Sunday in Crawford County, Mich., a man reportedly called police to report a trespasser riding a dirt bike on his property. When sheriff’s deputies arrived, they arrested the property owner, a veteran, charging him with felony assault with a deadly weapon. According to the man’s wife, Heather, the weapon in question was a shotgun, empty and open.
When officers with the Crawford County Sheriff’s Department arrived on the scene, Heather says her husband held up the “open shotgun” with his left hand while holding the shell in his right hand to indicate the weapon was not loaded and assure officers he was not a threat.…
One of the deputies, identified by Heather as Shawn Schnoor, “fumbled” with his pistol and trained it on Donald, ordering him to get on the ground. Heather told TheBlaze it took her husband longer than the officer wanted because he has a badly injured back but he moved as fast as he could. Donald was handcuffed before police made their way to talk to the trespassing suspect.
The officers allegedly demanded that Heather delete the video she began filming after she realized they were arresting her husband. In the clip below, recovered with the help of software, you can see part of the event.
Donald was charged with assault with a dangerous weapon (felonious assault) “without intending to commit the crime of murder or to inflict great bodily harm less than the crime of murder.” He faces up to four years in jail and/or a $2,000 fine. Police have also confiscated his shotgun and hunting knife and are holding them as evidence in the case, according to Donald’s wife.The man on the dirt bike was allegedly issued a citation for trespassing by a conservation officer but was not arrested.
Details are still confused to some extent, but “the couple is outraged because “this is a man who was openly carrying an unloaded shotgun on his own property, which is legal in Michigan, and it’s even hunting season.””
Source: The Blaze
Photo: YouTube
thats not right….he should have shot the bike for that matter
and make the punk walk home
More obamas thugs
the cops new they were in the wrong, that’s why they wanted the video
Total BULL$#%&!@*. The officers should be applauding the homeowner for not loading the shotgun. He was just brandishing it to get the trespasser to leave. The homeowner did nothing wrong. The officers should be ashamed of themselves and quit the police force, as they clearly do not know the laws in Michigan regarding firearms. But maybe Obama has bought them off, so that he can take our guns away.
That proves that crook have more rights than the law biding people trying to protect their personal property ! Next time use a crossbow with a hinting tip, it is quite and will go through a bullet proof vest too ! This is 100% WRONG !!!!!
What are you supposed to do to protect yourself from trespassers , 1st, 2nd, 4 th ammendments violations – police have a dangerous job but they handled this poorly
Get a good lawyer and you will come out on top of this the officers over stepped their authority in several places.
If it had been me, I not only would have loaded the shotgun, I would have shot out the trespassers front tire
sounds like an average cop, we’d be better off to just shoot the bastards than rely on them for help
There will be civil war over gun rights before this is settled if someone in authority doesn’t stepup and stop this communist try to disarm Americans. I have no secular authority but I can quote what the heavenly father says ” give unto Cesar that which is his and unto God that which is HIS. We are to protect and care for our families as Jesus does the church!