Family of man killed in drug raid want officer charged with murder

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NEW ORLEANS -- Family members of an unarmed man killed by police during a drug raid in Gentilly want the officer who fired the lethal shot arrested and tried for murder.

"I'm mad, we're all mad," said Helen Shorty, Wendell Allen's grandmother.

Friday, Shorty joined several dozen protesters at New Orleans Police Headquarters. They carried signs, demanding justice.

Police say Officer Josh Colclough fired the shot that killed Allen. They admit Allen did not possess a weapon prior to the shooting. But, police say investigators later found a gun and marijuana inside the home.

"You know you shot him, dead," said Shorty. "This is a murder. I want that police officer booked on murder and I want it now."

"They shot Wendell in his heart," she said. "But, they didn't take the best of Wendell. They tried to get his heart, but you see all this (pointing to the crowd in front of NOPD headquarters), this is his heart. You heard me, this is his heart."

The shooting is being investigated by not less than three (NOPD) divisions. The FBI and the city's Independent Police Monitor are also taking a look at the shooting. The law provides that an officer is justified in using force, even up to lethal force when he or she believe there is an imminent danger to his or her own person or to a danger of someone else.

The Allen shooting comes less than a week after police shot and killed 20-year old Justin Sipp during a traffic stop in Mid-City.

Fraternal Order of Police attorney and former New Orleans police officer Raymond Burkhart cautions against a rush to judgment.
"We're waiting for all the facts, he said. "The investigation is going to be long. It's going to be thorough. It's going to be methodical."
According to a search warrant obtained by Eyewitness News, officers described Allen's home as a retail distribution outlet for marijuana.
The warrant, signed by a judge, gave police permission to go to the home to look for drugs and firearms.

Burkhart says Allen did not need to have a gun for the shooting to be justified. "Officer Colclough will likely be placed on administrative duty while the investigation into the Allen shooting proceeds."

http://www.wwltv.com/news/Family-Of...nt-Officer-Charged-With-Murder-142122653.html
 
I agree that the cop should be charged with murder.
But he is just one small part of all the wrongs that occurred.
The fact that the police can burst into people's homes because they may have marijuana - flowers that make people laugh - or a gun - which is legal - is ridiculous.
This is just one facet of a larger problem, and putting the cop in jail for 2 decades or so, which is fair, in my thinking, won't address the real problem.
Instead, stop the war on drug users. Period.
Take away the power of cops to burst into someone's private home because the people might have some plants or chemicals that they eat, drink, smoke, or inject to feel good.
Utterly ridiculous.
 
What is needed is a revolution (its coming) where the cops have their doors rammed down & people flying through their doors looting & slapping them around.........it all starts from government. The higher ups in government teaches the police down the ladder to use the tactics of bursting into peoples homes when suspected of a wrong doing like drugs or whatever.

The government instills these thoughts into the police & they teach them how to infiltrate & use any means to get the job done......its gonna get a lot worse of the next coming years & the only protection we have is each other.

During alcohol prohibition, plenty of innocent people died in gunfights & what ever else was happening back then. Elliot Ness was in charge of bringing down Al Capone & arresting people for alcohol use/possession.

There is always money to be made in wars, no matter if its against another country or within our own, a war represents money to be made for the politicians & anyone involved...............
 
Unless the victim made a gesture that made it appear as if he were drawing a weapon the officer should receive manslaughter at the very least.

I'd say more but I'd need a bit more info on the matter. Any idea if the gun was possessed legally or illegally?
 
Eh...if he gets charged, maybe he'll get probation. Cops get away with most anything these days. Hell, I'm surprised if they even charge him at all. The legal system has a tendency to have trouble going after their own.
 
When has an American officer received criminal charges for a killing in the line of duty? I'm not asking rhetorically; I really want to know.

Oh, there was the BART shooting in San Francisco. But that one was taped by commuters. Still, that's all I can come up with.

The investigation is going to be long. It's going to be thorough. It's going to be methodical.
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See what he did there? Where I live, it's not uncommon for these "investigations" to go on for many years. The public forgets.
 
Burkhart says Allen did not need to have a gun for the shooting to be justified.
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What? I mean, ok, if the guys coming at you with a knife I wouldn't see a problem with shooting him in the leg/shoulder but unless they've got a gun pointed at you I really don't see how killing them is justified.

There was another story a while ago about a guy with some weed who ran from the cops and they shot him in his home, loads of comments on the article were saying, 'he ran so deserved to be shot.' No, if you run you deserve a chase.
 
American law enforcement is really fucked up. Trigger-happy fucks.
 
New Orleans Police Officer Indicted in Drug Raid Killing

In an unusual step, the New Orleans police officer who shot and killed an unarmed young man during a March drug raid aimed at small-time marijuana distribution has been indicted on manslaughter charges. Officer Joshua Colclough was indicted last Thursday and turned himself in for booking the following day.

