Virginia Cop Killed in Drug Raid; Suspect Says He Was Defending His Home.
Officer Jarrod Shivers was shot and killed while executing a search warrant in Cheseapeake, Virginia Thursday night.
The suspect had no criminal record (at least in the state of Virginia). And he says in an interview from jail he had no idea the undercover cops breaking into his home were police. The suspect, 28-year-old Ryan David Frederick, also says a burglar had broken into his home earlier this week.
Thought the raid was apparently part of a drug investigation, police aren’t saying what if any drugs were found. They won’t even confirm that police had the correct address. But they have arrested Frederick and charged him with first-degree murder.
More to come, I’m sure.
Given the way cops invariably trumpet anything they can find to justify their actions in such cases, it’s pretty obvious that they guy didn’t have any drugs. Further, since this was a drug warrant, it seems like a clear case of the cop getting what he deserved.
And how we burned in the camps after, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make his arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family?
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago
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