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Originally posted by Nutter
Are you saying it is the preachers fault for going out to invesigate a cop doing the exact same thing that he has "called the cops on 100 times this year"?
I mean, the cop was doing something illegal to trap the criminals in the first place.
Originally posted by harvib
Can you provide the quote you are referring to? Are you under the impression that there was consent by the property owner to enter the property?
W. Scott Creach, 74, approached the police officer who had gone to his business before midnight after police had received a request for increased patrols there earlier in the day, police said.
The uniformed officer was parked in an unmarked car in the empty parking lot of Creach’s businesses, the Plant Farm at 14208 E. Fourth Ave. and Creach Greenhouse adjacent to the Plant Farm.
However, he recently provided information to the Spokane Valley City Council showing that burglaries in July had nearly doubled compared to the same month in 2009. And, reports of car prowling have jumped from 63 last July to 156 this year.
I apologize for using such an offensive analogy.
However in this event there is no mention of the "police officer" being charged and most likely wont be.
A man was killed on his own property and people are actually serving as apologist for the killer despite limited information.
Nope, though I expected someone would jump to that conclusion. What I'm saying is they both made mistakes or the pastor wouldn't be dead now. The pastor's mistake was taking it upon himself to go approach an unknown vehicle in the middle of the night with a gun in his hand when there has been an increase in criminal activity in the area. That's just a dumb decision, plain and simple.
Originally posted by Jenna
Then you know more than the rest of us do. I haven't seen anything that said he was setting a trap for criminals. Care to share where you got this information from? Or are you drawing conclusions based on him being in an unmarked vehicle?
We don't even know exactly what happened let alone whether or not there's anything to charge the cop with.
All we know is there was an increase in criminal activity in the area, the pastor approached the cop car with a gun, there was an altercation, and now the pastor's dead.
That's not enough to know whether the cop should be charged or if the pastor was actually threatening him. We simply don't know.
That's a far sight different than being an apologist, which by the way is no worse than someone coming in here saying the cop should be charged with murder when they have no more information than anyone else.
So many questions, not enough answers..
Originally posted by Jenna
So many questions, not enough answers..
You're arguing semantics. The article says plain as day that there was a confrontation.
A confrontation ensued, according to police.
And yes, saying he's guilty and calling him a murderer without having all the facts is just as bad as saying he did absolutely nothing wrong.
Originally posted by Jenna
It's a place of business, not his house.