Man Who Shot at Cops During No-Knock Raid Acquitted on All Charges

[rockin'robin]

“When I knew they were policemen, I lay down, face down. I kept saying, ‘I’m sorry. I’m sorry.’”
July 10, 2014

After a 9 hour deliberation, a jury has found Adrian Perryman, not guilty on all four counts of aggravated assault on a peace officer.

The incident that led to the charges against Perryman happened during the pre-dawn hours of October 26, 2010 in San Antonio, TX.

SAPD’s tactical response unit was executing a no-knock search warrant. The occupants in the house at the time were Perryman, his girlfriend Rebecca Flores, and Flores’s 3 year old grand daughter Savannah.

When Flores saw two shadowy men on the security cameras, she woke up Perryman, and tossed him his gun.

According to MySA News, Flores recalled the events of that night to the jury. “I put my body over Savannah’s,” she said, recalling for jurors what she did in the moments after handing Perryman the gun and before he opened fire. “He said ‘I’ve got a gun and I’m going to shoot — stay out!’”

Flores said it wasn’t until after he fired four shots that she heard anyone yelling “Police!”

“I remember telling him the police were here; I thought they were there to protect us. I said ‘Oh, thank God,’” she said.

Perryman took the stand in his defense last week and told jurors how he had shouted a warning before he heard the front door go down and “unloaded” his gun.

“When I knew they were policemen, I lay down, face down,” he said, adding he dropped the gun and began apologizing. “I kept saying ‘I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I didn’t know it was y’all. I’ve been broken into before.’”

This is a landmark case in the instance of no-knock raids. All too often we see innocent people beaten and killed during the execution of this questionable practice.

Hopefully this leads to a drop in the frequency of no-knock search warrants.

The details of the latest victim in the relentless and immoral war on drugs were released this week by the Tampa Bay Times.

A 29-year old man was gunned down in his own home by officers serving a no-knock search warrant. They found .2 grams of marijuana.

How many more grenades will have to be thrown into cribs before police realize that the war on drugs was lost as soon as it started?

Man Who Shot at Cops During No-Knock Raid Acquitted on All Charges | The Free Thought Project

 

[MangaReader]

Interesting. I think the jury did the right thing. It was an accident.

This is another reason why I am against guns. Guns cause more accidents than for protection.

 

[Eater of Worlds]

It's actually a lot more than the guns themselves. Switzerland has one of the highest gun ownership rates in the world, about half the population by number has guns and it's about a quarter of the number of households. Now they don't allow ammunition kept at home, but previously they did and they had the same stats for gun violence that they do now.

The entire attitude towards guns are different. They have to have training and pass a test to have the guns. They had something like 55 murders due to guns with the last available stats.

Until we change the attitude behind the guns, nothing is going to change.

 

[whatdidyousay!]

Interesting. I think the jury did the right thing. It was an accident.

This is another reason why I am against guns. Guns cause more accidents than for protection.

This has nothing to do with guns , it's the Cops 'No Knock Raid ' that is the problem . It said right in the article that innocents are beaten and killed in 'no knock raid' . An old man die of an heart attack when the cops busted down his door, the cops had the wrong house and nothing happen to the cops .

"This is a landmark case in the instance of no-knock raids. All too often we see innocent people beaten and killed during the execution of this questionable practice.

Hopefully this leads to a drop in the frequency of no-knock search warrants."

 

[diehardbiker]

Oh so you are against guns so that these outlaws can take advantage of innocents?

Interesting. I think the jury did the right thing. It was an accident.

This is another reason why I am against guns. Guns cause more accidents than for protection.

 

[CrazyPaul]

Of course, he's not guilty because he was defending his home/family. Pigs falsely charged him. Very obvious.

 

[Calvin]

While I can understand the "No-Knock Warrant" to catch the wanted suspects and preventing them to escape in the back. This tactic has risks involved and they make mistakes entering the wrong address or wrong people.

Perhaps the better way is to secure the perimeter first then knock the door informing the police presence and if they do not answer the door or hear someone trying to escape or hiding evidences such as throw away drugs in the toilet, that would warrant a forced entry.

No knock comes without warning and caught this innocent people off guard costing the law enforcement officer's lives. The jury made the right decision to see both sides of story and sided with the innocent man.

There's no easy solutions for all of this and the search warrant raid has all the risks. Their mistakes are bound to happen and comes with a huge price.