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Title: There's no worse crime than scaring a cop
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Dallas Examiner
URL Source: http://www.examiner.com/x-536-Civil ... es-against-men-who-scared-them
Published: Mar 9, 2009
Author: J.D. Tuccille
Post Date: 2009-03-12 21:02:38 by X-15
Keywords: None
Views: 252
Comments: 14
The worst crime in the word may be making a government official wet his pants. Read between the lines, and that's the real offense committed by Justin Chilton, a 20-year-old Murfreesboro, Tennessee, resident who responded to post-midnight pounding on the door with a gun in hand, only to find that the intruders were wrong-way cops who were supposed to be somewhere else entirely. For causing his visitors a scare, Chilton and his father, Roger, face several criminal charges. Police in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, tried to get ahead of the story as fast as they could. An early report said that Justin "pulled a gun on two officers who conducted a welfare check at his home early Sunday." Pulled a gun on police officers going about their business? What a lucky fellow that he was only charged with two counts of aggravated assault on a police officer, possession of a firearm under 21, possession of a firearm while under the influence, and underage consumption. It was several days later, after Justin and his father made a fuss, before the news media told us that initial police reports may have been less than truthful. As the Daily News Journal put it, "missing from that report, filed Sunday by Officer Matthew Garrett, was any mention that officers responded to the wrong apartment complex — a claim that MPD has now confirmed is true." "Missing from that report, filed Sunday by Officer Matthew Garrett, was any mention that officers responded to the wrong apartment complex — a claim that MPD has now confirmed is true." In fact, officers were sent to respond to an incident at Campus Crossing North. They actually went to Campus Crossing South. And there they hammered on the door of Justin and Roger Chilton. At 3 am. Note how the February 23 report in The Tennessean reads: “A gentleman (later identified as Chilton) responded by telling both officers, ‘I advise you two to move away from my door,’” Garrett reported. “We responded by identifying ourselves as police officers telling him we needed to talk to him. He told us to back away from the door.” Garrett reported that moments into giving Chilton further instructions, Chilton swung the door open “screaming and pointed a handgun at myself and (Premo). Chilton then slammed the door.” Three days later, the police weren't the only ones telling their story. On February 26, Channel 5 reported: Roger and Justin Chilton woke to a pounding on their door at 3 a.m. Sunday. Justin - a decorated military policeman who had just returned from Iraq - answered the door holding his gun. The officers then arrested Justin and his father. "They held us at gunpoint, slammed us to the ground, stomped my hands and butted me in the back of the head with a shotgun," said Justin. The officers charged the Chilton's with resisting arrest and aggravated assault for the incident. See how the story ... err ... transforms once a little more information becomes available? So, what we have is the police pounding on the wrong door during the wee hours of the morning, and taking offense because the resident responds prepared for trouble. Staring down the barrel of a gun, feeling a warm, wet trickle down their pants legs, and enjoying the dawning realization that they're at the wrong address, Officers Matthew Garrett and Brad Premo decided to handle an embarrassing situation by cooking up bogus charges against the residents. "Aggravated assault on a police officer" by a fellow who responded to a disturbance at 3 am and had the forbearance to surrender his weapon so he could get stomped? "Possession of a firearm under 21" because the guy defending his own home had the bad judgment to be 20 years old? "Possession of a firearm while under the influence, and underage consumption" because he had a few celebratory drinks with his dad in his own apartment? Roger Chilton was charged with resisting arrest after ... What? Maybe the officers bruised their knuckles on his skull and found that he'd been boozing after hauling him out of his apartment. How dare he allow himself to be dragged across the threshold with a buzz. That Justin Chilton turns out to be an Iraq veteran and a decorated military policeman just makes the charges against him that much more preposterous. Too young to defend his home? Really? Too bad Uncle Sam didn't know that before packing him off to a war with an M-16. In fact, Justin was probably the best-qualified gun hand at the scene -- and a man, apparently, with some self-restraint. Sure, the "underage" laws are on the books. They're stupid laws at the best of times, and totally inappropriate under the circumstances. The right thing to do if you're a police officer at the scene is to apologize for the disturbance, promise to learn to read map, and leave. Oh, but there's no excuse for causing that warm trickle down the officers' legs. So remember, if you hear a disturbance at the front door after dark, prepare to defend yourself only if you're sober, over 21 and ready to soothe the ruffled feathers of police officers who haven't quite mastered the whole North/South thing. Or else, like the Chiltons, get ready to humiliate the cops a second time -- in the press.
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#1. To: X-15 (#0)
Nope. So remember, if you hear a disturbance at the front door after dark, shoot to kill so there is only one side to the story, the correct one.
Make awkward sexual advances, not war. We hope there's an attorney in Murfreesboro who is not afraid of The Machine, and will help transfer boodles of bucks out of the City Treasury and into Justin's bank account. Such an attorney, though, would forever be afraid of Cop Revenge.....
"The 'uniter' has brought the entire world together - to despise and deride us." lodwick
The sad thing is, is that they could have all 'served' over there together.
