Title: Cops Break Into Innocent Sleeping Woman’s Home, Shoot Her—Now She Faces Life in Prison Source:
From The Trenches/FTP URL Source:https://fromthetrenchesworldreport. ... he-faces-life-in-prison/258613 Published:Dec 11, 2019 Author:Matt Agorist Post Date:2019-12-12 02:25:02 by Deckard Keywords:None Views:19776 Comments:93
Winter Park, FL — Bobbie Sapp, 49, is a registered nurse, who has no criminal past. Despite never having committed a crime, because of the backward justice system in America, coupled with violent police welfare checks, Sapp is now facing the possibility of life behind bars.
On the night in question, Sapp had done nothing wrong, had committed no crime, and harmed no one—yet police broke into her home, raided her bedroom as she slept, and shot her. Then, they had the audacity to arrest her and charge her with multiple felonies.
Sapp’s nightmare began in September of 2017 as she slept comfortably in her own bed in her own home. Instead of waking up to her alarm that fateful morning, Sapp would wake up to multiple shadowy figures surrounding her in her bedroom, pulling off her covers, yelling at her, tasering her, and eventually, shooting her.
Sapp is so confident that she did nothing wrong that she went on camera recently with News 6 Orlando to tell her side of the story. It is nothing short of shocking. She says the entire incident began because her disgruntled ex-boyfriend used a police welfare check to deliberately harm her. It worked.
“He used this wellness check as a way to put me in harm’s way,” she said.
Indeed, instead of actually investigating the situation by knocking on the door, calling her, or any other number of non-violent means, cops helped this man — who did not live in the house and could have been anyone — break in to her home and then shoot this woman on his behalf.
“My girlfriend was threatening suicide last night, I just came to the house and trying to get in,” Sapp’s ex-boyfriend told the 911 operator.
Sapp says these were all lies. If she actually wanted to kill herself, she could’ve used one of the two guns which she regularly sleeps with. She did not.
“She is very well armed,” Sapp’s ex-boyfriend told the 911 operator when asked if Sapp had a gun.
“She’s threatened suicide by cop before,” he said.
There is no record of Sapp ever attempting to commit suicide by herself or by cop before. Also, if she was trying to commit suicide by cop that night — she would have had to call the cops. She did not call the police.
“I was asleep in my bed. I was not at all contemplating a suicide or suicide by cop,” Sapp told News 6.
Nevertheless, police show up to the home and start taking directions from Sapp’s ex, who did not live there.
“There’s one way into the house to crawl through a window and I don’t want to do that at this point. I want someone here with me,” Sapp’s ex-boyfriend said during the call.
When police arrived on scene, Sapp’s ex showed them how to break into the home and they followed his directions.
“I’m asking if there’s any weapons in the house, he tells me there’s enough weapons in the house to start a revolution,” officer Jeff Marcum, one of the responding officers, said according to an interview obtained by News 6.
Those weapons consisted of two pistols recovered from Sapp’s bed after she’d been shot.
Police claim that when they were breaking into Sapp’s home that they announced themselves as cops. However, when they got to Sapp’s bedroom, they admit that they did not announce themselves and she was still sleeping. She had no idea they were police.
“We’re yelling at her to, you know, let us see your hands, let us see your hands,” Marcum said.
Because the innocent woman who was just shaken out of sleep by heavily armed strangers in her bedroom, did not immediately begin to prostrate herself at the feet of her home invaders, force was escalated.
“I didn’t have my glasses on, I’m legally blind,” Sapp said. “I couldn’t identify anybody, but I remember there being shadows figures standing in my room. They pulled the covers off me.”
“At that point when she pulled the cover, Ms. Sapp immediately came up with a handgun and pointed it right at us,” Marcum told investigators.
Sapp disputes the notion that she ever pointed a gun. She says that had she actually pointed a gun, she would be dead because more than one of the cops would’ve fired their guns.
“If I had been pointing my gun, the way they said that I was, why didn’t they all shoot me, instead of just one person?” Sapp asked. Indeed, as TFTP has reported on a regular basis, cops are more than willing to shoot someone for merely reaching for areas where there may be a gun. If you actually point a gun at a cop, especially four of them, rest assured, you are going to be filled with holes immediately.
Instead of shooting her, one cop deployed his taser. Marcum, apparently scared of his own shadow then did what the other officers in the room never felt necessary: he pulled out his gun and put a bullet into Sapp.
This innocent woman, who had harmed no one, was asleep in her own bedroom, and did nothing wrong, was then shot in the shoulder and arrested.
