Basile Parasiris, his wife and two children awoke in a panic as police used a battering ram to break into their Brossard home and then started firing their guns inside during Friday's pre-dawn raid, his lawyer said yesterday.
Lawyer Frank Pappas said his client was trying to defend himself and his family when he grabbed a loaded gun and shot Laval Constable Daniel Tessier - whom Parasiris mistook for a crazed thief.
"If he would've believed it was the police, do you think he would have taken them on?" Pappas said in an interview. "They have more firepower than him."
It sucks that we are following in the footsteps of our misguided neighbours to the south. One cop is dead, another cop is injured and Brossard is facing charges for first-degree murder in the death of Tessier; attempted murder in the shooting of his partner, Constable Stephane Forbes; firing a gun with the intent to wound Forbes; and endangering Forbes's life.
Take note of the fact that no drugs were found during the raid.
Would the strongarm tactics of the police been justified if large quantities of drugs had been discovered? If this raid had been successful, the police would have done a circle-jerk on television over bags of marijuana, cocaine, illegal weapons and piles of currency, while patting each other on the bum in a completely heterosexual way for a job well done. They would once again exaggerate the value of the illegal drugs and act as though another pointless drug bust will actually make a difference in the WAR ON DRUGS. Busting a grow-op is a victory in the same way that putting Starbucks out of business would be a victory in the war on coffee.
I found this story over at Pete's pad.
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