Authorities in New Mexico will not seek charges against three police officers involved in a fatal shooting after arriving at the wrong house last year.
Officers in the town of Farmington fired dozens of shots and killed Robert Dotson, 52, because he appeared at the door of his home holding a gun.
At the time, the officers were responding to a domestic violence call from a house across the street.
The Dotson family filed a lawsuit against the department last year.
According to a complaint filed by the family in court, police arrived at the Dotson residence late on 5 April, 2023 and “parked down the street and did not have their lights on”.
When Mr Dotson opened his front door holding a weapon, police immediately opened fire, striking him 12 times. Another 19 shots were fired at his wife Kimberly, who was unharmed during the incident. Police later said she opened fire on officers with a pistol.
“Not long ago”? Like 40 years ago?
Rodney King ring a bell?
Did you read about every one of the 229 Black people (ranging in age from 3 months to 88 yrs old) killed by police in the year after George Floyd’s murder? Or every one of the 27% of police killings that involved Black people in 2021? Or every one of the 2164 Black people killed by the police since 2015?
Yeah, I didn’t think so.
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Of course I didn’t read about all of them. But I did read about several of them, on a regular basis.
How many white people did you read about being murdered by cops? Yeah, didn’t think so.
White people being killed by police has always been noted. Indigenous, Black and Brown people not so much.
Oh no, did all your fancy statistics dry up?