The family of a man fatally shot in New Mexico by police officers responding to the wrong house sued the department for wrongful death and other claims in federal court, according to a complaint filed on Friday in the U.S. District Court of New Mexico.
Robert Dotson, 52, was shot and killed in the doorway of his house in Farmington after local police officers opened fire after they said they saw he had a gun.
Police knocked on Dotson’s door at 11:30 p.m. on April 5, according to the complaint filed in court. Dotson grabbed his gun from the top of the refrigerator and went to open the front door. The complaint says “police vehicles were parked down the street and did not have their lights on.”
Three officers standing outside the door immediately opened fire, according to the complaint. Dotson was hit by 12 bullets. His wife, Kimberly, wearing just her robe, came down the stairs to find out what happened, the complaint says, and the officers fired an additional 19 bullets at her but missed.
New Mexico State Police issued a statement saying that Farmington police were responding to a domestic violence call but went to the wrong address.
Gun owners: if police can murder you for having a gun, you don’t have the right to have a gun.
What can’t police murder you for?
Domestic violence? Let’s shoot at the wife too - no more domestics, no more violence.
Can’t abuse someone if they’re dead taps forehead
One person who didn’t do anything wrong is dead, a bunch of other people who didn’t do anything wrong are gonna pay for it, and the people who killed an innocent person because they are violent and incompetent will face no sanctions whatsoever. The police are a fucking street gang.
They’re far more powerful than a street gang. Street gangs are generally universally loathed by the general public and the courts are reasonably happy to lock up gangsters (though do tend to turn a blind eye when gang violence is self contained).
By comparison, the police have this significant chunk of the population bizarrely supporting them (“back the blue” and “thin Blue line”), a massive amount of media propaganda (it feels like every other show on TV is a cop drama), and the courts are heavily on their side (regularly refusing to even bring cases against the police).
I’ve never seen street gangs have any of those things. Even when there’s media about gangs, it usually doesn’t shy away from being clear that the gangs are evil.
One person who didn’t do anything wrong is dead, a bunch of other people who didn’t do anything wrong are gonna pay for it, and the people who killed an innocent person because they are violent and incompetent will face no sanctions whatsoever.
America, Fuck Yeah!
“His wife, Kimberly, wearing just her robe, came down the stairs to find out what happened, the complaint says, and the officers fired an additional 19 bullets at her but missed.”
Ok, so they give the reason for murdering her husband as being armed (not a crime in the US I think), whats the rational here? If not for the stormtrooper level shooting those kids would be orphans. Or maybe they would shoot them as well?
They were frightened for their safety.
Wish they would use that line of thinking to stay home instead.
So they’re all getting life in prison for murder, breaking and entering, and attempted murder, right?
Right???
Family of man MURDERED by police… there I fixed your title
This is why police need to be required by law to have occupational insurance.
That way even if they are found to be not guilty through qualified immunity or whatever BS, no insurance company would insure them, which means they couldn’t work as a cop anywhere.
Not having police means you get strongman groups that fill in as the security detail against getting raped and all that nonsense that humans do to each other. In short, you get the Taliban. And become Afghanistan.
Or Yemen, where everyone just has guns and everything goes to the dogs.
Who (besides you) said anything about not having police?
Oops, I’m an idiot. I thought the commenter above wanted all cops to have insurance, which no one would give them, so we’d live in a society without any form of law enforcement. Perhaps it’s time for bed.
IMO most police are insurable, but if all police are uninsurable because they randomly Derek Chauvin people, then maybe we do need a completely different system of law enforcement.
Or
YemenAmerica, where everyone just has guns and everything goes to the dogs.FTFY
Land of the retards.
Not to dismiss what happened here. But who is still opening their door when random strangers bang on it?
Yes, because I’m sure the cops just went away when he didn’t answer the first ten times they pounded on it like they were trying to break it down. Cops have a terrifying way of “knocking.”
Cops have a terrifying way of “knocking.”
It’s supposed to be, it’s psychological. But you are not legally obligated to open it. If they have a good enough reason to be there, they will let themselves in. Otherwise keep your mouth shut, the lights off, and out of sight so you don’t give them that reason; and they can fuck off.
You post too much dude
Pot, meet kettle
> You post too much
> On a site built on engagement and activity
That guy wanted a confrontation. He ran out of the door with a gun in his hand, ready to shoot. He was a threat to everyone outside in that moment. After the police shot him, his wife kept shooting at the cops. Luckily nobody hit anyone else.
This is not police brutality. The cops of most countries on earth would have shot him.
This is an issue with american gun laws and the unregulated gun terror. 48k people died in the US from gun related injuries in 2021. Those were not all police killings or gang crime…