After my wife was raped/left for dead, and the half ass actions by the State LEO's, I made it very clear to them, anyone on or in my property after dark, would be met with total response by myself or my sons. And that I/they had no problem, standing before a Judge/Jury for my/our actions..
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. - Henry Louis Mencken
what?? what were the circumstances? did someone break into your home?
That is the dumbest piece of advice I have ever heard. If you shoot through the door, it will be called murder. If you open the door and shoot what you see (cops) it will be called murder. Had the young vet not been sleepy, he would have placed the gun behind his back, opened the door to confirm who was there and the entire mess would have ended peaceably. Nevertheless, I believe the cops could have handled the situation better than they did. Lying makes cops look like cheats, liars and fools. RO
I feel your pain and sympathize with your frustration. Nevertheless, killing someone who just happens to be on your property after dark is called murder. Trespassing is not a killing offense. You would be much better off confronting the intruder with a gun to determine his intentions. If he is up to no good, call the cops. If he is just drunk, taking a short cut or lost, help him along his way. Believe me, I worked in a prison and you definitely do not want to go there if there is any way to avoid it. RO
That's the way I look at it. Leave only your story.
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This is why I will from now on shoot pigs FIRST and keep a lot of bleach on hand. Among other things. ;-)
I was at work and the boys were in the bath. This POS has come into the house, while she had been outside hanging clothes, on the line and the boys were next door playing. He raped her and cut her over 100 times with what the police called, a toying with her, motions. Thank God, it was in another part of the house and the boys didn't see/hear it. They have a palm print, but since they just started taking palm prints along with finger prints. It was of no value.
Thank you for your concern and yes, I should have worded my reply to them better. And I do go with caution in mind, when I check out anything on or around my property.
Around these parts the cops always have their 2-way radios blaring and (amber or blue and red) lights flashing so it's pretty obvious who's visiting at night. That way it minimizes the chances of bullets being fired through the doors. If I had any doubt I'd peek to be sure before opening the hatch, and I damn sure wouldn't be holding a weapon if it was cops. If it wasn't the police I wouldn't open the door. Instead I'd take up a position behind cover or concealment in case gremlins kicked the door, and I'd be prepared to shoot. So, either way this resident loses. If he admits that he knew or believed it was the police then he screwed up. If he claims that he didn't know or didn't believe it was the police then he will appear to be someone with a poor survival instinct and/or a thug who was spoiling for a fight because "I waz on mah own propertee and it's leegul to shoot 'em!" (I wouldn't assume that a jury would be automatically sympathetic to that. Would you?) If for no other reason one shouldn't expose family members to danger by stupidly opening the door and asking to be killed with the opening volley. If he was instantly killed or wounded then bad people could have leisurely gone about murdering, sexually assaulting and pouring caustic/toxic chemicals down family members' throats, and not necessarily in that order. If you love your family and put their survival first, you try to make it hard for creeps to gain entry while making yourself the smallest possible target and killing any who do.... This only underscores the difference between proper survival training and that received by swaggering occupation soldiers who enter homes of cringing citizens who offer little or no resistance. (you know, "self defense" Israeli-style)
So remember, if you hear a disturbance at the front door after dark, prepare to defend yourself only if you're sober, over 21 and ready to soothe the ruffled feathers of police officers who haven't quite mastered the whole North/South thing.
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#2. To: Critter (#1)
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#3. To: X-15 (#0)
#4. To: Critter, X-15 (#1)
So remember, if you hear a disturbance at the front door after dark, shoot to kill so there is only one side to the story, the correct one.
#5. To: X-15 (#0)
#6. To: Refinersfire (#4)
After my wife was raped/left for dead,
#7. To: Critter (#1)
So remember, if you hear a disturbance at the front door after dark, shoot to kill so there is only one side to the story, the correct one.
#8. To: Refinersfire (#4)
...anyone on or in my property after dark, would be met with total response by myself or my sons. And that I/they had no problem, standing before a Judge/Jury for my/our actions..
#9. To: Critter (#1)
So remember, if you hear a disturbance at the front door after dark, shoot to kill so there is only one side to the story, the correct one.
No place is better than Turtle Island.
#10. To: ReallyOrnery (#8)
Trespassing is not a killing offense.
#11. To: X-15 (#0)
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams 
#12. To: christine (#6)
what?? what were the circumstances? did someone break into your home?
#13. To: ReallyOrnery (#8)
I feel your pain and sympathize with your frustration. Nevertheless, killing someone who just happens to be on your property after dark is called murder. Trespassing is not a killing offense. You would be much better off confronting the intruder with a gun to determine his intentions. If he is up to no good, call the cops. If he is just drunk, taking a short cut or lost, help him along his way. Believe me, I worked in a prison and you definitely do not want to go there if there is any way to avoid it.
#14. To: X-15 (#0)
“A gentleman (later identified as Chilton) responded by telling both officers, ‘I advise you two to move away from my door,’” Garrett reported. “We responded by identifying ourselves as police officers telling him we needed to talk to him. He told us to back away from the door.”
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