PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) – Imagine you’re up watching our late night news when you hear your back door rattling, then see a red laser pointed on your chest. One Portsmouth man claims that happened to him.
Brandon Watson said he was protecting his family when his wife heard noises in the back yard on January 3, 2013: “She said, ‘oh my gosh, someone is in the backyard.’” The noises got closer and then she heard the clicking of the backdoor handle.”
In a neighborhood where weapons are everywhere, Brandon Watson didn’t hesitate to grab his own legally purchased gun. It was a decision with lingering repercussions.
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I hope you win your lawsuit. Those thugs need to be reigned in.
ReplyDeleteThe seven-person jury bought that, and found Brandon Watson not guilty, after deliberating only 47 minutes.
ReplyDeleteSmart Jury DUMB COPS! He did exactly the same thing most people with any knowledge of firearms would have done in the fear for their life. The problem is the Police did not identify them selves and tried opening a door they should not have touched in the first place.
ReplyDeleteCops in America are out of control, period.
ReplyDeletewelcome to the new police state in amerika! thank God for citizens with brains!
ReplyDeleteCan't even protect yourself from a home invasion even if it was police and LIKE I SAID OVER AND OVER they are pieces of shit...
ReplyDeleteThey can illegally enter your home and start shooting you and you can't defend yourself even if it is unlawful or you don't know who they are because we all know pieces of shit cops never announce themselves in a raid...
Maybe now people will wake up and help us now knowing cops can unlawfully enter your home and do what they want... This case made that clear and this can and will happen to you or a friends or someone you know... but again you don't care because that hasn't happened yet but IT WILL...
This is what happens when you call the cops
ReplyDeleteYou get your rights violated or you all get shot
I'm sick of people getting victimized by criminal cops
Psychopathic predators terrorizing neighborhood blocks
Equipped with pepper spray, mace, cuffs tasers and Glocks
They like serial killers acting out subliminal thoughts
Forget what you're taught
These cops have got a license to kill
Witness intimidation means that they can use it at will
Code of silence means that the pigs'll never let out a squeal
And if they go to court they know the judge'll make em a deal
For real...
That's why they stoppin me, lockin me up and stompin me
Confiscating my property, targeting my demography
Making the poor commodities, profiting off of poverty
Enforcing policies supporting prison economies
Yeah
No one makes money when the violence stops
Hate and brutality's the way to make a criminal crop
Blood in the gutter's how the rich butter their bread at the top
That's why this is what happens when you call the cops
Come on!
I'm mixed up in the system and these pigs's trying to murder me
They mace me, they tase me, they trained em to hate me
Degrade and detain me in chains just like slavery
Hands up, face down, left hook, right quick
Throw you down, hold you down, smack you with that night stick
Night shift, ridin round, see you with ya J's on
You'll get sprayed on over skittles
Word to Trayvon
All the people sayin is it's crazy down in Florida
What you sayin, is you playin? It's the same in California
They gangin like they bangin and they'll hang you down in Georgia
Frame you in the cage for what you say without a lawyer
Swarmin with no warnin, now they sortin through ya residence
Storm in with no warrant now they snortin all the evidence
You better just, learn to dodge or box
Cuz this is what happens when you call the cops
Come on!
"We got a baby in the living room"
Get the grenades. Pull the pin, throw it in the crib, blow him away
"There's a homeless guy camping here"
Well tell him to pack. When he gets up and starts leaving, shoot the bum in the back
"This guy rolled through a stop sign"
That's drugs for sale. Get some doctors to rape him, send him a bill in the mail
"We got a black man knocking on a white woman's door"
Well 10 shots point blank, he ain't gonna knock no more
Look
The problem starts at the academy
New cadets are indoctrinated with a military mentality
With them as the soldiers and us as the people they're battling
We're either collateral damage or combat fatalities
Either way the reality's that it's not gonna stop
Cuz this is what happens when you call the cops
THIS is what happens when you call the cops
COME ON
THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU CALL THE COPS
When one lives in a life that produces a poem/song like that, well, things need to be looked at from another angle from the LEO side of things.
ReplyDeleteSince they won't do that, we need to arm ourselves and shoot so we can live to be at the trial, and there will be one.
That said, be sure of your tactics so you can prevail at the trial. Educate yourselves, folks, and always look for all options other than the shoot, but don't hesitate when it's right.