Family of man killed by police responding to wrong house in New Mexico files lawsuit
Family of man killed by police responding to wrong house in New Mexico files lawsuit
Robert Dotson, 52, was shot and killed in the doorway of his house in Farmington.
The family of a man fatally shot in New Mexico by police officers responding to the wrong house sued the department for wrongful death and other claims in federal court, according to a complaint filed on Friday in the U.S. District Court of New Mexico.
Robert Dotson, 52, was shot and killed in the doorway of his house in Farmington after local police officers opened fire after they said they saw he had a gun.
Police knocked on Dotson's door at 11:30 p.m. on April 5, according to the complaint filed in court. Dotson grabbed his gun from the top of the refrigerator and went to open the front door. The complaint says "police vehicles were parked down the street and did not have their lights on."
Three officers standing outside the door immediately opened fire, according to the complaint. Dotson was hit by 12 bullets. His wife, Kimberly, wearing just her robe, came down the stairs to find out what happened, the complaint says, and the officers fired an additional 19 bullets at her but missed.
New Mexico State Police issued a statement saying that Farmington police were responding to a domestic violence call but went to the wrong address.
Gun owners: if police can murder you for having a gun, you don't have the right to have a gun.
I mean, evidence shows they'll shoot you whether you're armed or not, might as well be able to shoot back.
The irony here is that the gun put him in danger instead of adding protection
Tell it to Russian protesters. Before they were drafted. Or poisoned. Or imprisoned. Or being shot on bridge near Kremlin. Or poisoned and then imprisoned. Or not protester, but 20-years old programmer who was beaten to death for jogging. Or woman who got force abortion by her stomach being kicked with reinforced boot.
They just needed a few good guys with guns walking down the street at the same time to help out.
They don't even care about gun rights if you're white and a Democrat. Look at how the NRA is not even saying a peep about Hunter Biden's gun charge.
One person who didn't do anything wrong is dead, a bunch of other people who didn't do anything wrong are gonna pay for it, and the people who killed an innocent person because they are violent and incompetent will face no sanctions whatsoever. The police are a fucking street gang.
One person who didn’t do anything wrong is dead, a bunch of other people who didn’t do anything wrong are gonna pay for it, and the people who killed an innocent person because they are violent and incompetent will face no sanctions whatsoever.
America, Fuck Yeah!
They're far more powerful than a street gang. Street gangs are generally universally loathed by the general public and the courts are reasonably happy to lock up gangsters (though do tend to turn a blind eye when gang violence is self contained).
By comparison, the police have this significant chunk of the population bizarrely supporting them ("back the blue" and "thin Blue line"), a massive amount of media propaganda (it feels like every other show on TV is a cop drama), and the courts are heavily on their side (regularly refusing to even bring cases against the police).
I've never seen street gangs have any of those things. Even when there's media about gangs, it usually doesn't shy away from being clear that the gangs are evil.
So they’re all getting life in prison for murder, breaking and entering, and attempted murder, right?
Right???
Paid leave for a month.
Ha, good one.
This is why police need to be required by law to have occupational insurance.
That way even if they are found to be not guilty through qualified immunity or whatever BS, no insurance company would insure them, which means they couldn't work as a cop anywhere.
Not having police means you get strongman groups that fill in as the security detail against getting raped and all that nonsense that humans do to each other. In short, you get the Taliban. And become Afghanistan.
Or Yemen, where everyone just has guns and everything goes to the dogs.
Domestic violence? Let's shoot at the wife too - no more domestics, no more violence.
Can't abuse someone if they're dead taps forehead
They need to stop calling this shit wrongful death and start calling it Murder. This was a straight up murder whether they were at the wrong house or not. End qualified immunity
and the officers fired an additional 19 bullets at her but missed.
Were these officers trained at Imperial Stormtrooper school?
May as well be, they get trained on "killology"
It's evil.
Yeah, I linked to an article about that in response to someone else. Absolutely agreed.
"His wife, Kimberly, wearing just her robe, came down the stairs to find out what happened, the complaint says, and the officers fired an additional 19 bullets at her but missed."
Ok, so they give the reason for murdering her husband as being armed (not a crime in the US I think), whats the rational here? If not for the stormtrooper level shooting those kids would be orphans. Or maybe they would shoot them as well?
They were frightened for their safety.
If only people were allowed to knock on the homes of cops, then shoot them and their wife because the cop came to the door with a gun.
Wish they would use that line of thinking to stay home instead.
Land of the retards.
Home of the (thankfully) awful shots
Family of man MURDERED by police.. there I fixed your title
Used to live in Chaves county for many years. Law enforcement there is even worse than the rest of what you hear in the country for a few reasons. Roswell PD for example would pay for your police training, so these guys and gals would get a free ride to FLETC as long as they were going to join RPD.
However, most of the time they would graduate, start working in Roswell and immediately realize how shitty the town and corruption within RPD was and transfer to another office, usually out of state. It became an issue for a long time where people would just get the free FLETC ride and go off elsewhere, making local PD was so thin that State Police as well as the Sheriff's Department were having to help out with mundane calls well below their pay grade.
So this causes the other issue, the only cops there consistently are the douchefucks that peaked in high school (and peek at high schoolers, both a joke and the reality, see Cass Mason of Hagerman, NM PD) who have an ego and power fantasy. They have room temperature IQ and AR15s in the back seat. I'm sure Farmington is no different with their police academy candidates.
So this story didn't surprise me when it happened, sadly. Hope the family gets what they deserve from these shitty cops.
I can't believe the sense of entitlement among average people. Do they really believe they're entitled to feel safe in their own homes!
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That guy wanted a confrontation. He ran out of the door with a gun in his hand, ready to shoot. He was a threat to everyone outside in that moment. After the police shot him, his wife kept shooting at the cops. Luckily nobody hit anyone else.
This is not police brutality. The cops of most countries on earth would have shot him.
This is an issue with american gun laws and the unregulated gun terror. 48k people died in the US from gun related injuries in 2021. Those were not all police killings or gang crime...
He opened the door with a gun in his hand. It says nothing about him running out. Additionally no where does it say his wife shot at anyone. Instead it says the new widow and her children were hand cuffed and driven to the police station separately.
Look at the body cam footage. What I meant by running out was the rapid opening of the door, ready to kill. Not sprinting down the driveway. That the wife opened fire is also well documented.
Don't forget to downvote the reality that does not fit your opinion.
Not to dismiss what happened here. But who is still opening their door when random strangers bang on it?
Yes, because I'm sure the cops just went away when he didn't answer the first ten times they pounded on it like they were trying to break it down. Cops have a terrifying way of "knocking."
Cops have a terrifying way of “knocking.”
It's supposed to be, it's psychological. But you are not legally obligated to open it. If they have a good enough reason to be there, they will let themselves in. Otherwise keep your mouth shut, the lights off, and out of sight so you don't give them that reason; and they can fuck off.