is not the one we were looking for when he opened the door. He was pointing the gun at the deputy and if you put yourselves in the deputy's shoes. They were there to pick up someone who was wanted for an attempted homicide."
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"It's just a bizarre set of circumstances. The bottom line is, you point a gun at a deputy sheriff or police office, you're going to get shot," Herrell said.
What is truly remarkable is the complete lack of remorse, and the fact that he makes sound like the dead man did something wrong by answering an unidentified knock in the middle of the night with a gun in his hand. It would have been smart to ask who was at the door, but still... To suggest that it is all his fault? That's just inexcusable.
Exactly!! They're totally downplaying the fact that two people knocked on an innocent stranger's door at 1:30 in the morning, and they were armed at the time, and then shot without asking questions.
The city administration has got to be cringing every time they see and hear Lt. Herell's statement. As TAM said, a total "lack of remorse" & coupled with a "hey, what do you expect attitude"....unbelievable...not just downplaying that THEY were at fault, but actually trying to justify it as a "bizarre set of circumstances" because hey... if you open the door to us with a gun in your hand (even though we didn't identify ourselves) we're gonna' shoot you.