A case of Police racial animosity, and paranoia gone terribly wrong.
By Stephanie McNeal
An Arkansas police officer who allegedly told a colleague that he would shoot any protesters who came to his door was charged with manslaughter in the fatal shooting of a fellow officer who knocked on his door in June.
When the police brutality protests in Minneapolis began earlier this year, the accused officer, Calvin "Nick" Salyers, told a colleague that he would "shoot through the door" at any protesters who came to his residence, according to court documents.sayung
On June 3, Hutton had driven to Salyers' home shortly after 7 p.m. to pick up a patrol car from Salyers, which was parked inside a metal structure nearby, Ryan Jacks, an investigator with the Arkansas State Police, wrote in an arrest affidavit.
When Hutton arrived at Salyers' home, he texted him, "are you awake," Jacks wrote. When he didn't get a response, Hutton walked to the front door and knocked. Inside, Salyers was watching a movie with his girlfriend, Ashlee Cummings. He was off duty at the time.
According to Jacks, Salyers told Cummings he would check who was at the door, and grabbed his Glock .40-caliber handgun. He looked through the peephole and saw a "figure standing on his porch with a dark shirt and a gun on his hip," Jacks wrote in the affidavit.
Assuming that any knock at your front door is deadly situation, shows how drastically paranoia and racism can distort reality.
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