Georgia Cops Shoot Resident, Kill His Dog After Responding to Wrong Home During 911 Call - Hit & Run : Reason.com:
"Three officers in DeKalb County, Georgia, were responding to a 911 call about a possible burglar outside the last house on Boulderwoods Drive in Atlanta but entered the second house on the street, because, police say, it "matched the physical description of the house."
They entered through a rear door they said was unlocked and ran into Chris McKinley, who had been watching a movie with his wife and 1-year-old child before entering another room with his dog.
The cops shot McKinley, wounding him, and shot and killed his dog.
What's more, after using potentially deadly force, the police officers did not secure the crime scene they had created.
McKinley stumbled outside, and ran into a neighbor who gave him first aid.
She says
McKinley kept repeating "Why did they shoot me? Why did they kill my dog?"
Police insist they're taking responsibility.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports:
"Are we perfect?" DeKalb director of public safety Cedric Alexander said.
"Absolutely not.
But when we find a mistake, we own it.
We own the fact that we were at the wrong house.
We didn't hide it.
We didn't mismanage it.
We were at the wrong location based on information that was given to us."
Pro-tip for Alexander: if you're blaming your mistake on what someone else told you, you can't say you're "owning" it.
In fact, you're kind of disowning it.
The incident is at least the fourth questionable police shooting in DeKalb County in the last two years.
None appeared to result in termination of employment for any police officer...
"President Obama and his progressive pals in both the government and the media have done their very best to capitalize on the racial tension in America — which they created — using it to paint police officers as power hungry, trigger happy racists who prowl the city streets looking for a black man to shoot.
