Three New Mexico police officers are on leave after mistakenly responding to the wrong address of a domestic violence call. NBC’s Valerie Castro reports on how officers then shot the homeowner after he answered the door with a handgun.
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You would figure these officers would check to get the right address ! . . . Now an innocent man is dead because of their carelessness.
Nothing new here
Thanks to NBC for getting only the cops version of this story, a man lost his life in his home broken no law but the cops are heartbroken, stay tune for more propaganda from law enforcement and media later.
There appear to be 3 police officers at the door… I know my rights, so I will open the door with a hand gu… ouch!
Are you Americans beginning to realise that your 2nd Amendment is the worst political legislation ever written? Millions of lives lost all because gun makers lobbied politicians with huge donations.
Liars. I bet they never identified themselves. Pigs 🐽🐖🐷
I wonder what happened in the situation at the other house they were supposed to respond to.
cops commit mass shootings one person at a time
Cops know these incidents as “oopsies”
I wonder if the homeowner had a darker complexion if so many people in this comment section would jump to the homeowner’s defense and blame the police. 🤔
Murder
thats murder, u r allowed to carry a gun, u cant shoot people for obeying ur laws
O.M.G.
I guess guns dont protect you against guns
Ohhhhh noooooow they’re trigger happy, I guess now that they’re killing white folks now also you see what folks were saying before
This is bad,
Political Systems are essentially an invalid, logically defective, flawed man made construct or concept because Economic Systems are the meaningful (substantive) determinant which makes all the difference. For instance Capitalism enables citizens to own property, and utilize capital to produce profits.
Humans had the ability to self sustain human life (at the individual + species level) for millions of years prior to the invention of government.
The only logical necessity, humans need to survive is property rights. The right to absolutely..
1) 100 percent ownership of our lives immediately upon birth.
2) 100 pct ownership of all property we create ourselves, and or properly acquire from others in a mutually agreeable exchange, and or inherit, and or are freely given by others who properly acquired it.
the logical basis for property rights is
1) without the ability to own the food (we had the foresight to grow or trade for) humans are unable to self sustain human life .. without depending on the mercy of others, (typically) the evil humans who might take our lives and our property (if property rights didn’t exist).
the creation of governments, even our American Democracy,
1) is improper because for instance the concept of Democracy is flawed because despite the number of humans who create a majority (need, want or desire) it’s imperative that majority opinion never have the (Authority or Permission) to prevail if their opinions violate the Rule of Logic.
2) Democracy at it’s best is simply duplicating Rule of Logic and at it it’s worst is (improperly) thwarting Rule of Logic.
3) if a (99 out of 100) majority opposes (1 opinion out of 100) this can’t change the fact it’s improper to consider anything other than the (appropriate) Logic, (which although redundant, must never violate property rights). Unless i myself error’d (formulating property rights) because i will switch to superior logic (instantly as soon as i understand it) because i always win when logic itself wins. Logically, every logical human wins every time any human comes nearer to properly interpreting the logic of any logically flawed thesis.
Logic is factually similar to math + science. When logic is properly formulated or templated for the first time it’s essentially already optimal or near reaching optimal attributes + properties which are typically able to stand until improved upon but eventually plateaus as nearly maintenance free.
I’ve formulated logic similar to (my best attempts to interpret the logic) (Ayn Rand created). My version adds the fact that prior to the creation of governments humans weren’t dependent upon governments thus the creation of governments added a dependency which didn’t exist prior to the invention of governments. The words dependency + independent are opposites. One example of our democratic governments failure of Democracy is where the invention of our Social Security Administration error’d by inventing social security + medicare taxes because they (those taxes)
1) violate property rights, and property rights exist as a logical necessity, not an (assumption or first premise). The only premise if any which property rights are based upon is an absurdity i wouldn’t mention except to provide the only (assumption or premise) not already defined in the paragraph describing how property rights must exist or humans won’t be able to sustain human life without depending upon the mercy of others. The necessity for property rights to exist (to be able to sustain human life) stems from the near absurd but necessary (first assumption or premise) which is that from the point of view of a human (the fact human life exists, is a good rather than bad thing) [for us humans].
