Good work. Keep posting these stories. Sooner or later people will figure out this isn't a series of isolated incidents, it's a pattern of life without civil rights in America.
wasn't his gun supposed to be the thing that kept him safe, rather than getting him shot?76-year-old responsible gun owner is shot by police responding to the wrong address
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The police just can’t seem to avoid controversy these days. Whether it’s unjustly arresting people, using excessive force, or — in the case of 76-year-old Gerald Sykes — showing up to the wrong address, law enforcement has been slipping up frequently as of late. And the results are deadly.
Gerald Sykes was with his wife in their New Jersey home when police showed up to his house — the wrong address — while responding to a 911 call. The officers reportedly knocked on the front door, but Sykes and his wife didn’t hear, prompting the police to walk to the backdoor. Sykes, believing someone was trying to break into his home, grabbed his shotgun and went to the door. In the confusion, a firefight broke out, and Sykes was shot multiple times.
The event has been referred to as a “tragic mistake,” which seems like a bit of an understatement, given that a senior citizen is in critical condition as a result. Sykes clearly believed that he and his wife were in danger and was doing what he could to protect them both from invading forces. He was completely within his rights as an American citizen — and yet he was shot multiple times by law enforcement.
In 2016, owning a gun is an important part of survival as it’s an extremely dangerous time to be alive. More innocent people are murdered in cold blood every single day, so it’s not hard to understand why many Americans are looking towards the Second Amendment in order to protect themselves from potential dangers.
Sykes was legally exercising his right to bear arms and was shot for it — inside of his own home. That is an absolute travesty that should not go unnoticed.
Everyone from every profession makes mistakes on the job. Unfortunately, when police make mistakes on the job, people are liable to end up maimed or dead.
Sources:
WashingtonTimes.com
DailyCaller.com
You sound like a shill for cops and government ,Getting your Bloomberg on i see .
but his gun was supposed to protect him from tyranny and make him safe. what happened?
You gotta ask me ,LOL . i'll take a stab at it. Indeed in a piecefull country maybe with brite cops that dont get propagandized with fear everyday and dont eat aspartmae and other excitotoxins while con-summing state department msm . But he lives in a totalitarian fascist police state technocracy called the u.s.A where fear is job #1. They are called "puss in boots " for a reason . LOL>Thanks for helping keeping that flame alive .
Wow, that was a shitty post. Hyperbole aside, why didn't that shotgun keep the gun owner safe? That's why he had it at the ready. When Pew polled gun owners why own a gun, the top reason given was for Personal Safety. That shotgun didn't keep him safe, did it? Anybody showing up with a gun in hand when police are answering a call is at risk, I don't care why that gun is in his hands. "Puss in boots" my ass, the whole fucking society is fearful. Owning a gun puts the average person many times more at risk than a person who doesn't own a gun and I'm not even including suicide when I say that. This is the fact that gun owners fail realize.
Is there soemthing your trying to say ? With my low cop like i.Q i cant tell if your complimenting me or what. lol. LOL.
Perhaps we should stop begging and start holding them and their bosses accountable.I've been saying that's enough of this sadistic pigshit for decades.
So far, the pigs have not listened.
You're the saddest Native American. Is a single tear perpetually falling from one eye as you type?
