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.
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They’re incompetent bullies with shit-for-brains.
Because there aren’t any consequences for them if they get it wrong.
No matter how badly they fuck up, by accident or on purpose, there are never any consequences. There’s absolutely no reason for a cop to not kill. Some states have a felony murder rule, which means that if you’re committing a felony you’re guilty of murder for every person the cops kill in response. Florida has it, so when someone robbed a jewelry store and the cops killed the robbers, the hostage and some bystanders they weren’t at all responsible for just killing everyone on the scene.
My theory: they dont… I’m pretty sure some of the time they know what they’re doing. They don’t care. They’re in it to cause people pain. There are thousands of videos to prove that. There’s videos of them just showing up to houses and claiming the neighbors made a complaint, and then breaking the peoples constitutional right and going in.
So at this point, I don’t buy it, but it helps give them an out, so they keep repeating it.
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.
So if they thought they killed a man committing domestic abuse, why hand cuff his victims and take them away like criminals. Police statements should never be believed, they’re always lying
and the officers fired an additional 19 bullets at her but missed.
Were these officers trained at Imperial Stormtrooper school?
Were these officers trained
No they were not
Oh no, they definitely were. Just not the way they should have been.
May as well be, they get trained on “killology”
It’s evil.
Yeah, I linked to an article about that in response to someone else. Absolutely agreed.
They need to stop calling this shit wrongful death and start calling it Murder. This was a straight up murder whether they were at the wrong house or not. End qualified immunity
Land of the retards.
Home of the (thankfully) awful shots
Family of man MURDERED by police… there I fixed your title
I can’t believe the sense of entitlement among average people. Do they really believe they’re entitled to feel safe in their own homes!
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Used to live in Chaves county for many years. Law enforcement there is even worse than the rest of what you hear in the country for a few reasons. Roswell PD for example would pay for your police training, so these guys and gals would get a free ride to FLETC as long as they were going to join RPD.
However, most of the time they would graduate, start working in Roswell and immediately realize how shitty the town and corruption within RPD was and transfer to another office, usually out of state. It became an issue for a long time where people would just get the free FLETC ride and go off elsewhere, making local PD was so thin that State Police as well as the Sheriff’s Department were having to help out with mundane calls well below their pay grade.
So this causes the other issue, the only cops there consistently are the douchefucks that peaked in high school (and peek at high schoolers, both a joke and the reality, see Cass Mason of Hagerman, NM PD) who have an ego and power fantasy. They have room temperature IQ and AR15s in the back seat. I’m sure Farmington is no different with their police academy candidates.
So this story didn’t surprise me when it happened, sadly. Hope the family gets what they deserve from these shitty cops.
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.
