Cops Kill Young Father-to-Be in Botched Marijuana Raid

http://RevolutionNews.US ~ Las Vegas narcs serving a marijuana search warrant killed an unarmed father-to-be in his own bathroom.

Trevon Cole, a 21-year-old father-to-be was killed last Friday night by a Las Vegas Police Department narcotics officer serving a search warrant for marijuana. Trevon Cole was shot once in the bathroom of his apartment after he made what police described as "a furtive movement."

Police have said Cole was not armed. Police said Monday they recovered an unspecified amount of marijuana and a set of digital scales. A person identifying herself as Cole's fiancée, Sequoia Pearce, in the comments section in the article linked to above said no drugs were found.

Pearce, who is nine months pregnant, shared the apartment with Cole and was present during the raid. "I was coming out, and they told me to get on the floor. I heard a gunshot and was trying to see what was happening and where they had shot him," Pearce told KTNV-TV.

According to police, they arrived at about 9 p.m. Friday evening at the Mirabella Apartments on East Bonanza Road, and detectives knocked and announced their presence. Receiving no response, detectives knocked the door down and entered the apartment. They found Pearce hiding in a bedroom closet and took her into custody. They then tried to enter a bathroom where Cole was hiding. He made "a furtive movement" toward a detective, who fired a single shot, killing Cole.

"It was during the course of a warrant and as you all know, narcotics warrants are all high-risk warrants," Capt. Patrick Neville of Metro's Robbery-Homicide Bureau said Friday night.

But a person identifying himself as Pearce's brother, who said he had spoken with his sister, had a different version of events: "The police bust in the door, with guns drawn to my little sister and her now deceased boyfriend," he wrote. "My sister is 8 ½ months pregnant, two weeks until the due date. But they bust in the door, irritated they didn't find any weapons or drugs, drag this young man into the restroom to interrogate him and two minutes later my sister hears a shot. They shot him with a shotgun, no weapon. For what? My sister is a baby, this young man is a baby, now my sister is at his house telling his mom her son is dead, and he is barely 21."

Pearce herself told the Las Vegas Review-Journal Monday that police forced her to kneel at gunpoint in the bedroom and that she could see Cole in the bathroom from the reflection of a mirror. According to Cole, police ordered Cole to get on the ground, he raised his hands and said "Alright, alright," and a shot rang out.

According to Pearce and family members, Cole had no criminal record, had achieved an Associate of Arts degree, and was working as an insurance adjustor while working on a political science degree at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas. He was not a drug dealer, Pearce said.

"Trevon was a recreational smoker. He smoked weed, marijuana. That's what he did," she told KTNV-TV. "They didn't have to kill him. We were supposed to get married next year, plan a black and white affair," she said. "He was all I ever knew, we were gonna make it."

LVPD Monday identified the police shooter as narcotics detective Bryan Yant, a 10-year veteran of the force. This is the third time Yant has controversially used his police firearm. In 2002, he shot and killed a robbery suspect, claiming the suspect, who was on the ground, aimed a weapon at him. But although the suspect's gun was found 35 feet away, a jury took only half an hour to find the shooting justified.

The following year, he shot and wounded a man armed with a knife and a baseball ball who had been hired to kill a dog that had killed another neighborhood dog. Yants claimed the man attacked him and that he mistook the bat for a shotgun, but the man said he was running away from Yants when Yants fired repeatedly, striking him once in the hip. Because there was no death in that case, no inquest was held, but the department's use of force board exonerated Yants.

Yants is on paid administrative leave while the department investigates. The family has hired an attorney to pursue a civil action. And another American has apparently been killed for no good reason in the name of the war on drugs.

"Narcotics warrants are high risk warrants," said Capt. Neville. The question is for whom, and the answer is obvious: The people on the receiving end of them. The police? Not so much, as we have shown in our annual surveys of police casualties in the drug war.

- Article from Stop the Drug War (DRCNet).
By Phillip Smith, Stop the Drug War (DRCNet) - Wednesday, June 16 2010

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[spawndewd]

@DevonMJacob the fam is getting a settlement with taxpayer money and then this will go away except the continuous unjust police actions will still continue because they aren't taking any accountability or measures to change their ways.

[DevonMJacob]

As a former police officer who has litigated civil rights cases for the better part of the past decade, it is discouraging to see that unlawful policies, practices, and training, continue to be a systemic problem in policing. However, it is promising to see that the problem is being addressed by not only civil rights lawyers, like myself, but by investigative reporters. Hopefully, the truth will be discovered and justice will prevail. Devon M. Jacob, Esquire

[orrchase]

lol this video is 4:20 long :DD

[tumbipanther]

Nothing new here, just cops being cock suckers as per usual...

[happilea]

On the right track.........They killed a man. I would not call that anywhere close to being on the right track.

Wow really a move constitutes a death sentence now? What has this country come to. This silly war is ridiculous. Its a failed war. I dont smoke pot but I could care less who does however, the war on drugs is a waste of my money.

[edwardd6681]

punish the crime not the drug 

[JoeDaWg82]

@JoeDaWg82 unarmed

[JoeDaWg82]

@chaset371 So called innocent? He was under armed, sitting in his house, accused of the ever deadly offense "being in possession of a plant". Yeah, I'd say he was innocent all right. You seem like your looking for a different kind of freedom, they've got what your looking for in Iran.

[JoeDaWg82]

@chaset371 The cops are out of control. That's why they are universally spit on and shat on by everyone black white gray or brown. The founding fathers would have drug that cop out by his hair and beat him to death with his own night stick. The police have become nothing but common thugs with guns. If you don't fight for freedom, you ll always be a slave.

[samuriguy909]

cops are out of control. fuckin cops. end the war on drugs, but we all know the corporate cocksucking sleezy politicians will never do that.