Jan. 18, 2025
The Shadow of a Rogue Raid : JUSTICE for Doug Harless
What happens when a police raid goes tragically wrong? We explore the complex case of Doug Harless in London, Kentucky, who lost his life due to a mistaken address during a police operation. We unravel the role of Hobart Buttrey, whose information led to the botched execution of a search warrant. With insights into Kentucky's cultural and legal landscapes, we examine the absence of police body cameras and the shifting societal dynamics that impact personal safety and trust in law enforcement.
Is anyone accountable when a "no-knock" warrant results in unnecessary loss of life? The controversy intensifies as we scrutinize a mysterious search warrant and an unsanctioned task force responsible for the tragic incident. Could there be more to the story than meets the eye, with manipulation and misinformation at play? We address the broader implications of unauthorized law enforcement actions and the community's growing demand for transparency and accountability.
Mayor Randall Weddle finds himself at the center of a storm, facing allegations of social media intimidation and community unrest. We discuss the city's battle against a so-called rogue mayor and police force, highlighting the city council's efforts to seek legal protection. With the tragic case of Breonna Taylor as a backdrop, we underscore the urgent need for reform in police practices. Join us as we confront these critical issues and emphasize the community's resolve to hold their leaders accountable.
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00:04 - Podcast 69 South Investigations and Controversy
16:30 - Police Misconduct in Late-Night Raid
24:01 - Mayor Weddle and Police Controversy
38:27 - London, Kentucky Police Accountability Concerns
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Welcome everybody.
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Podcast 69 South.
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You hear them, dogs, when they bark behind that barbed wire fence.
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Don't come here after dark trying to ride podcast.
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Everybody, and with me is my beautiful co-host Julie.
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Welcome to our podcast.
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Everybody, and with me is my beautiful co-host Julie how you doing today, beautiful.
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I'm good.
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How are you baby?
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I'm doing really good, man.
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We've had a lot of people come at us with reports and stories on this.
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London, kentucky, is in a big shit.
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Mess people, man, and we want to keep this shit going because there's some wrong shit going down here, man.
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So WKYT News has reported that London, Kentucky authorities have obtained a search warrant in a case connected to a stolen weed eater.
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The man accused of stealing the weed eater, Hobart Buttrey.
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Buttrey spoke to the news from jail, claiming that the tragic situation surrounding the death of Douglas Harless could have been avoided.
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He stated that the incident escalated because the stolen item belonged to the executive judge, David Westerfield of Laurel County.
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So basically, this dude was arrested for some stolen shit and he gave these police some information.
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Like within a couple hours they had a search warrant on some bullshit, right.
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Yeah, and it was this executive judge, um david westerfield, and I thought you know he was like an actual court judge, but I didn't realize that down in kentucky an executive judge is more like the mayor of the county.
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I mean, when you hear the word judge, you think immediately that it's a judicial judge of the courts, but in this instance, no, they do not have any judicial power whatsoever.
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The title county judge executive is a blending of the past and the present, going back to a time when a person elected to this position also presided over judicial proceedings.
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See, that's a little bit weird man, because my granddaddy was a judge over five counties in Kentucky.
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We ain't just outsiders in here, man poking our nose into some shit.
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My granddaddy was a judge over Owen, gallatin, clark, carroll, henry County and he's got a gavel.
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I still got the gavel man in my gun safe.
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It has all the counties burnt into the gavel right in the wood.
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So you know our roots and our blood runs deep into Kentucky.
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So we're in this just as much as y'all are.
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Yeah, kentucky.
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So we're in this just as much as y'all are.
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Yeah, and in 1898, the Kentucky Constitution gave the name fiscal court to the body in each county that would act as the county government.
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Now the judge executive is responsible for running the executive branch of the county, including overseeing day-to-day operations.
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As a CEO of the county, he is responsible for the county's departments and personnels.
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He serves as a voting member of the fiscal county, the county's legislative body.
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Now, in other states this position is known as a county mayor, county executive, but here, where we are, it's commonly known as a county commissioner.
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So this is not a judge, as in civil or criminal court judge at all.
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On December 23rd, Doug Harless was shot and killed inside his home when the London Kentucky police attempted to serve a search warrant.
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At approximately 11.53 pm, However, the police arrived at the wrong address, 511 Van Zant Road, while the warrant was actually for 489 Van Zant Road.
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Adding to the complexity, Buttrey has been arrested just hours before Harless's death and been interrogated about the stolen equipment.
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Allegedly, Buttery informed the investigators that they could also find a large amount of drugs at the residence at 489 Van Zant Road, which had been vacant for several months.