2) the fact social security spends more money than it receives (it, social security) nearly matches the definition of bankrupt. It overspends on overhead costs caused by mismanagement. And our government’s plans for future generations to keep funding social security near perfectly matches the definition of a ponzi scheme.
the solution for (near all) problems democracy has created is to prosecute our Legislators for their Lawlessness where i define ( their specifically unique) lawlessness as Legislators failure to create Laws (constraining + thus omg limiting) government (Authority + thus the Permissions) it can grant itself to only the (few uniquely anomalous) logically bonafide [ DUTY’s ] which for whatever anomalous reasons it’s necessary for government to claim it [our government] logically must be able to deny consumers of consumer (products+services) the improved results of individual capitalist, competitive, competitors competing to become 1 of the top 99 (competently competitive) providers within their consumer (product+service) niche. In summary our democracy failed to restrict government’s (Authority+Permission) to only the few (if any even exist) bonafide Logical DUTY’s.
Logically, our Legislators can’t grant our government (Authority+Permission) unless anomalous (DUTY) exists + this is because it would deny consumers the benefits of the improved results competitive competition guarantees.
Additionally, when government error’d by replacing [independent] self sustainability of human life by adding [dependency] upon government, the single example, our governments near bankrupt social security ponzi scheme provides evidence the [certainty] humans could self sustain life was replaced by the [uncertainty] the [dependency] upon government added and again tho it’s redundant, generally speaking near everything if not everything government does replaced [independence with dependence] + [certainty with uncertainty].
In summary, i want to reiterate where government doesn’t have an anomalous DUTY
1) it’s inappropriate for government to deny consumers of consumer (products+services) the benefit of the improved results of competitive competition.
an additional example of our governments failure is the Licensing of Medical Doctors which artificially inflated the cost of medical care.
1) the medical care industry should be completely deregulated.
2) our government doesn’t have a DUTY to even notice the medical care industry exists.
3) deregulation will result in advisory services (for instance on the internet) providing competitive advise on who is good at what + these services, as is (near) everything within pure capitalism .. near always adept at self adapting to competitive conditions, which means there’s such a high probability of success that near everything will improve so rapidly all of us should be able to experience what logic proves is our birthright ( the right to absolute 100 pct ownership of our own lives + our own destiny’s) (including) eternal healthy human life, here on earth for eternity (happening within our lifetimes).
voluntary instead of mandatory education will encourage humans to desire competent, timely advice.
1) an example of a forced education’s waste of resources is the one quarter of a century (25years) humans are currently delayed from becoming Medical Doctors. The artificial (shortage of supply) of Medical Doctors is a direct result of government’s Licensing + Regulation.
2) imagine, everyone born (for the next 25 years) being denied the ability to be a Medical Doctor. Meaning nobody born in the next 25 years becomes a MD (until, the 26th year from today). This seems to deny logic to the point of being a variant of a ponzi scheme or multi-level fraud upon logic itself.
the accumulated sum of (the lawlessness) of our Legislators failure (to create law) constraining government’s (Authority+Permission) to the limited set of (anomalously bonafide logical) [DUTY’s] which would have to be quite anomalous for near any task to be claimed as a necessity which only government is capable of providing to consumers because otherwise for all normal tasks which aren’t sufficient to rise to the level of a logical [DUTY] the result of Legislators failure to comprehend the imperative need for government to step aside and admit they overstepped their logical bonafide [DUTY’s] is provably an immediate necessity because denying consumers the benefits of competitive competition is a very serious logical error which has resulted in
1) not only denying consumers the benefits of the improved results which competitive competition guarantees but also + more specifically ..
2) provably interfering with capitalism’s competitive competitor’s ability to provide solutions for the grailist grail of all consumer (products+services), the (need, want + desire) for immediate solutions to extend healthy human life to eternal healthy human life, (here on earth), [within omg, my own lifetime].
government’s regulation of near everything is grossly improper because it’s provably
1) not a bonafide logical [DUTY] of government because it deny’s consumers the benefit of the improved results competitive competition guarantees.
