College Student shot by police for marijuana

http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2009/03/derek_copp_is_name_of_grand_va.html

They police didn't release too much information but I guess he was unarmed, and was studying at the time the cops broke in on a search warrant for reports that the place smelled like marijauna.

He was shot when he covered his hands from a bright flashlight.

They didn't find anything in his apartment that they could arrest him for.

This makes me genuinely sick to my stomach.

Yeah this pisses me off a lot, I heard he only had 22 grams of pot and no weapons or anything.

GregD88 said:

Yeah this pisses me off a lot, I heard he only had 22 grams of pot and no weapons or anything.

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yeah and i guess he and his roomate were just studying when they busted in and shot him.

wow.. just wow... shit like this makes me wanna move into the mountains and live off the land like the old days.. fucking gestapho cops .. do they not realize that miost potheads arent violent? they must have been scared lil pussies w/ there guns out just waiting to shoot. OMG that is fucked up. for smelling weed? its not like it was a crackhouse/meth lab etc.. it was just someone smoking weed.. OMG.

I just hope the cop gets fired, and that Derek gets a massive payday.


Welcome to the USA, where you can get shot for covering your eyes.

im speechless

fired? i hope he gets locked the fuck up and ass raped every damn day and he has to wash out his "daddies" boxers and get him cigs while wearing red koolaid lipstick.

... speachless

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... speachless

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they sent a 5 man "task force" to raid an apt for someone smoking weed? and then shot the kid? what, the 5 grown ass men couldnt handle the one stoner kid without shooting him? so fucking wrong its almost unbelievable.

WOW.. that's all I can say... WOW..

CrackerJax, is this why America is great?

assholes.......nuff said

justatoker said:

wow.. just wow... shit like this makes me wanna move into the mountains and live off the land like the old days.. fucking gestapho cops .. do they not realize that miost potheads arent violent? they must have been scared lil pussies w/ there guns out just waiting to shoot. OMG that is fucked up. for smelling weed? its not like it was a crackhouse/meth lab etc.. it was just someone smoking weed.. OMG.

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Dude, they know most potheads aren't violent, that's why they go after them instead of real criminals.

I respect the cops who're just trying to provide for their families but I hate douchebag cops like this.

Now that this dangerous book reading pothead is off the street and in the hospital, I feel so much safer.....

Wow cops are so fucking brave these days takes five of them to harass one kid. stinking pigs

misshestermoffitt said:

Now that this dangerous book reading pothead is off the street and in the hospital, I feel so much safer.....

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$10 says that the guy who shot the student gets off with with the excuse "well there was no way that he could have known, so he's not at fault"

actually i love how legally speaking, ignorance is not an excuse and yet cops are often get way from things because they "couldn't have known".

That's a great point Kant, ignorance is never a valid excuse for a citizen, but it always is for cops. Hmmmmmm...........

That cop just got trigger happy when he saw the dude move his hands.

Fucking ridiculous though, they knew he was unarmed. That guy just wanted to shoot someone... He should never be able to use a gun as part of his job again. He needs to be a permanent desk bitch.

I fucking HATE pigs.
Last week I was coming home from home depot minding my own business and I got pulled over one day by the SAME cop that gave me a DWI last year.. He recognized my car so he pulled me over, kept me for 30 minutes trying to find some kind of dirt, then gave me a warning for 'no signal for lane change''. There were NO cars around, me and him on the side of the road, I got over to get in left turn lane at a light.

I am sadly not surprised by this. Anyone who doesn't know, we currently live in a Police State. In my area a 14 year old kid was computer cracking for education and entertainment. He wasn't stealing money, he wasn't stealing and selling business plans, all he was doing was cracking systems and learning how they worked.

The FBI, Secret Service, and local police sent 25 SWAT cops in after the kid. He was ... um 14 years old living with his single mother in a 2 bedroom apartment. The cops shot the family pet (a Cocker Spaniel) yanked the mother out of the shower and had her face first and naked on her bathroom floor, and finally kicked in the kids bedroom door and beat the shit out of him before finally cuffing him. Not a single weapon in the house, not a single drug in the house, just a modest single income family with next to nothing. Was all this needed for a 14 year old kid who is a math genius and brilliant problem solver? I for on think the meat head cops were jealous of the fact that the kid had a good future and could get a damned good job with his brains.

Passive pot smokers, 10 year olds in elementary schools, smart mouthed college kids, and passive hippy pot growers are aparently the most violent criminals in the world why else would they Taze, swat, raid, and beat the hell out of them. America come on vacation leave on probation.

-RT76