Colclough shot and killed Wendell Allen, 20, as he served a search warrant at Allen's Gentilly residence. Colclough encountered Allen at the top of a stairway in the house and shot him once in the chest. No weapon was found.

Allen was the 15th person to die in US domestic drug law enforcement operations so far this year. The death toll is now at 42 and will go to 43 later today when we post an article about the latest drug war killing, this one in an Iowa City drug raid late last week.

No officers have been indicted in any of those deaths. And despite drug war deaths at the rate of more than one a week in recent years, no police officers have been indicted in any of those incidents since an Ohio police officer was indicted in the killing of an unarmed woman and the wounding of the baby she was holding during a January 2008 SWAT raid. That officer was indicted on two misdemeanor counts of negligent homicide and negligent injury, but later acquitted.

The unusual indictment in the Allen killing came after the shooting generated outrage in the city, including threats from the Louisiana Justice Institute to sue the city if it did not release information about the case and take it to a grand jury. It also comes at a police department that just last month agreed to comprehensive reforms under the eye of the US Justice Department as a result of a pattern of misconduct in the department.

Officer Colclough spent the weekend in jail under a $300,000 bond. A bail reduction hearing was set for Monday.

http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2012/aug/20/new_orleans_police_officer_indic
 
Take away the badges and this is a classic home invasion. That pig should be charged with 1st degree murder.

If someone dies during the commission of a felony, the accomplices will be charged with murder too, even if they had little direct responsibility for the death. So the other officers involved in the raid and possible cover-up should be charged too.

I have a feeling that if the FBI didn't get involved it'd be just another dead black man.
 
^It is, but if it's in effect for civilians it should apply to cops too. Plus it seems that they aided in the crime, and possibly tried to help cover it up. So I think the other cops should be charged with something too. We give police too much impunity in the US. Who's the biggest gang?
 
Even surprised was indicted on a man1 most times itseems to kiinda just dissapear. But with the ooutoring of ppl it is most def getting the attentin of the feds that can actually make shit like this cop get indicted, plus with a 300k bond hed be lookin at like 30k to bail out. Hope he likes a cold jail cell hopefully next to a bunch of nonviolent drug offenders he helped put there.
 
He ought to be allowed to live out his normal life with the chance that each and every single day, someone will burst into his house and do to him what he did to that innocent man.
 
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Hope he likes a cold jail cell hopefully next to a bunch of nonviolent drug offenders he helped put there.
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I hope he gets put in with violent drug offenders. Fucking OG's who'd beat the living shit out of him and shank him in the ass. But he'll probably go to PC with the snitches and pedos. Still, I hope a rapist in PC will make him his bitch:D.
 
I know someone with a baseball bat, THAT COULD BE USED TO BEAT A POPO.

Fuck, I'm worried for the life of whatever cop might show up there, I'm going to go shoot him to death because he likes to play baseball.
 
New Orleans Police Officer Jailed for 2012 Drug War Killing

http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2013/aug/22/new_orleans_police_officer_jaile

A New Orleans police officer who gunned down an unarmed 20-year-old man during a 2012 drug raid pleaded guilty to manslaughter last Friday and was led off to begin serving a four-year prison sentence. Joshua Colclough, 29, who resigned from the force the previous day, apologized to the family of his victim, Wendell Allen, before he was led away.

Colclough was part of a police team that raided a Gentilly home in March 2012 as part of a marijuana investigation. A shirtless, unarmed Allen appeared at the top of the stairs as Colclough searched the house, and Colclough shot and killed him.
Defense attorney Claude Kelly said Colclough made a split-second decision.

"Josh will live with this as will the Allen family, until the day he dies," Kelly said in court.

Colclough's apology to the family was the second in as many days. The day before the hearing, he met with Allen family members and tearfully apologized. The meeting was taped by WVUE-TV.

"I wanted to tell you for a very long time how sorry I am. I am so very sorry," he said during that meeting.

"I prayed for you. I prayed God have mercy on your soul, but what took you so long?" the victim's mother, Natasha Allen said at one point, also crying.

"I am so sorry it took so long. I'm very sorry for what I've put your family through," Colclough said.

Drug War Chronicle tallied 63 drug war deaths in 2012. Eight of the dead were law enforcement officers. Of the 55 civilian deaths, only two resulted in an officer being charged.

The other case was that of Ramarley Graham, an 18-year-old New York City resident who was gunned down in his own bathroom by an undercover officer who pursued him thinking he was armed. NYPD Officer Richard Haste was indicted in that case, but the indictment was dismissed because of prosecutorial error. The Justice Department is now investigating to determine if federal civil rights charges can be filed.

http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2013/aug/22/new_orleans_police_officer_jaile
 
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