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Title: Cops Respond to Hostage Situation by Killing the Victim… Who Happened To Have a Lawsuit Against Them
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Counter Current News
URL Source: http://countercurrentnews.com/2015/ ... -respond-to-hostage-situation/
Published: Dec 7, 2015
Author: William N. Grigg
Post Date: 2015-12-07 10:46:51 by Deckard
Keywords: None
Views: 1575
Comments: 7
Neenah, WI — The only casualty of an hours-long SWAT raid and hostage situation in Neenah, Wisconsin was a disabled veteran who had filed a $50 million civil rights suit after he survived a similar SWAT raid three years ago. Michael Funk, a co-owner of Eagle Nation Cycles, was shot and killed by police after being held hostage for several hours on December 5. Police evacuated several buildings and closed down an entire street in the city, which is located about 40 miles south of Green Bay. “Mike worked there,” observed attorney Cole White, who had represented him in his lawsuit against the City of Neenah and its police department. “Mike was a hostage … not a suspect, he was not involved criminally. He was a hostage that was taken at gunpoint by this maniac.” A suspect was taken into custody at about 1:00 PM. His name has not been released, nor has the name of the officer who killed Funk. The official story is that Funk, who had a concealed carry license, refused to drop his gun in response to police commands after he fled the building.According to the preliminary police account, the still-unidentified officer who killed Funk was shot and suffered trivial injuries. It isn’t known how the hostage situation began. In 2012, the Lake Winnebago Area Metropolitan Enforcement Group staged a SWAT raid at Eagle Nation Cycles that resulted in 15 felony charges against Erato – all of which were dismissed. He was eventually convicted of misdemeanor marijuana possession. “They threw everything but the kitchen sink at him, and it turned out to be nothing,” observed White, who is still representing Erato in the federal lawsuit. During the raid, “The hyper-militarized force parked an armored tank-like vehicle outside of Eagle Nation, stormed the building, bombarding the occupants with assault weapons drawn, screaming profanities and abuse, all while wearing plainclothes (ununiformed) and face masks,” recounted the lawsuit. The raid was supposedly justified because an informant with the task force supposedly witnessed a drug deal in the alley behind the motorcycle shop on the previous day. The “Peacekeeper” replaced the armored vehicle that had been used during the first SWAT assault on Eagle Nation Cycles, which was made in 1979 and was considered “incapable of keeping people safe from some of the armaments that have been used in the last few years,” Chief Wilkinson continues. Neenah Mayor Dean Kaufert clearly identified the “people” whose safety he prioritized: “The one thing I don’t want to do during my tenure as mayor is … to go to a policeman’s funeral. And so if this vehicle can protect them I’m willing to accept that.” The “Peacekeeper” did nothing to protect Michael Funk, whom the Neenah Police supposedly set out to rescue. His death was the product of either incomprehensible misfortune or uncanny – and malicious – marksmanship on the part of a police department that institutionally had cause to resent him. Mayor Kaufert has not indicated whether he will be attending Funk’s funeral, but given that the deceased was a plaintiff in a civil rights lawsuit against the city it’s likely that Kaufert and Wilkinson will somehow contain their bereavement. 
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#1. To: Deckard (#0)
This thing sounds like a criminal hit. Who investigates this sort of thing? It's the FBI who seems to have enough on their hands investigating the Terrorists, or is it too much on their hands?
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Who's Erato? Poor writing. Poor editing.
Attaboy! No comment about the piss-poor police work which resulted in the murder of an innocent hostage who was coincidentally suing the city. You're a real piece of work paulsen. In a Cop Culture, the Bill of Rights Doesn’t Amount to Much Innocent? Huh? According to the article, Funk "refused to drop his gun in response to police commands". He shot and wounded the cop. The cop returned fire and killed him. What the f**k is wrong with you? Can't you read?
Yeah, according to the "official story". I rather doubt that it's an accurate portrayal of what actually happened. In a Cop Culture, the Bill of Rights Doesn’t Amount to Much Yeah. The "accurate portrayal" is in your head. And you're not going to let the facts get in your way.
Could be nothing more than a coincidence. If the victim left a will naming his heirs, they would naturally continue the big lawsuit against the city and demand even more for having killed this victim in a second botched SWAT operation. So the notion that the police murdered him to avoid paying off his lawsuit seems to stretch things a lot. Of course, if it was known he had no heirs at all, they could kill him in hopes of killing the lawsuit as no one would then have standing to pursue his case against the city for the initial SWAT raid. BTW, no way this guy would have gotten $50 million out of any civil court for that initial SWAT raid. More like $20K-$50K, if even that. If you are on the scene of a major police firefight, you'd better drop your weapon immediately when ordered to. You don't have a right to keep bearing arms in the middle of an ongoing crime. The police have the authority to determine who gets to have a gun or not in the middle of a gunfight. And to disarm all primary suspects and witnesses and hostages in such a firefight.
#2. To: Deckard (#0)
"that resulted in 15 felony charges against Erato"
#3. To: misterwhite (#2)
Poor writing. Poor editing.
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#4. To: Deckard (#3)
"No comment about the piss-poor police work which resulted in the murder of an innocent hostage"
#5. To: misterwhite (#4)
According to the article, Funk "refused to drop his gun in response to police commands". He shot and wounded the cop.
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends.
Paul Craig Roberts
#6. To: Deckard (#5)
"I rather doubt that it's an accurate portrayal of what actually happened."
#7. To: Deckard (#0)
(Edited)
The official story is that Funk, who had a concealed carry license, refused to drop his gun in response to police commands after he fled the building.According to the preliminary police account, the still-unidentified officer who killed Funk was shot and suffered trivial injuries.
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