Cops Execute US Marine On Porch Steps In Delaware

Here is a story that I am finding more and more common each day. This man survived 2 tours in Iraqi just to be gunned down in cold blood on the steps of his home. While being tased he was ordered to remove his hands from his pockets, several eyewitnesses say that he was telling them he was trying to raise his arms but each time he spoke was was tased. When he finally failed to comply for the last time, a cop walked up to him and shot him 3 times in the chest with a .40 service weapon.

Hale, a retired Marine Sergeant who served two tours in Iraq and was decorated before his combat-related medical discharge in January 2006, was murdered by a heavily armed 8­12-member undercover police team in Wilmington, Delaware last November 6. He had come to Wilmington from his home in Manassas, Virginia to participate in a Toys for Tots event.

Derek was house-sitting for a friend on the day he was murdered. Sandra Lopez, the ex-wife of Derek's friend, arrived with an 11- year-old son and a 6-year-old daughter just shortly before the police showed up. After helping Sandra and her children remove some of their personal belongings, Derek was sitting placidly on the front step, clad in jeans and a hooded sweatshirt, when an unmarked police car and a blacked-out SUV arrived and disgorged their murderous cargo.

Yes i know its rense but Ive read this in other places as well.

Here is the rest of the story and the source for my quoted paragraph

Its unfortnate that an American Hero is killed on his front porch but there is 2 sides to every story. Witnesses has a tendacy to not tell the whole truth, only partial truth. If this guy had the taser prongs in him then there should not have been a reason to shoot him. The taser does enough damage.

The family is going to sue here's the story...

Family sues police agencies in shooting death of former Marine

WILMINGTON, Del. The family of a former Marine from Virginia shot to death by Delaware police has filed a federal lawsuit accusing state and local police of violating his constitutional rights.

The shooting happened as police were investigating the Pagans Motorcycle Club.

According to the lawsuit, 25-year-old Derek Hale of Manassas, Virginia, was left incapacitated and vomiting by three Taser shocks as he sat on a porch step last November -- before a Wilmington police officer shot him three times.

A little more info to the story is in there, apparantly the police were investigating the Pagan's motorcycle gang, a member whose house the victim was at when shot.

I will try to find more on the story.

Here's another article from Delaware on the killing:

Police gave Va. bad info on shooting victim

Delaware State Police incorrectly told their Virginia counterparts that a 25-year-old man shot and killed by a Wilmington police officer on Nov. 6 had been charged with drug trafficking two days before his death.

A special agent for the Virginia State Police then used the inaccurate information as part of the basis to search Derek J. Hale's Manassas, Va., home when he applied to a magistrate -- under oath -- for a search warrant.

"During the weekend of November 4th and 5th, the Delaware State Police secured several arrest warrants for various members of the Pagans Motorcycle Club to include Virginia member Derek Hale," the affidavit states. "On November 6th, Wilmington Delaware Police Department attempted to arrest Hale on drug charges. Hale did not cooperate and was subsequently shot by police and died of his wounds."

Looks like the Delaware State Police has some explaining to do.....

Another example of trigger happy Americans.

I am so sick of these stories. You taser him 3 times, and then you still have to shoot him 3 time. I guess the tasers didn't get the point across.

www.semissourian.com...
Here is one with his picture.

To survive Iraq only to come back and be gunned down by the police state. Oh well.

Just goes to show that the Nazi, black-ski-masked, jackboot pigs are the REAL danger in America.

Murdering swine...

Makes a mockery of the 'land of the free" don't you think ?

