Isn't the war on drugs fun? And totally necessary? And executed by reasonable, restrained officers of the law? Ask this guy's wife and unborn child: Developing story in Georgia, where church pastor Jonathan Ayers was shot and killed by undercover narcotics officers during a botched drug sting on Tuesday afternoon. Ayers was not the target of the investigation. Police were apparently after a woman Ayers had dropped off just prior to stopping at the convenience store where police confronted him. Surveillance video shows a black SUV pulling up to the store, and plain-clothes officers jumping out with their guns drawn before the vehicle has stopped. Ayers' car then backs into the picture, and the officers fire into his car as he drives off. Ayers was shot in the liver, crashed his car a short distance later, and died at the hospital the bullet wound. A police spokesperson says the officers identified themselves as they got out of the truck, though even if they did, it isn't difficult to see how someone in Ayers' position might panic when confronted with armed, plain-clothes men who'd just jumped from a black SUV. He had also just returned from getting money from the store's ATM. There were no drugs in Ayers' car. Ayers leaves behind a wife who is four months pregnant. I'm sure the officers will get a tough punishment (something along the lines of two weeks paid leave) to think about what they've done. Hit & Run > Georgia Pastor Killed in Botched Drug Bust - Reason Magazine Well, at least this is an isolated incident, right? Botched Paramilitary Police Raids
It will be worse than that. I'm pretty sure there is no authorization to use deadly force on a fleeing suspect, much less an unidentified person.
and i didn't even start this thread. Sickening. But im sure Sabanfan will come on here and say that he shouldn't have had an evil drug user in his car.
I don't know all the facts, but i do have one question that I will have to look up later. Did the pastor "gun it" and flee the scene after the cops popped out? Was he casually leaving the scene before the cops rolled on the hooker? At any point did he move the vehicle in a direction of one of the cops? If so, did the cops fire at the vehicle while it was moving at them? ok a couple questions
He hit one cop who was treated and released the same day. cops claim he made a threatening move with the car. The pastor didn't gun it imo. There's a vidoe of the incident if you dig through the link.
