Anti Federalist
03-31-2010, 09:13 PM
Police “Welfare Check” Leaves Woman Dead
Posted by William Grigg on March 31, 2010 07:18 PM
http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/54824.html
Police in Franklin Township, New Jersey recently announced an innovative program “designed to improve the safety of senior citizens,” reported WCBS-TV.
Through “Operation Blue Angel,” elderly residents would leave a key to their front doors in a lockbox accessible by a combination known to police. Police doing “safety checks” of the homes would knock on the door and, if nobody responds, would use the keys to enter.
What could possibly go wrong? What does anybody have to fear from angelic armed strangers sent to check on their “welfare”?
One possible problem is demonstrated by the shooting death of a 47-year-old Prairie Village, Kansas woman this morning (March 31).
Police were sent to her apartment to conduct a “welfare check.” For some reason, the woman didn’t want to be “helped” by the friendly state functionaries with guns.
Oh, but we insist, replied the “Blue Angels,” as they summoned their khaki-clad comrades from the Tactical Squad. Eventually, because of “threats” she supposedly made against the stormtroopers, the police (in the words of a local TV reporter) “were forced to shoot her.”
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A woman was shot and killed by police this morning during a disturbance in Prairie Village.
According to a release from Prairie Village police:
About 7 a.m. this morning, officers were called to the Kenilworth apartment complex at 4300 block of West 93rd Terrace to check on the welfare of a 47-year-old woman, who had made suicidal and threatening comments to other law enforcement agencies earlier in the morning.
When officers arrived, the woman refused to open her door, barricaded the door and continued to make threatening statements.
About 9:45 a.m., members of the Prairie Village Police Department Critical Incident Response Team attempted to take the woman into custody for a mental evaluation, a police spokesman said. She was fatally shot after she threatened officers with a weapon and at least one stun gun fired by officers did not stop her, he said. The woman’s identity has not been released.
http://www.kansascity.com/2010/03/31/1848361_one-person-shot-by-police-in-prairie.html?storylink=omni_popular#ixzz0joYhLjFh
Posted by William Grigg on March 31, 2010 07:18 PM
http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/54824.html
Police in Franklin Township, New Jersey recently announced an innovative program “designed to improve the safety of senior citizens,” reported WCBS-TV.
Through “Operation Blue Angel,” elderly residents would leave a key to their front doors in a lockbox accessible by a combination known to police. Police doing “safety checks” of the homes would knock on the door and, if nobody responds, would use the keys to enter.
What could possibly go wrong? What does anybody have to fear from angelic armed strangers sent to check on their “welfare”?
One possible problem is demonstrated by the shooting death of a 47-year-old Prairie Village, Kansas woman this morning (March 31).
Police were sent to her apartment to conduct a “welfare check.” For some reason, the woman didn’t want to be “helped” by the friendly state functionaries with guns.
Oh, but we insist, replied the “Blue Angels,” as they summoned their khaki-clad comrades from the Tactical Squad. Eventually, because of “threats” she supposedly made against the stormtroopers, the police (in the words of a local TV reporter) “were forced to shoot her.”
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
A woman was shot and killed by police this morning during a disturbance in Prairie Village.
According to a release from Prairie Village police:
About 7 a.m. this morning, officers were called to the Kenilworth apartment complex at 4300 block of West 93rd Terrace to check on the welfare of a 47-year-old woman, who had made suicidal and threatening comments to other law enforcement agencies earlier in the morning.
When officers arrived, the woman refused to open her door, barricaded the door and continued to make threatening statements.
About 9:45 a.m., members of the Prairie Village Police Department Critical Incident Response Team attempted to take the woman into custody for a mental evaluation, a police spokesman said. She was fatally shot after she threatened officers with a weapon and at least one stun gun fired by officers did not stop her, he said. The woman’s identity has not been released.
http://www.kansascity.com/2010/03/31/1848361_one-person-shot-by-police-in-prairie.html?storylink=omni_popular#ixzz0joYhLjFh