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Now, listeners, let's think about this.
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Let's think about this you are in your home and it's around midnight and you receive an unexpected knock or gunshot at your door.
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Think about that.
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What are you going to do?
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Ask yourself that Most people I know are going to grab a weapon for their own protection, if they have one, because, one, this is all unexpected, and two, to protect yourself because you're not sure if it's a threat to your safety or not.
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So the city cops say they not.
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Did they identify themselves before allegedly shooting the lock off the door to make entry where Doug's body was found at the door after he answered it?
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No, I'm assuming it wasn't, because we don't know if he even got the chance to answer the door due to the police not wearing body cams.
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I mean, y'all got to think about this.
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Everybody put yourself in this position, man.
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From the time that they identified themselves as police officers, it was just a little bit more than a minute.
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Now we live in the country too.
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We're in southern Indiana.
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We're not in your area, but our area is just like your area.
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Somebody starts beating on my fucking door in the middle of the night.
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Shit ain't going to be right.
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I mean, it's either going to be one of your best friends or your neighbors, maybe needing pulled out of the snow, pulled out of the mud, something like that.
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Usually, they're going to text you or call you beforehand, man, or they're going to holler hey, doug, hey, it's Chop man.
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I need your help, bro, you know.
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Yeah, I mean this guy was not a criminal.
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He would have never expected the police.
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I mean, if he thought anything with people beating on the door, like that.
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I mean, look, man, times have changed so much in this world.
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People, it's so bad.
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I mean, if you hear somebody beating at your door and it's the cops man, you should feel safe, you should feel like, oh hell, it's the local police man, they try to help me out or they're trying to get some information for me to help my neighbors out, but this ain't the case in this neck of the woods.
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Man, shit is really rogue in this shit.
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This incident unfolded when the police arrived to investigate an alleged theft of a weed eater, reportedly stolen by 49 year old hobert buttery, who lived just down the road.
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At one point in time, but not currently.
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The police say they knocked on harless's door and shortly thereafter shots were fired.
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But a source close to the investigation says that the knock at the door should be questioned because after this so-called knock, is alleged that the London Police Department fired the first shots and shot the lock of Doug Harless's home, not even giving him time to answer the door properly.
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Community members are expressing their anger and confusion, questioning why city police were patrolling outside their jurisdiction, especially since the mayor, randall Weddle, of London Kentucky has refused to provide any information of London Kentucky has refused to provide any information and he's citing that the Kentucky State Police has taken over the investigation.
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The lack of transparency has only fueled speculation and concern among residents, especially when the Kentucky State Police and the London City Police are breaking bread down at the local Wings and Rings or Old Town Grill.
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So they're all hooking up eating lunch together and shit, man, and I get that.
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You know what I'm saying.
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People in the community, man, the blue blood, you know what I mean.
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They hooked up together, they're like-.
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They're friends, they're buddies.
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They're brothers, man.
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They're brothers in this shit.
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It's just like we're kind of bikers, they're kind of cops, you know what I mean.
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Usually two go hand in hand, but you all look out for each other.
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So I get that this is going to be a fucking weird investigation.
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It's kind of like they're investigating their brothers in this shit.
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Right.
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Well, the London Police Department's previous police chief had eliminated their body cameras, claiming they couldn't afford them in the fall of 2023.
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Claiming they couldn't afford them in the fall of 2023.
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This decision has raised eyebrows, especially given the importance of such technology in protecting both officers and the community.
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I got to say, man, I did look at Randall Weddle's.
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He's got a mugshot that somebody was blessed to put up on Facebook and to me he looks like a cross between Seth Rogen and Baby Huey.
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He looks like one of the little fat kids in the neighborhood that used to fuck around behind your back and steal shit.
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You know what I mean.
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He doesn't look like somebody that should be the mayor of a community man.
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No disrespect, bro, but that's what you look like in your mugshot and I can't believe that.
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You're a mayor of a fucking city with charges the felony charges that you got man with this mugshot and all kinds of stuff.
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Oh, and we will be posting that beautiful mugshot on our podcast.
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69 South Facebook page 100%.
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It's a pretty shot of you, bro.
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I'd be proud of it too.
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Now to make matters even crazier.
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During this recent city council meeting, officials learned for the first time that their police force was operating without body cameras and had been executing warrants outside of city limits.
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The city council is now demanding written statements from the police chief and the assistant chief regarding that night's events.
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What complicates matters further is leaked phone call between Laurel County Judge Executive David Westerfield and a Laurel City Police Officer, hale.
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In the call the officer admits that he initially took charge of the investigating of the theft of the weed eater and lawn equipment for the judge Executive David Westerfield and after Harless was shot the police contacted the judge within an hour to update him.