Out of control law enforcement feeding off and believing the propaganda


makes me sick to the core of my being

It just sickens me the way our country has gone to hell. I cant tell you how many stories ive heard of cops tazing senior citizens, children and just other regular folks who are trying to follow orders but do to the paralyzing effects of this "non-lethal" force weapons and end up being also beat and or shot.
I really do believe it is because they enjoy it. As a police officer in Dallas Tx for over 20 years my dad took the life of one criminal but he only did so out of fear of his own life, the criminal had already shot and killed his partner. Even under those circumstances, it still bothered him his entire life.
That is why I believe that if/when the time comes for our police/soldiers are ordered to turn their weapons on their own brothers and sister Americans, they would do so without hesitation
Once that line has crossed, there will be no turning back.
Does Kent University ring a bell

[edit on 1-4-2007 by Kr0n0s]

[edit on 1-4-2007 by Kr0n0s]

Originally posted by esecallum

Another example of trigger happy Americans.

Another example of shooting your mouth, before loading your brain.

Disgusting,
Lex

No disrespect Lex but i think he has a point, even though he meant it as a knock on all or most Americans but Im sorry to say it is true.
Cops in this country have gotten to the point where theyll arresst, handcuff, transport and book a 7 year old child for the most minor of offenses.
I posted a video just the other day of some Thugs L.E. officers, tackling and beating down an old woman in La during the great Katrina gun confiscation fiasco. It was filmed on live Tv. DISGUSTING
Now we have armed Mercenaries allowed to patrol our streets during so called "emergencies" and actually be allowed to trespass and if need be to shoot to kill.
I want to know WTF happened to the country that I was once SO DAMNED PROUD OF THAT I CRIED WHENEVER THE ANTHEM WAS PLAYED ANYTIME ANYWHERE.
Dont get me wrong, I really do love my country but i HATE what it has become. Bush isnt the only one to blame either. I wrote another post and posted a picture of a Federal Agent actually pointing a weapon at a poor cuban child named Elian Gonzalez during his "rescue" and re-patriotation..

Originally posted by Lexion
Originally posted by esecallum

Another example of trigger happy Americans.

Another example of shooting your mouth, before loading your brain.

Disgusting,
Lex

Originally posted by resistancia
Makes a mockery of the 'land of the free" don't you think ?

Out of control law enforcement feeding off and believing the propaganda

Hasn't been the land of the free for quite some time my friend.
I'm afraid THAT part of the United States is about as ignored as most of it's history often is.

Oh well, there will always be other countries out there who are indeed still free... it would seem that true freedom has a habit of exchanging hands.

I believe it was posted somewhere on this forum a few years ago. Does anyone remember the video/news article at some college where an Arab looking student in a library tried to get in without an ID, and police eventually showed up, and a commotion followed. Someone with a video camera started filming, and the student insisted he needed to get a book or something along those lines, and the police started tazering him. Alot of the students were yelling things at the cops but otherwise just stood and watched.

I believe it was posted somewhere on this forum a few years ago. Does anyone remember the video/news article at some college where an Arab looking student in a library tried to get in without an ID, and police eventually showed up, and a commotion followed. Someone with a video camera started filming, and the student insisted he needed to get a book or something along those lines, and the police started tazering him. Alot of the students were yelling things at the cops but otherwise just stood and watched.

This article just kinda reminds me of it. Though this shooting is extreme and it saddens me to hear about it.

Sorry about the double post, browser was being very slow and I ended up stopping and editing the previous one.

www.youtube.com... is the video actually, watching now.

I'm not sure what actually did happen prior to the filming. Interesting watch though. The student should have calmed down when warned to several times.

[edit on 2-4-2007 by el_madmaster]

I remember that same incident, and this one definately reminded me of it.
I've seen a few other videos aswell where the cops had just tasered the suspect, and demanded they raise their arms, to which the suspect cries out every time that they simply cant raise their arms.

In this event posted here, this is very saddening. I don't understand what could have warranted the use of a firearm.
In the other cases of taser use, I believe the operations manual for the use of tasers needs to be updated to allow the police to understand that in many cases, the suspect simply will not be capable of raising their arms.

I have never heard of this. I also have never heard of this 'Pagan Motorcycle Club'. Never seen any motorcycle 'gangs' in town either.

Thanks for posting it ... I guess I don't get out enough or something.

this really makes me sick, especially cause I live in this #