sometimes the crimes of the thin blue line don't succeed and this is one of those times;


Caldwell County, TX — The Free Thought Project has reported on multiple instances in which police officers invade a home and are shot in the process. Thousands of these no-knock raids take place across the country every single year, most of which are over alleged possession of substances deemed illegal by the state. But what happens when people defend their homes against these home invasions? Well, as the following case illustrates, sometimes justice can be served.
Last February, Kimberly Moore, 54, and Eduardo Padilla, 33, defended their home, Moore’s daughter and two grandchildren from an armed invader who entered their property in the middle of the night. However, because that armed invader was a police officer, Caldwell County Sheriff’s Deputy Jay Johnson, Moore and Padilla were both charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and deadly conduct discharge of firearm.
According to the Caldwell County sheriff, deputies were responding to a call on Hidden Oak Road in Dale at around midnight. Deputies “took fire,” the sheriff said, and a deputy received gunshot wounds before being taken to a hospital in Austin.
Officials claim the deputy was responding to a theft call, but an attorney for Moore and Padilla said they had no idea the man entering their house was a cop and they never made a call. Moore and Padilla pleaded not guilty to all charges, claiming they fired on the deputy in self-defense.
In May of last year, Padilla and Moore were indicted on a charge of deadly conduct with a firearm while the jury refused to indict them on the more serious charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon........https://thefreethoughtproject.com/charges-dropped-against-couple-who-shot-deputy-after-da-rules-it-was-self-defense/