This is something I keep telling elitist, bloviating fools such as Ed Rendell who thinks that only the police and military are trustworthy enough to have any type of rifle – rifles he calls “assault” weapons, and obviously has no concept of what an “assault” weapon is or how these rifles are used. 

Police and military aren’t any more trustworthy or responsible.  Some are better trained – others are not.  In this case, they’re not only despicable, corrupt creatures, they’re also repugnant human beings.

In their complaint in Maricopa County Court, Anthony and Lesley
Arambula say an armed intruder “crashed through the front window” of
their home on Sept. 17, 2008 and ran into one of their son’s bedrooms.

Anthony,
worried about his son who was still in his bedroom, says he “held the
intruder calmly at gunpoint” and called 911.

Phoenix Police
officers already in the neighborhood heard the crash of the Arambulas’
window. When they approached the house, Lesley says, she told Sgt. Sean
Coutts that her husband was inside holding the intruder at gunpoint.
Lesley says Coutts failed to pass on that information to the two other
officers.

Inside the house, the Arambulas say, Officer Brian
Lilly shot Anthony six times in the back while he was still on the
phone with the 911 operator – twice when he was on the ground.

The
officers ran into the bedroom after Anthony told them, “You just killed
… you just killed the homeowner. The bad guy is in there.”
    
The
complaint states that Officer Lilly “admitted that it was only after
Tony was laying, bullet-ridden, on the ground that he assessed the
situation. The 911 tape continued to record what happened even after
Officer Lilly unloaded his weapon into Tony, including Officer Lilly’s
post-shooting, one-word ‘assessment’: ‘Fuck.’

“Tony believed he was going to die; the 911 tape records his plaintive
goodbye to his family: ‘… I love you … I love you.’ Then Tony made
what he believed was a dying request to the officers; he did not want
his young family to see him shot and bloodied. Officers callously
ignored his request and painfully dragged Tony by his injured leg,
through the home and out to his backyard patio, where they left him
bloodied and shot right in front of Lesley, Matthew and Zachary.”

If this is the way things went down, all the officers involved should not only lose their jobs, but be punished to the fullest extent of the law!

I wonder if Ed Rendell thinks that these are the types of officers who should be the only ones allowed to carry those “scary” assault rifles, while innocent homeowners stand to be outgunned by armed thugs with no respect for the law.

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