Nuclearian Loc: I live in a Fascist, Liberal State

What would you do if you were soundly sleeping at home, with your pregnant girlfriend and your young children in the house, and then, just before 6 o’clock in the morning, your front door was violently forced open, and a bunch of shouting men waving guns burst in?

If you said “pick up your firearm and defend your family against a home invasion,” you aren’t alone.

In a clear victory against the police state, a grand jury in central Texas refused to press capital murder charges against a homeowner who shot and k**led a police officer after a SWAT team unexpectedly burst into his home to execute a no-knock raid.

Henry Goedrich Magee believed he was the target of a home invasion (which, technically, he was). He responded like many of us would. Magee grabbed his gun (which he owns legally) and opened fire on the intruders. Burleson County Sgt. Adam Sowders, age 31, was k**led.



The defendant’s attorney, Dick DeGuerin, said that Magee acted in defense of his family.

‘This was a terrible tragedy that a deputy sheriff was k**led, but Hank Magee believed that he and his pregnant girlfriend were being robbed,’ DeGuerin said in an interview Thursday.

‘He did what a lot of people would have done,’ DeGuerin added. ‘He defended himself and his girlfriend and his home.’ (source)

His attorney acknowledged Magee had a small number of marijuana plants and seedlings.

The grand jury refused to indict Magee for capital murder charges, which carried the possibility of life in prison without parole or death by lethal injection. They cited a lack of evidence that Magee was aware that the invaders were actually police officers.

Magee was indicted on the lesser charge of possession of marijuana while in possession of a deadly weapon, which is a third-degree felony.

Just last week in Iowa, a similar tragedy was narrowly averted when a gang of thugs in uniform burst into a family’s home over possible credit card fraud. The person with a legal firearm realized at the last possible moment that the invaders were police officers.

During the incident in Iowa, honorably discharged veteran Justin Ross was in the bathroom when cops burst in (after disabling the security cameras so their actions could not be documented). Ross already had his weapon unholstered in order to defend his mother and there had been one kick to the bathroom door, when he heard them shout, “Police.”

At the time, we predicted that one of these days, no-knock raids on unsuspecting homeowners were not going to end well for police. It looks like in Texas, the right to defend your home and family is alive and well, even when the thugs you’re defending them against wear a uniform and a badge.

SeniorVerdad

This is just another example of the goose-stepping mentality that is permeating some police departments. What ever happened to obtaining and serving a search warrant. I understand that maybe some police officers have been k**led, shot through the front door while serving warrants but they broke his door down for a few pot plants. This guy didn't sound like a big time drug dealer. Did the detectives do their homework or get a bit over zealous?

JimMe

Okay... This proves to me that PRIVATE USA CITIZENS MUST HAVE THE RIGHT TO OWN FIREARMS... It's Our First Line of Defense in Protecting Our Families & Property...

FOXFIRE Loc: SW Commonwealth of Virginia

As I often have said, a East German style Police State, alive and well in the USA. A sad state of affairs.

Unclet Loc: Amarillo, Tx

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JetJock Loc: Texas

The first step is to contact your local sheriffs office and ask if they do "no knock" raids. If they say yes then be aware that your rights will probably be violated.

The problem is that if you do the above, you are probably making your self a target as a right wing terriorst kind of kook and that is not good.

Any ideas out there? What is happening in the US of A is WRONG, WRONG WRONG.

MrEd Loc: Georgia

In one such incident, police shot a home owner because he did not comply fast enough to their orders. He was trying to call 911 because of the clowns that just broke into his home. He died at the scene. After it was over, the police discovered they were at 1025E when they should have been at 1025W. They broke into the wrong house. The police were not prosecuted for the wrongful death, but payment was made to his wife. Lot of good that did the man k**led............

hprinze Loc: Central Florida

Several times recently, armed home invaders have smashed front doors and burst into a home yelling POLICE.

Cops, with or without warrants should not be allowed to smash front doors and burst into peoples homes. They can knock, and wait for a response. Or they can use bull horns to let occupants know who they are. Only if they know that armed and dangerous criminals, without any innocents inside should they be allowed to make any kind of forcible entry. Some give one knock and smash the door at the same time. Some yell police and smash the door at the same time.

Victims of such sjould enlist the aid of some mean nasty ambulance chasing type lawyers and ebery organization they can find to help them. Organizations like local TV and radio stations, newspapers, and even organizations like ACLU. The police departments and the municipality or state or fed government as well as the INDIVIDUAL cops conducting the invasion should be prosecuted and sued relentlessly.

I have also seen several news reports of these Gestapo type goons invading the wrong home. They should be shown no mercy.

Kevyn

Perhaps this guy should not have been manufacturing narcotics in the home he shared with his pregnant girlfriend or running a credit card fraud scheme. A police officer was k**led when in the process of enforcing a warrant to take a felon into custody and the felon is the good guy? How dare the police do their job. Also the "legal firearm" is not legal when he is in possession of and manufacturing marijuana.

MrEd Loc: Georgia

Any where did you go to law school??????????

lpnmajor Loc: Arkansas

The fact that this guy survived, after shooting a cop, is the detail that proves that this story is fabricated.

FOXFIRE Loc: SW Commonwealth of Virginia

I have considered the same.

autocthon Loc: Batcave

COMPLETELY off-topic: Is that avatar of yours Photoshopped or real? With the canard on the nose it looks like a bass-ackward b-17

Blue Flu Loc: HHI

For example, you get a "no knock" warrant when you have reason to believe that the occupant named in the warrant is armed, a convicted felon and will likely use violence.
Another example: If you were going after LSD, oxycontin or some other narcotic that can be easily flushed while you wait for someone to answer the door.
I preferred to use tactics rather than a "no knock." An informant advised that a house in a run down neighborhood was a miniature fortress where hard drugs were being sold. I drove by the house and sure enough the windows and doors were protected by heavy anti-burglar bars that were probably worth as much as the house itself.
There was an expensive car parked in front of the house (which was a narrow one-way street) that the informant had identified as belonging to the bad guy.
One winter morning at about 5:30 when it was common to see some working people making their way to the bus stop in the dark, I put a railroad flare inside a wastepaper basket half filled with wet hand towels. Placed in the road on the far side of the above vehicle it created the desired effect. A second plain clothes officer pounded on the burglar bars yelling "Hey man, it looks like your ride is on fire." The lights in the house went on, the heavy door opened and out ran the owner in his robe and slippers. I can still see him standing next to the smoking wastepaper basket trying to figure out what was happening.
Calling the good guys trying to protect you "N**is" really hurts.

stan3186

I was looking for the liberal post to defund the thug police. I knew there would be one because a conservative posted the thread. If a liberal had posted the thread, then the liberal would have applauded the action of the homeowner.