2) it’s also provably the equivalent of Skinner Boxing [individual] choice into a narrow range of mediocracy know as a bell curve, which is the exact opposite of optimal. The tails of a bell curve are thin because there’s not enough diversity of [individual, individuality].
the fat tails of an INVERTED bell curve is provably superior because the rule of large numbers aka larger diversity of [individual, individuality] provably locates outlyer results in greater quantity + more timely exploration of the anomalously fruitful binary combinations which bell curves destroy.
1) evolution of our species succeeds or fails based upon (the extraordinary) results of (1, 2 or 3) [individuals, individual success] or their failure to succeed (in creating the grailist grails) if government’s inappropriate Skinner Boxing of everyone (prevents) the bulk of extraordinary successes (our species evolution, depends upon).
2) it’s imperative government stop perpetuating the idea that the failures encountered will be unmanagable because 100 pct absolute property rights will quickly prevail in creating the most polite humans (our species has ever experienced).
competitive competition which is self regulating results in optimal
1) prices
2) quality
3) timelyness
safety doesn’t have to be mentioned because (safety) occurs naturally (near effortlessly) within (100 percent pure) completely deregulated capitalism because competitive competition considers every necessity or those who don’t will fail soon as consumers become aware of any+all neglect. Competition is self regulating, self correcting. Those who fail to politely + voluntarily follow the rules go bankrupt.
the brute force of binary search engines + artificial intelligences slightly more optimal, hill climbing algorithm’s emphasis on including an appropriately sized near random (reseeding) of the gene pole (both) emphasize the need to explore beyond the bell curves of mediocracy thus again proving the rule of large numbers of near random (diverse) [individual, individuality] is logically the optimal path to locate the highest (quantity+quality) of solutions to near any (need want or desire) which in the context i am framing governments failure is their provable over emphasis on safety and even within that area government provably errors because government licensing + regulation provably created the (scarcity of supply) of Medical Doctors. The one area where scarcity of [individual, individuality] aka deviation from the bell curves grossly improper (way to thin, tails of diversity)’s failing to overcome the mediocracy (of what government, believes is safety) is provably the opposite of the extraordinary (outlying successes) deregulation is guaranteed to provide an abundance of.
governments laws requiring consumers participate in mandatory education for the first 18yrs of life, and restrictions on children working are provably not competitively vetted logic because diversity in the form of [individual, individuality] and inverted bell curves is the source of the outlying anomalous solutions for near any consumer (product+service) especially the grailist grails of consumers (needs, wants + desires) [near immediate evolution to eternal life].
1) on the job training for our children is a logical improvement over making children wait until age 25 to become Medical Doctors, which isn’t helping evolution create solutions which can solve consumers grailist of grail (needs, wants + desires).
this idea that it’s inappropriate for government to deny consumers the benefits of the improved results competitive competition can guarantee likely applies to near everything government does. I am aware of or can develop the proofs which prove government should not be denying consumers the results of competitively vetted [improved results] within near everything including specific areas where government’s [logic,itself] is less than optimally competitive as should be (speculated, anticipated, predicted + projected) to be less than optimal given the fact government has existed inside a vacume devoid of proper accountability for their failures to provide consumers with competitively vetted consumer (products+services) for such a long time, the current conditional state of the quantity + depth of governments mistaken (logical premises) is inappropriately beyond any continued effort to cover up.
I keep wondering how many NM police have military backgrounds. They’re trigger happy in the southern part of the state where I live as well.
When she realized who they were she dropped the gun?🤔🤨 Yeah sounds like didn’t announce 💩… sounds like the couple thought it was a home invasion and if the wife complied, why wouldn’t the husband once he opened the door and saw it was the cops?.. unless they didn’t give him a chance to… a lot more to this story— PAID administrative leave?? For murder?
New Mexico police are slow af and usually mistake innocent ppl for criminals this happens all the time in new Mexico
They betta announce they self or I’ma treat em with some buck shot 🎉😇
Its not against the law to have a gun in your own home 🤬
_NOBODY IS SAFE. RELEASE 🎥_
LAWSUIT? No one will be fired. Unfortunately you can’t retrain stupid- end qualified immunity
Tragic event but that cop looks far from broken up about it. It’s like a bull seeing red a handgun and they shoot
More goofy cops. Unbelievable how a bunch of dudes can get hired to run around town with guns among the public smfh. I guarantee these clowns have the most minimal training thats allowable…..
