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Las Vegas police kill victim of home invasion, Brandon Durham, who called 911 for help

Las Vegas police kill victim of home invasion who called 911 for help

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/15313778

Officers showed up at the home and found a man struggling with a woman over a knife. An officer opened fire and struck the man, killing him at the scene. Only later did they discover the man who was killed lived at the home and was struggling to fend off the woman who had broken into his home.
Police say Brandon Durham, 43, had called 911 and reported multiple people outside his home shooting, then told the 911 operator that someone had entered his home through the front and back doors and he was locking himself in the bathroom.
He also told the 911 operator that he was home with his 15-year-old daughter, according to police. Officers kicked open the door after arriving on scene and hearing someone screaming as well as damage to vehicles parked outside the property, police said.

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The officer who fired is 26 years old and has been with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department since 2021. An investigation is underway to determine if the officer acted appropriately when he fired his weapon.
That's going to be a No, dawg. They did not act appropriately.
- We all know what the actual outcome will be though. The police will investigate themselves and find that they didn't do anything wrong, while the officer is either on paid leave or silently transferred to another department.
  
  Yup.
  Each officer needs to be personally accountable or this will never change. They need to be charged for the crime they commit.
  But yeah, i know I'm just preaching to the choir. Everyone knows what's going one. It's frustrating.
  
  Meanwhile, it's revealed that this is his third precinct after assaulting multiple black men in his previous two positions
  
  Even if somehow they find the officer didn't act appropriately he will get a slap on the wrist and maybe fired from that department, but the next county over will hire him.
- In a decent moral world that would be the result but we live in this indecent immoral world.
Why do people even call the police anymore?
- Bro, we had a petty theft at work.
  While identifying culprits, my coworker, with a straight face, said to me, "The security guard is pretty much a cop, so there's no way he could have done it" implying cops are the highest form of trust.
  I don't know why they thought that.
  
  IMO the association of police with safety is not wrong. A system that does not supervise and punish police members for wrong actions is the problem. Aka don’t let police investigate police mistakes.
- Because insurance requires you to get your payout?
  
  Insurance just need you that you open a police report. Report online or in person in the police station and make the claim with that.
- Because they are the victims of crime
Officers showed up at the home and found a man struggling with a woman over a knife. An officer opened fire and struck the man, killing him at the scene.
See, being a man isn't always advantageous.
Edit: some of y'all are neurotic. You have an almost pathological need to create subtext where none exists. Allow me to alleviate your concerns so you can stop clutching your pearls: no, I'm not some Andrew Tate following misogynist.
Jesus.
- I don't know why people are downvoting this
  
  Because it fundamentally clashes with their world view.
- LOL but it has it's perks.
- You have an almost pathological need to create subtext where none exists
  But that's literally what you just did...?
  
  No, I don't think I did. I think I'm just better at correctly identifying subtext that actually exists.
Imagine you're on a mission to kill your ex, and you just harass them until they call the cops and you know the cops will kill them for you.
Inside the home, police say, officers found Durham and the suspect, identified as Alejandra Boudreaux, struggling over a knife and an officer-involved shooting occurred.
Sounds like the cop just happened to be there. And a gun unrelated to the officer aimed itself at the home's resident. And the gun fired all by itself. Wow I hate when they use this kind of language, just say what's written in the headline!

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