The wife of an armed New Mexico homeowner whom police officers fatally shot when they went to the wrong house on a domestic violence call said she was treated like a suspect, detained for hours and given few details about why officers gunned down her husband.
Months later, the Farmington Police Department still hasn’t reached out to Kim Dotson or her family since police killed Robert Dotson, 52, on April 5, she said.
She said in an interview Wednesday that she learned the officers had knocked on the wrong door that night only because her son is a police officer in the area and was able to read the dispatch log.
“I feel helpless the way all of this has happened,” said Dotson, 49, a former trauma nurse, who said she quit the profession after she tended to her husband when he was shot multiple times in the doorway of their home.
“I don’t understand how these guys get to go home to their families and they broke apart our family,” she said.
“We didn’t do anything wrong.”
Unaware that it was police officers who had opened fire, Dotson said, she returned fire — and the officers shot 19 more times into her home, according to a civil rights suit her family filed in federal district court Friday.
She was uninjured and hasn’t faced charges. …
You don’t have to do anything wrong for the cops to just show up at your house and fucking kill you. This guy. Bo Jean. Breonna Taylor. Daniel Shaver. Austin Haley was 5 years old when a cop shot him in the head and killed him. The cop was trying to get a snake out of a bird house. It wasn’t a high risk situation with a violent criminal, they just don’t care.
Surprised to see Daniel Shaver mentioned, he usually gets skipped. Also Duncan Lemp, and The Weavers (Ruby Ridge, which, after they entrapped Randy and bungled the investigation by sniping his son, dog, and wife while she was holding their baby, they decided to show their “prowess” by burning a bunch of kids in Waco,) Philando Castille, and MORE!
At ruby ridge, a fbi agent was killed and the government lost the case for his death. That’s how bad the government agents acted that day
I don’t agree that Randy Weaver was entrapped, but they absolutely fucked the rest of that up very badly.
Definitely not entrapped, they attempted it certainly but he was already cm violating federal arms laws they were just trying to get more evidence. It was a shit show and three letter agencies do tend to be straight lying cunts but that much they weren’t lying about.
It’s a thin line. I personally think they crossed the line with weaver.