Petition updateArrest Harper for Inciting Genocide against PalestineThe Killing of Don Dunphy
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Apr 6, 2016 — http://www.killed4atweet.com/ There are a number of questions that haven't been answered in regards to the killing of Don Dunphy. The current official narrative, that the officer shot Mr. Dunphy when he pulled a rifle, relies solely on the testimony of the single survivor of the incident. The officer insists Don invited him into his home and had a brief discussion with him. According to the officer involved, at some point the tone of the conversation changed and Don threatened him with a rifle. If we accept this at face value, there is still one important question that hasn't been answered by the officer. Did Don ask the him to leave? The officer in question was attending Don's home with no warrants. He was following up on a single tweet that was taken out of context with no further evidence of criminality, operating in a grey area of the law based on flawed intelligence regarding a perceived crime. The severity of how entrenched this flawed intelligence was into the narrative can be seen in how then-Premier Paul Davis was quick to denounce Don as a threat to his own family. At the time of his first speech regarding the shooting, the true nature of the tweets was still unknown and un-investigated. http://www.canlii.org/en/on/onsc/doc/2014/2014onsc1415/2014onsc1415.html However, according to a ruling handed down by the Superior Courts of Ontario in 2014, a citizen has the right to reasonable force in ejecting a trespasser, including police officers, from their property. As the officer had secured no warrant prior to attending Don's residence, he was only allowed into Don's home if invited. Once that invitation was rescinded, he would have been required to leave or would no longer be "in the execution of his duty." If Don had told the officer to leave and the officer refused, the law would have empowered Don to use reasonable force to remove the trespassing individual from his home. As Don was an older man and an injured worker, he would have been unable to physically overpower a younger, able-bodied man. If he felt physically threatened by the presence of an armed intruder who refused to leave his home upon request, escalation to threats with a firearm would likely be considered reasonable force by the Courts for a man in Don's position. Therefore, if Don asked the officer to leave and he refused, he was entitled to find a weapon to defend himself. The officer, having no legal reason for being inside Don's home after his invitation was rescinded, would still be guilty of at least voluntary manslaughter for killing Don. This is the only question that needs to be asked to turn the narrative of a supposedly justified killing in self-defense into a murder. Unfortunately, we can't ask Don anymore.
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