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That raises significant ethical concerns about the relationship between the police and the judge, which implicates you know the good old boy system.
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You know what I mean.
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That happens in all these small towns around here.
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Man.
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The good old boy system If you ain't in, you ain't in, you could get fucked at any time.
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If you ain't in, you ain't in, you could get fucked at any time, for real.
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If you ain't in, you got to go swim, it's not who you know, it's who you blow.
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That's a fact when it comes to this shit man and this poor Doug.
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I feel so bad for him.
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I do too, man, but this case goes so much deeper than this little bullshit, fake ass warrant.
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It goes all the way to the top of the governor of Kentucky.
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In the call, the judge expressed uh frustration over a homeless individual staying at a vacant property owned by him and suggested he would commit unethical actions if the man wasn't arrested.
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Now this paints a troubling picture of a potential conflict of interest where personal relationships may have influenced police police actions.
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So I want to play just a piece of this phone call for you guys, so you can hear it for your own ears with Officer Hale.
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All right, thank you.
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Yes, sir, this is Officer Hale.
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How can I help you?
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Hey, bert, david Washingtonfield, how you doing?
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Hey, david, what you doing?
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Old buddy?
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All right, buddy.
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Then I started looking at my place to see what was going.
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Okay, they claimed me that I have no way of itemizing anything, so I ain't gonna worry about my stuff.
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What I'd like to do, if possible, is somebody could question him and see what he done with my nephew's lawnmower equipment.
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I don't know if that's a possibility.
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Well, I know they arrested him last night.
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Yeah, I do too.
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From my understanding, David, that search warrant came off of his arrest Because he had said that he had took a weed eater down there to a dope dealer's house there off of Van Van.
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Okay, and the boy was shot and killed, right.
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Yeah, I understand.
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Nobody called me, want to talk this morning and told me all about it.
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So I know all about that one.
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You know I'm not gonna worry about my stuff unless he told you somebody that's laying in the pile and I could identify it.
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I would like to see carl's my get his stuff back if at all possible.
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I know they're working through it right now with some of the interviews that's all they can do.
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Ben, I do know and I will tell you this.
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I don't know who called you last night, but me and Jamie.
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The case got turned over to Elva Riley and he said he had worked a couple of cases for you before.
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Okay, if you're familiar with Elbert, do you know Elbert?
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Yeah, yeah, I know Elbert.
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Well, yeah, Elbert, you guys just do your job and I won't call you in, you know, and the chips fall where they fall.
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I mean, you know it's hard to run this stuff down.
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That's going to change his head.
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I think probably got to take a couple more pawn shops and stuff like that.
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I'd say he's tried to sell a lot of stuff.
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I hate to clean you out, david, especially with everything going on and especially right around Christmas time.
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Well, and also, I found out this morning that there's a homeless person staying back there in my back building, jared.
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Well, I'll tell you this.
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If you want me to, I can get up with both of our shift sergeants there and have them.
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So we end up finding them trespassing verbally on the property and you want them hooked?
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I do.
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And the thing is, derek, he may have been carrying my stuff out of that building.
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The butcher boy that's been arrested may not have gotten all my stuff.
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It may be the homeless guy that's carrying it off, but he's saying that I'd like to have him arrested because his chances he's a smoker he'll burn my building.
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So you know, if he's out, if they get a chance.
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I know it's Christmas and all that, so maybe after Christmas I can maybe go by there.
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It's not all guys that have it every night and 50-30.
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And I really don't want to do that because I might do something unethical.
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I know one thing I'll take care of you.
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Like I said, you've always been real good to us and Miss Karen's always been real good to me.
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So I don't care one bit to do as much as I can to try to help you out.
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That's why I told Jamie yesterday.
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I said I'm going to work my guts out on this case today to try to help David and them the best that I can.
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He said well, you know, do you know David and Karen real well?
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I said, buddy, I said my mom adores David and Karen Westfield.
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You know, maybe after Thursday or Friday y'all can check it, and I know you got other stuff to do right now.
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So if we get something out of this guy.
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It would be good you know that he's taken.
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If not, then we'll just go home.
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We'll just do what we can.
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Absolutely that's the best thing we can do, right?
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That's for sure.
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We'll be good either way there are so many things in this phone call that just eats me alive.
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The main thing that fucks me up is they're shitty about this fucking weed eater and the situation.
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Nothing is ever said about this poor man that lost his life.
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Mr Mr Harless had no criminal record.
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He was asleep in his bed After hours, man.
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Being a regular tax paying citizen minding his own damn business.