So many questions. How do police go to the wrong house when numbers are so clearly posted on the front of the house? Pretty sure 5 and 8 look very different. Also, who answers a knock at the door with a pistol, especially when it’s police announcing themselves? What were they doing that they felt they needed to answer with guns drawn?
Someone needs to Sue the 💩 out of the Punky Pigs 🐷!!! The Chief needs to resign and fall on his sword ⚔️
“announced” in the middle of the night. with people asleep and not hearing. morons.
Piggies 🐷🐽🐖
That police chief doesn’t look like he gives a s*
They will give the murderer a an medical retirement for “ptsd” with a full pension
This is normal American society.
You never welcome a visitor with a firearm.
THEY RELEASE THE SCHOOL SHOOTER FOOTAGE THE NEXT DAY, BUT WATCH HOW LONG
THIS ONE TAKES, ESPECIALLY WHEN IT’S YOUR WORD AGAINST THE POLICE REPORT ?
TODAY’S TECH. IS THREW THE ROOF WITH ADVANCEMENTS, BUT THE POLICE IN ALL THEIR
GLORY CAN’T COMPREHEND OR CONFIRM AN ADDRESS. EVEN THE NUMBERS SOUND
DIFFERENT, TO ANYONE LISTENING ? WHY IS THIS HAPPENING MORE OFTEN TODAY ?’/
Cops just love killing people don’t they? I don’t even know why we even have police they don’t really improve society.
Smfh
Well Farmington is going to pay big for this mistake
this is worse than the cops that got into a shootout with each other in a neighborhood backyard
Blue lives matter
Dang man wake up……be prepared to give up the bucks dummies
Good guys with guns huh? Lmao
Bunch of freaking idiots 🙌
I’ll be surprised if anyone faces charges
Honestly sounds to me like 2 lunatics overreacting to police. Why would you answer the door with a handgun at the ready when it’s the police? 🤔
You definitely don’t have a right to shoot at police simply because they got the wrong address.
Never answer your door late at night
What a TERRIBLE outcome, which could have and SHOULD have been avoided.
*First of all, anyone who answers the door with a firearm must NEVER display the weapon until you KNOW the people at the door are hostile to you and are a risk of doing you harm.*
I hope the police didn’t rush the door and start pounding on it while yelling “POLICE!!… OPEN THE DOOR!”… or anything stupid like that. We’ll know in a few days, I guess– but it’s never wise to do that unless you KNOW there’s imminent violence and a fast, intimidating entry is necessary.
*It is VERY RARE that homeowners actually hear the word ‘POLICE’ when they show up and start pounding on the door like that— from personal experience I KNOW that most of the time, all the homeowner hears is loud angry-sounding yelling and aggressive banging. This is a sign of immediate danger to a homeowner, and will 100% of the time be met with an aggressive response, and very likely, a **_FIREARM,_** so police should avoid that type of approach if at ALL possible.*
*And last— police MUST, on ALL calls to a residence, slow down and VERIFY the address before even stepping on the property, because there is no way that “But I thought—…” can do anything to make the clock run backwards or undo what is already done.*
Farmington police are too high to notice…
Ur insincerity is evident its a murderer
Now they will ask for GPS rights to do away with privacy of citizens
Just another hourly example that owning a gun gives a false sense of protection and kills more innocent people than “protects” them.
The house with the domestic violence should be thanking God it wasn’t them.
You live in a country where everyone lives in fear. What kind of life is that? Everyone owns a gun and has a fear of being shot….including the police.
Man murdered by incompetent tyrants playing games with our lives.
Charge the officers with murder!
It’s his house traumatic for whom?
Show your hands! Drop the gun! Face Down! Don’t resist! Stop Resisting! Hands Hands!!!
Probably all yelled within 2 seconds by 3-4 officers while the 5th starts shooting and yelling shots fired shots fired shots fired!!!
No one wants to admit that the average cop is not all that smart.
There need to be some prosecutions over this. This is more than just a civil issue.
Google Maps was wrong…..
