In legal self-defense scenarios such as the southern Iowa cop rape ring a colleague of ours exposed a few years back, or other such scenarios, it is perfectly legal to kill the police — and for the integrity of our legal system, courts should support citizens who do so. The latest from WeedPress.
Many thanks to Charles for granting us permission to share this critically important and nuanced higher-level discourse concerning legal principles and the importance of defending liberty intellectually, and in other areas. Charles attended the governor’s debate I had the honor of moderating last year. Anticipate WeedPress working to extrapolate upon this topic as we work to resolve conflicts some Iowa patients are citing concerning their civil right to access marijuana, and their right to purchase firearms to protect against government overreach, intrusions, and in these instances, outright rape. We’re getting two new journalists, so there will be plenty of room to talk these issues out in the public light, instead of in darkness, where some seemingly criminal elements involved in marijuana discourse would prefer the discourse to be.
If cops break the law, you can defend yourself — pray you never have to.
Update: Reverend Brandon Baker in Colorado finds legal precedent of court’s acquitting citizens for even accidentally shooting the police by thinking they were robbers:
Man shoots three cops during no-knock raid and is found not guilty because they did not identify themselves as cops.
A Texas man named Ray Rosas who shot three cops breaking into his home during a no-knock raid last year was found not guilty Tuesday.
Rosas said he did not know the armed intruders were cops because his sight and hearing was affected by the flash grenade they tossed into his bedroom window.
The incident took place on February 19, 2015 as a Corpus Christi SWAT team was serving a search warrant on his home to arrest his nephew, who was suspected of selling drugs.
His nephew, Santiago Garcia, was not home during the raid, but police did find a small amount of drugs in the home, according to KZTV.
However, his mother and brother were home, the latter who suffers from dementia.
Rosas, whose home had been shot at in the past during drive-by shootings, believed he was being robbed, so he pulled out his gun and fired 15 times, striking three officers, all whom survived the shooting.
Rosas, who has been in jail since the incident, was charged with three counts of attempted capital murder, which could have sent him to prison for life.
But those charges were reduced during the trial to three counts of aggravated assault on a public official.
Prosecutors argued that Rosas was well aware they were cops because they yelled “police” at some point during the raid.
They also argued that Rosas should have known they were cops because he had a surveillance camera that allowed him to view outside him home from his bedroom.
But Rosas had always maintained he did not know they were cops,telling cops as he was being arrested that he did not know they were cops. He also told jailers the same thing that night as they were booking him.
His mugshot shows him with a black eye, indicating cops punched him during his arrest.
Rosas’ attorneys argued that he had been wary of attacks from gang members since testifying against one in 2001 for a violent crime committed on his home, resulting in him receiving death threats since then.
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