Authorities in New Mexico will not seek charges against three police officers involved in a fatal shooting after arriving at the wrong house last year.
Officers in the town of Farmington fired dozens of shots and killed Robert Dotson, 52, because he appeared at the door of his home holding a gun.
At the time, the officers were responding to a domestic violence call from a house across the street.
The Dotson family filed a lawsuit against the department last year.
According to a complaint filed by the family in court, police arrived at the Dotson residence late on 5 April, 2023 and “parked down the street and did not have their lights on”.
When Mr Dotson opened his front door holding a weapon, police immediately opened fire, striking him 12 times. Another 19 shots were fired at his wife Kimberly, who was unharmed during the incident. Police later said she opened fire on officers with a pistol.
I did not realize that I will be reading a post of a person who is upset that additional innocent person was not shot dead.
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Hey, chill. All I wanted is to joke.
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Now you are reading my brain.
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Damn now that’s how you do a callout
I am on kbin, and as of now I see zero downvotes for my and your posts. And yes, I found hilarious that you were upset about this situation. Sorry that you do not understand my humor. And don’t go ballistic, sometimes you just have to trust people when they tell you about their intentions.
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Gotdammit I love you. Your responses to that douche warm my heart.
It is unfortunate that you are so close minded and refuse to hear me. I did not discuss any morals. It was all in your mind that I did.
duuuuuuuuuuuuuude get another drug besides huffing your own farts
He wasn’t though. You misread or misrepresented his response my man
19 shots fired at a person without hitting means 19 chances to hit something, or someone, else.
Bullets don’t just vanish when they miss the target.
These cops have such shit aim, and such shit investigative talent, that they fail at every single metric. They should be in prison, but failing that, they should not be cops.
I don’t think anyone’s upset she lived, but there have been a lot of cases where officer’s inability to aim have added a lot of casualties from hitting random people in their field of fire.
I think the cops might be. It’s police policy to empty the entire magazine if you plan on shooting at all, and to always shoot to kill. That’s how they’re “trained.”
Dead people don’t talk and can’t sue.