No-Knock Raid In Texas That Got Officer Killed Found No Drugs (VIDEO)

by Austin Petersen

KILLEEN, TX – The police officer who was killed in a no-knock raid in Texas appears to have died in vain.

Officers Chuck Dinwiddie and Odis Denton were shot by a resident on Friday after they broke into the home of a man to serve a warrant searching for drugs. The resident fired on the police officers, hitting three of them, seriously wounding Denton and killing Dinwiddie. Marvin Louis Guy was arrested along with a woman, Shirley Whittington, who was also at the residence at the time.

Crime scene investigators spent 12 hours searching the residence for drugs but found nothing more than a glass pipe. No drugs were found during the course of the investigation. The no knock warrant was authorized after an informant reported that cocaine trafficking was occurring in the area. Authorities conducted extensive surveillance of the area according to an affidavit.

The Supreme Court recently handed down a ruling about anonymous tips in Navarette v. California which stated that police may search citizens on the basis of an anonymous tip. Justice Scalia wrote in a dissenting opinion that, “The Court’s opinion serves up a freedom-destroying cocktail consisting of two parts patent falsity.”

Whittington has been charged with three counts of attempted capital murder.

Readers of The Libertarian Republic were polled recently asking if they would support the right of a citizen to shoot police officers in self-defense if they are the victims of a no knock raid. Poll respondents overwhelmingly agreed that a citizen has the right to act to protect their lives, due to the fact that it may be impossible to identify the difference between public or private sector thugs. Private sector criminals commonly will raid homes and shout police in order to get residents to surrender.

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Austin Petersen is a homegrown Missourian with a lifelong passion for liberty. He grew up on a horse farm in Peculiar, Missouri and went on to attend Missouri State University, graduating with a degree in the Fine Arts. After developing a career in media in both New York City and Washington, D.C., he returned to Kansas City, MO, the city he now calls home. In 2016, Petersen appeared on the national stage as a candidate for president of the United States. He took second place in the crowded Libertarian primary behind Governor Gary Johnson and ahead of cyber security maverick John McAfee. During his campaign, Petersen earned many high-profile conservative endorsements, including Mary Matalin, Erick Erickson and Leon Wolf of RedState.com. Petersen also brings decades of professional experience in a wide variety of fields, from content production and media to business and political activism. He is the owner and chief executive of Stonegait LLC, a consulting firm specializing in photo and video services. He was also the director of production at FreedomWorks and an associate producer for Judge Andrew Napolitano’s show “Freedom Watch” on the Fox Business Network. Additionally, Petersen has a national following as a commentator and professional pundit. He is the founder of The Libertarian Republic, a powerful online news source for the public that receives an average of 1 million unique visits monthly and whose podcast, The Freedom Report, receives an average of one million monthly downloads. He is also a frequent contributor on television, appearing on Fox News, Fox Business, CNN, MSNBC and on dozens of local radio shows.

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