Psalm 144
1 Blessed be the Lord my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight:
2 My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and he in whom I trust; who subdueth my people under me.
3 Lord, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him! or the son of man, that thou makest account of him!
4 Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.
5 Bow thy heavens, O Lord, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.
6 Cast forth lighting, and scatter them: shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them.
7 Send thine hand from above; rid me, and deliver me out of great waters, from the hand of strange children;
8 Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
9 I will sing a new song unto thee, O God: upon a psaltery and an instrument of ten strings will I sing praises unto thee.
10 It is he that giveth salvation unto kings: who delivereth David his servant from the hurtful sword.
11 Rid me, and deliver me from the hand of strange children, whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
12 That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace:
13 That our garners may be full, affording all manner of store: that our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets:
14 That our oxen may be strong to labor; that they be no breaking in, nor going out; that there be no complaining in our streets.
15 Happy is that people, that is in such as case: yea, happy is that people, whose God is the Lord.
Yeah he looks heartbroken
Why did he answer the door with a firearm? He was probably a violent man or did bad behavior.
So it’s clear where you start..all cops should be fired and chief of police should resign. Saying sorry is silly, this is where we are as a country our police are not there to protect and serve.. they show up w finger on the trigger..
Complete incompetence seems the be the motto of New Mexico police!
Thank god he was white or this would be news
The circus that is the U.S.
“We followed protocol”
But, but, hey, wait! Isn’t it supposed to be that the 2nd amendment protects you from this? Right to bear arms?
I feel for both sides in this fiasco; neither was wanting this outcome. Mistaken address or not, an officer sees a gun after announcing themselves, their adrenalin ramps up, too.
Live by the gun, die by the gun.
I can’t open the door with my own legal firearm is ridiculous
WTF, if this poor man were the police chief’s loved one, noone could understand the pain of the wife. The husband was killed because he did nothing wrong. The police officers should be sued and made penniless, then sent to jail for their negligence and reckless incompetence.
Inexcusable. Manslaughter. Civil Rights lawsuit in the $ millions.
A massive lawsuit is coming.
You’re “heartbroken” but alive, an innocent man is dead because of MORE inept New Mexican police, what a fu@ked up state.
Police do not exist to protect the citizens. Law enforcement exists to protect the government authorities that give them their power. The larger and more corrupt the government, the larger and more corrupt law enforcement. Look at the DOJ and the FBI.
Any time you want to die, just call the police.
Disarm all cops NOW! Has a cop ever shown up in time to do anything other than take a report? You don’t need a deadly weapon to take a report. This was a murder.
Not to judge in this instance, but have seen so many cases like this where, if anyone has a gun, the police immediately suspend good judgement and go in over drive. Have seen cops calm, then see a gun and start yelling gun, gun, gun and they open fire, often when the “suspect” had not aimed the gun at them nor had intended to.
Incompetent police need to pay this family multi millions of dollars and the person responsible for the negligence needs to go to jail for homicide.
It’s time for all police, judges, politicians to lose qualified immunity
Awful.
They will use officer safety as the excuse
Idiots
murder.. CHARGE THEM!!!!!!
pathetic. my house was swatted by swat team in florida. 🙁
like being swatted
“I extend nothing but my deepest condolences.”
Yep. That’s what we expected.
Cops are now useless, at best
“F” you chief….unless you make heads roll, you’ll be as culpable as the POS who went to the wrong address!
Cops need to be stripped of immunity and charged with murder.
The officers also should all have eye exams
Idiots. Fire the chief and anyone that went on the call.
All praises to the most High 🙌🏻
He’s heart broken. Oh well, we’re done here. Good night everyone. Tomorrow’s another day.
Reason number 1 for no gun control.
If the government exploited a schematic to make you all dumb( they did)put weed #1 in the constitution.maby well stop what there using to re exploit everyone and make the world a better place.😁⚔️🏴☠️🧐
The Farmington Police chief has more responsibility for Training his officer’s….If a cops makes a fatal mistake, It’s his fault ……Period !!!!
This wasn’t a mistake this is flat out murder
Those responding officers deserve years in jail. That’s what happens when you hire people that can’t read addresses.
Unfortunately the victim is white. This won’t hit the big news stations. Even if it does I don’t see whites going to loot the police station