“It doesn’t make any sense that they would come in that way unless they were lied to by somebody that was using this well-being check as a tool to put me in harm’s way,” Sapp said. “To process that has been really, really difficult. It’s something that could happen to anyone.”
Despite the fact that not a single cop was injured, and the fact that Sapp never fired of a round, and the fact that she was the one who was shot, this woman was arrested and charged with the following felonies:
Att. First Degree Murder Of Leo W/firearm Att. First Degree Murder Of Leo W/firearm Agg. Assault On A Leo (w/ A Deadly Weapon) Aggravated Assault With A Deadly Weapon Aggravated Assault With A Deadly Weapon Aggravated Assault With A Deadly Weapon Resisting Officer With Violence
Sapp, whose trial begins this month, now faces the possibility of life behind bars for attempting to defend herself against multiple armed home invaders who happened to wear badges. All of this, of course, was carried out for her own safety.
I would not expect you to be aware of this, but when someone is awakened from sleep by intruders in his/her home shining flashlights in the face in a room that is otherwise dark, taking note of the apparrel of the intruders, assuming it can be seen at all, is not the strongest informational element to register in the brain of the just awakened person, particularly if that person is legally blind. That no doubt involved difficult concepts to grasp, but if you spend some time mulling over it and discussing it with friends, your father and your pastor, you should eventually understand the reasoning.
It is possible that these police wear glow-in-the-dark uniforms, in which case, I'll stand corrected.
I suggest you try this on yourself by having a friend make a similar call on your home at a random time sometime within the next 3 months. Be sure also to have a stalker put you in serious fear for your life beforehand and have 2 pistols -- apparently sufficient to start a revolution -- on hand. Let us know how you do.
Seems to me this prosecution may be intended to preempt a civil lawsuit from this woman. It wouldn't surprise me in the least if this case is dropped just before trial, when they realize she will not take a plea.
I would not expect you to be aware of this, but when someone is awakened from sleep by intruders in his/her home shining flashlights in the face in a room that is otherwise dark,
Sunrise in Winter Park, Florida in September, 2017 was 7:10 am. The police entered at 8:00.
The incident didn't happen outside. Because it is light outside doesn't say how much light was on the inside.
Officers responded at 8:27 a.m. Sapp did not say it was dark. Agorist wrote, "On the night in question...." It was the day in question, and the light in the room is not clearly established.
The information in the article relates that it was light enough for a legally blind person to make out shadowy figures standing in the room.
“I didn’t have my glasses on, I’m legally blind,” Sapp said. “I couldn’t identify anybody, but I remember there being shadows figures standing in my room. They pulled the covers off me.”
“At that point when she pulled the cover, Ms. Sapp immediately came up with a handgun and pointed it right at us,” Marcum told investigators.
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Sapp disputes the notion that she ever pointed a gun. She says that had she actually pointed a gun, she would be dead because more than one of the cops would’ve fired their guns.
One shot to the right shoulder and she was not pointing a gun.
She is allegedly legally blind. She was allegedly brandishing a gun and could not see what she was aiming it at. That can get a legally blind person in trouble should he or she go into the woods unaccompanied to hunt. In general, blind people are required to be accompanied; to have a non-hunting partner as a seeing guide.
Blind people may be licensed to own guns, but they are not relieved of the responsibility of knowing what they are aiming at. She was aiming at cops in uniform, with badges, perhaps unaware of their being cops due her poor vision. Her poor vision would be an explanation, perhaps a mitigating factor, but not an excuse.
A jury can decide whether she was justified in aiming a gun in self-defense, where her poor vision prevented her from knowing what she was aiming at.
Another question would be, if she were justified in aiming her gun at unidentified shadows in her room, were the shadowy cops justified in shooting her in the shoulder? A finding that she was justified would not establish that the cops were not justified.
Another factor to consider is that the officers were almost certainly shouting some form of command, and there is no evidence that Sapp is deaf.
So you're saying she had someone in bed with her to help her point the gun?
You may also consider the hunting example consideration that she needs a seeing guide not only to see her target, but to see further in the distance, behind her target, to shoot safely and not hit an unintended person. What will the bullet hit if it just misses, or cleanly passes through the intended target?
What will the bullet hit if it just misses, or cleanly passes through the intended target?
Who cares? No one is supposed to be in her bedroom -- not family, friends, neighbors, police -- so it's a free-fire zone. This is what her bedroom looks like at night when she hears a noise:
