David Hooks was a well-to-do, 59-year-old grandfather who ran a successful construction business, had a lovely wife and family and because he does construction jobs for the military, he even had a U.S. government security clearance.
Now Hooks is dead. Shot more than a dozen times by a Georgia SWAT team who thought he was a meth dealer.
Why?
Because cops decided to listen to druggie criminal Rodney Garrett, a guy who a few hours before Hooks was killed by the police, broke into a pickup truck, stole some stuff and then stole Hooks’ Lincoln Aviator SUV.
Hooks immediately reported his stolen car to police.
Garrett, who had meth on him, decided to turn himself into cops, telling them he found a bunch of drugs and a scale in the SUV he just stole and he was “scared.”
I know what you’re thinking: this Garrett guy is totally credible! Let’s get a warrant and a SWAT team and totally search David Hook’s house ... tonight!!
And so they did.
Hooks and his wife had suffered a break-in the night the SWAT team invaded. His wife saw camouflaged men in her yard and told her husband: “The robbers are back!!”
The last thing Hooks did before being shot more than a dozen times was grab his shotgun to try and protect his family. There is no evidence he managed to fire off even one shot.
A 44-hour search of his house found absolutely no contraband.
Hooks is the 34th person to be killed in 2014 by U.S. law enforcement in drug-related operations.
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