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Asleep Now.
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Kentucky law dictates that search warrants should be served before 10 PM, but officers arrived at 11.53 pm.
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If a search warrant exists, it has yet to be produced, leading many to believe that proper procedures were not followed.
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The community is calling for accountability, with many asserting that if the police had not been acting on behalf of the judge in questionable circumstances, this tragedy may have been avoided.
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But was this search warrant really over a weed eater?
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Were they really acting on behalf of the judge executive?
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Think about it.
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It makes no sense at all.
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Yeah, let's go out in the dark at midnight and search for a $300 weed eater.
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A $300 weed eater is an expensive-ass, fucking weed eater.
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And I doubt it was a $300 weed eater, but go ahead, baby.
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Out of city limits, out of your jurisdiction, you're going to boot up 9 to 10 officers to go serve a search warrant for a $300 weed eater, to go serve a search warrant for a $300 weed eater.
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Why waste all that manpower and tax dollars paying these officers to go look for a $300 weed eater?
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It doesn't happen for those types of reasons.
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So what is the real purpose?
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I have a theory, Say theory, about Buttery giving a false, fake info to the investigators because he just got arrested and he wanted to get himself out of the boiling water he was in.
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So in my opinion, I think old Buttery was buttering up them boys and blew the finesse his way out of his own trouble.
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If Buttery was in jail, who was the search warrant for?
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Was there a named person or was it just an address on his phantom search warrant that the county court hasn't even seen?
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So basically, in my eyes, this buttery dude man probably, I mean no offense bro, but he looks like a fucking meth head.
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He stowed a fucking weed eater, which you'd have to be a piece of shit to even steal a fucking weed eater in the first fucking place and to steal it from a judge's property is even dumber.
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But so he gets in jail and these investigators, man, are like where's the weed eater?
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Where's the weed eater?
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And I saw a fucking report where this buttery dude got on there and said he gave him the wrong address, just a fucked up trailer address, where he told him there was dope and stolen shit and it was complete bullshit.
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So these fucking cops, within two hours, supposedly come up with this search warrant which hasn't been fucking produced.
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No judge has signed this search warrant.
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This search warrant is fucking irrelevant.
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It's invisible.
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It's a phantom one.
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It's a phantom search warrant.
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So new revelations have emerged that further complicate this narrative, and it turns out that the task force involved in this incident was not approved by the city council.
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In fact, during a recent council meeting, it was disclosed that this task force had been inactive for months.
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When a concerned citizen inquired about who was on this rogue task force, I believe the mayor said that there was one member on it, and then, when he realized that this task force had been disbanded, he backpedaled real quick and it became apparent that the operations were completely illegal.
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One resident shared a harrying account stating that Harless was peacefully asleep in bed when he was abruptly awakened by the rogue task force supposedly knocked on his door.
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However, according to our sources, doug never even had a chance to answer the door.
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The door was allegedly breached by Officer Wes Wolfe, so if the door was breached, it means it was not opened by Doug.
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This individual pointed out in that area.
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Answering the door at such a late hour could lead to dire consequences, as many residents might greet unexpected visitors, like the meth-head neighbors in that area, with a firearm for protection.
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This raises alarming questions about the safety of residents in the community, where police actions seem reckless and out of control.
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There are also concerns that non-police officers may have been assisting the city police during the raid.
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Residents are left wondering if these individuals' names will ever be made public and what role they played in this tragic event, but honestly, I wouldn't put too much thought into that, because we believe that all the people involved were sworn officers of the Laurel City Police.
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Kentucky State Statute 455.180 states Arrest or search warrants authorizing entry without notice unless existing circumstances.
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Is that an immediate threat to safety?
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the LEO seeking the warrant has obtained the leo is the law enforcement officer my bad sorry, I abbreviated it and didn't tell you I appreciate that baby approval of his or her supervising office has the approval of the highest ranking officer in his or her law enforcement agency.
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So basically, what's that saying is they can't just go out and serve these fucking rogue search warrants on over a fucking weed eater unless somebody's life is in danger, unless they got somebody tied up in the back room beating the fuck out of them or there's something really really, really serious going on.
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They can't serve these fucking search warrants in the middle of the goddamn night.
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No, and I think it all stemmed from that, breonna Taylor, who got killed in Louisville when they did that no-knock warrant on her.
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But, critically, the mayor of London, kentucky, randall Weddle, has refused to explain why the raid was executed at night rather than during the day, especially over a relatively minor issue.
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Now, kentucky law dictates that nonviolent warrants should typically be served between 6 and 10, just like you were talking about, and this further questions the legality of the police's actions that night.
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