Opposing Views – by Sarah Fruchtnicht
A recent college graduate in Washington says he wants an apology after deputies in Spokane County mistakenly raided his home, with guns drawn, giving him the scare of his life.
Conner Guerrero says he noticed somebody sneaking around his yard at night and assumed it was burglars.
“Just trying to enjoy my evening. All the sudden, I see a flashlight shining through my doors…” said Guerrero. “I’m thinking this could be a dangerous situation for me.”
“I come over to my door and I slap it to say hey someone is in this house and they’re not going to let you come in here,” he told KREM-TV. “Right as soon as I opened this door, and it’s dark outside – it’s very dark and all I can see is a pistol.”
A man yelled “Sheriff’s office” and told him to come out of the house.
“I’m wondering why the hell there is a gun being pointed at me right now! They directed me to take a knee, well both knees,” he said. “The gun [was] still drawn.”
Deputies reportedly said Guerrero was trespassing and didn’t live there. Not until they looked at his I.D. did they realize Guerrero did live there and they had the wrong home.
Instead of apologizing, one of the deputies told Guerrero, “You’re lucky I didn’t f–king shoot you.”
“We went to the wrong house, yes … after that they handled the call for what it was advised of,” said Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich. “They showed up, it was a dark house, fresh tire tracks, they were looking for a burglar.”
But officers were responding to a call about a suspicious vehicle, not a burglary.
Guerrero says he’s been having trouble sleeping since the incident, but Knezovich blamed him for making it worse.
“You don’t pound on a door, open it and slam it that way. Put yourself in the deputies’ position,” said Knezovich.
Knezovic says the Sheriff’s office issued an apology to Guerrero, but Guerrero wants a personal apology from the two deputies who got the wrong house.
“You’re lucky I didn’t f–king shoot you.”
He has it backwards.
He should have told the cops, they were lucky that he didn’t shoot them instead of the other way around.
Bulldog
I was so thinking the exact same thing. he he he
Just a cop being a typical cop. Wouldn`t it be considered kidnapping if any body held someone at gun point against their will because that is exactly what the pigs did just like they do many times every day, and they are never held accountable. Cops and their kind are only going to get worse untill we start shooting them. Cops will never change untill then.
Times have changed.
Back in 1979, in the early morning hours of summer, myself and wife (she was holding our infant son) were startled by two gun weilding Grass Valley, Ca. police officers. They had, without warning, broke in the front door and pointed their guns at us, shouting orders. Within seconds they seemed to realize, they had (most likely) entered the wrong house, or at least were responding to bad information. Well, within the hour, their superior officer was profusely apologizing – this included the return of the two officers with an offer to immediately replace/fix/repair our door.
It was later sorted out (with another apology) to be a (very understandable) address mistake for a call that really should have required (in my opinion) “that kind of response”.
Fast forward to today: and it seems to be exactly as they are now being trained; “Them against Us” “screw ’em” “I could have f**king shot you”, etc., or some other response that we as society should act like the bottom class of the “Shogun Japan” and prostrate ourselves upon command.
My old man would roll over in his grave if he were to see what some of these cops have become – or what has “become” some of these cops!!
I am getting calls for donations to police funds of various types when they finish their sell I respond when you police stop beating and killing us call me in the meantime I can not support them in any way.
I wish I would thought of that. I just hang up. I think I will try your approach, maybe I will throw in a little about the 4th Amendment as well. 🙂
Two Deputies showed up at my house at 11:00 on a Sunday night about 2 weeks ago yelling for me to come out, said I had a warrant for my arrest, macing my pets and about to break down the door after crossing private property complete with do not trespass signs, they asked me if I was this guy and my birth date was such and such, I said yea and they said I was wanted. Very aggressive tone from one guy. I told him “no I’m not” knowing I’ve done nothing. I tried to ask them who called them, while they ran me over the radio found I was indeed not wanted and then started threatening me with disorderly conduct on my own porch for asking any questions. I live far far away from even the smallest town. Get ready. I’d say I was being set up or profiled. How do I know they didn’t plant something in my car? They work for the private prison industrial complex as essentially salesman, am I a lead?
Sounds like those pigs were just looking for trouble 🙁 . Itis bad enough gassing people but it is steppin` over the line when they are involving family pets. They should be brought up on charges for animal crulety/abuse because if they thought that you were the one they were after then they would have also know that you had family pets there too. plus they showed up at 11:00pm, they knew they did you wrong. they were just on a fishing trip fishin` for trouble. 👿
“You don’t pound on a door, open it and slam it that way. Put yourself in the deputies’ position,” said Knezovich.
Seriously? That’s the best excuse they can come up with to cover their stupidity? Stupid is as stupid does.
Should have “shot a shothun through the door” just like uncle joe says to do! Wonder what the cop would have to say about that?
“Instead of apologizing, one of the deputies told Guerrero, “You’re lucky I didn’t f–king shoot you.”
You’ll get NO such consideration once the SHTF, scumbag. You won’t be so lucky at all.
Tick, tock………